On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history.

* 1914 – A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

In Great Britain's Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force these aircraft were referred to as " scouts " into the early 1920s.

Its highly professional army was the best in the world, but the navy could never catch up with Britain's Royal Navy.

Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord ( professional head of the Royal Navy ), but he was removed at the end of 1917 because of differences over policy regarding the war against the U-Boats and his perceived pessimism about Britain's ability to carry on the war.

Britain's Royal Flying Corps ( which merged on 1 April 1918 with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force ) was founded in 1912.

In 1926, she became a fellow of Britain's Royal Anthropological Institute.

In the Nineteenth century, Fortress Bermuda would become Britain's Gibraltar of the West, heavily fortified by a Regular Army garrison to protect the Royal Navy's headquarters and dockyard in the Western Atlantic.

* Weir, Alison ( 1996 ) Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy.

The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.

The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.

The V bombers were to carry the GAM-87 Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, to update their strike potential as new innovations in the Cold War made their early style of operation less viable ; however Skybolt was cancelled by the US and the Royal Navy became Britain's main provider of the nuclear deterrent, using UGM-27 Polaris intercontinental ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines in the 1970s.

To re-arm Canada he built the Royal Canadian Air Force as a viable military power, while at the same time keeping it separate from Britain's Royal Air Force.

On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history, which included 2000 AD.

New Zealand depended on Britain's Royal Navy for its military security during the 1920s and 1930s.

Following the loss of Britain's ports in thirteen of its former continental colonies, Bermuda was also used as a stop-over point between Canada and Britain's Caribbean possessions, and assumed a new strategic prominence for the Royal Navy.

In the wake of Operation Anaconda, relations between US and the and UK forces on the ground soured when Stars and Stripes, the magazine for American forces and their families, openly criticized the Royal Marines for returning " empty-handed " from their search for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters claiming that Britain's contribution to the campaign was " disappointing.

Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy.

Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy.

( 1999 ) Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy.

The readership also differs greatly ; one of Britain's most well-known tabloids, the Daily Mail, boasts a mostly female readership, whereas that of The Morning Star, in keeping with its political leanings, is of unionised labourers.

The Mail Strike, for example, which consists of a flying postbox dropping explosive envelopes, is a reference to the postal strikes of the time, while the Mad Cow refers to Britain's BSE epidemic of the 1990s.

The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly literate " lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks ", and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.

The speech was widely regarded as extraordinary, with Britain's Daily Mail newspaper commenting that " The astonishing attack was the first time that Ireland's Parliament has publicly castigated the Vatican instead of local church leaders during the country's 17 years of paedophile-priest scandals.

On March 19th The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history.

* How a skull found in David Attenborough's garden has solved one of Victorian Britain's most gruesome murder mysteries, Daily Mail, 26 October 2010

It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record.

The noun-form kook, may have first appeared in 1960 in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper:

On 19 March 2012 the Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history, which included The Dandy among many others.

Hitchens writes for Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and describes himself as a Burkean conservative.

On March 19 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history.

The designation HMT ( Hired Military Transport ) would normally replace RMS ( Royal Mail Ship ) or SS ( Steamship ) on ships converted to troopship duty with Great Britain's Royal Navy.

" An April 2008 article in Britain's Daily Mail listed Dirty Dancing as number one on a list of " most romantic movie quotes ever ", for Baby's line " I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.

On 27 August 2006, the Mail on Sunday reported that Bramall hit Lord Janner, 78, a veteran campaigner for Holocaust victims and a senior member of Britain's Jewish community, after making what witnesses claim were a series of ' anti-Israel ' comments during an argument over the Lebanon conflict.

Leach moved on to the Daily Mail as Britain's youngest " Page One " reporter, at age 18.

The sole sponsors of this voyage were Britain's Daily Mail, Evening News, and Sunday Dispatch newspapers, and the intent was not so much to set up an offshore station but rather to publicise the papers.

The Wall Street Journal has said that an entry in Who's Who " really puts the stamp on eminence on a modern British life ", and the Daily Mail has described it as " Britain's most famous reference book ".

The steamship company running a service between Glasgow and St Kilda commissioned a short ( 18 minute ) silent movie, St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle.

On 29 July 1862, a law officer's report he had commissioned advised him to detain Alabama, as its construction was a breach of Britain's neutrality.

It also came sixteenth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll commissioned in 2004 on BBC2.

They teamed up again in 1982 for the TV movie P ' tang, Yang, Kipperbang, the first film commissioned by Britain's Channel 4.

In the early years of the 19th century Sir William commissioned Britain's leading civil engineer, Thomas Telford, to design and supervise the creation of a major new herring fishing town and harbour at the estuary of the River Wick.

ITV commissioned a new version of the show for 2008, giving Judith Chalmers ' son Mark Durden-Smith the role of main host, along with Sarah Heaney, which sees them visit some of Britain's best loved holiday destinations, this is filmed within production studios and not directly on location.

This film was to be Britain's first attempt to emulate the Movie-musicals of studios such as MGM, and Camarata commissioned Heath to provide his band as the nucleus for the film's orchestra.

In 1974, the group's publicist Martin Lewis arranged for the band to be commissioned to write and record the music for a major stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest at Britain's National Theatre, directed by Sir Peter Hall.