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* 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 ).
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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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Examples include Jamie Baillie, former CEO of Credit Union Atlantic, Graham Day, former CEO of British Shipbuilders, Sean Durfy, former CEO of WestJet, and Charles Peter McColough, former president and CEO of Xerox.
The breed almost disappeared, but was successfully revived by efforts of the captain of the British Army D E Graham to recreate it.
* 1941 – Graham Chapman, British comedian ( d. 1989 )
* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant
At the British Grand Prix, Brabham was closing on Graham Hill's BRM before Hill spun off, leaving Brabham the victory.
* 1952 – Graham Cole, British actor
It had been organised by two British religious studies scholars, Graham Harvey and Charlotte Hardman.
Invented by the British Mathematician and 3 times runner-up at the World Championship and 5 times British Champion Graham Brightwell, this is the tiebreaker that is now used in many tournaments including the WOC.
Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.
** Graham Higman, British mathematician ( d. 2008 )
* date unknown – Percy Douglas, chairman of the British Graham Land Expedition ( BGLE ) Advisory Committee
** Graham Walker, British motorcycle racer ( b. 1896 )
* December 18 – Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Governor-General of India ( b. 1748 )
** Graham Kerr, British television personality
In short story, The Basement Room ( 1935 ), by Graham Greene, the ( sympathetic ) servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, " You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to ".
It is believed that the first person to say " shit " on British TV was John Cleese of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Graham Chapman.
The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of The Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview.
* Woodbury Glacier, a glacier on Graham Land, British Antarctic Territory
Damon Graham Devereux Hill ( born 17 September 1960 ) is a retired British racing driver from England.
On the 7 October 2012, Hill will be driving his father Graham Hill's BRM in celebration of winning the 1962 F1 World Championship, where Graham became the first British driver to win the Drivers ' World Championship with a British team.
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The one-off test in 1999 between England and Australia that was played to commemorate Australia's first test against Reverend Matthew Mullineux's British side saw England wear an updated version of this jersey.
* 1822 – Matthew Arnold, British poet ( d. 1888 )
Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Kasey Kasem, and their British counterparts such as the BBC's Brian Matthew, Radio London's John Peel, and later in the 60s, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn.
Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.
His friend Matthew Boulton took out a British patent on his behalf in 1797.
As the 17th century British commentator Matthew Henry notes, " Mary added no more, as Martha did ; but it appears, by what follows, that what she fell short in words she made up in tears ; she said less than Martha, but wept more.
* Matthew DeCoursey, " Continental European Rhetoricians, 1400-1600, and Their Influence in Renaissance England ," British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500 – 1660, First Series, DLB 236, Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 309 – 343.
* October 30 – In Newton, Massachusetts, British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
** Matthew Waterhouse, British actor
Henry Matthew Talintyre, British artist ( d. 1962 )
* Henry Matthew Talintyre, British artist ( b. 1893 )
* April 13 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer ( d. 1917 )
* February 23 – Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, British military officer and colonial administrator ( b. 1775 )
* September 18 – Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat ( b. 1664 )
By 1944, the British divisions were grouped into the 1st Airborne Corps under General Frederick Browning, while US divisions in the European Theatre ( the 17th, 82nd, and 101st ) were organized into the XVIII Airborne Corps under US Major General Matthew Ridgway.
Bede explains how each of the four Evangelists was represented by their own symbol: Matthew was the man, representing the human Christ, Mark was the lion, symbolizing the triumphant Christ of the Resurrection, Luke was the calf, symbolizing the sacrificial victim of the Crucifixion, and John was the eagle, symbolizing Christ ’ s second coming ( The British Library Board ).
In the miniature portraits of Matthew, Mark, and Luke they are shown writing, while John looks straight ahead at the reader holding his scroll ( The British Library Board ).
Mark and John are shown as young men, symbolizing the divine nature of Christ, and Matthew and Luke appear older and bearded, representing Christ ’ s mortal nature ( The British Library Board ).
In the opening scene of episode 6, series 1 ( 2010 ), of the British drama Downton Abbey, Mary Crawley, pushing her wheel chair bound cousin Matthew Crawley across the lawn in the Summer of 1918 says, " I shall have arms like Jack Johnson if I'm not careful.
The major excavations of the British Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, conducted from 1907 to 1912, uncovered the majority of the ruins as seen today.
Composed by Matthew King for the British soprano, Jane Manning and her group Jane's Minstrels
Designated L Island by Lieutenant Matthew Flinders of the British Royal Navy in September 1802 as one of his numerous alpha-numeric designations along the Queensland coast during his circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator in 1802 / 3.
British Olympians Matthew Pinsent and Andrew Triggs-Hodge both rowed at Catz.
Self portrait of Matthew Paris from the original manuscript of his Historia Anglorum ( London, British Library, MS Royal 14. C. VII, folio 6r ).
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