San Bernardino County Time Machine: Madonna of the Trail
Learn about the history behind the Madonna of the Trail statue in Upland. There are 11 similar statues placed across the United States.
Madonna of the Trail, Springfield, OH - Colonel Joshua Howard, DAR 2019
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With more than 120 years of tradition, over 930,000 members admitted since its founding, a vast array of service work, a historic National Headquarters building with extraordinary collections, and countless activities taking place locally, nationally and globally, there is much to learn about the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The organization was founded in 1890 with the simple mission of promoting historic preservation, education and patriotism. These timeless, overarching principles keep the DAR strong and vitally relevant in this ever-changing world.
This nonprofit, nonpolitical volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history and securing America's future through better education consists of over 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters across the world. These vibrant, active women are the heart of the organization. ~ dar.org
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The Colonel Joshua Howard Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are here today, the third of April 2019, at the Madonna of the Trail in Springfield, Ohio, to honor the spirit of the women who came before us, paving new paths for the future of the United States of America.
In 1911 the NSDAR set out to mark the “Old Trails Road” stretching from Maryland to California. Initial plans, calling for painted mileage markers, were later abandoned. National DAR Commission chairperson Arlene B. Nichols Moss was inspired by Portland, Oregon’s 1905 Sacajawea monument to commission twelve identical Madonna of the Trail statues to be placed in the 12 states through which the “Old Trails Road” passed, currently Route 40. That Sacajawea statue had been erected by suffragists to honor both Sacagawea and the “pioneer mother of Oregon.” By erecting a statue of a famous indigenous woman, its donors managed to celebrate women’s strength alongside their maternalism. The Madonna of the Trail monuments were intended to provide a symbol of the courage and faith of the women whose strength and love aided so greatly in conquering the wilderness and establishing permanent homes.
Created by sculptor August Leimbach and funded by contributions, the Madonna of the Trail is a pinkish, stony-faced pioneer Mother, in long dress and bonnet, strutting westward clutching a rifle with one hand, an infant with the other, and small child grasping the mother's skirt. The sites were chosen with the help of the president of the National Old Trails Road Association, then Missouri Justice of the Peace and later U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who attended each dedication between 1928 and 1929. The twelve statues became sources of local pride and through the continuing efforts of local and national groups, all are currently in good condition and on display.
We thank those wives and mothers who paved a pathway into America’s future.
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Rachel Zimmerman - Madonna of the Trail
This is for the Illinois200's Something to Learn About Illinois History contest. I spoke about the Madonna of the Trail monument which is located in Vandalia, Illinois and one of only twelve identical pieces in the United States.
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In summary, here are the main points: USS Midway Museum, Los Angeles Colliseum, San Juan Capistrano MIssion, Aircraft Carrier Museum San Diego, Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Venice Beach, Colonies Crossroads, The Ziggurat, Upland, Grazies Italian Restaurant & Sports Bar, The Eldorado State, Highway of Death, Black Watch Pub, Death Valley, Watts Towers, Calif., credit card, Credit Repair Services, Dale Bros. Brewery, Trapped!, debt in collections, California, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Sequoia National Park, The Grape State, CA, VantageScore, Hollywood Sign, adhesion contract, Hearst Castle, Excellent 5 Star Review, professionality, Dante's View, Pro Forma Invoice, Customers' reviews, Dale Bros. Brewery, Cal., Madonna of the Trail, The Grove Theatre, The Golden State, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park, Colton Hall, Tequila Hoppers Sports Bar & Grill, Golden Gate Bridge, General Sherman, Better Qualified, High stress, Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, Kings Canyon National Park, Napa Valley, Palm Springs.
Day 5, (Main Stree America), Upland's Great American Road Trip
Upland Terrace has spent the 2011/2012 school year learning all about America. Join us as we make several stops along the Freedom Highway. Today's stop, Chicago and America's Mother Road, Route 66.
In Their Words - The Story of the Founding
125th Anniversary of the DAR. This clip is a portion of the Opening Night of the 2015 Continental Congress. Honorary President General Presley Wagoner gives a presentation about the early years of the organization
Dash Cam Tours ????: Driving on Ventura Blvd in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Dashcam Tours ????: Driving on Ventura Blvd in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Running 18 miles, Ventura Boulevard is the world's longest avenue of contiguous businesses. The Boulevard begins near Calabasas in Woodland Hillsat an intersection with Valley Circle Boulevard, passes through Tarzana, Encino, Sherman Oaks, and finally in Studio City (where it intersects with Barham Boulevard) it becomes Cahuenga Boulevard, which then winds through Cahuenga Pass into Hollywood.
