1 Prep the Surface. A successful paint job starts with properly preparing the surface you're going to paint. That means you must scrape, sand, patch, and fill every hole, crack, dent, and surface imperfection. This isn't the fun part of painting a room, but it is the most important part.
During an effort to delay an immediate transition to black majority rule, Rhodesia's predominantly white government issued its own Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.
It was difficult for Britain to support this principle for other countries, but deny it to countries in the Empire: Ireland rebelled between 1919 and 1921. In 1920â1921 it was divided into Northern Ireland, which was part of the UK, and the Irish Free State, a dominion [dominion: A country ruled by a single ruler.A self-governing colony of the British Empire.] like Canada. In 1937 it became more independent as Ãire. Ã©iren 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan admitted there was a wind of change in Africa. Most of Britain's African and Caribbean colonies achieved independence in the 1960s. In 1997, Britain formally handed Hong Kong back to China.