Story Highlights. 1  Range for diseases caused by ticks and mosquitoes is expanding. 2  Health officials see spread of brain-eating amoeba. 3  Climate not the only factor spreading the illnesses, experts say, but it contributes.
The Balfour Declaration was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
VII), also known as the Balfour Act, is an Act of Parliament affecting education in England and Wales. (Education in Scotland had always been separate and had been brought under the Scotch Education Department in an act of 1872.) It was passed by the Conservative Party.owever, the Education Bill proposed to abolish Britain's 2,568 school boards established under W.E. Forster's 1870 Act, bodies that were popular with Nonconformists and Radicals. Liberals opposed the Act, arguing that the school boards had outperformed the voluntary Anglican schools.