He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

chief engineer of the radio set division of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment manufacturer in Great Britain ; ;

director of engineering at Philco of Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.

Besides the editors there were many contributors in the United States and Great Britain to Volumes 1, and 2.

For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.

Category: 1729 in Great Britain

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.

* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C ..

They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William Henry-Ireland.

* Miss Havisham in Great Expectations: at Royal Shakespeare Company ( Stratford, 6 December 2005 ).

Males are enticed with ad campaigns to submit for testing ; those who are VMN-negative are given confidential treatment, including counselling and drugs, and assigned a code name out of the Penguin book of Great Thinkers ( e. g., Shakespeare, Plato, etc .).

Besides many illustrated editions of standard works, including in 1842 an edition of the works of William Shakespeare entitled The Pictorial Shakspere, which had appeared in parts ( 1838 – 1841 ), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old England and The Land we Live in and The Pictorial Gallery of Arts-Useful Arts, the latter based on the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Shakespeare and Company experienced difficulty throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it managed to keep afloat by the generosity of Beach's circle of wealthy friends, including Bryher.

Noverre's friends included Voltaire, Mozart, Frederick the Great and David Garrick ( who called him " the Shakespeare of the dance ").

According to the New York Times, it became Wanamaker's " Great Obsession " to realise an exact replica of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, eventually securing the financial support of philanthropist and fellow lover of Shakespeare, Samuel H. Scripps.

Besides editions of English classics his works include a Life of Queen Victoria ( 1902 ), Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth century ( 1904 ), based on his Lowell Institute lectures at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1903, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage ( 1906 ), and King Edward VII, a Biography ( 1925 ).

A Hand-Book Index to the Works of Shakespeare: Including References to the Phrases, Manners, Customs, Proverbs, Songs, Particles, & c., Which Are Used or Alluded to by the Great Dramatist.

Schubert, Die Forelle and Ständchen von Shakespeare ; Chopin, Meine Freuden and Mädchens Wunsch ; Schumann, Widmung and Frühlingsnacht ; Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3 ; Donizetti, Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor Great Pianists, Vol.

* Numerous supporting roles on Focus on the Family's radio drama Adventures in Odyssey, voicing over 90 characters, most notably Jesus Christ, Walter Shakespeare, Cryin ' Bryan Dern, and The Great Wishy Woz.

His father was Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ( Pompey the Great ) and Shakespeare had him as a major character in his play Antony and Cleopatra ( 1606 – 07 ).

* Patricia Pierce, The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland, 2004, Sutton.

* Bernard Grebanier, The Great Shakespeare Forgery, 1965, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., ASIN: B000NYH5X8

Known as the " Bad Boys of Abridgment ," the RSC has created eight stage shows: " The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ( abridged ) in 1987, " The Complete History of America ( abridged )" in 1992, " The Bible: The Complete Word of God ( abridged )" in 1995, " The Complete Millennium Musical ( abridged )" in 1998, " All the Great Books ( abridged )" in 2002, " Completely Hollywood ( abridged )" in 2005, " The Complete World of Sports ( abridged )" in 2010, and " The Ultimate Christmas Show ( abridged )" in 2011.

It is also famous for the Great Bed of Ware, which was mentioned by Shakespeare and is normally in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, but is currently on loan to the Museum in Ware until April 2013.

* He spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Great Britain

St Bartholomew the Great church was the location of the fourth wedding in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and of some scenes in various others: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Shakespeare in Love, the 1999 film version of Graham Greene's 1951 novel The End of the Affair, Amazing Grace ( 2006 ), Elizabeth: The Golden Age ( 2007 ), The Other Boleyn Girl ( 2008 ), and " Sherlock Homes " ( 2009 ).

Forest Park is home to several annual St. Louis cultural or entertainment events, including the Great Forest Park Balloon Race ( a hot air balloon competition ), LouFest Music Festival ( August 27-28, 2011 ), the Shakespeare Festival ( a summer theater production ), the St. Louis Earth Day Festival, and the St. Louis African Arts Festival.

Shakespeare Cliff marks the point where Great Britain most closely approaches continental Europe.

* Williams, Talcott, " Appreciations of Horace Howard Furness: Our Great Shakespeare Critic ," The Century Magazine, November 1912.