At this time the Edinburgh school of geologists, prominent among them Sir Andrew Ramsay, with his Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain were maintaining the supreme importance of denudation in the configuration of land surfaces, and particularly the erosion of valleys by the action of running water.

The use of diabase in this sense was abandoned in Britain in favor of dolerite for rocks of all ages by Allport ( 1874 ), though some British geologists continued to use diabase to describe slightly altered dolerite, in which pyroxene has been altered to amphibole.

At, or shortly before, the time of the last Storegga Slide, a land bridge known to archaeologists and geologists as " Doggerland " existed, linking Great Britain with Denmark and the Netherlands across what is now the southern North Sea.

In Great Britain, the only way in which the play was initially allowed to be given in London was in an adapted form made by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman and called Breaking a Butterfly.

In 2011, Richard Bean adapted the play for the National Theatre of Great Britain, at the request of director Nicholas Hytner, as a vehicle for actor James Corden.

Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, the aboriginal Catuvellauni quickly submitted and adapted to the Roman life ; resulting in the development of several new towns, including Verulamium ( St Albans ).

* Cocteau, Jean, The Eagle Has Two Heads, adapted by Ronald Duncan, Vision Press Ltd., Great Britain, 1947

Powell realised that the Bristol Freighter could be adapted to fly car owners with their vehicles from Britain to Continental Europe and the Channel Islands.

Danot made a longer film, Pollux et le chat bleu, in 1970 which was also adapted by Thompson and shown in Britain as Dougal and the Blue Cat.

There are two known instances where saint's lives were adapted into vernacular plays in Britain.

Studies by the University of Freiburg and Environment Canada found that Blackcaps migrating to Great Britain from Germany had become adapted to eating food supplied by humans.

In Britain there was the Ten Year Rule ( adapted in August 1919 ), which declared the government should not expect another war within ten years.

Queen Maud never lost her love of Britain, but she quickly adapted to her new country and duties as a queen consort.

Industrial folk song emerged in Britain in the 18th century, as workers took the music with which they were familiar, including ballads and agricultural work songs, and adapted them to their new experiences and circumstances.

Industrial folk song emergd in Britain in the eighteenth century, as workers took the forms of music with which they were familiar, including ballads and agricultural work songs, and adapted them to their new experiences and circumstances.

Britain also purchased a number of the standard 75 mm guns and adapted them for AA use using a Coventry Ordnance Works mounting, the " Centre Trunnion ".

: the Privy Seal ... now used in Scotland be continued But that the said Seals be altered and adapted to the State of the Union as Her Majesty shall think fit And the said Seals and all of them and the Keepers of them shall be subject to such regulations as the Parliament of Great Britain shall hereafter make ...

Nevertheless, an 1867 production of Offenbach's The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein ( seven months after its French première ) ignited the English appetite for light operas with more carefully crafted librettos and scores, and continental European operettas continued to be extremely popular in Britain in the 1860s and ' 70s, including Les Cloches de Corneville, Madame Favart and others into the 1880s, often adapted by H. B. Farnie and Robert Reece.

In the 12th century Geoffrey of Monmouth adapted Gildas ' account for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, and thereafter Aurelius Conanus was remembered as a legendary King of Britain.

In the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth adapted Gildas ' account for his influential pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, adding fictional details and making these contemporary regional rulers successive high-kings of Britain.

An audiobook of Asterix in Britain adapted by Anthea Bell and narrated by Willie Rushton was released on EMI Records Listen for Pleasure label in 1987.

This work is adapted from De Re Rustica by 1st century Roman writer Columella, which highlights the Roman connection, but it has been speculated the Mastiff is descended from dogs brought to Britain by the Phoenicians in the 6th century BC.

* A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco plant ; with the manner in which it is usually cured adapted to northern climates and designed for the use of the landholders of Great Britain.

The term is also used for the Indian dishes adapted during the British Raj in India, some of which later became fashionable in Britain.

He adapted many designs by James Gibbs and Colen Campbell of Great Britain to fit the scale and finances of New England communities.

From the late 1840s the design was adapted in Britain for construction in wrought iron, and the Avon Bridge is a fine surviving example.

