Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

He said Britain also proposed that the international truce commission should be reconvened, sent to New Delhi and from there to Laos to verify the cease-fire.

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

" Amazing Grace " set to " New Britain " was included in two hymnals distributed to soldiers and with death so real and imminent, religious services in the military became commonplace.

Although " Amazing Grace " set to " New Britain " was popular, other versions existed regionally.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

A tune named " Arlington " accompanied Newton's verses as much as " New Britain " for a time in the late 19th century.

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".

A publisher named Edwin Othello Excell gave the version of " Amazing Grace " set to " New Britain " immense popularity by publishing it in a series of hymnals that were used in urban churches.

Excell altered some of Walker's music, making it more contemporary and European, giving " New Britain " some distance from its rural folk-music origins.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

Since 1954 when an organ instrumental of " New Britain " became a bestseller, " Amazing Grace " has been associated with funerals and memorial services.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

* Kristen Britain, novelist from New York state

* New Britain ( disambiguation )

In Britain, Canada, New Zealand and some states of Australia, Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday, much like the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.

A joint UN force of personnel from South Korea, the United States, Britain, Turkey, Canada, Australia, France, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand and other countries joined to stop the invasion.

Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

Britain merged the island with its adjacent colony of Nova Scotia ( present day peninsular Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ).

In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.

The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

* New edition of the Genevan psalter, Pseaumes octantetrois de David, with Louis Bourgeois as supervising composer, including first publication of the hymn tune known as the " Old 100th ".

* Ancient of Days is a well-known Anglican hymn, also known by its tune, Albany, by William Doane, the first Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York.

" The 8th of January " became a traditional American fiddle tune the melody of which was used by Jimmie Driftwood to write the song " The Battle of New Orleans ", which in a lighthearted tone details the battle from the perspective of an American volunteer fighting alongside Andrew Jackson.

A loop of the instrumental portion of this song is used as the theme tune for the WYES-TV ( New Orleans ) weekly arts and entertainment program, Steppin ' Out.

Stephen Holden, music critic for The New York Times, said in his article Rock: British Culture Club, that the popular quartet, " Culture Club blends soul, rock, funk, reggae and salsa into a music that programmatically reconciles white, black and Latin styles ", adding that, " Mr. O ' Dowd made the group's best songs – the Motown-flavoured Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and the Latin-inflected dance tune I'll Tumble 4 Ya – shine like jewels ".

The theme tune is called " College Boy " and was composed by Derek New.

Hayes's lyrics were turned into a song in 1936 by Earl Robinson, who wrote in 1986, "' Joe Hill ' was written in Camp Unity in the summer of 1936 in New York State, for a campfire program celebrating him and his songs ..." Hayes gave a copy of his poem to fellow camp staffer Robinson, who wrote the tune in 40 minutes.

The modern American composer William Schuman employed the tune of " Chester " in his New England Triptych.

Along with four others, Chatwal was charged with being part of a “ criminal conspiracy ” to defraud the Bank of India ’ s New York branch to the tune of US $ 8, 992, 815 ( Rs 28. 32 crore ).

Music historian Juan Flores, in his seminal work on Boogaloo entitled Cha Cha with a Backbeat, suggests that the song title and refrain " I Like It Like That " may have some roots in a 1961 R & B tune with the same name composed by Chris Kenner, from New Orleans.

When a tune became a significant local hit, rights to it were usually purchased from the local publisher by one of the big New York firms.

" This song, the tune of which is now lost, was sung by: Jamaican stevedores at a capstan in 1811 ; Afro-Caribbeans rowing a boat in Antigua ca. 1814 ; Black stevedores loading a steamboat in New Orleans in 1841 ; and a Euro-American crew hauling halyards on a clipper-brig out of New York ca. 1840s.

Dennis Waterman also sang the theme songs to other programmes he starred in, including On the Up, Stay Lucky, and New Tricks, and this led to a parody in Little Britain where Dennis Waterman is offered acting work ; he always assumes he will also ' write the theme tune, sing the theme tune ...'.

These songs were formerly named by their tune, using arbitrarily chosen place names (" New Britain ", " Northfield ", " Charlestown ").

The hokey cokey ( United Kingdom ) or hokey pokey ( United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand ), also known as okey cokey, or cokey cokey, is a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure.

He then spent a year at Berwick Academy to fine tune his hockey skills in a New England Prep environment.

In 2009, he sang the hit song " Africa " at the Millennium Development Goals awards in New York and co-produced a new tune for George Benson.