Germany grew rapidly in industrial and economic power, matching Britain by 1900.

As a result, the freight trains were shorter and less heavily loaded than those in such rapidly industrializing nations such as Britain, Belgium or Germany.

Australia's ties with the UK dwindled rapidly as Britain closed foreign bases, disengaged from its former territories East of Suez and began courting the EEC, as a result of which American investment in Australia increased dramatically and Australia's onetime enemy Japan replaced the UK as Australia's major trading partner.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

Teletubbies, particularly notable for its high production values, rapidly became a critical and commercial success in Britain and abroad and won a BAFTA in 1998.

Organizations were started in many countries and these grew rapidly in membership, most notable among them being the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) in Britain and the Audubon Society in the US.

Fish and chips became a stock meal among the working classes in Great Britain as a consequence of the rapid development of trawl fishing in the North Sea, and the development of railways which connected the ports to major industrial cities during the second half of the 19th century, which meant that fresh fish could be rapidly transported to the heavily populated areas.

By 1840 the fashion in Europe and Britain shifted away from the formerly very popular beaver felt hats and prices for furs rapidly declined and the trapping almost ceased.

The war caused American relations with both Britain and France to deteriorate rapidly.

The city expanded rapidly as many freed slaves settled, accompanied by West Indian and African soldiers who had fought for Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.

Fearful of a Germanic invasion and desperate for some sense of security in a world rapidly falling apart, the Roman military in Britain chose as their leader a man named after the famed emperor of the early fourth century, Constantine the Great, who had himself risen to power through a military coup in Britain.

Due to the focus on marine business, during the formative years of Lloyd's ( between 1688 and 1807 ), one of the sources of Lloyd's business was the insurance of ships engaged in slave trading, as Britain rapidly established itself as the chief trading power in the Atlantic.

Unfortunately for the band, mainstream music in Britain was rapidly changing direction, punk rock having been established around this time.

One might cite ( though MacIntyre does not ) the rapid emergence of abolitionist thought in the slave-holding societies of the 18th-century Atlantic world as an example of this sort of change: over a relatively short period of time, perhaps 1760 to 1800, in Britain, France, and British America, slave-holding, previously thought to be morally neutral or even virtuous, rapidly became seen as vicious among wide swathes of society.

The settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain in 1846, the conclusion of the Mexican American War in 1848, and the California Gold Rush in 1849 and other gold and silver strikes rapidly attracted increased emigrant traffic west.

Legal segregation of bathing areas in Britain ended in 1901, and the bathing machine declined rapidly.

While dive-bombers were devastatingly effective against undefended targets, such as Guernica and Rotterdam, they were very vulnerable to attack by fighter aircraft, and their use by Germany against Britain with its effective Royal Air Force was rapidly discontinued.

The following year, the first bath of its type to be built in mainland Britain since Roman times was opened in Manchester, and the idea spread rapidly.

In 1838 it was reported in Bulgaria, but not until the 20th century did it expand across Europe, appearing in parts of the Balkans between 1900 – 1920, and then spreading rapidly northwest, reaching Germany in 1945, Great Britain by 1953 ( breeding for the first time in 1956 ), Ireland in 1959, and the Faroe Islands in the early 1970s.

His cult spread rapidly far and wide throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, as is witnessed by the countless churches and monasteries dedicated to him in France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Great Britain ; by the numerous manuscripts in prose and verse commemorating his virtues and miracles ; and especially by the vast concourse of pilgrims who from all Europe flocked to his shrine.

The goddess Brigid was originally revered by the Brigantes of northern England and south Leinster ; and a parallel conversion and adoption there may partly account for the cult of Saint Brigid spreading so rapidly outside of Ireland to Britain.

Fears of an invasion rapidly began to grow, spurred on by reports in both the press and from official government bodies, of a fifth column operating in Britain which would aid an invasion by German airborne forces.

Other grammars in English followed rapidly: Paul Greaves ' Grammatica Anglicana, 1594 ; Alexander Hume's Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue, 1617, and many others.

) The advantage for Britain of granting these base rights was that the neutral US effectively took responsibility for the security of these territories, freeing British forces to be deployed to the sharper ends of the War.

