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  2. Social class in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. [1] [2] British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution) divided hierarchically within a system that involved the hereditary transmission of ...

  3. British diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The British diaspora played a significant role in bringing British sports to the world. British sailors and soldiers contributed to association football becoming the most popular sport in the world. [50] In a few places, Britons helped establish cricket, only for it to be replaced by baseball, an American sport with English antecedents. This ...

  4. Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    For individual members with equivalent ranks but of different orders, precedence is accorded based on the seniority of the British orders of chivalry: the Order of the Bath, the Order of St Michael and St George, the Royal Victorian Order, and the Order of the British Empire. For equivalent ranks and orders, those appointed earlier precede ...

  5. Americans in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    During the Second World War, the first influx of American troops arrived in Britain on January 26, 1942 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [7] More than 1,600,000 American servicemen and servicewomen were in Great Britain by June 6, 1944, when the Normandy invasion was launched. Troop numbers gradually came down after that. [8]

  6. British Americans - Wikipedia

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    After the Age of Discovery, the British were one of the earliest and largest communities to emigrate out of Europe, and the British Empire's expansion during the latter half of the 18th century and first half of the 19th century saw an "extraordinary dispersion of the British people", with particular concentrations "in Australasia and North ...

  7. Peerages in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The positions of the other Great Officers—the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Lord High Constable, the Earl Marshal and the Lord High Admiral—and the officers of the Household—the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain—are based on their respective ranks. Thus, if the Lord Steward were a duke, he would precede all dukes, if a marquess, he ...

  8. European Americans - Wikipedia

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    European Americans on average are: "98.6 percent Native European, 0.19 percent Native African and 0.18 percent Native American." Inferred British/Irish ancestry is found in European Americans from all states at mean proportions of above 20%, and represents a majority of ancestry, above 50% mean proportion, in states such as Mississippi ...

  9. Territorial evolution of the British Empire - Wikipedia

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    The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...

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