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Black and British
Berger donated half of his £ 5, 000 prize to the British Black Panther movement, because they had a socialist and revolutionary perspective in agreement with his own.
As a result a large numbers of Lamassu's, bas-reliefs, stelae, including the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III were brought to the British Museum.
In particular, the British Museum ’ s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.
" Black and Tan " or " Tan " remains a pejorative term for the British in Ireland, and they are still despised by many in Ireland.
Black unrest and British pressure to abolish slavery motivated many Creoles to advocate Cuba's annexation by the United States, where slavery was still legal.
Sierra Leone was largely colonized by Calvinist settlers from Nova Scotia, who were largely Black Loyalists, blacks who had fought for the British during the American War of Independence.
" A & C Black also note that British surgeons – a designation reserved for those who have obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons – are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss rather than Dr.
The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.
Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in many areas of British life.
Some argue it has brought more flexible attitudes towards casting Black and Asian British actors, with Robbie Gee and Naomie Harris take leading roles in Underworld and 28 Days Later respectively.
Soon afterwards the British added a long cloth which was used to tie chemical-soaked mouth pads into place, and which was called the Black Veil Respirator.
Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.
During the decade of 1780, the Spanish regained control of the Bay Islands and took most of the British and their allies in the Black River area.
Secondly they deployed paramilitary forces, the Black and Tans and Auxiliary Division, and more British Army personnel into the country.
* 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
* 1813 – War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
Ninja Tune is a British independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke.
* 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being the " son of Omri " while the Bible describes him to be " the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi ".
This was organized by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, composed of British philanthropists who preferred it as a solution to continuing to financially support them in London.

Black and White
The sharpest break with tradition, the past and present of `` White Ring Around a Black Core '', may come with the opening of nearby Montgomery County suburbs to Negro residents and, presumably, the consequent conclusion of some whites that they cannot escape the Negro by fleeing to the suburbs.
While White and Black children were both instructed in ASL, only Black teachers were permitted to instruct Black deaf children.
The sign for rabbit provides a good example of variation between Black and White speakers.
* Alan Kay's Viewpoints from Black and White Program
" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).
In the center of the helmet was a center black stripe surrounded by 2 gold stripes and 2 white stripes, These colors represented the two college rival schools in the state of Georgia ; rival schools Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ( White and Gold ) and the Georgia Bulldogs ( Red and Black ) Although the gold was later taken out, the white remains to this day.
* Black and White Angel Photography
Aalen ’ s territory ranges over all lithostratigraphic groups of the south-German Jurassic: Aalen ’ s south and the Flexner massif are on top of the Weißer Jura ( White Jurassic ), the town centre is on the Brauner Jura ( Brown Jurassic ), and a part of Wasseralfingen is on the Schwarzer Jura ( Black Jurassic ).
One such example is the a cappella release of Jay-Z's Black Album, which Danger Mouse mixed with The Beatles ' White Album to create The Grey Album.
The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.
The Black Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color terms — the others being the Red Sea, the White Sea and the Yellow Sea.
The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).
landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red and White Voltas
White doubles Black to 2 points, Black accepts then beavers the cube to 4 points ; White, confident of a win, raccoons the cube to 8 points, whilst Black retains the cube.
The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.
With the demise of the Black Hand in June 1917 after the Salonika Trial, The White Hand steadily gained control of the young and ambitious Prince Alexander.
The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

Black and History
* Black History related original documents and photos
* Jelavich, Barbara, " What the Habsburg Government Knew about the Black Hand ," Austrian History Yearbook 22 ( 1991 ), pp. 131-150
* Black History Month ( United States )
* The start of Black History Month ( United States and Canada )
About 10 minutes before the end of Lewis Black's special " Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black " on the History Channel, Craig Ferguson described Hogmanay as follows:
* Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Black History: Jackie Robinson with photographs
Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya.
In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".
* Black History Month ( in United Kingdom )
Black ' 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory.
* Brooke, T. H., A History of the Island of St Helena from its Discovery by the Portuguese to the Year 1806 ”, Printed for Black, Parry and Kingsbury, London, 1808
History and legend tell of the ancient trade routes known as the Amber Road leading from the Old Prussian settlements of Kaup ( in Sambia ) and Truso ( near Elbląg-German: Elbing, near the mouth of the Vistula ) southwards to the Black and Adriatic seas.
* New Jersey's Underground Railroad Myth-Buster: Giles Wright is on a Mission to Fine Tune Black History
Marks, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community ( 1991 ).
" The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630-1680 ," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.
* R. M. Black, The History of Electric Wires and Cables, Peter Pergrinus, London 1983 ISBN 0-86341-001-4
A volume of photographs almost completely drawn from the files of the Farm Security Administration, with text by Wright, Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States was published in October 1941 to wide critical acclaim.
Other competitions evolved from these formats include competitions testing knowledge in the Bible, Latin, modern foreign languages, nursing, business ethics, Black History, athletic training, cooking, and hundreds of other specialties.
* Wilson, Derek ( 2005 ): The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne Carroll & Graf ISBN 0-7867-1469-7
* Welcome to Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History
* Royal Berkshire History: Edward the Black Prince including images in both civilian and military dress.
Skulls were collected, these were compared to known skulls at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and British Museum, and confirmed identification of a single species, the Asiatic Black Bear, showing no morphological difference between ' tree bear ' and ' ground bear.
A Brief History of Time ( subtitled " From the Big Bang to Black Holes ") is a popular-science book written by British physicist Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988.

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