When France and Germany, with Italy and the three Benelux countries, made it clear that they were really going to form a customs union, they forced the British government to face a decision it had ...
On April 26, 1962, Britain launched its first satellite, Ariel 1. This made the United Kingdom the third country to have a satellite in orbit after the U.S. and the Soviet Union — but they didn't ...
Britain first staked its claim to a slice of Antarctica back in 1908. But it was only during the Second World War, in 1943, that it established its first permanent bases there, at a time when other ...
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