In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

These children who have not reached Great Britain's National Curriculum standard of swimming 25 metres by the time they leave primary school will be given a half-hour lesson every day for two weeks during term-time.

Whitehall is also widely known for a number of memorial statues and monuments, including Britain's primary war memorial The Cenotaph.

The Cenotaph, Britain's primary war memorial, is situated in the centre of Whitehall and is the site of the annual ceremonies on Remembrance Sunday.

When in 1914 the Great War breaks out in Europe, both the USA and CSA join almost immediately on the side of their respective allies, and the USA is fighting a two-front war against Britain's primary representative on North America, Canada and Newfoundland to the north, and the CSA to the south.

Testing performed in early 2009 by the Northrop-Grumman Corporation established that this compound, along with the aircraft's shape, would have rendered the Ho 229 virtually invisible to the top-end HF-band, 20-30 MHz primary signals of Britain's Chain Home early warning radar, provided the aircraft was traveling at high speed ( approximately ) at extremely low altitude ( 50 – 100 feet ).

On 12 July 2008, he took part in the Islam Expo event at the Olympia exhibition centre in West Kensington, London, a four day event whose primary purpose was to build bridges between Britain's Muslim communities and the rest of society.

During the late 19th century, Britain's primary goal in foreign policy was to maintain the balance of power in Europe and to intervene should that balance be upset.

The 3. 7-Inch QF AA was Britain's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II.

The Sunday Times article said that Britain's Greek-Cypriot community had paid for Meale and his wife to go to Cyprus and that Greek-Cypriot lobbying groups had donated thousands of pounds to Labour.

Echoing Wallerstein's global perspective to an extent, imperial historian Bernard Porter views Britain's adoption of formal imperialism as a symptom and an effect of her relative decline in the world, and not of strength: " Stuck with outmoded physical plants and outmoded forms of business organization, now felt the less favorable effects of being the first to modernize.

In 1938, he was asked to head Britain's first industrial research organization, the British Coal Utilisation Research Association ( BCURA ).

The organization was committed to advancing the opportunities of Britain's ethnic minority communities.

As Attorney General, he was responsible for the appointment of J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), and directed him to remodel the agency so it would resemble Britain's Scotland Yard and become far more efficient than any other police organization in the country.

In March 2001 Britain's National Union of Students banned Al-Muhajiroun after they received complaints from Muslim and non-Muslim students about the group distributing hate literature and the organization training members in militant camps.

" Robinson noticed problems with Britain's approach to General Practice Medicine, and quickly sought to reach agreement with practitioners and change the organization, funding, and nature of practice in the system.

He subsequently founded the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, Britain's first civil rights organization.

Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in Cornwall, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Beef extract was eventually reintroduced as a key Bovril ingredient in 2006, after the European Commission lifted its ban on the export of Britain's beef products ; it was only at this point that the manufacturer stated explicitly that this had been the main reason for beef's removal.

The period was established by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

The party split in 1951 over the austerity budget brought in by Hugh Gaitskell to pay for the cost of Britain's participation in the Korean War.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

Although these writings were considered too radical at the time for Britain's new rulers, they later came to be cited by Whigs, radicals and supporters of the American Revolution.

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.

The committee presiding over Britain's prestigious Turner Prize in 2004, for example, called it " the most influential work of modern art.

It is one of two national anthems for New Zealand ( since 1977 ) and for several of Britain's territories that have their own additional local anthem.

In Britain, the government sought Jewish support for the war effort for a variety of reasons including an erroneous antisemitic perception of " Jewish power " over the Ottoman Empire's Young Turks movement, and a desire to secure American Jewish support for US intervention on Britain's behalf.

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

On 15 May 1991 Italy became for a while the fourth worldwide economic power, overcoming France, with a GDP of US $ 1. 268 trillion, compared to France's GDP of US $ 1. 209 trillion and Britain's of US $ 1. 087 trillion.

Britain's departure from the ERM led to a fall in the opinion poll ratings for the Conservative Party, which despite the improvement in the economic position, did not fully recover whilst John Major was Prime Minister.

* The Principality of Sealand, a World War II-era anti-aircraft platform built in the North Sea beyond Britain's then territorial limit, seized by a pirate radio group in 1967 as a base for their operations, and currently used as the site of a secure web-hosting facility.

The advantage of Britain's new colony in providing a non-Russian source of flax and hemp for naval supplies was referred to in an article in Lloyd ’ s Evening Post of 5 October 1787 which urged: “ It is undoubtedly the interest of Great-Britain to remain neutral in the present contest between the Russians and the Turks ” and observed, “ Should England cease to render her services to the Empress of Russia, in a war against the Turks, there can be little of nothing to fear from her ill-will.

