Rhode Island and bordering Bristol County, Massachusetts are known for Rhode Island clam chowder ( clear chowder ), quahog ( hard clams ), johnny cakes, coffee milk, celery salt, milkshakes known as " cabinets " ( called " frappes " elsewhere in New England ), grinders, pizza strips, clam cakes, the chow mein sandwich, and Del's Frozen Lemonade.

The greatest of “ the great men of England ,” the last and noblest of the Romans, was considered the embodiment of virtue, wisdom, patriotism, liberty, and temperance ... Pitt, “ glorious and immortal ,” the “ guardian of America ,” was the idol of the colonies ... A Son of Liberty in Bristol County, Massachussetts paid him the ultimate tribute of identification with English liberty: “ Our toast in general is ,— Magna Charta, the British Constitution ,— and Liberty forever !”

* May 12 – The first ever official English County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol ; Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by 8 wickets.

* April 2 – The town of Raynham, Massachusetts in Bristol County is entered as a new town by the governor and court of Massachusetts, New England, America.

Gower or the Gower Peninsula () is a peninsula in south Wales, jutting from the coast into the Bristol Channel, and administratively part of the City and County of Swansea.

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana, Teton County, Wyoming and Teton County, Idaho, Big Horn County, Wyoming and Big Horn County, Montana, Park County, Wyoming and Park County, Montana, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

Jail facilities in the Dartmouth Complex include the Bristol County House Of Correction and Jail, the Bristol County Sheriff's Office Women ’ s Center, and the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center.

The Bristol County Sheriff's Office operates the Ash Street Jail and Regional Lock-Up and the Juvenile Secure Alternative Lock Up Program ( JALP ) in New Bedford.

A flying school was also established, with premises at Brooklands, then the centre of activity for British aviation, where Bristol rented a hangar, and at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, where in June 1910 a school was established on of land leased from the War Office.

Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and Bristol had already built a number of their B. E. 2 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft.

The first project he worked on after his return, the Bristol T. T. A., was designed in response to a War Office requirement for a two-seat fighter intended for home defence against Zeppelin raids.

* Bristol Customshouse and Post Office

* Old Post Office, Bristol

Bristol avoided competition by abusing federal regulations to block generic entry ; deceived the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office ( PTO ) to obtain unwarranted patent protection ; paid a would-be generic rival over $ 70 million not to bring any competing products to market ; and filed baseless patent infringement lawsuits to deter entry by generics.

He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 2008 ( the citation describes him as " Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office "), and was awarded an honorary degree from Bristol University in 2008.

All the Rolls-Royce Bristol facilities are now north of Gypsy Patch Lane, the former West Works site on the airfield having been redeveloped by the Post Office in the late 1980s.

The Newfoundland Post Office perpetuated his error by issuing a 1910 two-cent stamp depicting the arms and indicating they were issued to the London and Bristol Company, which financed Guy's colonization attempt.

After university, Deakin joined the British Meteorological ( Met ) Office, for which he initially worked in a number of places, including York and Bristol.

A similar craft was built in Bristol by James Hillhouse for the Imperial Fire Insurance Office in the 1780s.

* Westminster, the name of a steam locomotive built by Peckett and Sons of Bristol in 1914 as part of an order from the War Office, currently under restoration at Northampton & Lamport Railway

His correspondence and research papers are now held by the Dorset History Centre except for a collection of typewritten notes about the Mayo family held by the Bodleian Library and two volumes of notes about Bristol and Gloucestershire families held by the Gloucestershire Record Office.

Educated at Bromsgrove School and University of Bristol, Quayle entered the Foreign Office in 1977 and studied Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

The Kingsport – Bristol – Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area is a Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ).

The following year a successful retrospective exhibition of his work was shown at the Bristol Fire Office, for the benefit of his family.

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The post office counter was closed as part of Post Office Ltd's post office closure plan and the Post Office, the last remaining shop on the road, was transformed into the Bristol Green Store in November 2008.

The zoo's stated mission is " Bristol Zoo Gardens maintains and defends biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats and promoting a wider understanding of the natural world ".

The following Monday, May 7, the show was replaced by a very similar program, ESPN First Take, which maintains many features of Cold Pizza, but is produced in high definition at ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.

Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.

* 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.

On 10 February 2008, a 6. 5 magnitude earthquake had its epicentre SSE of Bristol Island.

Gloucestershire acquired first-class status when its team played against Surrey at Durdham Down near Bristol on 2, 3 & 4 June 1870.

After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.

Monmouth is now primarily a centre for service industries and tourism, and its good road communications have encouraged commuting to larger centres in the West Midlands, South Wales, and Bristol.

He perfected his Economics of Industry while at Bristol, and published it more widely in England as an economic curriculum ; its simple form stood upon sophisticated theoretical foundations.

Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.

The following year, Silver City leased its first Bristol Freighter, moved its base to Blackbushe and participated in the airlift of Hindu and Muslim refugees between Pakistan and India.

In 1953, Silver City took delivery of its first Bristol Superfreighter.

Also in 1947, Silver City leased its first Bristol Freighter from the manufacturer to replace one of the four Dakotas that had originally been allocated to the repatriation airlift in the Indian subcontinent.

In 1953, Silver City also took delivery of its first stretched Mark 32 Bristol Superfreighter, the first of six.

Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.

The Bering Sea is world renowned for its enormously productive and profitable fisheries, such as King Crab, opilio and tanner crabs, Bristol Bay salmon, pollock and other groundfish.

In 1956 its major operations were split into Bristol Aircraft and Bristol Aero Engines.

Its products had always been referred to by the name ' Bristol ' and this was formalized in 1920, when British and Colonial was liquidated and its assets became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd. At this time the Company, acting under a certain amount of pressure from the Air Ministry, bought the aero-engine division of the bankrupt Cosmos Engineering Company, also of Bristol, to form the nucleus of its new aero-engine operations.

During this time Bristol was noted for its preference for steel airframes, using members built up from high-tensile steel strip rolled into flanged sections rather than the light alloys more generally used in aircraft construction.