Under instructions from the emperor, he undertook an invasion of southern Scotland, winning some significant victories, and constructing the Antonine Wall from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde, although it was soon abandoned for reasons that are still not quite clear.

This was the Treaty of York which defined the boundary between the two kingdoms as running between the Solway Firth ( in the west ) and the mouth of the River Tweed ( in the east ).

During the First and Second World Wars, Inchcolm was occupied by the army as part of the defences of the Firth of Forth.

Its southern limit was the River Forth, northwards it extended towards the Moray Firth and perhaps to Caithness, while its western limits are uncertain.

The dominant kingdom in eastern Scotland before the Viking Age was the northern Pictish kingdom of Fortriu on the shores of the Moray Firth.

The U-boats were to surrender to Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich, under the supervision of the Harwich Force, then the surface fleet was to sail to the Firth of Forth and surrender personally to Beatty.

In the Iron Age, England, like all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, was inhabited by the Celtic people known as the Britons, but also by some Belgae tribes ( e. g. the Atrebates, the Catuvellauni, the Trinovantes, etc.

In common with the rest of Scotland the Firth of Clyde was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages and the landscape is much affected by glaciation.

This was followed by a wave of Neolithic peoples using the same route and there is some evidence that the Firth of Clyde was a significant route via which mainland Scotland was colonised at this time.

In 1263 troops commanded by Haakon Haakonarson repeated the feat but the ensuing Battle of Largs between Scots and Norse forces, which took place on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, was inconclusive as a military contest.

James Watt was born on 19 January 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, a seaport on the Firth of Clyde.

The metal was later marketed under the ' Staybrite ' brand by Firth Vickers in England and was used for the new entrance canopy for the Savoy Hotel in London in 1929.

His " main inspiration " was Firth, to whom he owes, among other things, the notion of language as system.

By 1854 he was able to demonstrate transmission across the Firth of Tay from Dundee to Woodhaven ( now part of Newport-on-Tay ), a distance of two miles ( three kilometers ).

* March 27 – WWII – Escort carrier Dasher was destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.

The soundtrack was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, with drummer Jerry Granelli, and Puzzy Firth standing in for bassist Fred Marshall, who was ill at the time.

In 1996, it was made into a film of the same name by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth and Naveen Andrews.

Cuthbert may have been from the neighbourhood of Dunbar at the mouth of the Firth of Forth in modern-day Scotland, though the lives record he was fostered as a child near Melrose.

During the Iron Age the region, like all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, was dominated by the Celtic Britons and the British language.

False information about the arrival of troops in the area were reported by double agents " Mutt " and " Jeff ", who had surrendered following their 1941 landing in the Moray Firth, whilst the British media cooperated by broadcasting fake information, such as football scores or wedding announcements, to nonexistent troops .. Fortitude was so successful that by late spring 1944, Hitler had thirteen army divisions in Norway.

Helped by her husband, Bruce Firth, they have sold Batley's Cash and Carry and also sold L. Batley Pet Products, one of the leading pet food distributors in the UK, which the family started after Cash and Carry was sold.

His sojourn left him disappointed, both with England, and with many of its leading anthropologists, such as Raymond Firth and J. R. Firth, who in his view failed to extend to him the support and interest his research required, since they were critical of his lack of formal anthropological credentials.

Her story, and that of her child Randall Firth, is concluded in Card's later novel Ender in Exile.

The business has now been taken over by his only child, Rita Firth.

* 1967 – Jonathan Firth, British actor

* 1953 – Peter Firth, British actor

* 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor

* September 10 – Colin Firth, English actor

Peter Firth ( born 27 October 1953 ) is an English actor.

Jonathan Firth ( born 6 April 1967 ) is a British actor best known for his roles in such noted British television productions as Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Victoria & Albert.

He is the younger brother of actor Colin Firth and voice coach Kate Firth.

In addition to his roles in the theatre, Firth has acted in cinematic films and radio dramas, narrated audiobooks, and has also made notable television appearances, such as Linton Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1992 ); Fred Vincy in Middlemarch ( 1994 ); Sergeant Troy in Far from the Madding Crowd, for which he received a nomination for best actor ; Lord Arthur Goring in An Ideal Husband ( 2000 ); and Prince Albert in Victoria & Albert ( 2001 ), which he considered one of his most difficult roles.

Sue Birtwistle particularly wanted Colin Firth, a relatively unknown British actor in his mid-30s at the time, to play the wealthy and aloof Mr. Darcy ( the novel gives his first name as Fitzwilliam ).

The Bangles ; Ken Campbell ( actor ); Tim Firth ; Terry Marshall ; Arlene Phillips ; Willy Russell ; Jon Webster

Much is made of Bridget's fascination with the BBC television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Colin Firth, the actor who played Mr. Darcy.

In the 2007 film version of the novel, he is played by Colin Firth and his name becomes " Aurelianus Caius Antonius ".

The earliest radiocarbon determinations obtained from key sites such as Oakbank in Loch Tay or Redcastle, Beauly Firth approach the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition at their widest interpretation at 2 sigma or 95. 4 % probability, falling after c. 800BC and therefore could only be considered Late Bronze Age by the narrowest of margins.

In less than a decade, the kingdom of the English had become by far the greatest power in Britain and Ireland, perhaps stretching as far north as the Firth of Forth.

Aleandro is depicted by Jonathan Firth in the 2003 film Luther as the main antagonist.

Having taught languages for 13 years, he changed his field of specialisation to linguistics, and developed systemic functional linguistics, including systemic functional grammar, elaborating on the foundations laid by his British teacher J. R. Firth and a group of European linguists of the early 20th century, the Prague school.

Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).

Rickman is to star with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz in a remake of 1966's Gambit by the Coen brothers.

Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth.

On screen, George VI has been portrayed by, among others, Colin Firth, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the role in the 2010 film The King's Speech, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

* Trauma ( 2004 film ), a psychological thriller directed by Marc Evans and starring Colin Firth

As a theory of phonological representation, autosegmental phonology developed a formal account of ideas that had been sketched in earlier work by several linguists, notably Bernard Bloch ( 1948 ), Charles Hockett ( 1955 ) and J. R. Firth ( 1948 ).

The regime of innocent passage applies in straits used for international navigation ( 1 ) that connect a part of high seas or an exclusive economic zone with the territorial sea of coastal nation ( Strait of Tiran, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Strait of Baltiysk ) and ( 2 ) in straits formed by an island of a state bordering the strait and its mainland if there exists seaward of the island a route through the high seas or through an exclusive economic zone of similar convenience with respect to navigational and hydrographical characteristics ( Strait of Messina, Pentland Firth ).