Great Britain is not an island - funny as it sounds - because we are also bound by rules made in the EU. These rules bias eventual decisions made by our own Ministries.

BBC: Foot-and-mouth: Do you want a public inquiry?

Portrush has the very unique distinction of being the only course outside the island of Great Britain to host the British Open, and is perennially ranked in the Top 20 on earth by just about every golf publication.

FORBES: Rory McIlroy's Northern Ireland Golf Tour

The uniting of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 is one of the most important moments in the island's story.

BBC: Scotland politics

In 1967, Dekker's song "007 (Shanty Town), " detailing the island's "rude boy" gangster ghetto culture, topped charts in Great Britain and became a trans-Atlantic anthem for Britain's growing mod scene.

NPR: Desmond Dekker, the 'King of Ska'

With a central span of 1, 991 metres (6, 532 feet), the Akashi Kaikyo bridge, which opens on April 5th, between Kobe and Awaji Island in Osaka Bay, is bigger than Britain's Humber bridge and longer than the Great Belt East bridge that has just been built in Denmark.

ECONOMIST: The bridge to nowhere in particular