These time scales are denoted in the form UTC ( NPL ) in the UTC form, where NPL in this case identifies the National Physical Laboratory, UK.

Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).

The American Psychiatric Association and the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommend antipsychotics for managing acute psychotic episodes in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and as a longer-term maintenance treatment for reducing the likelihood of further episodes.

* Staff, The Waterloo Medal Book: Recipients of the Waterloo medal in The National Archives: UK government records and information management

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).

However, the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence did not find any convincing evidence in favor of Z-drugs.

* UK Policy towards Germany National Archives excerpts of Cabinet meetings.

* Electronic Staff Record, a human resources and payroll system of the UK National Health Service

The UK National Health Service uses a similar system with categories labeled A, B, C, and D. The above Levels are only appropriate for treatment or interventions ; different types of research are required for assessing diagnostic accuracy or natural history and prognosis, and hence different " levels " are required.

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

* National Tremor Foundation ( UK )

* National Wear Red Day ( in the US and the UK )

National championships existed in South Africa and the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Pilot ACE had binary floating point arithmetic which became operational at National Physical Laboratory, UK in 1950.

To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena.

* National Hamster Council ( UK )

Hypnosis for IBS has received moderate support in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance published for UK health services.

Moves toward Voluntary Self Regulation in the UK hypnotherapy field have led to the formation of a unitary National Register.

Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index ( ITI ) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and / or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans ( SRT ) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland ( NAS ), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK ₤ 70 as of 2010.

National associations of the English-speaking world include the American Library Association, the Australian Library and Information Association, the Canadian Library Association and the Research Libraries UK ( a consortium of 30 university and other research libraries in the United Kingdom ).

However, a survey by the UK Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) in 2010 found that 1. 5 % of Britons identified themselves as gay or bisexual, and the ONS suggests that this is in line with other surveys showing the number between 0. 3 % and 3 %.

* UK National Physical Laboratory.

* The National Minimum Wage ( U. K .) ( official UK government website )

In August 2008 MK deputy leader, Conan Jenkin, expressed Mebyon Kernow's support for a proposed legal challenge by Cornwall 2000 over the UK Government's exclusion of the Cornish from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

The documents collection also includes the UK National Inventory of War Memorials.

Sixteen have currently been recorded by the UK National Inventory of War Memorials.

* UK National Inventory of War Memorials

* UK National Inventory of War Memorials ( charity working to register UK war memorials )

In UK the government has introduced deposit protection scheme leading to several Property Inventory Services which can optionally be used to carry out an inventory.

Selected data from the Inventory of Carbon and Energy (' ICE ') prepared by the University of Bath ( UK ), and available at http :// perigordvacance. typepad. com / files / inventoryofcarbonandenergy. pdf

* 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

Since the Irish War of Independence, the name ' Boxing Day ' is used only by the authorities in Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

Examples of other UK football fanzines include A Love Supreme, TOOFIF, 4000 Holes and War of the Monster Trucks ( a Sheffield Wednesday fanzine named after a local TV station elected not to show the final scenes of an unlikely cup victory ).

The principal B-side to the original 12-inch single was a cover version of " War ", which became the subject of an accomplished extended remix in its own right ( subtitled " Hidden ") on the single's third UK 12-inch release, where it was promoted as a double-A-side with " Carnage ".

In an effort to isolate Germany, France went to great pains to woo Russia and the United Kingdom to its side, first by means of the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, then the 1904 Entente Cordiale with the U. K, and finally the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 which became the Triple Entente and eventually led Russia and the UK to enter World War I as Allies.

Following his Washington visit Holt went on to London and in a speech there given on 7 July he was sharply critical of the UK, France and other U. S. allies that had refused to commit troops to the Vietnam War.

Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies ( a term the UK has used in the post-World War II period ) to collectivist.

The FBI participated in the Venona Project, a pre – World War II joint project with the British to eavesdrop on Soviet spies in the UK and the United States.

* John Brown ( British Army soldier ) ( died 1964 ), UK spy and POW during the Second World War

In the UK, kippers, along with other preserved fish such as the bloater and buckling, were also once commonly enjoyed as a high tea or supper treat ; most popularly with inland and urban working-class populations before World War II.

The principal Allies in the Second World War ( the UK, the USSR, France, the US, and the Republic of China ) became permanent members of the UN Security Council in 1946.

* 1945 – World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.

During the World War II era William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) to teach their martial art of defendu ( itself drawing on jujutsu and Western boxing ) and pistol shooting to UK, US, and Canadian special forces.

* 1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.

Soviet sources have claimed that soon after the pact was signed, both the UK and US showed understanding that the buffer zone was necessary to keep Hitler from advancing for some time, accepting the ostensible strategic reasoning ; however, soon after World War II ended, those countries changed their view.

The UK also relied on timbers from New England for mainmasts, and these were not supplied after the American War of Independence.

In the Gulf War, no nerve agents ( nor other chemical weapons ) were used, but a number of U. S. and UK personnel were exposed to them when the Khamisiyah chemical depot was destroyed.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The " Trent Affair " – The stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.

Penguins featured regularly in the cartoons of UK cartoonist Steve Bell in his strip in The Guardian Newspaper, particularly during and following the Falklands War.

The last Coalition in the UK before 2010 was led by Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill during most of the Second World War from May 1940 to May 1945.

The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied ( UK, US, USSR ) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany — referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories — and the entire European Theatre of War territory.