Britain maintained a standing army of just 220, 000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, whereas France's strength peaked at over 2, 500, 000, as well as several hundred thousand national guardsmen that Napoleon could draft into the military if necessary ; however, British subsidies paid for a large proportion of the soldiers deployed by other coalition powers, peaking at about 450, 000 in 1813.

In July 1967 Defence Secretary Denis Healey announced that Britain would abandon her mainland bases East of Suez by 1977, although airmobile forces would be retained which could if necessary be deployed in the region.

The Romans deployed both native and mercenary units of cataphracts throughout the Empire, from Asia Minor all the way to Britain, where a contingent of 5, 500 Sarmatian cataphracts were posted in the 3rd century by Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( see End of Roman rule in Britain ).

In the space of a few years, Germany was faced with virtually the whole strength of the Royal Navy deployed against its own fleet, and Britain irrevokably committed to the list of her enemies.

Britain deployed 40 and 45 Commando Royal Marines and air transport assets to help protect refugees and to deliver humanitarian aid.

Frederick II, notably, hired out so many troops to his nephew King George III of Great Britain for use in the American War of Independence, that " Hessian " has become an American slang term for all German soldiers deployed by the British in the War.

An additional CPT deployed tool used in Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France is a piezocone combined with a tri-axial magnetometer.

Once he arrived in England, the RAF changed its mind and sent him and the first group of Poles to fighter squadrons which were rapidly being deployed in anticipation of an attack on Britain in 1940.

Following the Japanese conquest of Burma, several British divisions from Britain and the Middle East, and IV Corps headquarters, were deployed to India.

The Western section contains data from as early as c400: for example, it shows units deployed in Britain, which must date from before 410, when Roman troops were evacuated from the island.

For example, the forces deployed in Britain c400 may have been just 18, 000 against c55, 000 in the 2nd century.

In 1709, a number of years after the War of the Spanish Succession had begun, the regiment deployed to Spain and in 1710 took part in the Battle of Saragossa which ended in a victory for Great Britain against Franco-Spanish forces.

The 2 / 22nd Battalion was detached from it and deployed to Rabaul, New Britain in April.

The press reported that " atomic-capable " B-29s were deployed to Britain in mid-1948 during the Berlin Blockade, by which time the US possessed about 50 atomic weapons.

The name was commonly used to refer to the weapons that Italy, and later Britain, deployed in the Mediterranean and used to attack ships in enemy harbours.

Robertson later recorded that it would have been impossible to live as a cavalry subaltern in Britain, where £ 300 a year was needed in addition to the £ 120 official salary ( approximately £ 30, 000 and £ 12, 000 at 2010 prices ) to keep up the required lifestyle ; he was reluctant to leave the cavalry, but his Regiment was deployed to India, where pay was higher and expenses lower than in the UK.

Armstrong screw-breech guns were initially adopted by the British Army and Royal Navy, but concerns about limited armour penetration of the shells due to limited maximum velocity, safety concerns with the breech blocks blowing out of guns, and higher skill levels demanded of gunners led the British Government to revert to rifled muzzle-loaders from 1865 to 1880, when Britain finally deployed reliable screw breech mechanisms.

Germany deployed a few horse-mounted infantry units on the Russian Front during the Second World War, and cyclist units on both fronts as well, and both Germany and Britain ( which had used cyclist battalions in the First World War ) experimented with motorcycle battalions.

It was provoked by NATO ’ s decision in December 1979 to respond to a Soviet upgrading of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe with its own nuclear modernisation – cruise and Pershing II missiles to be deployed in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

* Hornet Squadron was equipped with Spitfires, but in reality, only Hawker Hurricane-equipped fighter squadrons were deployed to France in 1939-1940 ( Spitfires were retained in Britain ).

Initially, the DC-4 was deployed on flights to Europe, as well as on chartered flights for third party companies, for example from Britain to South America.

During the Battle of Britain the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) deployed an Identification Friend or Foe ( IFF ) system codenamed " pipsqueak ", a term also used for a small calibre German shell during World War I. RAF fighters had a clockwork mechanism that regulated the broadcast of a signal over an HF channel for fourteen seconds of every minute.