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A guernsey may be the literal or figurative symbol of selection (e.g. a Football Guernsey indicating that you have been selected as a member of the team) (Australian usage)
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Guernsey's decision was mainly related to the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as Charles I's refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captured by the Barbary corsairs.
Guernsey is situated 30 miles (48 km) west of France's Normandy coast and 75 miles (121 km) south of Weymouth in England and lies in the Gulf of St Malo.
The national animals of the island of Guernsey are the donkey and the Guernsey cow.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British crown dependency off the coast of France.
As well as the island of Guernsey itself, it also includes Alderney, Sark, Herm and other smaller islands, and is included in the collective grouping known as the Channel Islands.
Guernsey was occupied by Nazi forces during World War II.
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