On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

Writing many years later, Bonaparte commented that if the French Navy had adopted the same tactical principles as the British:

Many British Standards ( BSs ) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards ( BS EN, BS ISO ) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom.

The British adopted similar thinking when it came to the Russians, who were in the midst of their revolution.

Although originally devised in the United States, it was more commonly adopted by British libraries than by American ones.

British traditions such as the monarchy were rejected by the U. S. Constitution, but many English common law traditions such as habeas corpus, jury trials, and various other civil liberties were adopted in the United States.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

NATO adopted the 7. 62x51 NATO round ( which in reality is only slightly different ballistically to the. 308 Winchester and. 303 British cartridges ), along with several rifles such as the FN FAL and M14.

Other dominions adopted this principle such as New Zealand, by way of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act of 1948.

The British military adopted the Armstrong gun, and was impressed ; the Duke of Cambridge even declared that it " could do everything but speak.

The language was an inter-service standard for British military programming, and was also widely adopted for civil purposes in the British control and automation industry.

* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of its beliefs and ideas.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

The commission proposed the establishment of some form of association with Ethiopia, and the UN General Assembly adopted that proposal along with a provision terminating British administration of Eritrea no later than September 15, 1952.

The British Post Office adopted the Baudot system during 1897 for a simplex circuit between London and Paris.

The British Post Office adopted it for a simplex circuit between London and Paris during 1897, then used it for more general purposes from 1898.

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deck — the upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees ( this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884 ).

Prismatic Brown Powder is a large-grained product the Rottweil Company introduced in 1884 in Germany, which was adopted by the British Royal Navy shortly thereafter.

The first European power to successfully implement a meritocratic civil service was the British Empire, in their administration of India: " company managers hired and promoted employees based on competitive examinations in order to prevent corruption and favoritism.

Meadows successfully argued in his Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, published in 1847, that " the long duration of the Chinese empire is solely and altogether owing to the good government which consists in the advancement of men of talent and merit only ," and that the British must reform their civil service by making the institution meritocratic.

Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier.

The first European power to successfully implement the meritocratic civil service was the British Empire, in their administration of India: " company managers hired and promoted employees based on competitive examinations in order to prevent corruption and favoritism.

Meadows successfully argued in his Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, published in 1847, that " the long duration of the Chinese empire is solely and altogether owing to the good government which consists in the advancement of men of talent and merit only ," and that the British must reform their civil service by making the institution meritocratic.

Two British civil servants, Miss Ethel Gee, 46, and her newly devoted friend, Harry Houghton, 55, and divorced.

Johnson resented what he had perceived as British sympathy toward the Confederacy and he ignored a series of armed incursions by Fenians ( Irish-American civil war veterans ) into Canada.

The term the Government always takes a plural verb in British civil service convention, perhaps to emphasize the principle of cabinet collective responsibility.

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

Armed Arab volunteers during the 1947 – 1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine | 1947-1948 civil war in the British Mandate of Palestine

The débâcle of the Afghan civil war left a vacuum in the Hindu Kush area that concerned the British, who were well aware of the many times in history it had been employed as the invasion route to South Asia.

Amidst intrigue in the Afghan court, and political and civil unrest in India, he sought to divert attention from the internal divisions of Afghanistan and unite all faction behind him by attacking the British.

The tradition is itself named after Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), a British civil servant and scholar of magic.

Thousands of Scots, mainly Lowlanders, took up positions of power in politics, civil service, the army and navy, trade, economics, colonial enterprises and other areas across the nascent British Empire.

The civil service was increasingly filled with natives at the lower levels, with the British holding the more senior positions.

The Gandhi-led independence movement opposed the British rule using non-violent methods like non-cooperation, civil disobedience and economic resistance.

Evictions only increased after the repeal of the British Corn Laws in 1846 and the new Encumbered Estates Act being passed in 1849 as well as the removal of existing civil rights.

British pressure, and tensions between the pro-and anti-Treaty factions of the IRA, led to a bloody civil war, ending in the defeat of the anti-Treaty faction.

Trained civil servants were recruited from graduates of British universities, and these men set out to rule India.

* 1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights / anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.

Nehru and most of the Congress leaders were initially ambivalent about Gandhi's plan to begin civil disobedience with a satyagraha aimed at the British salt tax.

Krivitsky claimed that two Soviet intelligence agents had penetrated the British Foreign Office, and that a third Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain.

The British Government agreed to free all political prisoners, in return for the suspension of the civil disobedience movement.

Alex Chan's take on the 2005 civil unrest in France, The French Democracy, attained mainstream attention and inspired other machinima commentaries on American and British society.

* 1912 – Melita Norwood, British civil servant and KGB intelligence source ( d. 2005 )