It has also been claimed that this was a regular weather forecast in Britain in the 1930s.

John Byron, who was unaware of the French presence in the east, explored Saunders Island, in the west, named the harbour Port Egmont, and claimed this and other islands for Britain on the grounds of prior discovery.

He claimed the land in the name of the Holy Trinity for the English Crown as called Nova Albion — Latin for " New Britain ".

The group into which Gardner claimed to be initiated, known as the New Forest coven, was small and utterly secret as claiming to be a witch was illegal in Britain since the Witchcraft Act of 1735 made claiming to predict the future, conjure spirits, or cast spells a crime, and likewise made an accusation of witchcraft a criminal offense ).

In 55 and 54 BCE, Julius Caesar, as part of his campaigns in Gaul, invaded Britain and claimed to have scored a number of victories, but he never penetrated further than Hertfordshire and was unable to establish a province.

According to its first translator, it was written in Wroxeter by a Christian man called Vinisius to a Christian woman called Nigra, and was claimed as the first epigraphic record of Christianity in Britain.

On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.

The report further claimed that " reactionary imperialist elements throughout the world, particularly in the U. S. A., in Britain and France, had put particular hope on Germany and Japan, primarily on Hitlerite Germany — first as a force most capable of striking a blow at the Soviet Union.

Mobil grew to become the seventh largest brand of petrol in Britain supplying 1, 990 outlets in 1965, and claimed in the mid-1960s to be the first company to operate 100 self-service stations.

Some were claimed as prizes by Britain, France, Norway and the Soviet Union.

In the late 19th century, possession of the islands was claimed by Britain, Spain, and Imperial Germany.

George Washington first claimed privilege when Congress requested to see Chief Justice John Jay's notes from an unpopular treaty negotiation with Great Britain.

Additionally that in New Ireland and New Britain widows were claimed as common property by all the men.

The land which now forms the state of South Australia was claimed for Britain in 1788 as part of the colony of New South Wales.

In September 1940, press reports claimed that it had to have declared war on Britain in support of Italy ; however, this was later denied by the Sanmarinese government.

Britain included the proviso that the Somali nomads would retain their autonomy, but Ethiopia immediately claimed sovereignty over them.

Britain included the proviso that the Somali nomads would retain their autonomy, but Ethiopia immediately claimed sovereignty over them.

He claimed the territory for the Kingdom of Great Britain, and named it " the Isle of Georgia " in honour of King George III.

The affiliation of Gibraltar has continued to be a contentious issue between Spain and Britain and so is the sovereignty of the plazas de soberanía, claimed by Morocco.

Proponents of this theory also claim that Alfred the Great was a descendant of Shem because he claimed to descend from Sceafa, a marooned man who came to Britain on a boat after a flood.

Diggle claimed in his autobiography that he and Shelley had only granted the BBC use of their name under the impression that it would be a one-off, probably unsuccessful pilot, and that they are now mildly disgruntled that the name is more readily associated in Britain with the TV series than with their band.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

He claimed to be travelling around Britain and submitted his travel expenses based on fares listed in a British railway guide.

Europeans began to settle permanently in 1826 when Albany was claimed by Britain to forestall French claims to the western third of the continent.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

* British Isles, a group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and other islands

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

These events were nearly the cause of a war between Britain and Spain, both countries having sent armed fleets to contest sovereignty of the strategically important islands.

One reaches them from the northerly islands of Britain, by sailing directly for two days and two nights with a full sail in a favourable wind the whole time ....

The Hebrides lack biodiversity in comparison to mainland Britain, but these islands have much to offer the naturalist.

Britain began expanding self-government in the islands during the 1960s.

In 1854 the hami ( sultan ) of Muscat ( later Muscat and Oman, now Oman ), ceded the islands to Britain and in 1868 they were attached to the Aden Settlement ( in modern Yemen ).

Much of the Territory of New Guinea, including the islands of Bougainville and New Britain, was occupied by Japanese forces before being recaptured by Australian and American forces during the final months of the war ( see New Guinea campaign ).

The geography of Papua New Guinea describes the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the islands of New Ireland, New Britain and Bougainville, and smaller nearby islands.

In 1967, the islands became an Associated State of Britain.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

for Great Britain, and Freiherr Speck von Sternburg for Germany, agreed to divide the islands.

Scorpions did not occur naturally in Great Britain, New Zealand and some of the islands in Oceania, but have now been accidentally introduced in some of these places by human trade and commerce.

With a total area of approximately, the UK occupies the major part of the British Isles archipelago and includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland and many smaller surrounding islands.

The total area of the United Kingdom is approximately, comprising the island of Great Britain, the northeastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland ( Northern Ireland ) and many smaller islands.

The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada, the British Empire and the United States to the islands of Great Britain and ( during World War II ) to the Soviet Union and the Allied Countries in the Mediterranean.

These facts made it impractical to use Preece's system on either ships, boats, or ordinary islands ( ones much smaller than Great Britain or Greenland ), and the relatively short distances that a practical Preece system could span meant that it had few advantages over underwater telegraph cables.

These conditions included the return of the sugar islands ( but Britain retained Dominica ); trading stations in West Africa ( won by Boscawen ); Pondicherry, ( France's Indian colony ); and fishing rights in Newfoundland.

The islands gained independence from Britain in December 1963 as a constitutional monarchy.

In fact, the American struggle to wrest the islands from Britain has only commenced in earnest now that the fighting is over ".