Re: [GZG] NSL Geopolitical Composition

Matthew Tope wrote:
> 
> On 21/08/06, Robert N Bryett <rbryett@mail.com> wrote:
> 
>      Holland is the same place as the Netherlands in the
>      same way that England is the same place as Britain...
> 
> Sorry Rob, but England is not the same place as Britain, but
> don't worry, this is a common mistake made by not Brits, let me
> explain (though it gets a tad complicated...)

He knows. He is saying that Holland is not the same place as the
Netherlands. Holland is smaller, in exactly the same way that
England is smaller than Britain.

> Technically there is no country called Britain. The Nations
> actual name is the United Kingdom. The UK consists of the
> territories encompassed by the geographical term of Great
> Britain, which are  England, Scotland, Wales and Ulster
> (Northern Ireland). Britain is a geographical term for the main
> landmass of the British isles, on which are found England, Wales
> and Scotland.

That's Great Britain. There is also a Less Britain, or Brittany
that sticks out of France, and is filled with Bretons. (In French
they are "Grande-Bretagne" and "Bretagne".)

> The UK as created early in the eighteenth century with the
> creation of the United Kingdom of England and Wales, at which
> point the nations of England and Wales ceased to exists,
> superseded in law by the UK. In the early 1800's Scotland joined
> (or was forced at gun point) into the act of Union, the UK
> expanded across the whole of Britain.

Scotland was bankrupt and shared a monarch with England. The
Scottish Parliament voted itself out of existence.

-- 
David Brewer

"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific 
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of 
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)

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