The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentee_voting_in_the_United_Kingdom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">overseas votes </a>to be brought to Britain. The governing <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Conservative Party </a>sought to maintain its position in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Parliament </a>but faced challenges from public opinion about the future of the United Kingdom in the post-war period. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Prime_Minister" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">British Prime Minister </a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winston Churchill </a>proposed to call for a general election in Parliament, which passed with a majority vote less than two months after

United Kingdom General election in 1945

The election's campaigning was focused on leadership of the country and its future. Churchill sought to use his wartime popularity as part of his campaign to keep the Conservatives in power after a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry">wartime coalition </a>had been in place since 1940 with the other political parties, but he faced questions from public opinion surrounding the Conservatives' actions in the 1930s and his ability to handle domestic issues unrelated to warfare. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee">Clement Attlee </a>, who led the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)">Labour Party </a>, was seen as a more competent leader by voters, particularly those who feared a return to the levels of unemployment

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The final result of the election showed Labour to have won a landslide victory,<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election#cite_note-FOOTNOTERowe200437-2">[2] </a> making a net gain of 239 seats and winning 47.7%, thus allowing Attlee to be appointed prime minister. This election marked the first time that the Labour Party had won an outright majority in parliament, and allowed Attlee to begin implementing the party's <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-war_consensus">post-war reforms </a>for the country.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-3">[3] </a> For the Conservatives, the Labour victory was a shock,<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election#cite_note-BBCreport-4">[4] </a> as they suffered a net loss of 189 seats although they won 36.2% of the vote and had campaigned on the mistaken belief that Churchill would win as people praised

The 10.7% swing from the Conservatives to an opposition party is the largest since the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800">Acts of Union 1800 </a>; the Conservative loss of the vote exceeded that of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election">1906 Liberal landslide </a>ousting of a Conservative administration. Churchill remained actively involved in politics and returned as prime minister after leading his party into the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election">1951 general election </a>. For the National Liberals, the election was their last as a distinct party, as they merged with the Conservatives in 1947 while Ernest Brown resigned from politics in the aftermath of the election.

Held less than two months after <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day">VE Day </a>, it was the first general election since <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election">1935 </a>, as general elections had been suspended <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_during_World_War_II">during the Second World War </a>. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee">Clement Attlee </a>, the leader of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)">Labour Party </a>, refused <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill">Winston Churchill </a>'s offer of continuing the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry">wartime coalition </a>until the Allied <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_the_Pacific_Day">defeat of Japan </a>. On 15 June, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_VI">King George VI </a>dissolved Parliament, which had been sitting for ten years without an election.The Labour manifesto, "Let Us Face the Future", included promises of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization">nationalisation </a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_planning">economic planning </a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment">full employment </a>, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service">National Health Service </a>,

Dissolution of Parliament and campaign

The polls for some seats were delayed until 12 July and in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_and_Colne_(UK_Parliament_constituency)">Nelson and Colne </a>until 19 July because of local <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakes_week">wakes weeks </a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election#cite_note-8">[8] </a> The results were counted and declared on 26 July to allow time to transport the votes of those serving overseas. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day">Victory over Japan Day </a>ensued on 15 August.

<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ingersoll_(PM_publisher)">Ralph Ingersoll </a>reported in late 1940:"Everywhere I went in London people admired [Churchill's] energy, his courage, his singleness of purpose. People said they didn't know what Britain would do without him. He was obviously respected. But no one felt he would be Prime Minister after the war. He was simply the right man in the right job at the right time. The time being the time of a desperate war with Britain's enemies".<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIngersoll1940127-10">[10] </a> The historian <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pelling">Henry Pelling </a>, noting that polls showed a steady Labour lead after 1942, pointed to long-term forces that caused the Labour landslide:

Reasons for Labour victory

The greatest factor in Labour's dramatic win appeared to be its policy of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_reform">social reform </a>. In one opinion poll, 41% of respondents considered housing to be the most important issue that faced the country, 15% stated the Labour policy of full employment, 7% mentioned social security, 6% nationalisation, and just 5% international security, which was emphasised by the Conservatives.

