He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

* 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

* 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

It is noted that most of the engines run on steam, and that an even larger one is under construction at the British Capital in Delhi.

* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Similar types, based on 3-ton lorries, were produced in Britain, Canada and Australia, and together formed the most numerous self-propelled AA guns in British service.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

British Columbia's rugged coastline stretches for more than, and includes deep, mountainous fjords and about six thousand islands, most of which are uninhabited.

The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind.

The economy of the British Virgin Islands is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean.

After so many years in the ' stagnant backwaters ' of British politics, this seemed most appealing.

The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language.

In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

The Labour Party benefited the most from this huge change in the British electorate, forming its first minority government in 1924.

The most common type of brick kiln in use there are Bull's Trench Kiln ( BTK ), based on a design developed by British engineer W. Bull in the late 19th century.

Some extremely large or traditional research libraries are entirely reference in this sense, lending none of their material ; most academic research libraries, at least in the U. S., now lend books, but not periodicals or other material.

Increasing in readership and popularity throughout the remainder of the 1840s and 1850s, Punch was the success story of a threepenny weekly paper that had become one of the most talked-about and enjoyed periodicals.

The University of Tulsa College of Law Review ranks in the top 15 % of most cited legal periodicals as ranked by Washington and Lee University.

) Like most things associated with the Decadence, such exotica discombobulated the mainstream American public, who regarded the little magazines in general as " freak periodicals " and declared, through one of their mouthpieces, Munsey's Magazine, that " each new representative of the species is, if possible, more preposterous than the last.

In 1889, Dom André Mocquereau initiated the Paleographie Musicale periodicals which saw the publication of facsimiles of most ancient chant manuscripts to make them more accessible to scholars.

More recently, articles in various financial periodicals, most notably Forbes magazine, have pointed to Fidel Castro, General Secretary of the Republic of Cuba since 1959, of likely being the beneficiary of up to $ 900 million, based on " his control " of state-owned companies.

French remained the language of instruction in most schools and the language used in more than two-thirds of all newspapers and periodicals and on numerous television programs.

The success was quite immediate, and soon most other publishers started publishing periodicals with American series.

Black Flag is the name of a number of anarchist periodicals, most notably the British anarchist bi-annual magazine Black Flag, mainly known for its coverage of international anarchist politics as well as supporting " class war " prisoners.

The album received unanimously positive reviews, with praise from music periodicals such as Rolling Stone, NME, and Blender, as well as a four-star review from the Los Angeles Times, calling it a " wild emotional ride " sure to be " one of the most dissected and debated collections of the year.

As an indication of the popular and intellectual origins of recent Chinese nationalist sentiment, all coauthors of China Can Say No, the first in a string of defiant rebuttals to American imperialism, are college educated, and most are self-employed ( a freelancer, a fruit-stand owner, a poet, and journalists working in the partly market-driven field of Chinese newspapers, periodicals, and television stations ).

In addition to print books and periodicals, most public libraries today have a wide array of other media including audiobooks, e-books, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, and DVDs as well as facilities to access the Internet and inter-library loans ( borrowing items from other libraries ).

** Notices of the American Mathematical Society-published monthly, one of the most widely read mathematical periodicals,

Media products such as television programs and movies, published books and periodicals would constitute probably among the most accepted part of what information goods can be.

The poem's publication began Proctor's long association with Dickens's periodicals ; in all, Procter published 73 poems in Household Words and 7 poems in All the Year Round, most of which were collected into her first two volumes of poetry, both entitled Legends and Lyrics.

Beardsley's artwork was perhaps the most controversial aspect of The Yellow Book ; his style was thought both highly unnatural and grotesque and he was openly caricatured in contemporary periodicals.

The Yellow Book has been credited as "... commercially the most ambitious and typographically the most important of the 1890s periodicals.

' Even the pulpits are desecrated by the repetition of scandalous and false reports concerning the ' ascension robes ', and priests are using their powers and pens to fill the catalogue of scoffing in the most scandalous periodicals of the day.

Mizener's biography was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly, and a story about the work written in Life magazine, then one of America's most read and discussed periodicals.

These includes most newspapers and periodicals, and the German press agencies Deutsche Presse Agentur ( DPA ) and Reuters.

Drake's works include several volumes of literary essays, and some papers contributed to medical periodicals, but his most important production was:

Though New Writing was the most durable of Penguin's periodicals it wasn't the publisher's only foray into journalism with Russian Review, Penguin Hansard and Transatlantic begun during the war, and Penguin Film Review, Penguin Music Magazine, New Biology, Penguin Parade, Penguin Science Survey and Penguin Science News having brief runs after.

He contributed to many periodicals, and, in addition to editing many smaller works, he edited some of the most important historical works of the 19th century, among them: Reader ’ s Handbook of American History ( 1879 ), The Memorial History of Boston ( 4 vols., 1880 – 1881 ) and the Narrative and Critical History of America ( 8 vols., 1884 – 1889 ).