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.

In 1975, two years before his death, Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire ( KBE ).

In 1975, he was knighted a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) by Queen Elizabeth II.

He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.

On 1 January 1942 he was knighted and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and in February, after the Japanese invasion of Burma, was sent to India to become GOC-in-C of British Forces in Burma as a full general.

He was made a Knight Commander ( KBE ) of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

The British musician Elton John, for example, is a Knight Bachelor, thus entitled to be called Sir Elton.

For example, His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy did receive the accolade on his appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1969.

* Knight of the Bath, a former rank ( before 1847 ) of the Order of the Bath, a part of the British honours system

The title track ( a subsequent single ) was later covered by Swedish girl group Play, and the lead single, " Keep This Fire Burning ," was covered by British soul singer Beverley Knight.

" It was not ; in reality he and the Prince were very close friends, and Milligan was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) ( honorary because of his Irish citizenship ) in 2000.

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

He is a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

* Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art edited by Julia Knight ( University of Luton / Arts Council England, 1996 )

However, British lecturer Peter Knight in his scholarly encyclopedia of conspiracy theories connects the Comintern with the Communist Party USA, based on Venona project decrypts released in 1995, but Knight does not make the same connection between IWW and the Comintern.

From 1964 onwards, the regular creation of hereditary dignities such as baronetcies ceased, but Lord Mayors continued to be granted knighthoods ( usually of the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire ) until 1993.

He was the first Italian national to receive an honorary knighthood from the British government when he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

He became Sir Henry Morton Stanley when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1899, in recognition of his service to the British Empire in Africa.

In 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE )-though since he is an ordained priest in the Church of England it is technically incorrect to call him " Sir John Polkinghorne ".

In Carlton House on 2 May 1816, he married Princess Charlotte of Wales, the only legitimate child of the British Prince Regent ( later King George IV of the United Kingdom ) and therefore second in line to the British throne, and was created a British field-marshal and Knight of the Garter.

* December 16 – Laura More ( Muncey ), British singer

British singer-songwriter Laura Critchley commented that she had sung vocals for three songs, and said that it would not be released until 2009.

In Britain in the 1930s, when Laura Henderson began presenting nude shows at the Windmill Theatre, London, the British law prohibited naked girls from moving.

* Laura Greene, British television presenter

* Posh ( play ), by the British playwright Laura Wade

* The impact of British counter terrorist strategies on political violence in Northern Ireland: Comparing deterrence and backlash models with Laura Dugan and Raven Korte ( 2009 )

In 1842 the Greek Minoides Mynas came upon a manuscript of Babrius in the convent of St Laura on Mount Athos, now in the British Museum.

Laura Secord warns British commander James FitzGibbon of an impending American attack at Beaver Dams.

On the evening of 22 June, Laura became aware of plans for a surprise American attack on British troops led by Lieutenant James FitzGibbon at Beaver Dams, which would have furthered American control in the Niagara Peninsula.

Berton has suggested Secord's informantin Queenston, Laura Secord Secondary School in St. Catharines, Ontario, École Laura Secord School in Winnipeg, Manitoba ( built 1912 ), and Laura Secord Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Couric has also interviewed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Senator Hillary Clinton ( her first television interview ), Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, and Laura Bush.

* Laura Secord, Warned the British of an impeding American attack on Canada.

Other shops include British Home Stores, Laura Ashley, Mamas & Papas, Comet, Starbucks, Subway and Frankie & Benny's.

* In the classic British film Brief Encounter ( 1945 ), derived from a Noël Coward play, housewife Laura ( Celia Johnson ) and physician Alec ( Trevor Howard ) begin an affair.

* Criterion ( Region 1 ) Includes the Channel Four documentary A Very British Psycho and a commentary by Laura Mulvey

Laura Jean Moffatt ( born 9 April 1954 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Crawley from 1997 until 2010.

His co-star is British Actress Laura Michelle Kelly.

This expert panel who gave both written and oral evidence consisted of Nick Hardwick ( Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons ), Paul Cook ( G4S children's services ), Eric Baskind ( British Self Defence Governing Body, Liverpool John Moores University ), Malcolm Stevens ( JusticeCare Solutions ), Laura Janes ( Howard League for Penal Reform ), John Drew ( Youth Justice Board for England and Wales ), Sue Berelowitz ( Office of the Children's Commissioner ) and Carolyne Willow ( CRAE ).

In Turkey, he met his future wife, Laura Florence Calvert, daughter of a British Consul.

After the War of 1812, Chippawa also became the home of Laura Secord, remembered for carrying information to the British regarding American advances before the Battle of Beaverdams.

Laura Mulvey ( born August 15, 1941 ) is a British feminist film theorist.

* Laura Carmichael, British actor