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Spendings on scientific researches in the UK count
more than 2% of GDP, over 35% of all the scientific researches are financed
by the state.
25% of the British GNP comes from financial services, among them banking,
insuring, leasing, operations with precious metals. 12% of the labour
force of the country work in this field, and London is one of the world
financial centres.
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The UK takes the second place in the world (after
the USA) in Nobel Prize laureates number. The most prominent discoveries
are the discovery of the structure of the DNA, hyperconductivity, great
results were achieved in the field of radiophysics and computer tomography.
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Before 1971 a money system, which was thousand
years old, existed in England. It was based on a dozen: one pound was
worth 20 shillings, 240 pence and 480 forints.
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The whole able-bodied population of the UK makes
a half on entire population of the country. Among them a small group has
private business, the rest works for the Army and for the government.
More than two thirds of the people engaged in wage labour work in the
sphere of services, most of them in the finance sector.
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Establishing of the first bank office C Hoare
&Co in 1673 and the Bank of England in 1694 counts as the foundation
of the London City as the financial centre of Great Britain.
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The share of the invisible earnings (from fees,
commissions for trade services, deposit interests, profits and dividends)
in Great Britain has increased from one third to half of the external
income. The name of the British currency -Pound Sterling - comes from
a Latin word pondus (weigh) and an English word sterling (silver coin)
and has been used since the 12th century.
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