) Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of that staple of British detective fiction, the gentleman detective.

Another version of the standardised imperial portrait ; from the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, Libya | Cyrene, North Africa ( British Museum ).

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

Later the British also developed a version of the Mk. VI light tank armed with 4 machine guns that was known as Light Tank AA Mk. I.

Even this version had room for improvement, leading British Aerospace and the Italian firm Alenia to develop advanced versions of Sparrow with better performance and improved electronics as the BAe Skyflash and Alenia Aspide, respectively.

The one-off test in 1999 between England and Australia that was played to commemorate Australia's first test against Reverend Matthew Mullineux's British side saw England wear an updated version of this jersey.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.

British actor Ian McNeice's interpretation of the Baron in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune ( and its sequel, 2003's Children of Dune ) is, though dramatic, somewhat lighter and more eloquent in comparison to Lynch's version, and therefore more consistent with the novel.

Titled Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, the British theatrical version was released on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone, and ran during the 1963 Christmas season ( advertised in the January 1964 issue of Photoplay ).

The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

: However, it is claimed by present-day historians, both Spanish and British, that this version is apocryphal since no contemporary source accounts it.

From 1785, perhaps because the improved version of potting and stamping was about to come out of patent, a great expansion in the output of the British iron industry began.

The main cast consisted of Malcolm Barrett, Kaitlin Olson, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Paul F. Tompkins, as well as Lee Mack from the British version of the show.

Many of the sketches from the British version were recreated, such as the " California Dreamin '", " English Course ", and " Sign Language " sketches.

She made one British film as well, the 1947 film version of Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons.

This version is included in the book and CD set The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines, along with a transcript of the sketch and the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

Marmite ( ) is the name given to two similar food spreads: the original British version, first produced in the United Kingdom and later South Africa ; and a version produced in New Zealand.

This is the only produce sold as Marmite in Australasia and the Pacific, whereas elsewhere in the world the British version predominates.

Common ingredients are also slightly different quantities from the British version ; the New Zealand version has high levels of potassium, for example.

New Zealand Marmite is described as having a " weaker " or " less tangy " flavour than the British version.

* Clive Reston is a British spy who resembles a younger and more vulnerable version of James Bond.

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

Once published by BSI a PAS has all the functionality of a British Standard for the purposes of creating schemes such as management systems and product benchmarks as well as codes of practice.

The economy of the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, is mainly fueled by the tourism sector and by the financial services sector, together representing 70-80 percent of the country's gross domestic product ( GDP ).

However, when the price of silver rose, the East India Company began to manufacture a product that was desired by the Chinese as much as tea was by the British: opium.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

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.

While British colonialism laid the foundation for English over much of the world, International English is a product of an emerging world culture, very much attributable to the influence of the United States as well, but conceptually based on a far greater degree of cross-talk and linguistic transculturation, which tends to mitigate both U. S. influence and British colonial influence.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

The study establishes, based on the impossibility of identifying any genetic indicators across caste lines, that castes in South Asia grew out of traditional tribal organizations during the formation of Indian society, and was not the product of any mythical " Aryan Invasion " and " subjugation " of Dravidian people, unlike what British racial-revanchist and revisionist claims would have one believe.

In her book The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India ( 2002 ), Martine van Woerkens suggests that evidence for the existence of a Thuggee cult in the 19th century was in part the product of " colonial imaginings " — British fear of the little-known interior of India and limited understanding of the religious and social practices of its inhabitants.

In 1938, the Western Allies ( United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions ) had a 30 percent larger population and a 30 percent higher gross domestic product than the European Axis ( Germany and Italy ); if colonies are included, it then gives the Allies more than a 5: 1 advantage in population and nearly 2: 1 advantage in GDP.

# The finished product is sent back to India at European shipping rates, once again on British ships.

Sainsbury's, which said the new name was derived from the French for cooked pollock ( colin ), launched the product under the banner " Colin and chips can save British cod.

Romesh Chunder Dutt argued as early as 1900, and present-day scholars such as Amartya Sen agree, that some historic famines were a product of both uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies, which since 1857 had led to the seizure and conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, restrictions on internal trade, heavy taxation of Indian citizens to support British expeditions in Afghanistan ( see The Second Anglo-Afghan War ), inflationary measures that increased the price of food, and substantial exports of staple crops from India to Britain.

National standards, such as those of ASTM and the British Standards Institute, and International Standards can help the designer in increasing product integrity.

Joseph Livesey was another British temperance advocate who financed his philanthropic work with the profits attained from cheese production, following an introduction to the food product by a doctor Livesey consulted with regards to a serious ailment in 1816 .< ref > The term Teetotal is derived from a speech by Richard ( Dickie ) Turner, a follower of Livesey, in Preston in 1833.

Treading a path similar to other British labels of the era, Parlophone released all manner of domestic and foreign licensed product, including James Brown, but had little success in comparison to EMI siblings HMV and Columbia.

In mathematics, factorization ( also factorisation in British English ) or factoring is the decomposition of an object ( for example, a number, a polynomial, or a matrix ) into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the original.

* Sebastian Conran Associates, a British product and brand development consultancy

The increase in production costs has led to British pig-products being more expensive than those from other countries, leading to increased imports and the need to position UK pork as a product deserving a price premium.

Volvo AB acquired the U. S. assets of the company in 1981, while two energy-related companies based in Calgary, Alberta, Bow Valley Resource Services, and NovaCorp, an Alberta corporation, purchased the Canadian assets, including the Kelowna, British Columbia, plant, and the Western Star nameplate and product range.