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His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".
The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " " S. O., E " which is not found in histories written after about 1960.
Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas especially in the United States and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.
Nevertheless it remains the case that, although spoken American and British English are generally mutually intelligible, there are enough differences to cause occasional misunderstandings or at times embarrassment for example some words that are quite innocent in one dialect may be considered vulgar in the other.
The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.
Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".
* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
Bears ( grizzly, black, and the Kermode bear or spirit bear found only in British Columbia ) live here, as do deer, elk, moose, caribou, big-horn sheep, mountain goats, marmots, beavers, muskrat, coyotes, wolves, mustelids ( such as wolverines, badgers and fishers ), Cougar, eagles, ospreys, herons, Canada geese, swans, loons, hawks, owls, ravens, Harlequin Ducks, and many other sorts of ducks.
Some saw the 1891 team the first sanctioned by the Rugby Football Union as the English national team, though others referred to it as " the British Isles ".
A side managed by Oxford University supposedly the England rugby team, but actually including three Scottish players toured Argentina at the time: the people of Argentina termed it the " Combined British ".
Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts at the battle of the River Medway, 43:
* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.
However, since 29 December 1920, the British government had sanctioned " official reprisals " in Ireland usually meaning burning property of IRA men and their suspected sympathisers.
Bloody Sunday ()— sometimes called the Bogside Massacre was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.
The organisation was founded in 1971 by a group of four drinkers Graham Lees, Bill Mellor, Michael Hardman, and Jim Makin who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.
A study led by Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, concludes that cow tipping by a single person is impossible.

British and Ali
* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).
After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.
Hasan Ali Shah soon proceeded to Sind, where he rendered further services to the British.
The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.
The British refused and only agreed to transfer Hasan Ali Shah ’ s residence to Calcutta, where it would be more difficult for him to launch new attacks against the Persian government.
The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.
Hasan Ali Shah left for Bombay and the British attempted to obtain permission for his return to Persia.
While in India, Hasan Ali Shah continued his close relationship with the British, and was even visited by the Prince of Wales when the future King Edward VII was on a state visit to India.
The British came to address Hasan Ali Shah as His Highness.
Hasan Ali Shah received protection from the British government in British India as the spiritual head of an important Muslim community.
He was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), to Aga Khan II and his third wife, Nawab A ' lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Iran Fath Ali Shah of Persia ( Qajar dynasty ).
Abdur Rahman lived in exile in Tashkent, then part of Russian Turkestan, for eleven years, until the 1879 death of Sher Ali, who had retired from Kabul when the British armies entered Afghanistan.
* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
By the time Sher Ali had established control in Kabul in 1868, he found the British ready to support his regime with arms and funds, but nothing more.
Sher Ali sent an envoy seeking British advice and support.
The British, however, refused to give any assurances to the disappointed Sher Ali.
Russian envoys arrived in Kabul on 22 July 1878 and on 14 August, the British demanded that Sher Ali accept a British mission too.
Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.
* 1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
The British battalion was defeated during the Battle of Guntur, by the forces of Hyder Ali, who effectively utilized Mysorean rockets and Rocket artillery against the closely massed British forces.

British and Campbell
* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3, 000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE ( 23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967 ) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s.
British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.
* 1865 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress ( d. 1940 )
According to him, over time, three different theories have emerged: ( a ) Campbell ordered the demolition on his own authority ( b ) under instructions from the British Government ( c ) upon request of Spanish General Castaños, who was at the time in Cádiz.
A watercolor from the mid-1830s portrays New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor Sir Archibald Campbell and his family in the company of British soldiers on skates engaged in stick-on-ice sport.
Levinge, a British Army officer who had been in New Brunswick during Campbell ’ s time, provides a written account of " hockey on ice " on Chippewa Creek a tributary of the Niagara River in 1839.
Kim Campbell, the 19th Prime Minister of Canada ( 1993 ) and only female and British Columbia-born individual to hold the office
* Gordon Campbell, former Premier of British Columbia
Some notable British talk radio presenters include Tommy Boyd, James Whale, Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt, Nick Abbot, James Stannage, George Galloway, Ian Collins, Brian Hayes, Scottie McClue, Nicky Campbell and Simon Mayo.
After some soundings were made in 1918 by Reginald Campbell Thompson, H. R. Hill worked the site for one season for the British Museum in 1919, laying the groundwork for more extensive efforts to follow.
Order was restored by the British, mainly due to the efforts of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, under the command of Lt-Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.
* May 22 – Menzies Campbell, British politician
* April 24 – George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician ( b. 1823 )
** Darren Campbell, British athlete
* May 24 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal ( b. 1723 )
The name Magnolia campbellii commemorates two people: Pierre Magnol, a French botanist, and Archibald Campbell, a doctor in British India.
The completed novel was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1985 and for the Hugo, Campbell, and British Science Fiction Awards in 1986.
Duncan Campbell was a Scots nobleman who died on July 18, 1758, as a result of wounds received in an unsuccessful frontal attack against French forces at Fort Carillon ( renamed Fort Ticonderoga when the British took the fort a year later ).
The major biographies are the uplifting two-volume Aneurin Bevan by Michael Foot ( 1962 and 1974 ) and the more sceptical Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism, by John Campbell ( 1987 ).
In 1844 he was commissioned into the British army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
The history of football in Ferrol is associated to the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors ,< ref >" SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands " ( 1909 ) The Manchester Guardian, 1st February 1909, Page 12: Manchester <<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown ... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain ... Mr A J Campbell ... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard ... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager.
In 2006, the events surrounding the release of the footage were adapted as a feature film, Alien Autopsy, a British comedy directed by Jonny Campbell and written by William Davies.

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