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--On Sunday, September 23, 2001 13:42:52 -0700 Terry Lambert
<tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Really, it has worked remarkably well for the 225 years it
> has been in power.  If you want to get technical, the U.K. 
> government changed from a Monarchy to a Republic in that
> time, and the German government has turned over at least 4
> times, if you count only gross form, and not instances.

I think it will come as a bit of a shock to most people in the UK to find
that the UK is a republic.

What's the basis for this rather interesting opinion?

Paul Richards
FreeBSD Services Ltd
http://www.freebsd-services.com

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