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  2. Parliament of England - Wikipedia

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    The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised the English monarch. Great councils were first called Parliaments during the reign of Henry III (r. 1216 ...

  3. Parliament of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Treaty of Union by Acts of Union passed by the Parliament of England (established 1215) and the Parliament of Scotland (c. 1235), both Acts of Union stating, "That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament to be styled The Parliament of Great Britain."

  4. Parliament - Wikipedia

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    The British Parliament is often referred to as the Mother of Parliaments (in fact a misquotation of John Bright, who remarked in 1865 that "England is the Mother of Parliaments") because the British Parliament has been the model for most other parliamentary systems, and its Acts have created many other parliaments. [52]

  5. List of parliaments of England - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III, when the Curia Regis developed into a body known as Parliament, until the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. For later parliaments, see the List of parliaments of Great Britain. For the history of the English Parliament, see Parliament of England.

  6. Video games in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Strachey's Draughts is the first verifiable video game to run on a general-purpose computer.. The United Kingdom had been a key participant in the 18th and 19th century history of computing, in both its theoretical underpinnings (e.g. George Boole's Boolean algebra) and especially its practical application, including the first computing device.

  7. Category:Parliament of England - Wikipedia

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    Articles about the former parliament of the independent, sovereign state, the Kingdom of England, which was replaced in 1707 by the Parliament of Great Britain. England is now part of the United Kingdom and is governed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

  8. Home video game console - Wikipedia

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    A home video game console is a predesigned piece of electronic hardware that is meant to be placed at a fixed location at one's home, connected to a display like a television screen or computer monitor, and to an external power source, to play video games on using one or more video game controllers.

  9. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...