Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution.

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened a lifeboat station at the Sand Quay in 1878, but it was closed in 1896.

* Freeview video ' Electron Waves Unveil the Microcosmos ' A Royal Institution Discourse by Akira Tonomura provided by the Vega Science Trust

In 1936, before the Royal Institution, Wells called for the compilation of a constantly growing and changing World Encyclopaedia, to be reviewed by outstanding authorities and made accessible to every human being.

As professor at the Royal Institution, Davy would later repeat many of the ingenious experiments which he had learned from his Quaker instructor.

* Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting: A course of four lectures on electric illumination delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ( 1894 ) 228 pages,.

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In 1908 Oliver Lodge gave a speech in behalf of Lord Rayleigh to the Royal Institution on this topic, in which he outlined its physical properties, and then attempted to offer reasons why they were not impossible.

Others criticized it as an " English invention ", although Rayleigh jokingly corrected them to state it was actually an invention of the Royal Institution.

Richard Bartelot, of the Royal Artillery Institution, said that the bow was of yew, 6 feet ( 1. 83 m ) long, with a 3 foot ( 914 mm ) arrow.

Despite these warnings, about one vehicle each month is stranded on the causeway, requiring rescue by either Seahouses Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat or RAF helicopter.

* Royal Institution Lecture-MRI: A Window on the Human Body

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* Freeview Video ' Nuclear Power Plants — What's the Problem ' A Royal Institution Lecture by John Collier by the Vega Science Trust.

He repeated this to the Royal Institution ( February 4, 1892 ).

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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On 26 January 1926, Baird repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.

* Royal Manchester Institution ( 1823-1882 ), a learned society promoting the arts in Manchester, England

In 1804, he was chosen to give a course of lectures on natural philosophy at the Royal Institution in London, where he delivered another course in 1809 – 1810.

A bust of Dalton, by Chantrey, was publicly subscribed for and placed in the entrance hall of the Royal Manchester Institution.

* The Royal Institution ’ s 1974 – 75 Christmas Lecture Professor Eric Laithwaite

In 2010, the Royal Mail announced that a series of Wallace and Gromit images would feature on the 2010 Christmas postage stamps

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* Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1998: Times of our Lives

In 1914 The Royal Welch participated in the legendary Christmas 1914 Football Game with the Germans.

: Includes the stories " Me and Choir ," " A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen ," " Letter from Jim ," " Fiction ," " The Living Flag ," " The Tollefson Boy Goes to College ," " Tomato Butt ," " Chamber of Commerce ," " Dog Days of August ," " Mrs. Berge and the Schubert Carillon Piano ," " Giant Decoys ," " Darryl Tollerud's Long Day ," " Hog Slaughter ," " Thanksgiving ," " The Royal Family ," " Guys on Ice ," " James Lundeen's Christmas ," " The Christmas Story Retold ," " New Year's from New York ," and " Storm Home.

Besides play-offs, the Royal Belgian Football Association ( KBVB ) also introduced Christmas football in order to complete the extra matches in time.

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Due to this fact, The Countess is privileged enough to be the only member of the Royal Family to ride in the State Limousine with The Queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day.

In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was first read at Christmas under the Proclamation tree in Port Royal.

He also wrote The Peripatetic Philosopher ( 1869 ), a series of amusing papers reprinted from The Australasian ; Long Odds ( London, 1870 ), a novel ; and numerous comedies and pantomimes, the best of, which was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ( Theatre Royal, Melbourne ; Christmas, 1873 ).

Another notable show was the finale of the last series ( to date ), which was performed in front of a live audience at the Royal Institution, much in the style of the Institution's Christmas Lectures.

In Netherlands, Argentina, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Romania, Uruguay, and Sweden, Christmas presents are opened mostly on the evening of the 24th, – this is also the tradition among the British Royal Family, due to their mainly German ancestry – while in Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, English Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, this occurs mostly on the morning of Christmas Day.

Treves, with the help of Madge Kendal, arranged for him to attend the Christmas pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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In Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean., while playing with Queen's Royal Guards figurines and the nativity set, he hums " The British Grenadiers ", which was quoted in the theme to Blackadder Goes Forth.

On Christmas Day 1970, Sergeants Allan Brian Moss and John Wallace Galvin were shot dead and Sergeant Frederick Edwin Bowtell injured when Private Paul Ramon Ferriday opened fire into the Sergeant's Mess of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps at Nui Dat, South Vietnam with his rifle after an all-day drinking session.