Though voters respected and liked Churchill's wartime record, they were more distrustful of the Conservative Party's domestic and foreign policy record in the late 1930s.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154%E2%80%93155-5">[5] </a> Churchill and the Conservatives are also generally considered to have run a poor campaign in comparison to Labour. As Churchill's personal popularity remained high, the Conservatives were confident of victory and based much of their election campaign on that, rather than proposing new programmes. However, people distinguished between Churchill and his party,

Conservative weaknesses

1945 United Kingdom general election

<h3>إِذا المَرءُ لا يَرعاكَ إِلّا تَكَلُّفاً</h3><h3>فَدَعهُ وَلا تُكثِر عَلَيهِ التَأَسُّفا</h3><h3>فَفي الناسِ أَبدالٌ وَفي التَركِ راحَةٌ</h3><h3>وَفي القَلبِ صَبرٌ لِلحَبيبِ وَلَو جَفا</h3><h3>فَما كُلُّ مَن تَهواهُ يَهواكَ قَلبُهُ</h3><h3>وَلا كُلُّ مَن صافَيتَهُ لَكَ قَد صَفا</h3><h3>إِذا لَم يَكُن صَفوُ الوِدادِ طَبيعَةً</h3><h3>فَلا خَيرَ في وِدٍّ يَجيءُ تَكَلُّفا</h3><h3>وَلا خَيرَ في خِلٍّ يَخونُ خَليلَهُ</h3><h3>وَيَلقاهُ مِن بَعدِ المَوَدَّةِ بِالجَفا</h3><h3>وَيُنكِرُ عَيشاً قَد تَقادَمَ عَهدُهُ</h3><h3>وَيُظهِرُ سِرّاً كانَ بِالأَمسِ قَد خَفا</h3><h3>سَلامٌ عَلى الدُنيا إِذا لَم يَكُن بِها</h3><h3>صَديقٌ صَدوقٌ صادِقُ الوَعدِ مُنصِفا</h3>

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إِذا المَرءُ لا يَرعاكَ إِلّا تَكَلُّفاً  فَدَعهُ وَلا تُكثِر عَلَيهِ التَأَسُّفا  فَفي الناسِ أَبدالٌ وَفي التَركِ راحَةٌ  وَفي القَلبِ صَبرٌ

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Each year, thousands of birthday and wedding anniversary cards are sent on behalf of The Queen to people celebrating significant birthdays and wedding anniversaries.

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Astronomer Fred Hoyle was the first to point out that if you could drive a car upwards at 95km/h (60mph), it would only take about an hour to get into space.To get to the Moon would take a little longer though, since it’s 400,000km (250,000 miles) away – around 10 times the circumference of the Earth. So it would take as long as driving around the world 10 times – just under six months.Your only real problem (apart from the lack of air for your lungs and for burning the petrol) would be finding a garage to refuel – and that has a loo!

The only way is up, but you're going to need more than an energy drink if you're going to drive a car on this epic journey into space.

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Crocodiles have webbed feet which, though not used to propel them through the water (they tuck their feet to the side while swimming and use the power of their tails), allow them to make fast turns and sudden moves in the water or initiate swimming.

.Crocodiles Their feet are webbed

Despite being classified as “reptiles”, crocodiles (and all crocodilians, including <a href="https://ourplnt.com/largest-alligator-ever-measured/">alligators </a>) are more closely related to <a href="https://ourplnt.com/largest-dinosaurs-ever-lived/">dinosaurs </a>and birds (which are actually <a href="https://ourplnt.com/largest-birds/">avian dinosaurs </a>) than to most animals classified as reptiles.

. Crocodiles are closely related to dinosaurs and birds

Crocodiles really do produce tears. Because, while eating, they swallow too much air, which gets in touch with lachrymal glands (glands that produce tears) and forces tears to flow. But it’s not actually crying. The term “Crocodile tears”  (and equivalents in many other languages) refers to a false, insincere display of emotion, such as a hypocrite crying fake tears of grief.

Crocodiles tears 

It is derived from an ancient anecdote that crocodiles weep in order to lure their prey, or that they cry for the victims they are eating, first told in the Bibliotheca by Photios I, who was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. This tale was first spread widely in English in the stories of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville  in the 14th century and appears in several of William Shakespeare’s plays.

Crocodiles 🐊 tears

Their night vision is very good and they are mostly nocturnal hunters.One of the scariest crocodile facts: crocodiles have the strongest bite ever measured. Paleobiologist Gregory M. Erickson and colleagues tested the bite forces of all 23 living crocodilian species. The strongest, saltwater crocodiles (naturally) slammed their jaws shut with 3,700 pounds per square inch (psi), or 16,460 Newtons, of bite force. For comparison, a lion has a <a href="https://ourplnt.com/top-22-most-powerful-bite-forces-carnivore-mammals/">bite force of 1,314.7 Newtons </a> at the canine tips and 2,023.7 Newtons at the carnassials. But, despite this enormous bite force,

. Saltwater crocodiles have the strongest bite

Crocodiles have the most sophisticated heart in the animal kingdom, and actively change the destination of blood that flows through it depending on requirements.

