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Anglo-Russian relations covers the relationship ___ the countries of Russia and the United Kingdom and their predecessor states.

Animals and humans must have ___ between mainland Europe and Great Britain via a crossing.

As recently ___ 8,000 years ago Great Britain was joined to the continent.

Beefeater or the Queen's Guard are considered ___ be symbolic of Englishness.

Britain’s monarchy is the oldest, ___ back to the 9th century.

Coronation of the new Sovereign follows the accession ___ a convenient interval.

Dickens was a great lover of pubs and on this walk we follow ___ his footsteps around inns and taverns of old London.

Discover places ___ Dickens lived and worked.

During the Grand Embassy of Peter I in 1697-1698, Czar Peter I of Russia visited Britain ___ three months.

Each union sends a delegation ___ the party’s annual conference.

Elizabeth was ___ master of political science.

Explore another part of Dickens's London and discover the scenes ___ adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and a host of immortal characters.

From the time of the scientific revolution, England and Scotland, and thereafter the United Kingdom, have ___prominent in world scientific and technological development.

Great Britain is only the largest ___within the United Kingdom.

He is famous ___the father of classical mechanics, formulated as his three laws and as the co-inventor (with Gottfried Leibniz) of differential calculus.

He is most famous for ___ that the same force is responsible for movements of celestial and terrestrial bodies.

Historically, many of the UK's greatest scientists ___ been based at either Oxford or Cambridge University.

How long ___ the present British monarch reigned?

How ___ power does the Royal Family have?

How ___you characterize the inns and taverns of Dickens?

How ___ museums and libraries help to educate children?

In 1801, ___ a new Act of Union, this kingdom merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, over which the monarch of Great Britain had ruled.

In Cheddar Gorge the remains of animal species native to mainland Europe such as antelopes, brown bears, and wild horses ___ been found alongside a human skeleton, 'Cheddar Man', dated to about 7150 B.C.

In its beginnings, the United States consisted only of the Thirteen ___.

In subsequent centuries ___Vikings settled in several parts of the island.

Its Iron Age inhabitants are ___as the Britons, a group speaking a Celtic language.

Lancaster University has a global reputation ___ work in low temperature physics.

Let us start with the ___library in London, the Capitular Library of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Local authorities play ___important part in encouraging the arts.

London is one of the ___literary-minded cities in the world.

Members of the House of Lords, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and the leading citizens of the City of London ___ also invited.

Morris dancers or the costumes for the traditional English May dance are cited ___ some as examples of traditional English costume.

Most ___ the union members are affiliated through the union to the Labour Party.

Newton's Principia is one of ___ most influential works in the history of science.

Outside Parliament the party has more ___ a million individual members who pay annual subscriptions.

Oxford was first occupied in Saxon times, and was initially ___ as "Oxenaforda", meaning "Ford of the Ox".

Since the union of 1707, the entire island ___ one political unit.

Some evidence suggests that John Cabot ___ have reached what is presently New England in 1498.

Spanning nearly five centuries, it ___ often switched from a state of alliance to rivalry.

The arts in Britain are flourishing, and ___ a varied and lively picture.

The automatic succession is summed up in the famous phrase «the King is dead; long ___ the King!».

The Conservative Party ___ formed by Robert Peel from what was left of the old Tory Party in the 1830s.

The current Union Flag dates ___ 1 January 1801 with the Act of Union 1800.

The first Queen Elizabeth, whose name has become a synonym for the era which she dominated, was born in 1533 to ___ and Anne Boleyn.

The first ___ inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years.

The full royal title in Britain is: «Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the ___».

The full royal title in Britain is: «Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the ___, Defender of the Faith».

The island of Great Britain formed ___ the end of the Pleistocene ice age when sea levels rose due to depression of the crust and the melting of glaciers.

The island was first inhabited by people who ___over the land bridge from the European mainland.

The Kingdom of England and Tsardom of Russia established relations in 1553, when English navigator Richard Chancellor ___ in Archangelsk.