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Britain and image
It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).
Enclosing the image inside static vignettes or masks of shapes other than circular also began to appear in films during the years 1914-1919, including symbolic shapes such as a cruciform cut-out in the Mary Pickford film Stella Maris ( Marshall Neilan, 1918 ), and Maurice Elvey in Britain put romantic scenes inside a heart-shaped mask in Nelson ; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1918 ) and The Rocks of Valpré ( 1919 ).
The veterans ' visits and attendant promises of " never again " did much to improve the " New Germany's " image in Britain and France.
Murray was also criticised by Simpson for her " passionate system building ," developing her own image of a " rigidly codified and uniform system throughout Britain and Europe " that had its own set " Rites of initiation, dates for festivals, sabbath rituals, discipline and hierarchy within covens.
image: Grafton3. JPG |< center > The Duke of GraftonPrime Minister of Great Britain ( 1768-1770 )
Particularly in Britain, many historians credit Baird with being the first to produce a live, moving, greyscale television image from reflected light.
This decision was primarily taken because Britain and her Empire were at war with Germany and given the British Royal Family's strong German ancestry ; it was felt that its public image could be improved by choosing a more British house name.
It cemented Wilson's image as a modernistic leader and linked him to the burgeoning pride in the ' New Britain ' typified by the Beatles.
In the spring of 2008, the Royal Mint unveiled new coin designs " reflecting a more modern twenty-first century Britain " which nowhere featured the image of Britannia.
It now dominates the light perry market and has a somewhat downmarket image in Britain.
Some people believe that she came from Colchester in Essex ; this being the Roman capital in Britain at the time, today the town has schools and places named after her, as well as her image appearing on the town hall and her son's name, Constantine, being used as the title for a particular road.
image: Robertwalpole cropped cropped. jpg | Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain
Birtwistle's favourite image for explaining how his pieces work is to compare them to taking a walk through a town — especially the sort of small town more common in continental Europe than Britain.
Satellite image of northern Britain and Ireland showing the approximate area of Dál Riata ( shaded ).
Until the middle of the 19th century, privately owned banks in Great Britain and Ireland were free to issue their own banknotes and money issued by provincial English, The notes bear an image of the British monarch on the obverse and the wording " pounds sterling ", meaning that more retailers in the UK will accept them.
Among other things, this gives him control of Elvis Presley's name and likeness in the US ; this however does not include Britain ( where the Elvis image is in the public domain ), Europe and most other countries in the world.
The image which these people ( Englishman e. t. c ) were meant to uphold in these communities was a huge burden and majority of them carried expectations all the way from Britain with the intensions of maintaining their customs and rule.
The recently abdicated Edward VIII of Britain is very positively presented, his romantic image as " the King who gave up his throne for love " not yet, at the time of writing, tainted by pro-Nazi associations.
Leuchars was not to secure the romantic image of a Battle of Britain station but rather settled to the routine of hour upon hour of maritime patrol.
She concludes that some memory of the ancient beliefs of Britain will live on, feeling that the Goddess she worshipped did not die with the coming of Christianity: rather, the Goddess just took another form in the image of the Virgin Mary.
British propaganda of the time depicted Napoleon as of smaller than average height ( see contemporary caricature right ) and the image of him as a small man persists in modern Britain.
In fact, according to a recent poll, the British people have a rather positive image of Germany, with 62 percent believing that Germany has a mainly positive influence in the world and only 20 percent believing that Germany's influence is mainly negative, slightly better than Germans ' views of Britain ( 60 percent and 27 percent, respectively ).
Burberry claimed in 2007 that the widespread fashion in the UK of wearing its brand of check was being supplied by counterfeit versions of the clothing and that Britain accounted for less than 10 % of the brands sales In response to the rise in popularity of the Burberry brand Christopher Bailey, who has responsible for the company ’ s overall image including all advertising, corporate art direction, store design and visuals as well as the design of all Burberry collections and product lines said in 2008 " I'm proud we had such a democratic appeal ".
In an Intelligence Squared debate in March 2009 held at the Royal Geographical Society, Scruton ( seconding the historian David Starkey ) proposed the motion: " Britain has become indifferent to beauty " by holding an image of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus next to an image of the British supermodel Kate Moss, to demonstrate how British perceptions of beauty had declined to the " level of our crudest appetites and our basest needs ".

