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  • 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...
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    group of MPs voted into office following a general election. In this sense, the 1st Parliament sat from 24 May 1854 to 15 September 1855. The current...
    62 KB (4,874 words) - 02:13, 16 April 2024
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    known as members of Parliament (MPs). There have been up to 338 MPs since the most recent electoral district redistribution for the 2015 federal election...
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    Parliament House, Melbourne, which it borrowed from the Parliament of Victoria (which sat, instead, in the Royal Exhibition Building until 1927). The...
    139 KB (9,384 words) - 09:16, 10 April 2024
  • the List of parliaments of England to be found elsewhere (see link below) and to precede Duration of English, British and United Kingdom parliaments from...
    73 KB (3,545 words) - 11:44, 16 December 2022
  • Light of the South)
    representation in parliament. Nominated members of parliament were introduced in 1990 to allow non-elected non-partisan MPs. The constitution was amended in 1991...
    319 KB (27,397 words) - 07:23, 25 April 2024
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    Francis Adams Sr., member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1859–1861) and U.S. envoy to the United Kingdom (1861–1868); Charles Francis'...
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    David Parker (New Zealand politician) (category New Zealand list MPs)
    politician who has been a Labour Party Member of Parliament since 2002. After a career in law and business, Parker entered Parliament by winning the marginal...
    53 KB (4,063 words) - 16:17, 25 April 2024
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    Eoin MacNeill (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the National University of Ireland)
    with the goal of separating Ireland from the United Kingdom and establishing an Irish Republic. The entry of the UK into the First World War was, in their...
    30 KB (2,758 words) - 20:40, 5 April 2024
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    1920 Camberwell North West by-election (category By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in London constituencies)
    Liberal Member of Parliament, Thomas Macnamara as Minister of Labour. Until the passing of the Re-election of Ministers Act, 1919, MPs who were appointed...
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    Richard Mulcahy (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922))
    Senator, the upper house of the Oireachtas, representing the Administrative Panel. The 2nd Seanad sat for less than two months, and at the 1938 general...
    25 KB (1,750 words) - 19:59, 18 March 2024
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    increase in attacks happened in the United Kingdom and Sweden. On January 10, a new wave of protests were held in Europe. In London, an estimated 100,000...
    266 KB (10,973 words) - 04:29, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hubert Gough (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    elements of the 32nd Division and 49th Division. He ordered an attack by 14th and 75th brigades (under 32nd Division, part of X Corps). In the event he...
    239 KB (35,481 words) - 12:43, 25 March 2024
  • Overseas censorship of Chinese issues)
    the post because it "violated regulations, including distorting historical events and confusing the public." On 4 June 2021, the 32nd anniversary of the...
    190 KB (13,945 words) - 17:27, 24 March 2024