That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

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.

Lloyd's of London determined that large numbers of ships had not sunk there.

A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin.

Exceptions include Lloyd's of London, which is famous for insuring the life or health of actors, sports figures and other famous individuals.

The subscription room at Lloyd's of London in the early 19th century.

Today, Lloyd's of London remains the leading market ( note that it is an insurance market rather than a company ) for marine and other specialist types of insurance, but it operates rather differently than the more familiar kinds of insurance.

* In London, Canary Wharf, Lloyd's of London and the Stock Exchange Tower

In time the business association they form will outgrow the coffee house premises and become Lloyd's of London.

* July 17 – The Lutine bell, is salvaged and subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.

* January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.

With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).

Some marine plywood has a Lloyd's of London stamp that certifies it to be BS 1088 compliant.

Lloyd's of London came into being in 1688 in English coffee shops that catered to sailors, traders, and others involved in trade.

When the city pressured local insurance companies to stop insuring cars used in the carpools, the boycott leaders arranged policies with Lloyd's of London.

The town used a combination of funds raised locally and contributed by Lloyd's of London to purchase a lifeboat built to Henry Greathead's " Original " design.

The Lloyd's building in Lime Street, London | Lime Street is the home of Lloyd's of London.

Lloyd's of London, styled simply as Lloyd's, is a British insurance and reinsurance market.

The Lloyd's building, where the market is based, is located at 1 Lime Street in the City of London.

Lloyd's building in 1991

That relationship started in 1972 with Bennett's poignant comedy A Day Out and continued through landmark productions such as the first series of Talking Heads until Lloyd's death in 1991.

Lloyd's List was founded in Edward Lloyd ’ s England coffee shop in 1734 ; it is still published as a daily business newspaper.

Three Smart Saps, a film considered to be an improvement, features a reworking of a routine from Harold Lloyd's The Freshman, in which Curly's loosely basted suit begins to come apart at the seams while he is on the dance floor.

* Lloyd's News, forerunner of Lloyd's List is founded.

The name " Acme " is used as a generic corporate name in a huge number of cartoons, comics, television shows ( as early as an I Love Lucy episode ), and film ( as early as Buster Keaton's 1920 silent film Neighbors and Harold Lloyd's 1922 film Grandma's Boy ).

Marie Lloyd's song ' She Sits Among The Cabbages And Peas ' is an example of this.

The dangling scene was also referenced earlier in the film during the pan of Doc Brown's ( Christopher Lloyd's character ) laboratory as a picture is shown featuring Lloyd hanging from a clock tower.

The most common salvage contract is called a " Lloyd's Open Form Salvage Contract ".

The town was the site of the first Lloyd's Supercenter, and is home to many retail stores, shopping centers and restaurants, many of which are located along Route 211.

The home is still owned by the same family ( The Lloyd's ), as during the time of filming.

Unlike most of its competitors in the industry, it is not a company but it is a corporate body under the Lloyd's Act 1871 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Uberrimae fides ( Latin for " of the utmost good faith ") is the motto of Lloyd's.

The practice at Lloyd's was to wait three years ( that is, 36 months from the beginning of the Syndicate ) before ' closing ' the year and declaring a result.

It is alleged that, in the early 1980s, some Lloyd's officials began a recruitment programme to enrol new Names to help capitalise Lloyd's prior to the expected onslaught of APH claims.

We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.

Referring to the same, one of the entries in Douglas Adams & John Lloyd's The Meaning of Liff reads " WATH ( n .): The rage of Roy Jenkins.

Due to the focus on marine business, during the formative years of Lloyd's ( between 1688 and 1807 ), one of the sources of Lloyd's business was the insurance of ships engaged in slave trading, as Britain rapidly established itself as the chief trading power in the Atlantic.

* Ian Posgate, one of Lloyd's leading underwriters, was charged with skimming money from investors and secretly trying to buy a Swiss bank ; he was later acquitted.

An individual " joined " for one calendar year only – known as the Lloyd's annual venture.

) and strongly hinted that one of Lloyd's main witnesses, Murray Lawrence, a previous Chairman, had lied in his testimony ( 405 of the judgment: We have serious reservations about the veracity of Mr. Lawrence's evidence [...].

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

Lloyd's rate of film releases, which had been one or two a year in the 1920s, slowed to about one every two years until 1938.

Returning to England, he worked for two years at Lloyd's of London for no pay, then for another year at one pound a week.

Reporter Chad Garrison spoke with George Gaines, a nephew of Lloyd's who was one of only two surviving family members who had been alive when Lloyd disappeared, although he had only been an infant at the time, and other, younger descendants.

In her teens, the younger Matilda Wood adopted the name Marie Lloyd, the surname taken from Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, and quickly became one of the most famous of English music hall singers and comediennes.

Cooper had become a ' name ' at Lloyd's of London, a supposedly ' blue chip ' investment, but in the 1990s he was reportedly one of those who suffered enormous personal losses because of the unlimited liability which a ' name ' was then responsible for, and he was forced to sell his hard won Lonsdale belts.

In 1978, again due to the prospect of overcrowding, Lloyd's commissioned Richard Rogers to redevelop the site and the original 1928 building was demolished to make way for the present one which was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986.

* Christopher Lloyd's character of Doctor Emmett Brown, one of the two main fictional characters of the Back To The Future film series, attributed the origins of his lifelong devotion to science to having read as a child the works of Jules Verne in general, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth in particular.

Ships are inspected on a regular basis by a team of Lloyd's Register surveyors, one of the most important inspections being a ship's annual Load Line Survey.

A Lloyd's Coverholder is one such example in which a Lloyd's Syndicate ( an insurer who is a member of Lloyd's of London ) delegates its underwriting authority to, hence allowing that syndicate to operate in a region or country as if it is a local insurer.

The African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who had grown up as a slave on one of Lloyd's plantations, discussed Lloyd in his 1845 autobiography The Narrative of Frederick Douglass.

Rude collected on a Lloyd's of London insurance policy and did not appear in wrestling again until 1996, when he joined Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) as a masked man who harassed Shane Douglas, at one point spanking Francine.

An example is Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta, wherein during one chapter, a monologue expressed in captions serves not only to express the thoughts of a character but also the mood, status and actions of three others.

Lloyd's Monks Orchard House was one of the most substantial mansions in the Croydon area.