It has always been the most concentrated location for mom and pop shops and small businesses in the Valley; nowadays it has pockets of housing, mini-malls, and shops, along with a wide assortment of businesses, schools, and other establishments. Homes south of Ventura are considered to be among the most expensive in Los Angeles County, ranging from $2 million to $50 million and home to numerous celebrities, executives, athletes, and entertainers alike.
Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east–west thoroughfares in the San Fernando Valley, California, United States. Ventura Boulevard is one of the oldest routes in the San Fernando Valley as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions). It was also U.S. Route 101 before the freeway (which it is parallel to for much of Ventura Boulevard's length)
Music
The Everly Brothers recorded a song called Ventura Boulevard on their 1968 album Roots. Ventura Boulevard is mentioned in Tom Petty's song Free Fallin' (All the vampires walkin' through the valley, Move west down Ventura Boulevard...). The Boulevard is also mentioned in Frank Zappa's Valley Girl (On Ventura, there she goes, she just bought some bitchin' clothes) a song about a valley girl(voiced by his daughter Moon Zappa) who lives in Encino and participates in typical Valley Girl activities such as shopping at The Galleria, not wanting to do the dishes, and getting her toenails professionally pedicured.
Guitarist John 5 made a song entitled 18969 Ventura Blvd.
Ventura Boulevard was also the name of a band from Delhi, India.
In the documentary Living with Michael Jackson, it is revealed that Michael Jackson wrote the song Billie Jean while riding down Ventura Boulevard in his car.
Haim's music video Want You Back is filmed on Ventura Boulevard.
Film
The boulevard is a prominent location in the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Much of the films Crash and Transformers were filmed on the boulevard.
Television
In the Seinfeld episode The Trip, Part 2, Jerry and George were said to be calling from a pay phone on Ventura Boulevard. In reality, the pay phone shown was on Ventura Place, about one block away.
In the Treehouse of Horror VI episode of The Simpsons, Ventura Boulevard features as the location of the show's first ever live-action scene.
Steve Allen, who lived in Encino, famously joked that The Valley is the hippest part of town. They even named a boulevard after Charlie Ventura, referring to the renowned jazz saxophonist.
Video games
Video game developer Infinity Ward, which developed most of the games in the Call of Duty series, has its headquarters on Ventura Boulevard. The studios can be seen at 15821 Ventura Boulevard, Encino.
Neighborhoods within Ventura Blvd include:
Studio City
Sherman Oaks
Encino
Tarzana
Woodland Hills
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Miller Creek Allotment, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, NV Part 1 of 2
On September 14 and 15 Katie Fite and I visited the Miller Creek Allotment on the Mountain City Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest to check out the riparian areas there. What we found was just a horrible mess that any land manager should be embarrassed about enough to actually do something about but, as Katie tells me, this has been the situation for the last ten years when she and Jon Marvel toured the area with the Forest Service.
The permittee is the Simplot Corporation, the largest livestock grazing permittee on public lands.
One of the main reasons that the riparian areas suffer so greatly from overgrazing, aside from the fact that cattle just shouldn't be here in the first place, is because the USFS converted the grazing use from sheep to cattle without taking into account the different ways that they use the land. Sheep usually have someone moving them around from one place to another so they tend to utilize the upland areas away from water more. Cattle, on the other hand, tend to want to sit in the shade of the willows and aspen in the riparian areas (wet areas) next to streams and water. When the USFS converted the grazing from sheep to cattle they issued a permit for the same number of Animal Unit Months (AUM's) without considering the difference between the way the two species graze so they essentially vastly overstocked the allotment with cattle.
As a consequence of the overstocking, the riparian areas are heavily grazed and the streams, springs, and seeps are drying out while the riparian soils that hold the water are eroding away to smother the streams below with sediment. The vegetation next to the streams, notably aspen and willows but also other species, is being severely degraded to the point that the ground is beaten to dust or mud mixed with cow flop and the willows and aspen have very little chance to regenerate because the cattle like to eat them.
We visited Miller Creek, Reed Creek, Rain Creek and Willis Creek on this trip. Miller and Reed Creeks are tributaries to the Owyhee River drainage while the other two flow north into the Bruneau River Drainage. These small streams should be capable of supporting redband trout during part of the year, if not year-round, but they have degraded to the point that there was no sign of them in the portions of the creeks that we examined. The Great Basin population of Columbia spotted frogs, which are a candidate species for the Endangered Species Act, should be present here but they were nowhere to be found.
On Reed Creek we found beaver dams but, because of the heavy livestock grazing, the aspens were receding away from the creek because they had no ability to regenerate due to cattle grazing. The willows here were all older and suffered from the same problem. Under ungrazed conditions we would have had great difficulty getting around in the riparian area and likely wouldn't have been able to enter them at all because the vegetation would have been extremely thick.
