According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

According to the British historian Misha Glenny the murder in March 1929 of Toni Schlegel, editor of a pro-Yugoslavian newspaper Novosti, brought a " furious response " from the regime.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to Hailsham, a former chairman of the British Conservative Party, " Conservatism is not so much a philosophy as an attitude, a constant force, performing a timeless function in the development of a free society, and corresponding to a deep and permanent requirement of human nature itself.

According to the 19th-century book, English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants:

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.

According to this agreement and in return for an annual subsidy and vague assurances of assistance in case of foreign aggression, Yaqub relinquished control of Afghan foreign affairs to the British.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

:( According to George Hills, there are no primary sources that could explain whether such a demolition was requested or authorized by any Spanish or British authority.

According to him, over time, three different theories have emerged: ( a ) Campbell ordered the demolition on his own authority ( b ) under instructions from the British Government ( c ) upon request of Spanish General Castaños, who was at the time in Cádiz.

According to the British government, the fence was erected 1 metre inside British territory.

According to British war cabinet minutes released in 2006, Winston Churchill advocated Himmler's assassination.

According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).

According to Lind, scurvy caused more deaths in the British fleets than French and Spanish arms.

According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).

According to a regimental history compiled in 1879 by a captain in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, in November 1755 Parliament voted the sum of £ 81, 000 for the purpose of raising a regiment of four battalions, each one thousand strong for service in British North America.

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

According to British scientists, the kiwi may be an ancient import from Australia.

According to the British, who had been awarded a League of Nations mandate over Iraq in 1920 and therefore represented Iraq in its foreign affairs, Mosul belonged to Iraq ; on the other hand, the new Turkish republic claimed the province as part of its historic heartland.

According to the U. S. Department of the Interior and the U. S. Geological Survey, " there are eight named islands in the lake that have never been totally submerged during historic time.

According to the Maryland Geological Survey, the highest point in Kent County is 102 feet above sea level, approximately 2. 25 miles west of Coleman's Corner ( shown on maps as " Coleman ") just northeast of the mouth of Still Pond Creek.

According to the United States Geological Survey, Bolivia has 5. 4 million tons of lithium, which can be used to make batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

According to the United States Geological Survey, it is likely that a significant percentage of the material sold as zeolites in some countries is ground or sawn volcanic tuff that contains only a small amount of zeolites.

According to the United States Geological Survey Borrego Springs is located at ( 33. 2558717 ,-116. 375012 ).

According to the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) Harbison Canyon is located at ( 32. 8203296 ,-116. 8300236 ), which is near the intersection of Harbison Canyon Road and Frances Drive.

According to the United States Geological Survey, Pine Valley is located 3, 736 feet ( 1, 139 m ) above sea level, at.

According to the United States Geological Survey Ramona is located at.

According to the United States Geological Survey, variant names are Dundee and New Aberdeen.

According to the United States Geological Survey, a variant name is Tubbs Cross Roads.

According to the British Geological Survey, in 2005, Chile was the top mine producer of copper with at least one-third world share followed by the United States, Indonesia and Peru.

According to the U. S Geological Survey ( which warns that " there is no generally accepted definition of a geographic center "), the center of the continent of North America is 6 miles west of Balta, at a latitude of 48 ° 10 ' and a longitude of 100 ° 10 '.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey, Justice is located at ( 36. 2909 ,-95. 5636 ).

According to the US Geological survey, Williamsburg and the surrounding area sits on a 550 feet thick bed of sandstone, divided into medina white, red, and gray, with beds of red shale.

According to a reviewer, he did much of the research for the volume in Washington, D. C., at the Library of Congress and the National Archives, scouring files of the State Department, U. S. Geological Survey and other agencies.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey in 1986, the lowest point in town is approximately above sea level at Beach Park.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake struck 60 km south-southeast of Mexicali.

According to the United States Geological Survey USGS Volcano Warning Scheme for the United States the Volcanic-Alert Level as of June 2011 was " normal ".

According to the U. S. Geological Survey nutria were first introduced the United States in California, 1899.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey, from 1932 to 2010 Louisiana lost enough acres of wetland to total the size of Delaware.

According to the IUGS classification nomenclature ( International Union of Geological Sciences, Streckeisen, 1978 ), nepheline syenite has 10 %< F /( F + A + P )< 60 % and P /( A + P )< 10 % ( F-feldspathoids ; A-alkali feldspar ; P-plagioclase.

According to the United States Geological Survey, the descriptive name, Trident, was given by Robert Fiske Griggs of the National Geographic Society, in 1916, because there were three major peaks.

According to David Leighton of the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ), " A deliberate management effort will be required to meet future water demand in the Antelope Valley without incurring significant economic and environmental costs associated with overuse of the ground-water resource ".

According to Ken Pierce, U. S. Geological Survey geologist, at the end of the last glacial period, about 14, 000 to 18, 000 years ago, ice dams formed at the mouth of Yellowstone Lake.