* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.

* 30-Mickie Most, 64, British music producer.

* 27-Ken Smith, 64, British poet.

* 20-Andrew Ray, 64, British actor.

* 22-Hugo Young, 64, British political commentator.

A similar puppet-based series to the Anderson ones was Space Patrol ( 1962 – 64 ), produced by Roberta Leigh, for Associated British Corporation ( ABC ).

This official report lists 908, 371 ' soldiers ' killed in action, died of wounds, died as prisoners of war and were missing in action from 4 August 1914 to 31 December 1920, ( British Isles 702, 410 ; India 64, 449 ; Canada 56, 639 ; Australia 59, 330 ; New Zealand 16, 711 ; South Africa 7, 121 and Newfoundland 1, 204, other colonies 507 ).

In the 1990s future Who Wants to be a Millionaire ( USA ) executive producer Michael Davies attempted to revive The $ 64, 000 Question in the US as The $ 640, 000 Question for ABC, before abandoning that effort in favour of the British hit.

After occupying Manila from 1762 – 64, during the Thirty years war between Spain and Great Britain, the British Army withdrew to the south.

In the novel, the Achates is a British ship of the line two-decker of 64 guns.

The Americans suffered 24 killed, 115 wounded, and 74 missing, while the British reported their losses as 46 killed, 167 wounded, and 64 missing.

John Barrington ( c. 1722 – 64 ) was a Major-General in the British Army.

The largest rod caught salmon in Britain, caught on the Tay by Miss Georgina Ballantine in 1922, weighing 64 lbs, retains the British record.

In the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks ( thus the related term two-decker ).

Some health authorities have suggested that people drink at least eight glasses, eight fl oz each ( 240 mL ), of water per day ( 64 fl oz, or 1. 89 litres ), and the British Dietetic Association recommends 1. 8 litres.

Shirley Crabtree, Jr, better known as Big Daddy ( 14 November 1930 – 2 December 1997 ) was a British professional wrestler famous for his record-breaking 64 inch chest.

* 3 – Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician, renal failure.

" Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Marquess of Crewe and Anglo-French Relations, 1924-1928 ," Contemporary British History, ( March 2011 ) 25 # 1 pp 49 – 64, argues that Crewe gave Chamberlain key ideas about French security and disarmament policy, the implementation of the Geneva Protocol, the Treaty of Locarno and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

The British official casualty return reported 65 killed, 59 dead of " fatigue ", 170 wounded and 64 missing.

The deployment used 64 British and foreign flagged merchant vessels.

* Hugo Young, Leading British Columnist, Is Dead at 64, Warren Hoge, The New York Times

During this period, Lom starred in his only regular TV series, in the British drama, The Human Jungle ( 1963 – 64 ) as a Harley Street psychiatrist, over two seasons.

The Fort was manned by the British Royal Artillery and the Singapore Artillery Corps. 12 Pounder gun at Fort Siloso facing the oil refinery in Singapore harbour.

Pounder was born on December 25, 1952, in Georgetown, British Guiana ( now Guyana ), the daughter of Betsy Enid James Arnella and Ronald Urlington Pounder .< ref >

Bradford was first elected as Member of Parliament for South Belfast in the February 1974 British general election, this time under the banner of the United Ulster Unionist Council ( an alliance between the Vanguard, the Democratic Unionist Party and the anti-Brian Faulkner Ulster Unionists under Harry West ), defeating the sitting MP Rafton Pounder, a pro-Faulkner Unionist.

" Quarter Pounder " is a trademark in the United States, but outlets in some other countries have been able to use similar names for their own products, such as the British Wimpy chain's " Quarterpounder.

Rifled tank guns have fallen out of favor in modern battle tanks however, the British Army has persisted with a rifled cannon on their Challenger 1 and Challenger 2 battle tanks partly to preserve the general purpose capability of HESH ammunition.

The Elswick Ordnance Company ( sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as " EOC ") was originally created in 1859 to separate William Armstrong's armaments business from his other business interests, to avoid a conflict of interest as Armstrong was then Engineer of Rifled Ordnance for the War Office and the company's main customer was the British Government.

< center > 1870s cast-iron British ordnance terms # RML | RML 16-pounder " Boxer " shrapnel shell showing limited space for bullets

Two RML 6. 3 inch Howitzers used by the British during the Siege stand in front of the Town Hall.

