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.

* March 20 – Catherine Ashton, British politician

* Norman Ashton, British housing developer, notable for work in the North of England in the 1960s and 1970s.

* Ashton College, a private post-secondary college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

* Avro Ashton, a 1950s British experimental jet airliner

The " Ashton " part probably derives from the Anglo-Saxon meaning " settlement by ash trees ", the origin of the " under-Lyne " element is less clear: it could derive from the British lemo meaning elm, or may refer to Ashton being " under the line " of the Pennines.

Ashton experiences a temperate maritime climate, like much of the British Isles, with relatively cool summers and mild winters.

Brian Carlson scored the only Australian try ten minutes from time-much too late to prevent British captain Eric Ashton from collecting the World Cup.

* Joseph Ashton ( politician ) ( born 1933 ) former British MP, usually known as Joe Ashton

Joseph William Ashton OBE ( born 9 October 1933 ), usually known as Joe Ashton, is a British Labour Party politician who was known for his defence of the rights of Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ) against the demands of the left-wing of the party to subject them to mandatory reselection.

David Alan Heyes ( born 2 April 1946 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Ashton under Lyne since 2001.

John Mann ( born 10 January 1960 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bassetlaw since 2001, after the retirement of previous MP Joe Ashton.

Woodford Green with Essex Ladies is one of the leading British athletics clubs and is based at Ashton Fields.

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC ( born 20 March 1956 ) is a British Labour politician who in 2009 became the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The Ashton Canal was one of seven stretches of canal, formerly designated as remainder waterways, which were re-classified by the British Waterways Act of 8 February 1983.

Although much of Balanchine's work epitomized the genre, some choreographers like the British Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan were also great neoclassical choreographers.

The pioneer of British Art Therapy, Edward Adamson and his partner and collaborator, John Timlin, were regular visitors to Ashton Wold.

Musicals Society concert was held February 13-16, 2008 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia, directed by Scott Ashton Swan.

" Of all the leading British choreographers, Darrell is most like Ashton in being sensitive to the spirit of the time ; not just following fashion, but feeling the way people move, think and behave, and reflecting it in his work "

After the death of Richard Molyneux in 1738 and his widow in 1766, Woolton Hall was acquired by Nicholas Ashton, High Sheriff of Lancashire, whose father was one of the original undertakers and the principal financier of the Sankey Canal, the first canal of the British industrial revolution.

Ashton Pelham-Martyn ( Ash ) is the son of a British botanical scientist traveling through India, who is born on the road shortly before the Sepoy uprising of 1857.

* 1967 – Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* 1951 – Helen Worth, British actress

* 1966 – Helen Fospero, British television presenter and newsreader

** Helen Oyeyemi, British novelist

* July 26 – Dame Helen Mirren, British actress

To secure the British copyright, there was a perfunctory performance the afternoon before the New York premiere, at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, Devon, organised by Helen Lenoir.

Queen Alexandra has been portrayed on British television by Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan in Edward the Seventh, Ann Firbank in Lillie, Maggie Smith in All the King's Men, and Bibi Andersson in The Lost Prince.

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

The British writer Helen Stevenson published a Chinese-box-like postmodern meditation on Giraud's poems in her 1995 novel Pierrot Lunaire.

In 1991, British chemist Helen Sharman was selected from a pool of 13, 000 applicants to be the first Briton in space.

Her aunt Helen Carolin Franklin was married to Norman de Mattos Bentwich, who was the Attorney General in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex ( Sophie Helen ; née Rhys-Jones ; born 20 January 1965 ), is the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and member of the British Royal Family.

His creation of a laboratory of experimental psychology at Toronto ( which he claimed was the first in the British Empire ) coincided with the birth of his daughters Helen ( 1889 ) and Elizabeth ( 1891 ) which inspired the quantitative and experimental research on infant development that was to make such a vivid impression on Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg through Baldwin's " Mental Development in the Child and the Race.

* Helen Johnson plays the rebec, and its close relative the violetta, in the British early music group Cancionero.

Black belonged to a generation of British female singers which included Dusty Springfield, Helen Shapiro, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw and Lulu.

Helen Chadwick ( 18 May 1953 – 15 March 1996 ) was a British conceptual artist.

* Helen Chadwick ( British Installation Artist, 1953 – 1996 )

* Helen Chadwick ( British Council )

Won Olympic gold at London 2012 in the woman's pair, simultaneously becoming the First Great British Gold medallist at London 2012 and the first Great British Woman's rowing gold medallist with rowing partner Helen Glover.

Her aunt, Helen Suzman, was appointed Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 for her anti-apartheid activism.