A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

The exploits of the young and poorly trained soldiers of the 39th ( Militia ) Battalion during the rearguard action on the Kokoda Track remain celebrated to this day, as is the contribution of the 7th Brigade at the Battle of Milne Bay.

A. Milne, is first published.

They were beaten back by the Australian Army, and the Battle of Milne Bay is remembered as the first outright defeat on Japanese land forces during World War II.

Milne House is named after Ying Wa's first principal Milne ( 1785 – 1822 )， He came to China in 1812 to be a missionary.

Milne House is represented by the colour yellow ， and its animal mascot is a unicorn.

In parts of Western, Gulf, Central, Oro Province and Milne Bay Provinces, however, the use of Tok Pisin has a shorter history, and is less universal, especially among older people.

Milne loved Grahame's book, which is one of the reasons he decided to adapt it.

His name is an onomatopoeic representation of the braying sound made by a normal donkey, usually represented as " hee haw " in American English: the spelling with an " r " is explained by the fact that Milne and most of his intended audience spoke a non-rhotic variety of English in which the " r " in " Eeyore " is not pronounced as / r /.

Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, though stuffed Roo was lost a long time ago.

The mayor of Southgate is Brian Milne.

All honor to the memory of William F. Milne, who started this wonderful movement for boys and who gave unstintingly of his time and energy to make it grow to the fine organization it is today.

When the density of mass in the FLRW metric is set to zero ( an empty ' Milne universe '), then the cosmological coordinate system used to write this metric becomes a non-inertial coordinate system in the flat Minkowski spacetime of special relativity, one where surfaces of constant time-coordinate appear as hyperbolas when drawn in a Minkowski diagram from the perspective of an inertial frame of reference.

Canadian artist David Brown Milne is credited as the first to produce coloured drypoints by the use of multiple plates, one for each colour.

* October 14-The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is published for the first time.

Sandy Calder's grandfather, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, was born in Scotland, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868, and is best-known for the colossal statue of William Penn on top of Philadelphia City Hall's tower.

King Hilary and the Beggarman, a children's poem by A. A. Milne, relates the story of a fictional Lord High Chancellor, " Proud Lord Willoughby ", who is dismissed for refusing to obey his king.

Kendals ( formerly Kendal Milne & Faulker ) in Manchester also lays claim to being the first department stores founded in the UK and is still known to many of its customers as Kendal's, despite its 2005 name change to House of Fraser.

6 ) Restriction of scalars on abelian varieties ( e. g. elliptic curves ) yields abelian varieties, if L is separable over k, and Milne used this to reduce the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian varieties over all number fields to the same conjecture over the rationals.

For several decades, Braid's work became more influential abroad than in his own country, except for a handful of followers, most notably Dr. John Milne Bramwell.

* Haunted Ontario – Founded in 1996 by Bob Milne, Haunted Ontario chronicles the ghosts, spirits, spooks, and poltergeists said to haunt Canada's most populated province.

Mr Milne and Mr Rickman were, no doubt, Telford's most intimate friends.

However, most modern cosmologists subsequently accepted the validity of the hypothetico-deductive method of Milne.

Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad ( which form only about half of the original book ) because they lent themselves most easily to being staged.

While most of the cast in the books are based on stuffed animals owned by Christopher Robin Milne, Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations of Rabbit look more like a living animal.

A. Milne, who wrote of Half Mile Down " I don't know which I envy you most: all those moral and physical qualities which you have and I lack, or all that wonder of a new world.

After 1880, most seismometers were descended from those developed by the team of John Milne, James Alfred Ewing and Thomas Gray, who worked in Japan from 1880 to 1895.

Former BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne described Birt as “ the most graceless man I have ever known ” and a “ ghastly man ” who did little good for the BBC except establishing the BBC ’ s Internet service.

Except for highland areas, they occur throughout most of New Guinea and on nearby smaller islands such as Waigeo, Misool and Aru, and various islands in the Cenderawasih Bay and Milne Bay.

The two most advanced 19th century classifications both used complex skeletal characters ; Milne Edwards and Haime ’ s 1857 classification was based on macroscopic skeletal characters, while Ogilvie ’ s 1897 scheme was developed using observations of skeletal microstructures, with particular attention to the structure and pattern of the septal trabeculae.

By 1776, Milne had moved to New Orleans, Louisiana where, after doing well in the hardware business, he set up a brick making company using mainly slave labour — by the late 18th century most of the brick used in New Orleans was made at his works.

Hamish Milne has recorded most of the solo piano works, while Geoffrey Douglas Madge and Konstantin Scherbakov have recorded the three piano concertos.

The most prominent of these is the satellite crater Milne K, which is located just to the south of the midpoint.

Beşiktaş had their most successful run in the Süper Lig with three consecutive championships under the management of Gordon Milne in the early 90s.

William Johnstone Milne VC ( 21 December 1892 – 9 April 1917 ), was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Following the Moneymore shootings the RUC named Hughes as the most wanted man in Northern Ireland, and issued wanted posters with pictures of Hughes, Milne and McGlinchey.

However, most of the other ships, notably Admiral Milne aboard HMS Impregnable anchored out of position both reducing their effectiveness and exposing them to fiercer Algerian fire.

Tom Milne called it Godard's " most complex film to date.

During World War I, the secondary wings of Osborne House were used as an officers ' convalescent home — Robert Graves and A. A. Milne were two famous patients.

It is close to The Spectacles and built by Northampton architect Alexander Milne in 1857-61 for chemist Philadelphus Jeyes whose younger brother John found the chain of pharmacies and was famous as the inventor of Jeyes Fluid.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

A. Milne memorial plaque at Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England, the setting for Winnie the Pooh

Milne wrote 4 stories filmed in 1920 for Minerva Films:

* Obituary for Alan Alexander Milne ( German )

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

Realising his illustrator's contribution to the book's success, Milne arranged for Shepard to receive a share of his royalties.

A. Milne ( author of Winnie-the-Pooh ) and the person on whom Christopher Robin was based, lived with myasthenia gravis for several years before his death in 1996.

Brian Milne recovered for the Saints, who then ran out the clock to preserve the victory.

Such acts include Jay Chou, The Kitchen Syncopators, Inkwell Rhythm Makers, Curtains for you, The Gallus Brothers and the not-quite as young Baby Gramps or Bob Milne.

Kumaritashvili was the fourth athlete to die while in preparation for a Winter Olympics competition, following speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, 27, who died while preparing for the Albertville 1992 games, British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski and skier Ross Milne, 19, who both died in the run up to the Innsbruck 1964 games.

General George Kenney's outnumbered and out classed old fighters, when staged forward from new bases about Port Moresby, would affect Japanese decisions to withdraw from their beachhead on Milne Bay because the allied fighters were only minutes away and enjoyed a rapid turn around time to resume sweeps against long ranged Japanese air during the Battle of Milne Bay — and that earned Kenney a promotion for it was the first time Japanese aggression had been repulsed in any landing.

The good news was some of those allocated forces were already forward at Milne Bay, where he was setting a trap with the veteran mid-East blooded 7th Australian Division, for he fully expected the Japanese would continue trans-coastal landings in an attempt to out flank Port Moresby, bringing ground forces in and around the point, in an end-around past the eastern tip of New Guinea and land on undefended beaches there.

Buna and Gona were their last successes in the New Guinea Campaign, for MacArthur's trap at the Battle of Milne Bay resulted in a see-saw battle that in the end had the Japanese abandon their beachhead and retreat for the first time in the war.