The recent period had seen great improvements in gunnery ( with RML and RBL designs ); the widespread introduction of steam propulsion in ships ( the French La Gloire and British response HMS Warrior are examples ); and the growth of the French battle fleet ( between 1854-1858 it had achieved numerical equality to the British ).

* RML Group ( Ray Mallock Ltd. Group ), a British automotive development and motorsports team owned by former driver and engineer Ray Mallock

The British did not make many modifications to the fort, although they built a casemated battery for three nine-inch RML guns in the 19th century and also a cinema and a water distillation plant in the early 20th century.

The Gatling gun may have been the first automatic weapon, though the modern trigger-actuated machine gun was not widely introduced until the First World War with the German " Spandau " and British Lewis Gun.

* L118 Light Gun British 105mm towed gun-howitzer of the late 20th century ; a variant serves in the US military as the M119 A1 Howitzer

Much of the colony rose in revolt in the Gun War ( 1880-1881 ), inflicting significant casualties upon the colonial British forces sent to subdue it.

The battalion was organised as three Gun Batteries, each with six 105 mm field howitzers ( British 25 pounder guns converted to 105 mm caliber ) from the former GTR Artillery Battalion, a HQ Battery and a Service Battery.

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

British Gun Carrier Mark I ( 60 pdr ).

The British Gun Carrier Mark I was the first example of a self-propelled gun, fielded in 1917 during World War I.

Under the command of the British minister to China, Claude Maxwell MacDonald, the legation staff and security personnel defended the compound with small arms, three machine guns, and one old muzzle-loaded cannon, which was nicknamed the International Gun because the barrel was British, the carriage Italian, the shells Russian, and the crew American.

He later provoked criticism from the Bush administration for supporting British GCHQ translator Katharine Gun and calling on others to leak any papers that reveal government deception about the invasion.

In May 1941, British colleagues helped establish the Naval Mine Disposal School at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C. Not to be outdone, the U. S. Navy, under the command of Lt. Draper L. Kauffman ( who would go on to found the Underwater Demolition Teams better known as UDTs or the U. S. Navy Frogmen ), created the Naval Bomb Disposal School at University Campus, Washington, D. C. U. S. Ordnance and British Royal Engineers would forge a partnership that worked quite effectively in war a friendship persisting to this day.

The gun became so important to the British war effort that they even produced a movie, The Gun, that encouraged workers on the assembly line to work harder.

In addition to the Protopunk of New York's The Velvet Underground and Suicide, and Detroit ’ s The Stooges and MC5, Kember's and Pierce's musical influences included: US 60s Psychedelic rock, such as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators ; US 60s Garage rock ; 60s British Invasion bands ; Rock n ' Roll ; Buddy Holly ; Surf music ; The Beach Boys ; early, seminal Electronic music, e. g. Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Anderson ; Krautrock ; The Gun Club, The Cramps and Tav Falco ’ s Panther Burns ; early Chicago blues, e. g. Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin ’ Wolf ; early Delta blues ; gospel and early Staple Singers ; Otis Reading ; the production techniques of Brian Wilson, Joe Meek and Phil Spector ; and the avant-garde jazz and free jazz of Sun Ra and John Coltrane.

Because the U. S. Army Coast Artillery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's 37mm Gun M1, in September 1940 General George C. Marshall asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40 mm guns with Kerrison Predictors for testing.

As an example of such a signal, in Vancouver, British Columbia, a " 9 O ' Clock Gun " is still shot every night at 9 pm.

Also in 1992, on Salisbury Plain, the HAC was the last British Army unit to fire the twenty-five pounder in the field, as the Gun Troop retrained onto the 105mm Light Gun.

* The Battle for Kohima 19440: The Narrative of the 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment-The Machine Gun Battalion of the British 2nd Division ISBN 1-873907-00000001-X.

In August 1920 Winston Churchill told the British Parliament that the BAOR consisted of approximately 13, 360, consisting of, Staff, Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Tanks, and the usual ancillary services.

Members of the Milice, armed with captured British Bren Gun | Bren Guns and Lee-Enfield # Rifle_No_4 | No. 4 Lee-Enfield Rifles

The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians including drummer Han Bennink, pianist Fred Van Hove and tenor saxophonist Evan Parker, plus British free-improv guitarist Derek Bailey.

The Puckle Gun drew few investors and never achieved mass production or sales to the British armed forces, mostly because British gunsmiths at the time could not easily make the weapon's many complicated components.