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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by arethuza on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:12AM (#33693413)
Wasn't Wales annexed by force into England while Scotland joined with England as an act of desperation following an amazingly incompetent attempt at setting up a colony?
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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by iso1631 on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:16AM (#33694218)
Well there were two joinings. In the first one the Scottish King (James VI) took over the English throne after Elizabeth I died.

King James then began to try to create a unified state, merging first the churches. Of course there was then that little Cromwell bustup, but after that James VII of Scotland was on the throne and causing religious grief, his daughter and her Dutch husband then took over.

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by arethuza on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:32AM (#33694446)
Wasn't that more like trying to merge the churches - or did I imagine the unique misery of Church of Scotland services at school? :-)
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