By 1889, the U. S. output of steel exceeded that of the UK, and Carnegie owned a large part of it.

In 1806, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large collection of marble sculptures from the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens and transferred them to the UK.

The number of societies in the UK fell by four during 2008 due to a series of mergers brought about, to a large extent, by the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

The UK signed the Berne Convention in 1887 but did not implement large parts of it until 100 years later with the passage of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

A broad range of peripherals exist for the Dragon 32 / 64, and on top of this there are add-ons such as the Dragon's Claw which give the Dragons access to the BBC Micro's large range of accessories ( a particularly important factor in the UK home market ).

In January 2010, Global Graphics completed a survey with 400 Chief Information Officers from organisations with over 1000 employees across the US and the UK that showed three quarters ( 76 per cent ) of large organisations use free software across the enterprise with over half ( 51 per cent ) planning to deploy more free software in 2010.

Faroese fishing boats also provided a large amount of fish to the UK, which was essential given food rationing.

Guatemala has a longstanding claim to a large portion of Belize ; the territorial dispute caused problems with the United Kingdom and later with Belize following its 1981 independence from the UK.

Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large telecommunications site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England, UK.

Greece ( as well as the UK, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland ) has large debts.

In 2007 the UK's first Vegan ' tapas ' bar was opened, and in spring 2008 the students voted ( by a large majority ) for Pembroke to serve only free-range chicken ( it will be the first UK college to do so ).

Perennial weak points of Spain's economy include high inflation, a large underground economy, and an education system, beside UK and the United States, which OECD reports place among the poorest for developed countries.

After the second world war English became the main language for large television productions, which caused a blooming of science-fiction series in the UK, but not in continental Europe.

* Tom Leggett ( Aug. 1, 2000 ) New life for Schrödinger's cat, Physics World, UK Experiments at two universities claim to observe superposition in large scale systems

The escort of abnormal loads in the UK is now predominantly carried out by private companies, but extremely large or heavy loads that require road closures must still be escorted by the police.

In the UK and most Commonwealth countries, a tablespoon is a type of large spoon usually used for serving.

In 2008, she showed a large retrospective exhibition, Between The Sky And My Head, at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK.

Because of the large number of unsold Spectrum + models, Sinclair decided not to start selling in the UK until January 1986 at a price of £ 179. 95.

* June 15 – In Manchester, UK, a massive IRA bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.

A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.

* CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, a UK wide scheme designed to increase energy efficiency in large energy users

* Chips, the UK term for large cuts of potato that are deep fried or baked in an oven, known as french fries in Canada and the U. S.

According to a 2012 Financial Times article, hedge funds are increasingly making most of the short term trades in large sections of the capital market ( like the UK and US stock exchanges ), which is making it harder for them to maintain their historically high returns, as they are increasingly finding themselves trading with each other rather than with less sophisticated investors.

In the UK the Plessey Company produced a range of TXK crossbar exchanges, but their widespread rollout by the British Post Office began later than in other countries, and then was inhibited by the parallel development of TXE reed relay and electronic exchange systems, so they never achieved a large number of customer connections although they did find some success as tandem switch exchanges.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

A modern day equivalent of the Davy is the Protector Garforth GR6S flame safety lamp which is used for firedamp testing in all UK coal mines.

In 2007, the Chief Minister of Jersey and the UK government agreed an " International Identity Framework ", setting out the modern relationship between the United Kingdom and Jersey.

Mounted officer of the UK | British Metropolitan Police, the first modern police force.

In 2011 older modern human remains were identified in the UK ( Kents Cavern at 41, 000BP ) and Italy ( Grotta del Cavallo at 43, 000BP ), nonetheless the Romanian fossils are still among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, so they may be representative of the first such people to have entered the continent.

In the modern sense, this would be Islam's equivalent to US Social Security or UK National Insurance.

* Don Featherstone-Known in the UK as the " co-father " of modern miniature wargaming.

In the UK, corner shops serve a similar function to milk bars in modern Australia, providing everyday groceries, sweets, newspapers and such.

The cover illustration for a 1970s UK edition of Double Star ( artist: Anthony Roberts ) was the subject of an unlikely controversy when it was used as the basis of an entry for the 2000 Turner Prize for modern art.

In the modern day, a tabard is the overall garment of the same description as its middle age's counterpart, but is primarily worn by dinnerladies in the UK.

* Oxford East ( UK Parliament constituency ), a modern Parliamentary constituency of the city

* Oxford West and Abingdon ( UK Parliament constituency ), the other modern constituency including the city

A total of of railway line were built as a result of projects authorised between 1844 and 1846 – by comparison, the total route mileage of the modern UK railway network is around.

This release again spawned no UK hits, although in the US the singles " Satisfied " and " Crying In Your Sleep " received significant airplay on modern rock stations, and in Canada " Satisfied " was a top 50 hit.

This means the course is far more anatomically based than that of most other modern UK medical schools.

The purchase of Shepperton Studios from a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott gave rise to The Pinewood Studios Group with both UK and international interests including Shepperton Studios, Teddington Studios, Pinewood Toronto Studios, Pinewood Indomina Studios, Pinewood Studio Berlin and Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios, combining three studios steeped in heritage and prestige as well as new and modern state-of-the-art purpose built facilities.

Planned zones include a college campus, Amsterdam, modern European housing, Venice, Lake Como, Paris, an Amphitheatre, Prague, West coast American housing, warehousing and downtown New York sets, Chicago, Vienna, a castle, a UK canal, Chinatown and a London street market built.

In the UK alone, there are believed to be over 470 different types of sausages ; some made to traditional regional recipes such as those from Cumberland or Lincolnshire, and increasingly to modern recipes which combine fruit such as apples or apricots with the meat, or are influenced by other European styles such as the Toulouse or Chorizo.

In modern UK public transport bus operation, the old-fashioned features of the standard Routemaster were both praised and criticised.

In the UK the use of modern diesel multiple units was pioneered in Northern Ireland, although a number of other railway companies also experimented with early DMUs ( including the Great Western and the London Midland Scottish ).

According to the UK National Archives, there is no single register of modern entitlements to hold markets and fairs although historical charters up to 1516 are listed in the Gazetter of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales.

Until 2003, Tate Liverpool was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in the UK outside of London.

* On 18 April 2012, the silver cup given to the marathon winner, Greek athlete Spyridon Louis, at the first modern Olympic Games staged in Athens in 1896 sold for UK £ 541, 250 ( US $ 860, 000 ), breaking the auction record for Olympic memorabilia.

The publication of a facsimile of the original 1647 edition of Lilly's Christian Astrology in 1985 by Regulus Publishing Company Ltd., in the UK, brought about a renaissance in astrological scholarship in North America and Europe, and also a transformation of the techniques of modern astrology.

As well as the headquarters of Essex County and Chelmsford City Councils, the modern city is home to a range of national and international companies including M & G Group, e2v Technologies and ebm-papst UK Ltd.