Britain and Green
Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.
W. Averell Harriman of the United States, Malcolm MacDonald of Britain, Maurice Couve De Murville, France's Foreign Minister, and Howard C. Green, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, concluded, meanwhile, a round of consultations here on future tactics in the conference.
One exception is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which locates Arthur's court at " Camelot "; however, in Britain, Arthur's court was generally located at Caerleon, or at Carlisle, which is usually identified with the " Carduel " of the French romances.
* The Roman Army and Navy in Britain, by Peter Green
Arthur was to study with Reinhold Pauli, who had spent some years in Britain, and was a friend of Green.
The first national green party in Europe was PEOPLE, founded in Britain in February 1973, which turned eventually into the Ecology Party, and then the Green Party.
His methods encouraged many future television comedians to break away from conventional studio-bound shooting styles, as demonstrated by shows such as Green Wing, Little Britain and The League of Gentlemen.
After the War, her body was taken back to Britain for a memorial service at Westminster Abbey and then transferred to Norwich, to be laid to rest at Life's Green.
In the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the unknown poet cites as a parallel to Brutus ' foundation of Britain, that of an unidentified " Ticius " to Tuscany.
Some of the better-known examples are Chelmsford 123, Chance in a Million, Drop the Dead Donkey, Spaced, Father Ted ( which was set in Ireland instead of Great Britain ), Black Books, Peep Show, Green Wing, The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd, Shameless and Da Ali G Show.
Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.
Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.
Known as the " Isle of 8 Flags ", it has had the flags of the following nations flown over it since 1562: France, Spain, Great Britain, Spain ( again ), the Patriots of Amelia Island, the Green Cross of Florida, Mexico, the Confederate States of America, and the United States.
Amadís absents himself from Britain for at least ten years, masquerading as " The Knight of the Green Sword ".
The twenty-first century has seen an upsurge in interest in the blues in Britain that can be seen in the success of previously unknown acts like Seasick Steve, in the return to the blues by major figures who began in the first boom, including Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Chris Rea and Eric Clapton, as well as the arrival of younger artists like Matt Schofield and Aynsley Lister.
Despite strong resistance from anti-fascists, including the local Jewish community, the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain, the BUF found a following in the East End of London, where in the London County Council elections of March 1937 it obtained reasonably successful results in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Limehouse, polling almost 8, 000 votes, although none of its candidates was actually elected.
Major industrial sites included the Osram lamp factory at Brook Green, the J. Lyons factory ( which at one time employed 30, 000 people ) and the largest municipal power station in Britain, built near the gasworks in Sands End.
In the past examples of these series have included Inside Iraq, Green Britain and Crime Uncovered.
A 3. 0-litre Essex V6-engined variant was developed privately in South Africa by Basil Green Motors, and was sold through the Grosvenor Ford network of dealers as the Cortina Perana ; a similar model appeared later in Britain and was known as the Cortina Savage.
At its time Ever Green, which included the first major revolving stage in Britain, was the most expensive musical ever mounted on a British stage.
Behind the scenes the Irish state worked with the Allies ; in 1940, the government agreed provisionally with Britain that it would accept the entry of British troops and put its own armed forces under their command should the Germans invade Ireland-see Plan W. There was a provisional German plan for an invasion of Ireland, known as Operation Green, but it was never carried out.
Green, who possessed a pilot's licence, would fly the panel of judges between audition venues all over Britain, in his small Cessna aircraft.
In Britain, among others, Martyn Green, John Reed ( in A Song to Sing, O at the Savoy Theatre in 1981 ), Simon Butteriss and Leon Berger have done so.
On November 12, 2005, most of the provisional grouping ( independent members, and members of the Alliance for Workers ' Liberty, Alliance for Green Socialism, the Communist Party of Great Britain ( not to be confused with the former CPGB which dissolved in 1991 ), the Democratic Socialist Alliance, the Republican Communist Network ( Scotland ), the Revolutionary Democratic Group, the Socialist Unity Network, the United Socialist Party, and the Walsall Democratic Labour Party ) met again and claimed the name of the Socialist Alliance for a re-founded political organisation, registered with the Electoral Commission.

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