* Ben Isitt and Melissa Moroz, " The Hospital Employees ' Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia, Canada ," International Labor and Working-Class History, 71 ( Spring 2007 )

* Melissa, a character in British soap opera Hollyoaks

* Melissa Bell ( singer ) ( born 1964 ), British lead singer of Soul II Soul

* Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580: 19 ( Studies in Modern British Religious History ) by Melissa Franklin Harkrider

Melissa Hollie Suffield ( born 24 December 1992 ) is a British actress from London, best known for her role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Lucy Beale.

* Melissa Raftis-video journalist

* Melissa Doyle ( born 1970 ), Australian TV journalist

New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich described the exchange: " Congressional staff members related an incident in 2001, in which they recalled the freshman Representative Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania, who is white, admonishing Representative Julia Carson, who is black, that the elevator they were riding on was members-only.

* Melissa Schroeder-Weekend anchor / multi-media journalist

* Jim Rose wrote the autobiographical Freak Like Me ( Real, Raw, and Dangerous ) with journalist Melissa Rossi in 1995 ( ISBN / 9780440507444 ).

* Melissa Dominelli-CTV Morning Live traffic specialist ; also Edmonton. CTV. ca web journalist

* Melissa Rossi ( born 1965 ), American journalist

The current webmaster of The Leaky Cauldron is Melissa Anelli, a former journalist for the Staten Island Advance and author of the 2008 bestseller Harry, A History.

Travelling circuses, like Pablo Fanque's, dominated the British provinces, Scotland, and Ireland ( Fanque would enjoy fame again in the 20th century when John Lennon would buy an 1843 poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !).

In 1999 the Red Kite was named ' Bird of the Century ' by the British Trust for Ornithology.

* Pablo Fanque, 19th-century British tightrope walker and " rope dancer ", among other talents, although best known as the first black circus owner in Britain, and for his mention in the Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Bowie's influences at this stage of his career included the theatrical tunes of Anthony Newley, music hall numbers by acts like Tommy Steele, some of the more whimsical and ' British ' material by Ray Davies of The Kinks, Syd Barrett's slightly cracked nursery rhymes for the early Pink Floyd, and the Edwardian flam shared by such contemporary songs as The Beatles ' " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite ".

The actual Blue Danube warhead was proof-tested at the Marcoo ( surface ) and Kite ( air-drop ) nuclear trials sites in Maralinga, Australia, by a team of Australian, British and Canadian scientists in late 1956.

Sarah Kite of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) secured a job and filmed inside HLS in 1989.

Forster then directed an adaptation of best-seller Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, scripted by repeat collaborator David Benioff and starring British newcomer Khalid Abdalla.

The cast also featured British comedian Frankie Howerd as Mean Mr. Mustard ( his only major U. S. film appearance ; he later quipped about the film " It was like Saturday Night Fever, but without the fever "), Paul Nicholas as Dougie Shears, George Burns as Mr. Kite, Donald Pleasence as B. D., referred to in Burns ' narrative voice-over as B. D.

* Adrian Finighan ( born 1964 ), British journalist

* 1937 – Denis Tuohy, British journalist

In 1994, journalist Richard Gott described the prize as " a significant and dangerous iceberg in the sea of British culture that serves as a symbol of its current malaise.

CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.

* 1946 – Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter

British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.

* 1963 – Quentin Letts, British journalist

Lionel Fanthorpe, British pastor, entertainer, journalist, writer and paranormal investigator

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

" British journalist Dominic Lawson wrote about 12-year-old Judit's " killer " eyes and how she would stare at her opponent.

* 2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist ( b. 1939 )

* 1997 – Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer ( b. 1907 )

* 1972 – James O ' Brien, British radio presenter and journalist

* Joseph Saumarez Smith ( born 1971 ), British entrepreneur, journalist and gambling expert

* John Walker ( journalist ) ( born 1977 ), British video game journalist

Krivitsky claimed that two Soviet intelligence agents had penetrated the British Foreign Office, and that a third Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain.

* 1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.

* 1960 – Anne MacKenzie, British journalist and broadcaster

* 2007 – Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist ( b. 1932 )

* 1915 – Marghanita Laski, British journalist and novelist ( d. 1988 )