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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 David
* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )
" David Pawson, a British pastor, decries this association as " libelous " when attributed to Arminius ' or Wesley's doctrine.
British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.
* 1942 – David Bradley, British actor
* 2003 – David Greene, British director ( b. 1921 )
In 1992, David Thacker directed a British television adaptation with Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve and David Calder.
With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.
During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1, 000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient relics recognisable to visitors of the modern museum.
Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.
" On the publication of the Saville report the British prime minister, David Cameron, made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom.
In his speech to the House of Commons on the Inquiry, British Prime Minister David Cameron stated: " These are shocking conclusions to read and shocking words to have to say.
Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.
An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass ( British Columbia ) | Rogers Pass as seen in a 1988 photo by David R. Spencer.
* Doctor ( played by David Cann ): " The Doctor " is a seemingly " normal " physician working in a standard British medical practice.
Image: President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Camp David 1986. jpg | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan walk at Camp David in 1986.
Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.
In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron informed the British House of Commons that his proposals to reform the rules governing royal succession, a change which would require the approval of all Commonwealth realms, were to be discussed at the 28 – 30 October CHOGM in Perth.
* 1965 – David Harewood, British actor
* 1841 – David Daniel Davis, British politician ( b. 1777 )
* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

British and Bowie
Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.
The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.
Sakamoto has also acted in several films: perhaps his most notable performance was as the conflicted Captain Yonoi in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, alongside Takeshi Kitano and British rock singer David Bowie.
While highly successful in the single charts in the UK, very few of these musicians were able to make a serious impact in the United States ; Bowie was the major exception becoming an international superstar and prompting the adoption of glam styles among acts like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Jobriath, often known as " glitter rock " and with a darker lyrical content than their British counterparts.
The band drew artistic influence from many other British rock acts at the time, such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Black Sabbath, Slade, Deep Purple and David Bowie.
The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.
* British Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).
* British Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).
* Bowie Seamount, a submarine volcano on the coast of British Columbia, Canada
His fame, and that of his knife, spread to England, and by the early 1830s many British manufacturers were producing Bowie knives for shipment to the United States.
* David Bowie ( David Robert Jones, born 1947 ), British musician, often cited as changing his name to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of The Monkees
The discography of the British rock musician David Bowie consists of 25 studio albums, 9 live albums, 46 compilation albums, 5 extended plays ( EPs ), 108 singles and 3 soundtracks.
By 1985 Temple was now well known for being a director of successful music videos by the Kinks, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other British artists, several of which were early, groundbreaking, videos for the new MTV channel, but he was yet to direct a major film.
The British charts at the opening of the 1980s contained the usual mix of imports, novelty acts, oddities ( including rock ' n ' roll revivalist Shakin ' Stevens ) and survivors like Queen and David Bowie, but were dominated by post punk, and then from about 1981 by new romantic acts.
Britain had produced some significant Blue-eyed soul singers in the 1960s, including Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield and interest had been maintained by figures such as David Bowie, but it was not until the 1980s that a clear genre of British soul music developed with flourishing soul scenes in major cities like London and Manchester, often with many black artists, supported by local and pirate radio stations.
They would be joined in a Phoenix shirt by returning goaltender Steve Fone as well as exciting British defenceman Joe Graham, young Scottish forward Iain Bowie and Phoenix ENIHL regular Ben Wood.
The latter featured the song " This Is Not America ", a collaboration with David Bowie which reached # 14 in the British Top 40 in early 1985 and # 32 in the USA.
Originally inspired by the British punk wave of the late 1970s, many of Strunge's poems are full of references to the artists of his day, such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Brian Eno and David Bowie.
The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War Major Jack Celliers ( Bowie ), a rebellious prisoner with a guilty secret from his youth ; Captain Yonoi ( Sakamoto ), the young camp commandant ; Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence ( Conti ), a British officer who has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently ; and Sergeant Hara ( Kitano ) who is seemingly brutal and yet humane in some ways and with whom Lawrence develops a peculiar friendship.
Specimens were collected by the British explorers William Burchell and John Bowie in 1815 and 1820, respectively.
* ' Hours ...', a 1999 album by British musician David Bowie
Vivabeat ( supported by Peter Gabriel ) combined the influences of ' 70s British art-rock with the kind of lush, technopop characterised by Bowie, Roxy Music and Sparks.
The band's sound was heavily influenced by the British scene, especially The Beatles, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, and later by the Punk and New Wave sounds of Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Roxy Music, The Stranglers and The Clash.

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