* Britain entertains the idea

Hitler turned down this idea of Ribbentrop's, but nonetheless during his meeting with Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop spent much of the meeting demanding that Britain sign an alliance with Germany and return the former German colonies.

After signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Ribbentrop expanded on this idea for an Axis alliance to include the Soviet Union to form a Eurasian bloc that would destroy maritime states such as Britain.

Britain was cool on the idea of integration, while opinion in Seychelles appeared to be split.

He then attempted to sell extracted lime juice as a medicine, but the lime juice had no effect in treating scurvy, due to the oxidization of vitamin C. Therefore, this solution was not adopted by the Royal Navy until the 1790s, and the idea that any acid would suffice continued in Britain into the late 19th century.

While the other colonies all held the idea of colonial rights as paramount, they were split between those who sought legislative equality with Britain and those who instead favored independence and a break from the Crown and its excesses.

As the U. S. Supreme Court has explained, a due process requirement in Britain was not " essential to the idea of due process of law in the prosecution and punishment of crimes, but was only mentioned as an example and illustration of due process of law as it actually existed in cases in which it was customarily used.

In 1942, published Town Planning and Road Traffic which looked ahead to postwar reconstruction and pioneered the idea of motorways in Britain.

This idea first appears in Robert de Boron's Joseph d ' Arimathie, in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Britain.

Raeder supported the idea of aggression against Poland, but on 31 March 1939 the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had announced the “ guarantee " of Poland, by which Britain would go to war against any nation that attempted to end Polish independence.

In Britain and particularly in the US, the panoramic ideal was intensified by unrolling a canvas-backed scroll past the viewer in a Moving Panorama, an alteration of an idea that was familiar in the hand-held landscape scrolls of Song China.

Britain was lukewarm to the idea, because it did not believe Europe could launch satellites economically.

" I will remember the summer of 1909 when Mr. William F. Milne, an intimate friend of our family went to visit his old home in Scotland and came back all enthused with the idea of the Boys Brigade, Sir Baden Powell's organization in Great Britain.

The British were petrified at the idea of a Russian invasion of their crown colony of India, though Russia – badly defeated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese war and weakened by internal rebellion – could not realistically afford a showdown against Britain there.

Newly appointed as Chancellor, Lamont therefore supported John Major's idea of Britain negotiating an opt-out from the single currency.

Stresemann conceived the idea that Germany would guarantee her western borders and pledged never to invade Belgium and France again, along with a guarantee from Britain that they would come to Germany's aid if attacked by France.

Overall, the idea of confederation under Britain was not popular in the Southern African states, which were still simmering from the last bout of British imperial expansion ( President Brand of the Orange Free State refused outright to even consider it ).

I for my part still conceive it to be the paramount duty of a British member of parliament to consider what is good for Great Britain ... I do not envy that man's feelings, who can behold the sufferings of Switzerland, and who derives from that sight no idea of what is meant by the deliverance of Europe.

In Victorian Britain, Henry Stephens Salt, an admirer of Thoreau, popularised the idea of " Simplification, the saner method of living ".

In early 19th century Britain, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill promoted the idea that actions are right as they maximize happiness, and happiness alone.

Law took advantage of this, making his first major speech on 22 April 1902, in which he argued that while he felt a general tariff was unnecessary, an imperial customs union ( which would put tariffs on items from outside the British Empire, instead of on every nation but Britain ) was a good idea, particularly since other nations such as Germany and the United States had increasingly high tariffs.

Ever since the Seven Years ' War, France's foreign ministers, beginning with Choiseul, had followed the general idea that the independence of Britain's North American colonies would be good for France and bad for Britain, and furthermore that French attempts to recover parts of New France would be detrimental to that cause.

" However, the book became hugely popular, spreading across Britain in the Late Medieval period, when more Arthurian texts were produced, and many of them began propagating the idea that Arthur himself was actually born at Tintagel.

In a High Court case in the mid-1970s, which was abandoned by both sides due to escalating costs, writer Brian Clemens claimed that he had told Terry Nation the concept for the series in the late 1960s and had registered the idea with the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain in 1965.