Re: [OT] Happy Birthday To Oz (was HAPPY NEW YEAR!)

At 03:13 PM 1/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 02 January 2001, Ground Zero Games wrote:
>
>> Ditto to those in Oz, but also, BTW, a Happy 200th Birthday to the
United
>> Kingdom.....  ;-)
>
>Ummm... huh? *L*
>
>James VI of Scotland became James I of England, thus uniting the
crowns,
in 1603. But it wasn't until 1707 that the Act of Union made it
"official". 
>
>So what happened in 1801???

Well, according to the CIA World Factbook
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html, *love* this
site), "the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was
implemented
in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great
Britain
and Ireland".  Though since the name changed to "The United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in 1927...?

					Aaron Teske
					ateske@HICom.net