. Their heart is sophisticated

They do not chew their food. Many large crocodilians swallow stones, which may act as ballast to balance their bodies or assist in crushing food, similar to grit ingested by birds.

18. Crocodiles don’t chew their food

Here are top 20 amazing crocodile facts.Crocodiles are so successful predators. Once they were living alongside the dinosaurs.

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7 time consuming things an average Joe spends on in a lifetimewww.tempo.ioThis is part of a new blog series with practical tips on how to be more productive, cultivate creativity and growth within your company, and nurture a vibrant culture among your teams.Have you ever wondered how much time you spend on certain activities in a lifetime? When our day-to-day activities are summed up into a lifetime, it can be frightening to see how much of our lives goes into these tasks. We’ve put together seven time consuming things an average Joe spends on in their lifetime.

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A good night’s sleep is vital for every human being to survive. Given that an average a person sleeps for 8 hours in a day, that means that an average person will sleep for 229,961 hours in their lifetime or basically one third of their life. That’s precious time which could have been spent watching Die Hard 105,325 times.

1. Sleeping

Eating is a necessary part of life that we must do in order to survive. A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+much+time+do+Americans+spend+eating%3F-a0190462486" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">study </a>&nbsp;done in the US said that an average American spends 67 minutes per day eating and drinking beverages. Summed up together, the average Joe spends a staggering&nbsp;32,098 hours &nbsp;eating and drinking beverages in their lifetime.

Cruising down the street on a hot summer day with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm1q1XoN_Qo">Radar love by the Golden Earrings </a>playing in the car stereo can be a great joy, but driving can also be kind of a drag. According to a study done by the Harvard Health Watch, an average American spends 101 minutes per day driving. That means that in a lifetime, an average Joe spends a whopping 37,935 hours driving a car (assuming that s/he starts driving at 17 and drives until 78.7 years old). In that time, average Joe will drive around 798,000 miles (1,284,256 kilometers), which is approximately the distance it takes to drive to the

Work is a big part of our life and our biggest source of income, but how much time do we actually spend working? Let’s say that average Joe works 40 hours a week, from the age of 20-65 and gets two weeks of vacation every year. In that time, average Joe will have worked a total of 90,360 hours  of his life working for the man.

In the past decade, the impact of the Internet has exploded, becoming an integral part of our everyday lives. We work, shop, socialize, play games, educate, read news, and do so many other things online. A study done in 2010 tells us that an average American spends 32 hours per month online. That totals 28,300 hours  in a lifetime, and this number may increase in the future with smart devices becoming more commonly used and allowing easier access to the Internet.

Most of us love watching TV as a leisure activity. According to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm">US Bureau of Labor Statistics </a>the average American watched TV for 2.8 hours per day, accounting, on average, for around half of their leisure time. That means an average person will watch over 9 years’ worth of TV, or around 80,486 hours . To put that into perspective, you can watch all of the Friends episodes over 838 times.

Most of us love watching TV as a leisure activity. According to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm">US Bureau of Labor Statistics </a>the average American watched TV for 2.8 hours per day, accounting, on average, for around half of their leisure time. That means an average person will watch over 9 years’ worth of TV, or around 80,486 hours . To put that into perspective, you can watch all of the Friends episodes over 838 times.Unless you’re Mary Poppins, you probably don’t like to clean very much; unfortunately, it’s something that most of us have to do. According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2289791/Women-spend-year-half-life-cleaning-house-men-half-long-according-Rug-Doctor.html">this article </a>, women will spend 12,896 hours in their lifetime

6. Watching TV

Have you ever wondered how much time you spend on certain activities in a lifetime? Here are 7 time consuming things an average Joe spends on in a lifetime!

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Credit for the initial concept that developed into the World Wide Web is typically given to Leonard Kleinrock. In 1961, he wrote about ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, in a paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets." Kleinrock, along with other innnovators such as J.C.R. Licklider, the first director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO), provided the backbone for the ubiquitous stream of emails, media, Facebook postings and tweets that are now shared online every day. Here, then, is a brief history of the Internet:

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Al Gore didn't invent the Internet. Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn are often called Fathers of the Internet. Our timeline of Internet history runs from ARPANET to World Wide Web and Facebook.

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The belly dance, is More than 6 thousand years old.Since the pharoans.

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1945 United Kingdom general election

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