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The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of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 British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.
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 terms
Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.
In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).
The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881, the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new Amir.
In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.
They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.
The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.
In real terms, the British Museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through a three-year funding agreement.
In terms of the machinery of government, he was one of the most businesslike and effective of all the British prime ministers.
Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.
The terms caste, half-caste and derivatives thereof, were widely used in British colonies, such as Australia, during 19th and 20th centuries.
In terms of the British perspective, " It was necessary for the Nazi régime and / or the German Generals to surrender unconditionally in order to bring home to the German people that they had lost the War of themselves ; so that their defeat should not be attributed to a ' stab in the back '.
But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.
As a counterbalance to deficiencies in manpower and morale, the British had a considerable advantage in terms of equipment, possessing machine guns, armoured cars, motor transport, wireless communications and aircraft and it was the latter that would prove decisive.
Washington's victories wrecked the British carrot-and-stick strategy of showing overwhelming force then offering generous terms.
This was partly because of the aftermath of the Venlo incident of 1939, when SD and Gestapo agents posing as anti-Nazis in the Netherlands kidnapped two British Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) officers lured to a meeting to discuss peace terms.
This negative reputation survives today in the English language, in terms like " gin mills " or the American phrase " gin joints " to describe disreputable bars or " gin-soaked " to refer to drunks, and in the phrase " mother's ruin ", a common British name for gin.
Even in the height of the depression, he continued to make regular payments on the Honduran debt, adhering strictly to the terms of the arrangement with the British bondholders and also satisfying other creditors.
During the whole interwar period, the British, appealing to the terms of the Mandate, rejected the principle of majority rule or any other measure that would give the Arab majority control over the government of Palestine.
In accordance with the terms of aforementioned concessions and treaties, Cecil Rhodes promoted the colonisation of the region's land, with British control over labour as well as precious metals and other mineral resources.
These terms were described by David Cameron as " unacceptable ", and by The Daily Telegraph as " racist ", and a British Muslim youth organisation called the Prince a " thug ", a statement that was later retracted.
On 8 July, de Valera met General Macready, the British commander in chief in Ireland and agreed terms.
English as an additional language ( EAL ) is usually based on the standards of either American English or British English as well as incorporating foreign terms.

British and cold
Expressing its necessity to the British way of life as he knows it, he stated on the program, " We all know that when it's snowing and it's cold you have Bovril.
Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested extradition of 1, 200 Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like Nuremberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of cold war saw in Pietro Badoglio a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy.
Winston Churchill personally issued an order for their destruction into pieces no larger than a man's hand, to keep secret that the British were capable of cracking Lorenz during the oncoming cold war.
Classic British motorcycles, with side-draft slide throttle carburetors, used another type of " cold start device ", called a " tickler ".
Stratford experiences a temperate maritime climate, as is usual for the British Isles, meaning extreme heat, or extreme cold are rare, sunshine is on the low side, and rainfall is spread evenly throughout the year.
A UK | British poster from World War II describing the cost of the common cold
During the Crimean War, knitted balaclavas were sent over to the British troops to help protect them from the bitter cold weather.
There, Control asks Leamas to stay " in the cold " for one last mission: to turn ( defect ) and provide false information to the East German Communists that would implicate Mundt as a British double agent — what his second-in-command, Fiedler, already suspects — to result in Mundt being executed by his own people.
The eastern slopes are relatively dry and less steep and protect the British Columbia Interior from the Pacific weather systems, resulting in dry warm summers and dry cold winters.
* An article of 1965 on cold cathode tubes from Mullard Ltd. ( a British manufacturer of these devices, which also produced a prototype calculator using them ) gives an insight into why they were used in these calculators at the time-"...
Kretschmer's strength was evidently failing in the cold ocean ; his own rescue was at the hands of a British sailor who climbed down the nets and plucked him from the water.
Round-shaped British scones can resemble North American biscuits in appearance, but scones rely on cold butter for their delicate, flaky texture, while biscuits are more often made with animal fat or vegetable shortening and are crumbly rather than flaky.
During the cold British winter of 1962-3, starving Woodcock were found feeding in urban areas and some were even forced to eat bird seed.
As with the rest of the British Isles Swanage experiences a maritime climate with warm ( but not hot ) summers and cool ( but not cold ) winters.
Lerwick has an oceanic climate like the rest of the British Isles though bordering with a subpolar oceanic climate ( Cfc ) with cool to cold temperatures all year long.
At the end of World War II, English author and journalist George Orwell used cold war, as a general term, in his essay “ You and the Atomic Bomb ”, published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune.
In The Observer of March 10, 1946, Orwell wrote that “ fter the Moscow conference last December, Russia began to make a ‘ cold war ’ on Britain and the British Empire .”
Why I Am Not a Christian is a 1927 essay by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell hailed by The Independent as " devastating in its use of cold logic ", and listed in the New York Public Library's list of the most influential books of the 20th century.
He died in 1924 in Victoria, British Columbia, after catching a cold on a sailing expedition.
Born in a blizzard to a British Romanichal family near Fenborough Station in England, Meggan adapted to the cold by growing fur, to the horror of her family.
British producer Lew Grade's many attempts to break into the American market meant that various of the shows which he was involved with incorporated the cold open, such as The Persuaders!
After meeting with a cold reception in Paris, Gounaris and Valtatzis ( the foreign minister ) arrived in London on October 27 and saw the Marquess Curzon at the British Foreign Office.
This slowly maturing breed is one of the most hardy of all the British hill sheep breeds, withstanding the cold and relentless rain of the Lake District at heights upwards of 3, 000 feet ( about 1, 000 metres ).
Having underestimated the stubborn attitude of the defending forces combined with a British blockade of French supply harbours and harsh weather conditions, Napoleon's forces were left hungry, cold and damp.

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