[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

A hundred years ago, this country owned a quarter of the entire planet.

[wally_bert]

How the mighty have fallen.

[frank ballenger]

...once owned a quarter of the entire planet....
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Yes.
In Discovering Sherlock Holmes (Stanford University):
Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth year, 1859, fell 22 years into Queen Victoria’s 64-year reign, a time of unparalleled growth and optimism for the British Empire. Resources and labor taken from colonies worldwide had made England prosper, and the time of serious independence struggles lay in the distant future. Business flourished, technology blossomed....
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Now they stop people from using the term “Great Britain” and ask for “Britain” instead.