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Whether you are in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Canada or Egypt, you can thank the existence of your nation and your standard of living on the British Empire.

Considering its size and population the rainswept
island of Britain has given the world
proportionately more than any other nation on
earth.

Britain has given the world its number 1 international language.English is the native language for millions throughout the planet and the 2nd language for billions more.

Britain invented Parliamentary Democracy and
legal systems - since adopted by nations througout the world.

Isaac Newton and his theories on gravity,maths,
astronomy, physics,laws of motion,optics & prisms are still used as the basis for all science.
Charles Darwins' Theory of Evolution transformed
human beings understanding of ourselves and our place in the natural world.
More recently in the 1980s Tim Berners-Lee invented
the World Wide Web.

Britain started the Industrial Revolution with all its
world changing pioneering engineering,mechanical and scientific techniques - the world's first steam engine,
first train etc.....

The sports of cricket,rugby, and football (the worlds' favourite game) all came from Britain.
Which other nation has invented three major international sports?

More importantly,Britain gave the world punk
rock,heavy metal, glam rock, psychadelia,
the punk/ska two tone revolution and street styles and fashions-'tudors' (teddy boys), skinheads (the
proper ones),mods,punks,goths,new romantics -
most now found throughout the world.

Britain has produced a mass of internationally
renowned literature including Mary Shelley's
'Frankenstein' which first introduced the concept of
the zombie.Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was the world's
first 'undead' vampire.
British literature created the classics of
Shakespeare,works by Roald Dahl (Matilda,Charlie & The Chocolate Factory,The Witches) and HG
Wells(The Time Machine,War Of The Worlds) Alice
In Wonderland,Peter Pan,The Hobbit,Lord Of The
Rings,Sherlock Holmes,Brave New World,
Narnia,Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe,Golden
Compass,Harry Potter and more.
Many of these have since been made into films

Since the days of Charlie Chaplin,Stan Laurel,Boris
Karloff,Cary Grant and Hitchcock to
Michael Caine,Sean Connery,Antony Hopkins to more
recently Daniel Day Lewis,and Jude Law British
actors and directors have played a pivotal role in both Hollywood and the UK film industry.

7 of the 10 most popular worldwide films of the past 5 years were based on British books including 'Narnia',
'Harry Potter','Charlie & The Chocolate
Factory','Lord Of The Rings' and James Bond.

