Dated 1733, titled "A Map of the British Empire in America, " it was printed in London.
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He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997.
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Having thrown off the tyranny of the British Empire, the first Americans were understandably skeptical of government.
Herbert was presented with an honor, the Order of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010.
It is the latest award for the explorer who has an Order of the British Empire (OBE) among his honours.
Among the many honors Minoru garnered in his lifetime was the Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Why was Indira Gandhi, daughter of a committed enemy of the British empire, welcomed by such establishment institutions as Badminton school and Oxford?
She was one of very few Muslim women to take part in the Pakistan movement and witness first hand the fall of the British empire.
But issues of conversion are also painful in some former territories of the British empire, which allowed its subjects to follow their own communal laws.
The oldest recipient is Georgina Dickson, 90, who received her Medalist of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community and charity fundraising.
The poem, written on Army notepaper in blue crayon, consists of four 10-line stanzas, each ending with the name of a distant outpost of the British empire.
Over time, though, the shaming of Wilde generated as much sympathy as disgust, particularly among those who were disenchanted by the strutting poses of the British Empire.
It was closely followed by the Oscar-winning short Great, which satirised Victorian attitudes and the decline of the British Empire, won him the Academy Award and a Bafta in 1976.
S2 pupils at Doon Academy in Dalmellington, East Ayrshire, interviewed the leader of the town band, who is a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
London's former mayor told listeners to his radio show on Saturday that he had been offered the chance to be appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Sir Alan, a professor of economics, has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, for services to economic policy and the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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Uniquely, the union flag has been - and for many still is - a feature of the flags of several other nations, a legacy of the size and endurance of the British empire.
Scottish hockey legend Rhona Simpson is another veteran of past Games who retains her enthusiasm for a concept that has transcended the dismantling of the British Empire from which the idea was spawned.
All take succour from recent, generally favourable reassessments of the British empire, notably the one offered in a book (and television series) by Niall Ferguson, a Scottish historian now at New York University.
She is officially the head of state of 16 countries that used to be part of the British Empire, has met presidents and prime ministers, and has seen the world change beyond recognition during her reign.
Travelling through the country, you begin to glimpse the complex influences that have shaped it: Buddhism, the legacy of the British Empire, the ethnic diversity of the population, and the long imperial history of the Burmese themselves.
The singer has received numerous international accolades, including the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Arts, Commander of the French Legion d'Honneur, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
In 1992, the British designer Vivienne Westwood, who used to dress the Sex Pistols and once sold bondage gear out of a shop she ran with rock manager Malcolm McLaren, received an Order of the British Empire from the Queen.
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He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States and the titles of Commandant of the Legion of Honor in France, Honorary Knight of the British Empire, and both Grande Ufficiale and Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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They highlight the curriculum's omission of the contributions of troops from the British Empire on the Western Front and other campaigns of World Wars I and II, as well as a wider lack of acknowledgement of "the importance of Islamic civilisation to humanity's progress and history", for example to the Renaissance in Europe.
Frick had been the man Carnegie trusted above all others to manage the affairs of Carnegie Steel, a manufacturing combine so vast that its output surpassed that of the entire British Empire.
It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, however, that the actual practice of slavery was banned throughout the British Empire (all slaves in the British Empire were officially emancipated in 1834).
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World War I took place from 1914 to 1918 and claimed the lives of millions of young men - 947, 000 of them from the British Empire.
The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.
Most of those eventual transitions were fueled by the abundance of cheap energy, either in the form of abundant natural resources, slave labor, or the advent of fossil fuel beginning with coal in the British Empire after 1850.
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