* 1977 – ' Vrillon ', claiming to be the representative of the ' Ashtar Galactic Command ', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5: 12 pm.

A few years on, Britain's population falls to medieval levels, around 4 to 11 million people.

The British people have become uneasily aware that their American allies would prefer the Falkland Islands to pass out of Britain's possession into hands which, if not wholly American, might be amenable to American control.

In 2005, a poll of 2, 000 people revealed the capsicum pepper to be Britain's 4th favourite culinary vegetable.

The show came 14th in a high-profile 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, and was praised for portraying older people in a non-stereotypical, positive, and active manner.

In a poll organised by The Architectural Review in 1939 to find what lay people thought were Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones building.

Jim Palosaari was one of Britain's influential Jesus people and one of the founders of the group that became JPUSA, Servant's Highway Ministries, and Greenbelt festival in England, the largest Christian rock festival in the world.

Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town, with people having lived there for at least 6, 000 years.

Cymdeithas yr Iaith believes in non-violent direct action and in the course of their campaigns over a thousand people have appeared before the courts for their part in various campaigns, many receiving prison sentences, making it one of Britain's largest protest groups since the suffragettes-in terms of fines and the numbers sent to prison .< ref > Dylan Phillips, < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Trwy ddulliau chwyldro ..?

In a compromise, it was decided to seek to establish a republic initially, then allow the people to decide whether they wanted a republic or a monarchy, subject to the condition that no member of Britain's royal house could sit on any prospective Irish throne.

Experience from other reforms that affected the behaviour of large groups of people ( introduction of the metric system, switching to the euro, Sweden's change from driving on the left to driving on the right on Dagen H, and Britain's and Ireland's introduction of decimal currency ) suggested that such reforms might very well be more effective with a shorter transitional period.

Once again, he was accused of having dragged Britain into the war in order to protect Jewish people on mainland Europe, and was considered a warmonger who did not have Britain's interests at heart.

The group grew, in part as people grew disillusioned with the Communist Party of Great Britain's position on the Hungarian Revolution and in part from recruits from trade union activities.

The sole inhabitants are now John Ure and his family, who leased the main building, converted it into a three-bedroomed home, and who have opened what is claimed to be Britain's most remote cafe: the Ozone Cafe was opened in 2009 by the Princess Royal, and seats eight people.

In 2005, a poll of 2, 000 people revealed the zucchini to be Britain's 10th favorite culinary vegetable.

There was some debate amongst archaeologists as to whether the " Beaker people " were a race of people who migrated to Britain en masse from the continent, or whether a prestigious Beaker cultural " package " of goods and behaviour ( which eventually spread across most of Western Europe ) diffused to Britain's existing inhabitants through trade across tribal boundaries.

She lists her political interests as criminal justice, foreign affairs, human rights, international development, penal reform, and prisons, and has written several books, including Creating Criminals: prisons and people in a market society ; Bricks of Shame: Britain's prisons ; Failures in Penal Policy ; Imprisoned by Our Prisons: a programme for reform ( Fabian Series ); The Prisons We Deserve and A Sin Against the Future: imprisonment in the world.

Nevertheless, the organisation estimates that 550, 000 people have died on Britain's roads since Bridget Driscoll's death in 1896.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues, suggesting that Palestine become a home for the Jewish people.

It is Britain's largest ever export agreement, and employs some 5, 000 people in Saudi Arabia.

Under his direction Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme, promoting good practice among major UK employers, has grown from 35 to 600 members, employing 5. 5 million people between them, ranging from IBM and Tesco to all of Britain's armed services and MI5.

It has published most recently on the long-term future of the NHS, Britain's regional economic performance, the economic position of young people, and on the tax and welfare system.

In the 2004 Sunday Times rich list his fortune was estimated at £ 48 Million, making him the 18th richest person in Wales, and the oldest of Britain's 1, 000 richest people.

Although no bones or shells had survived the acid soil, numerous carbonised hazelnut shells indicate cooking in a similar way to finds at other Mesolithic period sites including the slightly earlier Star Carr and Britain's oldest house, the Howick house in Northumberland dated to 7600 BC, where post holes indicate a very substantial construction, and the finds are interpreted as being a permanent residence for hunting people.

1993-The ETA publishes Britain's first Car Buyers ' Guide for people wanting to buy greener vehicles.