* Brythonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from British

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

The British Army is the land warfare branch of the British Armed Forces in the United Kingdom.

From Elmers End to Woodside route 1 and route 4 ( and route 2 from Arena ) follow the former British Rail branch line to Addiscombe, then diverge to reach Addiscombe tram stop, which is 500 metres west of the now-demolished Addiscombe railway station.

" In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

In 1897 Dr. Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.

It was funded by and was a branch of the Hong Kong Government, under command of the Commander British Forces.

An unexpected olive branch came from King George V, who, in a speech in Belfast called for reconciliation on all sides, changed the mood and enabled the British and Irish Republican governments to agree to a truce.

With an eye toward the Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British in 1997, authorities in China sought Pei's aid on a new tower for the local branch of the Bank of China.

The Primitive Methodist Church is a continuing branch of the former British Primitive Methodist Church.

Coincidentally, at the same time, his son Stephen became head of the British Council branch in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

During the first series there were hints Steed worked for a branch of British Intelligence, and this was expanded in the second series.

Over time, this arrangement became the effective executive branch of government, as it assumed the day-to-day functioning of the British government away from the sovereign.

Not only was this tax perceived as exorbitant, but British interests were offended when President Paul Kruger gave monopoly rights for the manufacture of the explosive to a non-British branch of the Nobel company, which infuriated the British.

A subset of British comedy consciously avoids traditional situation comedy themes and story lines to branch out into more unusual topics or narrative methods.

* Royal Observer Corps, branch of the RAF and British air raid warning organisation ( 1926 to 1957 ), nuclear burst and fallout warning organisation ( 1957 – 1995 ), now disbanded

The Fleet Air Arm ( FAA ) is the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft.

In London, they made twenty more recordings for the British branch of Columbia.

* Royal Flying Corps, a branch of the British military during World War One

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

Continuing violence by British troops escalated, and eventually the order was given to mobilise the troops in an arrest operation, chasing the tail of the main group of marchers to the edge of the field by Free Derry Corner.

The British government had intended that the Crown take over the operation of the mines when Cape Breton was made a colony, but this was never done, probably because of the rehabilitation cost of the mines.

In 1934 the British military began to make strides toward radar ( which also uses the magnetron ) under the direction of Dr Wimperis, culminating in the operation of the first radar station at Bawdsey in August 1936.

The first operation was carried out on a 23 year-old British male, Robert Johnson, in early 2007.

The first operation was carried out on a 23 year-old British male, Robert Johnson, in early 2007.

Hong Kong Tramway Electric Company Limited, a British company, was authorised to take the responsibilities in construction and daily operation.

In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

* 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.

* The Elephant Will Never Forget, an 11-minute film made in 1953 by British Transport Films to celebrate the London tram network at the time of the last few days of its operation.

During its first 100 years of operation, the focus of the British East India Company had been trade, not the building of an empire in India.

The Double-Cross System, or XX System, was a World War II anti-espionage and deception operation of the British military intelligence arm, MI5.

On 20 March 2003 the Navy SEALs launched what is the largest single SEAL operation in history from US Naval vessels, Ras al-Qulayah Naval Base and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as part of a mixed force of US Navy SEALs, Polish GROM and British Royal Marines.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

In the Black Shabbat, a massive British operation against the leaders of the Jewish Establishment in British Mandate Palestine, Rabin was arrested and detained for five months.

The British commander Sir Douglas Haig, did not receive approval for the Flanders operation from the War Cabinet until 25 July.

The plan for a year of steady attrition on the Western Front, with the main effort in the summer being made by the British Expeditionary Force, was scrapped by Nivelle and the French government for a decisive battle, to be conducted in February by the French army, with the British army's contribution becoming a preliminary operation, the Battles of Arras.

Nivelle planned a three-phase operation: preliminary offensives to pin German reserves by the British at Arras and the French between the Somme and the Oise ; a French breakthrough offensive on the Aisne ; and pursuit and exploitation.

The effect of the British operation here was felt in Flanders, General Von Kuhl wrote later that it was a costly defeat and " wrecked " the plan for relieving divisions which had been " fought-out " in Flanders.