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2 hours ago · The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
1 day ago · Body swap appearances in media. Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke 's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, [1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882) [2] and Freaky Friday (1972) [3] have inspired numerous film adaptations ...
1 day ago · In 1760, General Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst attacked and seized Montreal, winning Canada for the British. Several Jews were members of his regiments, and among his officer corps were five Jews: Samuel Jacobs, Emmanuel de Cordova, Aaron Hart, Hananiel Garcia, and Isaac Miramer.
1 day ago · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist ...
