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In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.
These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.
Cultural anthropology is also called socio-cultural anthropology or social anthropology ( especially in the United Kingdom ).
* Association of Drainage Authorities, membership body for those involved in water level management in the United Kingdom
Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.
* Animal ( clothing ), a sportswear retailer and brand based in the United Kingdom
Modern arable agriculture typically uses large field ( agriculture ) | fields like this one in Dorset, England, United Kingdom
The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
* 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England, United Kingdom.
* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.
Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
* United Kingdom comparative: about one third larger ( 30 %) than Wales
Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

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* 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.
A tradition exists in some parts of the United Kingdom ( such as Scotland and North East England ) of rolling painted eggs down steep hills on Easter Sunday.
In the United Kingdom, Germany, and other countries children traditionally rolled eggs down hillsides at Easter.
British Naval Intelligence had been aware of the arms shipment, Casement's return, and the Easter date for the rising through radio messages between Germany and its embassy in the United States that were intercepted by the Navy and deciphered in Room 40 of the Admiralty.
He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).
In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, this idea gained some momentum ( along with other calendar reform proposals, such as the World Calendar ), and in 1928 a law was passed in the United Kingdom authorising an Order in Council which would fix the date of Easter in that country as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.
Today Easter is still celebrated by Cajuns with the traditional game of ' paque ', but is now also celebrated in the same fashion as Christians throughout the United States with candy-filled baskets, " Easter bunny " stories, dyed eggs, and Easter Egg hunts.
The county also produces blueberries, horticultural nursery stock, and 90 % of all Easter lilies raised in the United States.
* Congers United Methodist Church-On April 3, 1831, Easter Sunday, the first service was held.
Jones chaired the First United Methodist Church board in Brady, the McCulloch County Easter Seals drive, and the Lower Colorado River Authority.
" Today, most historians contend that in the United States they were first linked with Easter in the 1930s.
In the United States, nearly all retail stores are open all year except for in Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and most stores also on Easter Sunday.
Haileybury host their own Model United Nations conference every year ( HMUN ) for nearly 700 pupils making it largest MUN conference in the UK, the conference is typically held the weekend before the Easter Holiday with the committee rooms located in some of the iconic buildings on the Haileybury campus and the General Assembly taking place in the Sports Hall.
The DVD also includes several " Easter eggs " including: a version of a State of the Union Address by George W. Bush, edited to make United States policy seem insanely belligerent ; a new audio discussion between Morris and Alan Partridge discussing Partridge's bizarre theories of how Diana, Princess of Wales, and John F. Kennedy died ; a further discussion between Morris and Partridge about the environment ; a re-union of Morris, Partridge, Brant, Peter O ' Hanraha-hanrahan, Collaterlie Sisters and Valerie Sinatra ; and another audio sketch featuring Peter O ' Hanraha-hanrahan pretending to file a report from the World Trade Center covering up the fact that he had overslept, while blithely unaware that the September 11, 2001 attacks have just taken place.
Aflac employees are formally involved in an array of charitable organizations such as Habitat for Humanity International, the Easter Seals, and the United Way.
In January 2007 the village was used as a semi-fictional location in the filming of an episode of EastEnders broadcast in the United Kingdom over the Easter 2007 holiday season.
Easter Seals is a nonprofit charitable organization that assists more than one million children and adults with autism and other disabilities and special needs annually through a network of more than 550 service sites in the United States, Canada, Australia and Puerto Rico.
Clevedon Pier was opened on Easter Monday 1869, one of the earliest examples of a Victorian pier still in existence in the United Kingdom.
In United States v. Cruikshank the court overturned the convictions of three men accused of massacring at least 105 blacks and three whites in the Colfax massacre outside the Grant Parish, Louisiana, courthouse on Easter 1873.

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