For example, the ( discounted ) annual season ticket from London to Brighton ( standard 2nd class ) as of January 2010 costs £ 3, 280 for, while an annual DB ( German ) 100 BahnCard, which allows one year's travel on the entire German rail network, costs almost exactly the same ( 3800 Euros ).

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

The Campaign also organises an annual Great British Beer Festival in August, in London.

Thereafter, CND organised annual Easter marches starting at Aldermaston and ending in London.

An annual meeting called " The Pol-Mil Talks " ( for Political-Military ) of all concerned is held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to resolve pertinent issues.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

In January 2005 he gave the IEE / BCS annual Turing Lecture in London on the subject of " Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design ".

* Lord Mayor's Show, one of the longest established and best known annual events in London which dates back to 1535.

This annual contributing ceased when Newton left in 1780 when he took the position of Rector at St. Mary Woolnoth, in London.

As secretary to the board, Pepys was entitled to a £ 350 annual salary plus the various gratuities and benefits – including bribes – that came with the job: he rejected an offer of £ 1000 for the position from a rival, and moved to official accommodation in Seething Lane in the City of London soon afterwards.

In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London ( now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members ); and from 1769 on, he submitted works to the Royal Academy's annual exhibitions.

* June 2 – 7 – Gordon Riots in London, Great Britain: The Duke of Richmond calls, in the House of Lords, for manhood suffrage and annual parliaments, which are rejected.

This procession is known as the " Lord Mayor's Show " and is one of the longest established and best known annual events in London.

Beginning in December 1914, London worked on The Acorn Planter, A California Forest Play, to be performed as one of the annual Grove Plays, but it was never selected — it was described as too difficult to set to music.

W. Johns ( 1771 – 1845 ), in George Street, Manchester, where his daily round of laboratory work and tuition was broken only by annual excursions to the Lake District and occasional visits to London.

He died of a heart attack on Friday 14 February 1969, while hosting the annual Guild of Television Producers ' and Directors ' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

These manors are still constituted by the City under a Bailiff and Steward with their Courts Leet and View of Frankpledge Juries and Officers which still meet-their annual assembly being held in November under the present High Steward ( the Recorder of London ).

But the venture did not prosper and in 1773 Lawrence senior removed his family from Bristol and took over the tenancy of the Black Bear Inn in Devizes, a favourite stopping place for the London gentry who were making their annual trip to take the waters at Bath.

BCCI had an unusual annual auditing system: Price Waterhouse were the accountants for BCCI Overseas, while Ernst & Young audited BCCI and BCCI Holdings ( London and Luxembourg ).

Passage of the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896, which raised the speed limit to a " furious " pace of 14 mph is celebrated to this day by the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

* Chelsea Flower Show, annual event organised by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK

* The Geological Society of London presents an annual lecture in his honour.

In the Middle Ages, the London Parish clerks performed annual mystery plays there, based on biblical themes.

Now a popular annual event, it has grown to become the second-largest carnival in London after Notting Hill.

Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.

It is famous for its exceptional population of lions, leopards and cheetahs, game, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle, and wildebeest to and fro the Serengeti every year from July to October, known as the Great Migration.

Some feel that the expression, the Great Sabbath refers to the Christian Passover or another annual holy day.

This is called the Last Great Day and is a stand-alone annual holy day immediately following the Feast of Tabernacles.

The National Rifle Association ( NRA ) of the United Kingdom was founded in 1860 to raise the funds for an annual national rifle meeting " for the encouragement of Volunteer Rifle Corps, and the promotion of Rifle-shooting throughout Great Britain ".

* Caroline Herschel is granted an annual salary of £ 50 by King George III of Great Britain for acting as assistant to her brother William in astronomy.

The Arcul de Triumf | Triumphal Arch is the site of the annual Great Union Day | National Day military parade

Celebration hosts many events every year, including community-wide yard sales, an art show, an exotic car festival, an annual Radio Disney Holiday concert, an Oktoberfest Celebration, the " Great American Pie Festival " ( televised on The Food Network ), a " Posh Pooch " festival, and downtown events for the Fall and Christmas seasons when autumn leaves and " snow " ( small-scale soap flakes ) are released into the Town Center.

In 1993, Adnams Extra won the Champion Beer of Britain ( CBOB )-an award presented by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) at the annual Great British Beer Festival.

Landon Jones, who coined the term " baby boomer " in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1943 through 1960, when annual births increased over 4, 000, 000.

And, while the ruins of " The Great Stone Church " ( which was all but leveled by an 1812 earthquake ) are a renowned architectural wonder, the Mission is perhaps best known for the annual " Return of the Swallows " which is traditionally observed every March 19 ( Saint Joseph's Day ).

Besides standard vehicular travel, a 45 kilometre section between Lorne and Apollo Bay is used for the annual Great Ocean Road Marathon, first started in 2005., the marathon record of two hours, 27 minutes and 42 seconds set in 2011 is held by James Kipkelwon, of Kenya.

Mesoscale convective systems are important to the United States rainfall climatology over the Great Plains since they bring the region about half of their annual warm season rainfall.

In 1993 she won the Cartier Diamond Dagger, an annual award given by the Crime Writers ' Association of Great Britain to authors who have made an outstanding lifetime's contribution to the field of crime and mystery writing.

Darius the Great gave the satrapies a definitive organization, increased their number to twenty-three and fixed their annual tribute ( Behistun inscription ).

The Emporia Bicycling Club hosts regular group rides, including the annual Great Peanut ride which attracts hundreds of bicyclists who ride to visit a peanut farm and are treated to hearty meals and live entertainment at camp.

According to an 1826 article submitted by a person well-versed in local history identifying himself as W. Reader, there was already a well-established tradition before his time that there was a certain tailor who had taken a peek at Lady Godiva, and that at the annual Trinity Great Fair ( now called the Godiva Festival ) featuring the Godiva processions " a grotesque figure called Peeping Tom " would be set on display, and it was a wooden statue carved from oak.

The town has two annual fairs, a local art fair and the Fountain Hills Great Fair which incorporates arts and a carnival.

Sarah, Duchess of York, was a founding supporter of The American Cancer Society ’ s Great American Weigh In, an annual campaign ( modelled after the Society ’ s Great American Smoke Out ) aimed at raising awareness of the link between excess weight and cancer.

In the 2008 Newsweek magazine's annual list of the top 1, 300 American high schools, Great Neck South is ranked 49th, and Great Neck North is ranked 68th.

The town of Great Falls hosts an annual Flopeye Fish Festival.