On the other creeks beavers have disappeared entirely and the willows are almost gone. There was evidence of historic beaver use and the areas where there used to be beaver dams were suffering from headcuts. Many of the larger aspen are still present but regeneration is being suppressed due to cattle grazing of the young shoots.
Headcuts are formed when the vegetation that holds the riparian soils together is beaten down and killed resulting in areas where flowing water cuts and washes away the soils. The headcuts work their way upstream over time to leave a barren rocky substrate that can't support vegetation. This also results in a lower water table allowing sagebrush to grow into meadows. These features were ubiquitous on this allotment and the damage caused by them will take decades to recover. If grazing weren't occurring here the beavers would be more active and the stream banks would be stable with little movement of soils. There would be places for fish to spawn and better habitat for all kinds of species.
Appalachia | Wikipedia audio article
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Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, southwesterly to the Great Smoky Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Yavapai: Wi:kaʼi:la, Spanish: Gran Cañón), is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
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Appalachia | Wikipedia audio article
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, southwesterly to the Great Smoky Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.
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United Kingdom | Wikipedia audio article
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to its east, the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south-south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.
The sovereign state is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 1952, making her the longest-serving current head of state. The United Kingdom's capital and largest city is London, a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million. Other major urban areas in the UK include the conurbations centred on Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Liverpool.
The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Their capitals are London, Belfast, Edinburgh, and Cardiff respectively. Apart from England, the countries have devolved administrations, each with varying powers. The nearby Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Bailiwick of Jersey are not part of the UK, being Crown dependencies with the British Government responsible for defence and international representation. The medieval conquest and subsequent annexation of Wales by the Kingdom of England, followed by the union between England and Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the union in 1801 of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are fourteen British Overseas Territories, the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies.
The United Kingdom is a developed country and has the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It has a high-income economy and has a very high Human Development Index, ranking 14th in the world. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The United Kingdom remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state and is sixth in military expenditure in the world. It has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946. It has been a leading member state of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC), since 1973; however, a referendum in 2016 resulted in 51.9% of UK voters favouring leaving the European Union, and the country's exit is being negotiated. The United Kingdom is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Council of Europe, the G7, the G20, NATO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Interpol and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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United Kingdom | Wikipedia audio article
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United Kingdom
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
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- reduce eye strain
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SUMMARY
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to its east, the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south-south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.
The sovereign state is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 1952, making her the longest-serving current head of state. The United Kingdom's capital and largest city is London, a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million. Other major urban areas in the UK include the conurbations centred on Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Liverpool.
The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Their capitals are London, Belfast, Edinburgh, and Cardiff respectively. Apart from England, the countries have devolved administrations, each with varying powers. The nearby Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Bailiwick of Jersey are not part of the UK, being Crown dependencies with the British Government responsible for defence and international representation. The medieval conquest and subsequent annexation of Wales by the Kingdom of England, followed by the union between England and Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the union in 1801 of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are fourteen British Overseas Territories, the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies.
The United Kingdom is a developed country and has the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It has a high-income economy and has a very high Human Development Index, ranking 14th in the world. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The United Kingdom remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state and is sixth in military expenditure in the world. It has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946. It has been a leading member state of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC), since 1973; however, a referendum in 2016 resulted in 51.9% of UK voters favouring leaving the European Union, and the country's exit is being negotiated. The United Kingdom is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Council of Europe, the G7, the G20, NATO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Interpol and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to its east, the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south-south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.
The sovereign state is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 1952, making her the longest-serving current head of state. The United Kingdom's capital and largest city is London, a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million. Other major urban areas in the UK include the conurbations centred on Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Liverpool.
The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Their capitals are London, Belfast, Edinburgh, and Cardiff respectively. Apart from England, the countries have devolved administrations, each with varying powers. The nearby Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Bailiwick of Jersey are not part of the UK, being Crown dependencies with the British Government responsible for defence and international representation. The medieval conquest and subsequent annexation of Wales by the Kingdom of England, followed by the union between England and Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the union in 1801 of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are fourteen British Overseas Territories, the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies.
The United Kingdom is a developed country and has the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It has a high-income economy and has a very high Human Development Index, ranking 14th in the world. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The United Kingdom remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state and is sixth in military expenditure in the world. It has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946. It has been a leading member state of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC), since 1973; however, a referendum in 2016 resulted in 51.9% of UK voters favouring leaving the European Union, and the country's exit is being negotiated. The United Kingdom is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Council of Europe, the G7, the G20, NATO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Interpol and the World Trade Organization (WTO).