According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

File: British Museum Egypt 086. JPG | Room 4-Colossal statue of Amenhotep III, c. 1370 BC

File: British Museum Olduvai handaxe. jpg | Room 2-Handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, Olduvai Gorge, circa 1. 2 million years

File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

File: British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035. jpg | Room 51-Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900 – 1600 BC ( one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working )

File: British Museum Royal Gold Cup. jpg | Room 40-Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, c. AD 1370-80 ( generally agreed to be the outstanding surviving example of late medieval French plate )

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

File: British Museum 2010-06-04 B. jpg | Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, c. 350 BC

File: England ; London-The British Museum, Facade South Front ~-Main Entrance + West Wing-Collonade + The Africa Garden. 2. JPG | African Garden-created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

File: BM ; RM6-ANE, Assyrian Sculpture 32-East ( N ), Centre Island + North Wall-~ Assyrian Empire +-Lamassu, Stela's, Statue's, Obelisk's, Relief Panel's ) & Full Projection. 1. JPG | The British Museum, Room 6-Assyrian Sculpture

File: Ship Clock at British Museum. jpg | Room 38-39-Mechanical Galleon, Augsburg, around AD 1585

File: Egyptian harp. jpg | An ancient Egyptian harp on display in the British Museum

This Jargon File entry notes kludge apparently derives via British military slang from Scots kludge or kludgie meaning " a common toilet ", and became confused with U. S. kluge during or after World War II.

File: 1914 Sydney Half Sovereign-St. George. jpg | British

File: Antique Japanese tachi with koshirae. jpg | Antique tachi and koshirae, British museum.

File: Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Waterloo. jpg | Depicting French Cuirassiers charging onto the British squares during the Battle of Waterloo

File: British Museum Aztec or Mixtec shield. jpg | Ceremonial shield with mosaic decoration.

File: British Airborne Units. svg |< center > Airborne Units, Great Britain ( actually a winged unicorn, with pegasus features )

File: British gun, skansin ( Faroe Islands ). jpg | The British cannon at Skansin

File: British Shorthair, Classic Tabby. jpg | A British Shorthair with the classic tabby markings.

File: Dilute calico British Shorthair. jpg | A dilute tortoiseshell and white.

File: DonaldDuck 2nd logo. jpg | 2nd logo of Donald Duck: 1962-1978 ( issues # 85 -# 193 ), published under the Gold Key label.

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File: Mike Smrek in 2007. jpg | Mike Smrek ' 85 Two-Time NBA Champion, Los Angeles Lakers

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File :' 85 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Coupe. JPG | 1985 Cutlass Supreme coupe

File :' 85 -' 86 Oldsmobile Calais Coupe. jpg | 1985 – 1986 Oldsmobile Calais coupe

File: Apollo Kitharoidos BM 1380. jpg | Room 22-Apollo kitharoidos ( holding a lyre ), Roman, circa 2nd century AD

File: Lely Venus BM 1963. jpg | The famous version of the ' Crouching Venus ', Roman, circa 1st century AD

File: Townley Sculptures. JPG | Room 84-Towneley Roman Sculptures

File: Mosaic2-plw. jpg | Room 49-Hinton St Mary Mosaic, Roman Britain, circa 4th century ( one of the earliest representations of Christ and the only such portrait on a mosaic floor from anywhere in the Roman Empire )

File: BM ; GMR-RM 83, Roman Sculpture. JPG | Room 83-Roman Sculpture

File: SFEC_BritMus_Roman_022. JPG | Main Staircase-Discobolus, Roman

File: The Townley Caryatid ( anterior ). jpg | Main Staircase-Townley Caryatid, Roman, 140-160 AD

File: villa-borg-2011-gladiatoren1. ogg | Video of a show fight at the Roman Villa Borg, Germany, in 2011 ( Retarius vs. Secutor, Thraex vs. Murmillo ).

File: Æ Triens 2710028. jpg | Juno, with Hercules fighting a Centaur on reverse ( Roman, 215 – 15 BCE )

File: Denarius Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus 1 Obverse. jpg | Club over his shoulder on a Roman denarius ( ca.

File: MAXIMINUS II-RIC VI 77-251201. jpg | Maximinus II and Hercules with club and lionskin ( Roman, 313 CE )

File: Conímbriga minotauro. jpg | Minotaur in Labyrinth — a Roman mosaic at Conímbriga, Portugal

File: Labyrinth vor St. Lambertus, Mingolsheim. JPG | Labyrinth at St. Lambertus, Mingolsheim, Germany, following the Roman paradigm

File: Archimedes naples statue. jpg | Archimedes ( c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC ): described buoyancy, developed formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas, worked extensively with levers, invented the Archimedes ' screw, developed siege engines for warfare to impede the Roman invasion of Syracuse.

< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.

File: Roman aqueduct from Pools of Solomon to Jerusalem. jpg | View from inside a Roman aqueduct from the Pools of Solomon to Jerusalem

File: Zaghouan_aqueduc. jpg | Roman aqueduct supplying Carthage, Tunisia

File: Roman aqueduct in the historic centre of Évora. jpg | Traditional homes built between the arches of the Água de Prata Aqueduct in Évora, Portugal

File: Gariannonum Burgh Castle south wall well preserved close up. jpg | Close-up of the wall of the Roman shore fort at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, showing alternating courses of flint and brick

File: Raffaello, pala baglioni, deposizione. jpg | Deposition of Christ, 1507, drawing from Roman sarcophagi.