Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

Among prominent Fifth Monarchists were Thomas Harrison, Christopher Feake, Vavasor Powell, John Carew, John Rogers and Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the Admiralty and later of the British East India Company.

Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions in the 60th ( Royal Americans ) was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management ( including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and ' battle-dress `) would become universal in the British Army some 150 years later.

* Among the Syriac manuscripts obtained from the Nitrian desert in Egypt, British Museum, London: important Greek texts, Add.

Some spinels are among the most famous gemstones: Among them is the Black Prince's Ruby and the ' Timur ruby ' in the British Crown Jewels, and the ' cote de Bretagne ' formerly from the French Crown jewels.

Among Protestants the strong numbers of Lutherans and Moravians point to the German past of the country, the numbers of Anglicans to the British history of Tanganyika.

Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East.

Among other activities, Banks found time to serve as a trustee of the British Museum for 42 years.

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.

Among other accolades, it was ranked number 16 in Q Magazine's " The 50 Best British Albums Ever " in 2004, and number 11 in Rolling Stone's " The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time " as featured in their Mexican edition in 2004.

Among other demands, the mission sought increased compensation for its former Duars territories, but instead the British deducted nearly 3, 000 rupees from the annual compensation and demanded an apology for alleged plundering of British-protected lands by members of the mission.

Among the issues giving rise to tension between the Transvaal government on the one hand, and the Uitlanders and British interests on the other, were

Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 ( which he termed " an insolent parade ") and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre ( see illustration ).

Among the more challenging political dilemmas Wilson faced during his two terms in government and his two spells in Opposition before 1964 and between 1970 and 1974 was the issue of British membership of the European Community, the forerunner of the present European Union.

Among the members of the British patrol was Banastre Tarleton.

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

Among his best-known early works are the illustrations he produced for The Book of British Ballads ( 1842 ), and a frontispiece he designed for The Kentish Coronal ( 1840 ).

Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women.

Among the first pointed or " conical " bullets were those designed by Captain John Norton of the British Army in 1823.

Among these is Anna's Hummingbird, a common resident from California inland to southern Arizona and north to southwestern British Columbia.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

* 1989 British Academy Television Award, Best Single Drama: A Bed Among the Lentils ( shared with Innes Lloyd )

Among the donations were $ 1 million each by the governments of British Columbia and Ontario, the former to create a new research institute to be founded in Fox's name, and the latter an endowment given to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation.

Among the most controversial in British history, it systematically raised taxes on the rich, especially the landowners, to pay for the welfare programmes ( and for new battleships ).

Among the people of the Arctic the Norwegians have the easiest climate, with most ports in North Norway remaining ice-free all the year as a result of the Gulf Stream.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.

Among other compliments, Linnaeus has been called ( Prince of Botanists ), " The Pliny of the North ," and " The Second Adam ".

Among North American woodpeckers, the ivory-bill is unique in having a bill whose tip is quite flattened laterally, shaped much like a beveled wood chisel.

Among her awards are an ABBY Honor award for books in the Mitford series, set in the fictional community of Mitford, North Carolina.

A 19th-century illustration, " Sugar-Making Among the Indians in the North "

Among the most powerful was the league of North Castilian and Basque ports, the Hermandad de las marismas: Toledo, Talavera, and Villarreal.

Low, Daniel Cournoyer, Jennifer O ' Loughlin: Water-Pipe Smoking Among North American Youths, Pediatrics, Published online May 10, 2010, ( Full Text free )

Among recent professional productions, the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company has mounted the opera at the Buxton Opera House, and both Britain's Opera North and America's New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players mounted well-regarded stagings in 2010.

* Bockstoce, John R. ( 2009 ) Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-14921-2, ISBN 978-0-300-14921-0

Among the better-known North American species, the average lifespan is 3 to 5 years.

Among Southwold's hotels, the Marlborough was destroyed by enemy action in the Second World War, the Grand was demolished in the 1950s and housing built on the site, and the Craighurst on North Parade was converted to flats in recent years.

Among nebulae, M17 in Sagittarius and the North American nebula ( NGC 7000 ) in Cygnus are also readily viewed.

Among the most well known examples of rainmaking rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States.

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

Among other things, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the National Investment Bank, a member of the supervisory boards of OGEM and KLM, and chaired the working party on the Netherlands Antilles, the national advisory committee on the relationship between the electorate and policy-making, the Provisional Council for Transport, Public Works and Water Management and the Interministerial Coordinating Committee on North Sea Affairs ( ICONA ).

Among the past and present groups formed by royal charter are the British East India Company ( 1600 ), the Hudson's Bay Company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ( P & O ), the British South Africa Company, and some of the former British colonies on the North American mainland, also the Bank of England.

Among the companies based in North Bay Village are the cable channel GOL TV.

Among local residents and Metro Atlantans, the area is commonly known as Briarcliff, in addition to North Druid Hills.

Among these are North End ( once known as " Atlanticville "), Branchport, Beachfront North and South ( including Pier Village, adjacent to the site of the former Long Branch Pier at the foot of Laird Street ), Downtown, Uptown, West End and Elberon.

Among the first people to move in were Ginny ’ s parents who built a home on what is now North Gate Road, just on the edge of the brow above the drop-down to the beach, backing up to the huge lot owned by the Lewis family ( who owned the northernmost fishing pier in the area ).

Among the biggest factors depressing demand for newsprint in North America have been the decline in newspaper readership among many sectors of the population — particularly young adults — along with increasing competition for advertising business from the Internet and other media.

Among the first wave of North American bands to become popular in the wake of the British invasion, the group combined rock, folk, and country music into a sound all its own.