Commander Alastair Denniston, was operational head of GC & CS from its formation from the Admiralty's Room 40 ( NID25 ) and the War Office's MI1b in 1919, until 1942.

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.

During the First World War, Britain's Army and Navy had separate signals intelligence agencies, MI1b and NID25 ( initially known as Room 40 ) respectively.

After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits including " Surfin ' Safari ", " Surfin ' USA ", " Shut Down ", " Little Deuce Coupe ", " Be True to Your School ", " In My Room ", " Fun, Fun, Fun ", " I Get Around ", " Dance Dance Dance ", " Help Me Rhonda ", " California Girls " and " Good Vibrations ".

Sandhurst was given an office in the Security Service's temporary accommodation in Wormwood Scrubs prison and as a first step approached the President of the Radio Society of Great Britain ( RSGB ), Arthur Watts, who had served as an analyst in Room 40 during World War I following the loss of a leg at Gallipoli.

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The second phase, including 40 en-suite bedrooms forming staircases Q and R and a new Junior Combination Room ( JCR ) at a cost of £ 2. 5 million, was completed in Summer 2009.

The next two singles, " Live Wire " and " In My Lonely Room "(# 6 R & B Cashbox ) were less successful singles, failing to reach the Top 40.

Japanese-speaking enthusiasts may enjoy An Illustrated Guide to the Locked Room 1891-1998 ( text by Alice Arisugawa and illustrations by Kazuichi Isoda ) which contains summaries of 40 novels and short stories, 20 of which are Anglo-Saxon classics – the other 20 being Japanese classics from 1924 to the present day.

The Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted and decoded by the British cryptographers of Room 40.

The disinformation about the ' three routes ' was spread by Reginald ' Blinker ' Hall, the then head of Room 40, to try to shield from the USA the fact that Room 40 was intercepting its cable traffic.

All traffic through the Porthcurno relay was copied to British intelligence ; in particular, to the codebreakers and analysts in Room 40 at the Admiralty.

At Room 40, Nigel de Grey partially deciphered the telegram by the next day.

Room 40 had previously obtained German cipher documents, including the diplomatic cipher 13040 ( captured in Mesopotamia ), and naval cipher 0075, retrieved from the wrecked cruiser SMS Magdeburg.

But Room 40 chief " Blinker " Hall was reluctant to let it out, because the disclosure would expose Room 40's breaking of German codes, and also that Britain was eavesdropping on the U. S. cable.

" Inside Room 40: The Codebreakers of World War I ", London, Ian Allen Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7110-3408-2

* GermanNavalWarfare. info, Some Original Documents from the British Admiralty, Room 40, regarding the Zimmermann -/ Mexico Telegram: Photocopies from The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, UK.

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During World War I the NID was responsible for the Royal Navy's highly successful cryptographic efforts, Room 40.

Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut .- Cmdr.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library ( the British Library ) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space ( Room 4, for monumental sculpture ), can display only 4 % of its Egyptian holdings.

File: British Museum Egypt 086. JPG | Room 4-Colossal statue of Amenhotep III, c. 1370 BC

File: British Museum Olduvai handaxe. jpg | Room 2-Handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, Olduvai Gorge, circa 1. 2 million years

File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

File: British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035. jpg | Room 51-Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900 – 1600 BC ( one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working )

File: British Museum Royal Gold Cup. jpg | Room 40-Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, c. AD 1370-80 ( generally agreed to be the outstanding surviving example of late medieval French plate )

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

File: BM ; RM6-ANE, Assyrian Sculpture 32-East ( N ), Centre Island + North Wall-~ Assyrian Empire +-Lamassu, Stela's, Statue's, Obelisk's, Relief Panel's ) & Full Projection. 1. JPG | The British Museum, Room 6-Assyrian Sculpture

File: British Museum-Room 85, Roman Portrait Sculpture. JPG | Room 85-Portrait Sculpture, Roman

File: Ship Clock at British Museum. jpg | Room 38-39-Mechanical Galleon, Augsburg, around AD 1585

* 1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.

In 1963, she was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the British drama The L-Shaped Room.

* British Academy Film Award 1963: Award for Best Leading Actress for The L-Shaped Room

In short story, The Basement Room ( 1935 ), by Graham Greene, the ( sympathetic ) servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, " You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to ".

Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.

In " A Proportional Response ", President Bartlet finds himself in similar circumstances ( Syrian intelligence shot down a U. S. plane in Jordan and killed numerous Americans, including a young Naval officer who the President had decided would be his personal physician ) and, seated in the White House Situation Room with his own National Security Council asks: " What is the virtue of a proportional response?

Pringle Hall contains a 432-seat auditorium, the Quinn Lecture Room, the Naval Staff College, the Graphic Arts Studio, the Photography Branch, and the Naval War College Press.

* Original Documents from Room 40: LUSITANIA case ; Naval Battle of Jutland / Skagerrak ; The Zimmermann / Mexico Telegram ; German Submarine Warfare and Room 40 Intelligence in general ; PhotoCopies from The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, UK.

For most of the war he worked in Room 40 of the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division.

Room 40's decryptions also led to the capture of Captain Franz von Rintelen, a German Naval Intelligence officer who had firebombed munitons ships and factories in the neutral United States.

The Anti-Aircraft Gun Operations Room and Naval Extended Defences offices also remained at the Battle Box.