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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bermuda
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Self-governing British colony in the west Atlantic, consisting of more than 100 small islands (about 20 inhabited). They were settled as the result of an accident. Sir George Somers, in command of a ship taking colonists to Virginia in America, was shipwrecked here in 1609 (the territory was long known as the Somers Islands); his account of his experiences partly inspired Shakespeare's The *Tempest, written two years later. Internal self-government was introduced in 1968, but the governor, appointed from Britain, remains responsible for security and external affairs.
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