Country: United Kingdom
Interests and Hobbies: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain,is a sovereign island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the northeast part of the island of Ireland and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel. The United Kingdom is a union of four constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy with its seat of government in London, the capital, and a constitutional monarchy with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. The Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, formally possessions of the Crown, are not part of the UK but form a federacy with it. The UK has fourteen overseas territories, all remnants of the British Empire, which at its height encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface, making it the largest empire in history. As a direct result of the empire, British influence can be observed in the language and culture of states such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Singapore and the United States of America, and other less globally influential independent states. HM Queen Elizabeth II remains the head of the Commonwealth of Nations and head of state of the Commonwealth realms. The UK is a developed country, with the fifth (nominal GDP) or sixth (PPP) largest economy in the world. It was the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th century, but the economic cost of two world wars and the decline of its empire in the latter half of the 20th century diminished its leading role in global affairs. The UK nevertheless retains strong economic, cultural, military and political influence and is a nuclear power, with the second or third (depending on method of calculation) highest defence spending in the world. It holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and is a member of the G8, NATO, WTO, the European Union and the Commonwealth of Nations. Britain if you include all its over seas territory is the 18th largest country in the world. (1.655.695km2)
Movies and Shows: The United Kingdom has been influential in the development of cinema, with the Ealing Studios claiming to be the oldest studios in the world. Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity, and the influences of American and European cinema. The BFI Top 100 British films is a poll conducted by the British Film Institute which ranks what they consider to be the 100 greatest British films of all time.
Music: Classical music: Notable composers from the United Kingdom have included William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Arthur Sullivan (most famous for working with librettist Sir W. S. Gilbert), Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten, pioneer of modern British opera. London remains one of the major classical music capitals of the world. Popular music: Prominent among the UK contributors to the development of rock music in the 1960s and 1970s were The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, and Black Sabbath. Heavy metal, hard rock, punk rock and New Wave were among the variations that followed. In the early 1980s, UK bands from the New Romantic scene such as Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Spandau Ballet, Soft Cell and Ultravox were prominent. In the 1990s, Britpop bands and electronica music attained international success. More recent pop acts, including The Smiths, Oasis, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, and the Spice Girls, have ensured the continuation of the UK's massive contribution to popular music.
Books: The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time. Among the earliest English writers are Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th century), Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century), and Thomas Malory (15th century). In the 18th century, Samuel Richardson is often credited with inventing the modern novel. In the 19th century, there followed further innovation by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, the social campaigner Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the visionary poet William Blake and romantic poet William Wordsworth. Twentieth century writers include the science fiction novelist H. G. Wells, the controversial D. H. Lawrence, the modernist Virginia Woolf, the prophetic novelist George Orwell and the poet John Betjeman. Most recently, the children's fantasy Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling has recalled the popularity of J.R.R. Tolkien. Scotland's contribution includes the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle, romantic literature by Sir Walter Scott, the epic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the celebrated poet Robert Burns. More recently, the modernist and nationalist Hugh MacDiarmid and Neil M. Gunn contributed to the Scottish Renaissance. A more grim outlook is found in Ian Rankin's stories and the psychological horror-comedy of Iain Banks. Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, is UNESCO's first worldwide city of literature. In the early medieval period, Welsh writers composed the Mabinogion. In modern times, the poets R.S. Thomas and Dylan Thomas have brought Welsh culture to an international audience. Authors from other nationalities, particularly from Ireland, or from Commonwealth countries, have lived and worked in the UK. Significant examples through the centuries include Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and more recently British authors born abroad such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Sir Salman Rushdie. In theatre, Shakespeare's contemporaries Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson added depth. More recently Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Edgar have combined elements of surrealism, realism and radicalism. Media
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The British Commonwealth is a brotherhood of 53 nations on this planet consisting of a diverse range of 1,921,974,000 people. 16 of which have HM Queen Elizabeth II, Defender of our Protestant Faith as head of state. Those 16 nations are the best nations on earth. Its more than a common heritage we share but for hundreds of years we have fought for the common good of planet earth. Another thing we all share is our conection to the United Kingdom and the fact that at one stage in each of the countires history they where British or under British rule!
In many many cases mostly in cases where countires have worked with the British and have been pround to be British and these countires have growen and become some of the best, richest, strongest countires in the world e.g. the UK itself, Canada, New Zealand, Austrilia, even the USA and now up and coming countires sucha as India.

May the Commonwealth Never Die.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

Antigua and Barbuda (1981)
Australia (1931[1])
Bahamas (1973)
Bangladesh (1972)
Barbados (1966)
Belize (1981)
Botswana (1966)
Brunei (1984)
Cameroon (1995)
Canada (1931)
Cyprus (1961)
Dominica (1978)
Gambia (1965)
Ghana (1957)
Grenada (1974)
Guyana (1966)
India (1947)
Jamaica (1962)
Kenya (1963)
Kiribati (1979)
Lesotho (1966)
Malawi (1964)
Malaysia (1957)
Maldives (1982)
Malta (1964)
Mauritius (1968)
Mozambique (1995)
Namibia (1990)
Nauru (1968)[2]
New Zealand (1931[3])
Nigeria (1960[4])
Pakistan (1947[5])
Papua New Guinea (1975)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983)
Saint Lucia (1979)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979)
Samoa (1970)
Seychelles (1976)
Sierra Leone (1961)
Singapore (1965)
Solomon Islands (1978)
South Africa (1931[6])
Sri Lanka (1948)
Swaziland (1968)
Tanzania (1961)
Tonga (1970)
Trinidad and Tobago (1962)
Tuvalu (1978)
Uganda (1962)
United Kingdom (1931)
Vanuatu (1980)
Zambia (1964)

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