The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

*, formerly HMS Atlas, used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London from 1881-1904

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

" Station X ", " London Signals Intelligence Centre " and " Government Communications Headquarters " were all cover names that were used during the war, and the latter ( GCHQ ) was adopted for the successor peacetime organisation that still bears this name.

These trains are used for InterCity services from London to the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

He concentrated more on the piano than any other instrument, and his time in London in 1791 and 1792 generated the composition and publication in 1793 of three piano sonatas, opus 2, which idiomatically used Mozart's techniques of avoiding the expected cadence, and Clementi's sometimes modally uncertain virtuoso figuration.

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

The Scoville Memorial Libraries collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London.

The idea of an " aerial torpedo " was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer, where flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

The term " tower " is also used in some cases such as the Tower of London and Jerusalem's ( misnamed ) Tower of David.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

This date format was commonly used alongside the small endian form in the United Kingdom until the early 20th Century, and can be found in both defunct and modern print media such as the London Gazette and The Times, respectively.

Rhyming slang is used mainly in London in England but can to some degree be understood across the country.

The term " Charing Cross " for example ( a place in London ) has been used to mean " horse " since the mid-19th century but does not rhyme unless " cross " is pronounced to rhyme with " course ".

" Berk " ( often used to mean " foolish person ") originates from the most famous of all fox hunts, the " Berkeley Hunt " meaning " cunt "; " cobblers " ( often used in the context " what you said is rubbish ") originates from " cobbler's awls ", meaning " balls " ( as in testicles ); and " hampton " meaning " prick " ( as in penis ) originates from " Hampton Wick " ( a place in London ).

It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football.

Later, the hues were applied by means of wooden blocks, and it was the wooden block printing that was used in London.

Instead the distinction went to the 1884 route from Archway to Highgate, north London, which used a continuous cable and grip system on the 1 in 11 ( 9 %) climb of Highgate Hill.

The success of the hoax ( at least with bookstore clerks ) may have been due in part to the popularity of James Boswell's London Journal, which was written in 1762 – 1763 but first published in 1950.

A bookstore named Magic Bus ( after the popular Who song ) was opened in London.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, the title character asks for Martin Eden in a bookstore, describing it as " a celebrated work by the celebrated American writer Jack London ", but nobody has heard of it, and they only have a copy of The Son of the Wolf.

Marc Emery frequently challenged Canada's censorship laws during his years as an FpO organizer, via the private bookstore he operated in London.

This has included in 1995 becoming the first bookstore in the UK that allowed its customers to purchase online, with access to over 150, 000 titles ; and the opening in 1995 of a flagship store in London, at 100 Charing Cross Road, which is now one of the company's six flagship stores.

Several scenes in the London part of the narrative take place in and around Paul Brunton's famous occult bookstore, The Atlantis Bookshop.

AH Wheeler borrowed its name from the then-successful London bookstore, Arthur Henry Wheelers.

It grew out of film screenings at the Better Books bookstore, part of the 1960s counter-culture in London, before moving to the original Arts Lab on Drury Lane, then sharing offices with John ' Hoppy ' Hopkins ' BIT information service and then, with the breakaway group that formed the New Arts Lab, to the Camden based Institute for Research in Art and Technology.

In 1903 he opened his first bookshop with his brother Gilbert and by the late 1920's the business had grown so rapidly that their bookstore in Charing Cross Road held a stock of two million volumes on over thirty miles of bookshelves, and the name of Foyle had become synonymous with bookselling in London.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

The one significant reunification came in 1946 when the Liberal and Liberal National party organisations in London merged.

The importance of London in the Classical period is often overlooked, but it served as the home to the Broadwood's factory for piano manufacturing and as the base for composers who, while less notable than the " Vienna School ", had a decisive influence on what came later.

A major military base was built in Kenya, and the African colonies came under an unprecedented degree of direct control from London.

When he was a 16-year-old pupil at St Paul's School in London, the lines about Humphry Davy came into his head during a science class.

He came from a prosperous family, worked briefly as a lawyer in the 1820s, and held the post of Professor of Geology at King's College London in the 1830s.

Matters came to a head in London in May in what became known as the " Victoria Station incident ".

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the work of the French Lumière brothers in 1895, and their show first came to London in 1896.

Fifteen of the UK ’ s leaders of black film exhibition came together from Wales, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Kent, Essex, and the capital to the Film London offices to attend The New Black Training Programme.

In spring of 1942 Eileen changed jobs to work at the Ministry of Food and Orwell's mother and sister Avril took war work in London and came to stay with the Orwells.

In 1823, at the suggestion of the manager of the King's Theatre, London, he came to England, being much fêted on his way through Paris.

It caused a sensation in the London monumental trade and for some years all polished granite ordered came from MacDonalds.

Further imprisonments came at London in 1654, Launceston in 1656, Lancaster in 1660, Leicester in 1662, Lancaster again and Scarborough in 1664 – 66 and Worcester in 1673 – 75.

Fox was able to meet some of the New England Friends when they came to London, stimulating his interest in the colonies.

His first Soviet controller was the Hungarian Arnold Deutsch ( code-name Otto ), who came to London from Vienna to study at London University.

This area later came under the control of the London Transport Executive and then the London Transport Board.

The new authority, London Regional Transport ( LRT ), again came under direct state control, reporting to the Secretary of State for Transport.

In 1965, the London Government Act 1963 came into force merging the boroughs of Malden & Coombe and Surbiton with Kingston upon Thames to form the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.