Empire!

Britannia

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We reject your truth. And your protest.

The Boers are putting up a fight.

We pour money down the drain, buying our foodstuffs from all over the world instead of developing the Empire.

English language was seen as a language of the imperialists.

It came from about 300 years ago, and it came from the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet. The British Empire Imagine trying to run the show, trying to run the entire planet, without computers, without telephones, with data handwritten on pieces of paper, and traveling by ships.

May God bless his soul.

Of the 8.6 million British forces in WWI, nearly a third came from the overseas empire. That made it increasingly difficult for the government in London to declare war on behalf of the empire when nationalist sentiments began to intensify.

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I want to say that I think the powers that be know that empire building is actually that feelings get in the way of empire building.

The story is fascinating and well told but there is still a great deal worth arguing. For example, did the British decline because the US could not be stopped, or because of problems within the British Empire and at home?

Everybody did empire.

How tall is the Empire State Building?

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In the early nineteenth century, the friezes and sculptures were removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, Britain s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803. Elgin sold them to the British government, which put them in the British Museum.

In 1864, the Emperor of Abyssinia took hostage the British consul, together with some missionaries, in the country's then capital, Magdala. Three years later, with Emperor Tewodros still refusing to release them, the British dispatched an expeditionary force of 13,000 troops, 26,000 camp followers, and 44 elephants.

And of course, Alexander couldn't sustain a government and it fragmented.

After Alexander, the other empires, Babylon declines, falls into ruins, and all the traces of the great Babylonian empire are lost until 1879 when the cylinder is discovered by a British Museum exhibition digging in Babylon.

That's like taking two Empire State Buildings and stacking them on top of one another.

The caves of Britain? The whole of the empire outside Italy.

And what is it that has kept our empire together?

I am the emperor of oranges. I am the emperor of oranges.

You know, 2,000 years ago, Europe breakdown the fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire.

19. On 3 April 1998, some 70 East Timorese students staged a peaceful rally in front of the British Embassy in Jakarta, demanding that officials attending the Asia Europe Meeting in London to include human rights in East Timor in their agenda.

BOAC announce the departure of their Imperial special flight BA 501 to New York.

Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot met, and they agreed that after the war France and England should share the Turkish Empire.

The empire of Iran, the Medes and the Persians, united under Cyrus, became the first great world empire.

Rudyard Kipling s old Great Game now has new contestants. Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.

The Co Chairperson (Sweden) The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Mari Bin Almude Alkatiri, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste.

His Excellency the British Minister.

The state of Israel is setup, and 50 years later, in the late 60s, it's clear that Britain's role as the imperial power is over.

Final announcement for BOAC Imperial special flight BA 501 to New York.

But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America. By the outbreak of World War I, Britain ranked only fourth among the great powers in terms of military personnel, fourth in terms of GDP, and third in military spending.

More. More. Caesar.

Think of the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center.

You are prisoners of the German Reich.

Although Britain was a beacon of democracy in the twentieth century, it did not extend this principle to an empire that held sway over more people and territory than any previous world power. It suppressed independence movements in India and across the Middle East and Africa (though many of these movements members willingly fought for Britain during both World Wars).

Part of the reason is that they were not fighting for India. The soldiers were all volunteers soldiering was their profession, and they served the very British Empire that was oppressing their own people back home.

Mr. Alkatiri (Timor Leste) At the outset, I would like to express the solidarity of the Timorese people with the victims of Hurricane Katrina and with the people and the Government of the United States.

So it really doesn't look like empire is a great explanation for the Great Divergence.

It was the largest empire the world had known until then.

Let the heart of the empire grow with us.

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