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The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.
To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.
An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.
Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.
Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".
The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.
In English, " American " was used especially for people in the British America, and came to be applied to citizens of the United States when the country was formed.
Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.
This change is not universal for British English and traditionally is not considered a feature of Received Pronunciation.
Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.
It arose from the intermingling of children of early settlers from a great variety of mutually intelligible dialectal regions of the British Isles and quickly developed into a distinct variety of English.
In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).
This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows:
* British English ( BrE ) is the form of English used in the United Kingdom.

British and according
His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".
As a matter of fact, the Elgin marbles-after an advise by Canova-were acquired by the British Museum, while plaster copies were sent to Florence, Italy, according to Canova's request.
Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.
Disraeli was, according to some interpretations, a supporter of the expansion and preservation of the British Empire in the Middle East and Central Asia.
In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).
For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.
The 18th and 19th-century British philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill defended the ethical theory of utilitarianism, according to which we should perform whichever action maximizes the aggregate good.
By the twenty-first century, the number of non-native English speakers has come to significantly outnumber the number of native speakers by a factor of three, according to the British Council.
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, published in 1999, is a descriptive study of both American and British English in which each chapter follows individual spelling conventions according to the preference of the main editor of that chapter.
After failed bids to form coalitions, Nehru reluctantly supported the partition of India, according to a plan released by the British on 3 June 1947.
King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.
According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".
Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.
Throughout Amānullāh's reign, Soviet-Afghan relations fluctuated according Afghanistan's value to the Soviet leadership at a given time ; Afghanistan was either viewed as a tool for dealing with Soviet Muslim minorities or for threatening the British.
In 1987, according to the Library of Congress Country Study on Syria, service uniforms for Syrian officers generally followed the British Army style, although army combat clothing followed the older British model.
All uniform branches of the Hong Kong ( Police, Police Auxiliary, Police Pipeband, Fire ( including Ambulance service members ), Immigration, Customs, Correctional Services, Government Flying Service, Civil Aid Service ) salute according to British Army traditions.
* Rhongomyniad, or simply ' Ron ,' the spear of King Arthur according to British tradition.
However, Hutchison also introduced interchange symbols ( circles for Underground-only, squares for connections with British Rail ) that were black and allowed multiple lines through them, as opposed to Beck who used one circle for each line at an interchange, coloured according to the corresponding line.
His fictional spy network was so efficient and verbose that his German handlers were overwhelmed and made no further attempts to recruit any additional spies in the UK, according to the Official History of British Intelligence in WW2.
Wire's debut album, Pink Flag ( 1977 ) – " perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk ", according to Allmusic – contains songs which are diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, " Field Day For The Sundays ", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

British and Hart's
: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.
* 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
Hart's most significant projects were the construction of Highway 97 to northern British Columbia ( which is now named in his honour ) and the Bridge River Power Project, which was the first major hydroelectric development in British Columbia.
Hart's most significant projects were the construction of Highway 97 to northern British Columbia ( which is named in his honour ) and the re-launch of the Bridge River Power Project, which was the first major hydroelectric development in British Columbia.
* The British Bulldog and Owen Hart's Online World of Wrestling profile
The show was main-evented by Smith ( led to the ring by the British Heavyweight Boxing champion Lennox Lewis ) and Bret Hart in a match for Hart's Intercontinental Championship.
* A. N. Wilson's Scandal and Josephine Hart's Damage are two other British novels depicting extramarital affairs of politicians which eventually lead to their downfall.
On June 5, 1832, mainly because of Hart's activism, the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, under the influence and authority of Louis-Joseph Papineau, passed a bill ( the 1832 Emancipation Act ) that ultimately guaranteed full rights to people practising the Jewish faith, 27 years before anywhere else in the British Empire.

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