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* 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 ).
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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.
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Another British fantasy author, Neil Gaiman, claimed that " Garner's fiction is something special " in that it was " smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth.
Coraline () is a horror / fantasy novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins.
In 1997 the two signed a deal in which Gaiman would give his share of characters Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro to McFarlane in exchange of McFarlane's share of British superhero Marvelman ( in reality, what McFarlane actually owned were two trademarks for Miracleman logos, not the character, which would become clear only after the lawsuit concluded ).
Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.
Instead, the key launch Vertigo writers were part of the " second wave " of British talent, focused in large part around Gaiman, whose Sandman was so critical to the decision to create Vertigo, and whose Death miniseries launched it.
* In the Neil Gaiman novel Neverwhere the main character, Richard Mayhew, a Londoner, protests that there is no British Museum Station-only to be proved wrong when the train he is on stops there.
Gaiman has said that he based Gadling's speech pattern on that of British actor Bob Hoskins, particularly in the film The Long Good Friday.
By the end of the 1980s, they had also created the mature-audience Vertigo imprint, under initial editor Karen Berger, and began an influx of British talent such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman.
He initially started working professionally on strips and illustrations for a British satire magazine called The Truth in 1987 where he first worked with Neil Gaiman illustrating some of his articles.
Duma is a fallen angel in the DC Vertigo series The Sandman, created by the British author Neil Gaiman.
The movement was most strongly associated with Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison, all writers who had previously worked on the British comic anthology series 2000 AD and who were subsequently recruited by DC Comics.
* The Second British Invasion, interview with Neil Gaiman from the Daily Express, 1991
He has also worked as a lecturer in Art and Creative Writing at Chesterfield College in the UK and served as Special Publications Editor for the British Fantasy Society, where he has edited publications featuring authors such as Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Brian Aldiss and Muriel Gray.
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It consisted of three Italian MEPs ( Lega Nord two, Sardinian Action Party one ), two Spanish MEPs ( one each for the PNV and the Andalusian Party, PA ), one Belgian MEP ( for VU ), one French MEP ( Union of the Corsican People, UPC ), one British MEP ( SNP ) and one Irish MEP ( Neil Blaney, independent ).
* 2008 – Neil Aspinall, British record producer ( b. 1941 )
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock ( born 28 March 1942 ) is a British Labour Party politician.
In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.
Raimi produced with his company Ghost House Pictures the British thriller flick Burst 3D, which is directed by Neil Marshall.
** Neil Kinnock, British statesman
* July 29 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British WWII general ( d. 1983 )
** Neil Morrissey, British actor
" James Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, along with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, are two of the most outspoken museum professionals who support encyclopedic museums.
Neil Turner ( born 16 September 1945 ) is a British Labour Party politician and a former Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wigan.
In the Evening Standard, British author Neil Norman called Francis Marion,
Hobsbawm supported Neil Kinnock's transformation of the British Labour Party from 1983 ( the party received just 28 % of the vote in that year's elections, just 2 % more than than the Social Democratic Party / Liberal Alliance ), and, though not close to Kinnock, came to be referred to as " Neil Kinnock's Favourite Marxist ".
Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
According to Neil Strauss in the New York Times, "... many musical observers trace the official beginnings of the British bootleg scene to The Evolution Control Committee, which in 1993 mixed a Public Enemy a cappella with music by Herb Alpert.
Both Neil and his brother Tim were invested as Officers of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
British historian Robin O ' Neil once gave an estimate of about 800, 000 ( based on his investigations at the site ).
The jury included musician Neil Tennant, author Marina Warner, curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired by Nicholas Serota.
* Neil Heywood ( 1970-2011 ), British businessman murdered in China
Mostyn Neil Hamilton ( born 9 March 1949 ) is a British politician and former barrister, teacher, and Conservative MP in the UK Parliament.
* January 6 – Charlie Neil, British regional TV weather reader.
The sprinter Katharine Merry and British Judokas Neil and Christopher Adams were natives of Rugby.
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