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Arms and British
The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, including the 3rd / 4th place play-off.
The Arms Park hosted the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, which was used for the athletics events, but this event caused damage to the drainage system, so much so, that other rugby unions ( England, Scotland and Ireland ) complained after the Games about the state of the pitch.
British baseball matches have also regularly taken place at the Arms Park and hosted the annual England versus Wales international game every four years.
As a List of Ladies of the Garter | Lady of the Garter, Alexandra's Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | banner of arms hung in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, during her lifetime despite the objections of Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Albert Woods.
Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.
The RSME also provides training for the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, other Arms and Services of the British Army, Other Government Departments, and Foreign and Commonwealth countries as required.
Nagasaki in the Meiji Restoration: Choshu Loyalists and British Arms Merchants.
A portcullis was previously found on the British one penny coin ; this has since been replaced by a section of the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom.
The Combat Arms are the " teeth " of the British Army, infantry, armoured and aviation units which engage in close action.
He further ordered Garter King of Arms to gazette Lady Alexandra Duff and her sister Lady Maud Duff with the style and attribute of Highness and precedence immediately after all members of the British Royal Family bearing the style of Royal Highness.
The original coat of arms of British Columbia, also known as the Arms of Her Majesty in right of British Columbia, was granted to British Columbia by a Royal Warrant of King Edward VII on 31 March 1906.
" This coat was adopted by Order-in-Council 268 July 19, 1895, as the Arms and Great Seal of the Province per the authority inferred from Section 136 of the British North America Act.
* Coat of Arms of British Columbia ( Government of BC )
British European Airways Coat of Arms
The Cottonian Library was the richest private collection of manuscripts ever amassed ; of secular libraries it outranked the Royal Library, the collections of the Inns of Court and the College of Arms ; Cotton's house near the Palace of Westminster became the meeting-place of the Society of Antiquaries and of all the eminent scholars of England ; the Library was eventually donated to the nation by Cotton's grandson and now resides at the British Library.
Interchangeability of firearms parts at the U. S. armories was found to have been in use for a number of years by the time of the 1853 British Parliamentary Commissions Committee on Small Arms inquiry.
In addition, there is a King of Arms attached to each of the Order of the Bath, Order of St. Michael and St. George and the Order of the British Empire.
The Brunswick rifle was a large caliber (. 704 ) muzzle-loading percussion rifle manufactured for the British Army at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield in the early 19th century.
We therefore inhabitants of the Province of Maryland, firmly persuaded that it is necessary and justifiable to repel force by force, do approve of the opposition by Arms to the British troops, employed to enforce obedience to the late acts and statutes of the British parliament, for raising a revenue in America, and altering and changing the charter and constitution of the Massachusetts Bay, and for destroying the essential securities for the lives, liberties and properties of the subjects in the united colonies.
The Royal Arms ( and motto ) appear on many British government official documents ( e. g. the front of current British passports ); on packaging and stationery of companies operating under Royal Warrant ( e. g. the banner of The Times ( London ), which uses the Royal coat of arms of Great Britain circa 1714 to 1800 ; and are used by other entities so distinguished by the British monarch ( e. g. as the official emblem of the Royal Yacht Britannia ).

Arms and Government
** Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.
They are available to U. S. Government users, their contractors, and federally sponsored non-U. S. Government activities subject to export restrictions in accordance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
The Labour Government introduced a " third way ": the Arms Length Management Organisation ( ALMO ), where the housing stock stays with the Local Authority but is managed by a not-for-profit organisation at arm's length from the Local Authority.
At the request of the Irish Government a Grant of Arms was made to U. S. Presidents John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Bill Clinton in 1995.
While many functions had passed under the Irish Free State ( Agreement ) Act 1922 to the then Provisional Government of Southern Ireland in April 1922, the pre-existing office of the Ulster King of Arms continued unchanged until 1943.
* Saskatchewan Coat of Arms ( Government of Saskatchewan )
* About the Flag and Coat of Arms ( Government of Nunavut )
* Coat of Arms ( Armorial Achievement )Government of Nova Scotia
The illustration in the Royal Warrant apparently shows the Arms with helmet and mantling, but the Western Australian Government has been advised that " With the consent of the Garter Principal King of Arms, the Arms will be produced, for the use in Western Australia, in abbreviated form without the helmet and mantling.
* Northern Territory Coat of Arms, Northern Territory Government
" The Arms and Great Seal of the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines " was approved in 1935, the number of stripes reduced from thirteen to two and three five-pointed stars added.
Coat of Arms of Ontario | Provincial plaque placed by the Government of Ontario memorializing Henson's Dawn Settlement near Dresden, Ontario.
* Coat of Arms of Ontario, Government of Ontario
Sir Bernard Burke ( of the famous Burke's Peerage ), at the time Ulster King of Arms, gave the commission the advice that the College should: " be made a Government Department, let its Officers receive fixed salaries from Government, and let all its fees be paid into the public exchequer.
On 2 July 2007, she was appointed Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords, and on 12 May 2010 was appointed Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.
He was retained by John Major in that role until 1993, when he became Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ( Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords ).
From 19 November 2008 until the 2011 election she was the Minister for Courts, Minister of Pacific Island Affairs, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, and Associate Minister of Maori Affairs in the National Party Government led by John Key.

Arms and variation
Nikolai Ivanovitch Sviatopolk-Mirskii and his descendants used a variation of the Białynia Coat of Arms

Arms and Royal
* Royal Arms of England
The shield of the Royal Arms of New South Wales crowned with the St Edward's Crown is employed as the badge of the governor, appearing on the viceroy's flag and on other objects associated with the person or the office.
File: Royal Coat of Arms of Greece. svg | Hercules as heraldic supporters in the royal arms of Greece, in use 1863 – 1973.
* 1555 – The College of Arms was reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
* 1484 – The College of Arms was formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
* Royal Small Arms Factory
As Duke of Gloucester, Richard used the Royal Arms of England quartered with the Royal Arms of France, differenced by a label argent of three points ermine, on each point a canton gules.
Arms of King Richard I adopted towards the end of his reign, a version of the lion emblems or recognizance used on the shield of his grandfather Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 ), which became fixed during his reign as the Royal Arms of England: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or
The insignia of the three ranks are: a crown for a WO2 ; the ( Australian ) Commonwealth Coat of Arms ( changed from the Royal Coat of Arms in 1976 ) for a WO1 ; and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms surrounded by a laurel wreath for the Warrant Officer.
The crest of the Royal Arms of Canada is employed as the badge of the governor general, appearing on the viceroy's flag and on other objects associated with the person or the office.
The circulating coins, excepting the two-pound coin, were redesigned in 2008, keeping the sizes and compositions unchanged, but introducing reverse designs that each depict a part of the Royal Shield of Arms and form the whole shield when they are placed together in the appropriate arrangement.
File: Royal Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Scotland. svg | Royal coat of arms of Scotland.
File: Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom. svg | Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, in the version for use outwith Scotland.

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