He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with the following lines from Cowper's poem, referring to the British Empire:

The next three British ships, Vanguard in the lead followed by HMS Minotaur and HMS Defence, remained in line of battle formation and anchored on the starboard side of the French line at 18: 40.

The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.

The next year, Oona Chaplin renounced her US citizenship and became a British citizen.

" His next order was to turn away by two points, and, in any case, a few minutes later he reversed his fleet's course to fulfill its anticipated role of leading the German forces towards the main British fleet.

Over the next forty years, England played exclusively with the other three Home Nations — Scotland, Wales and Ireland — in the British Home Championship.

The next year Captain John MacBride established a British settlement at Port Egmont.

Over the next century, the island was seized several times by the British.

The next year, 1793, he returned to British Columbia and proceeded further north, unknowingly missing the overland explorer Alexander Mackenzie by only 48 days.

In the history departments of British universities in 2007, of the 5, 723 faculty members, 1, 644 ( 29 %) identified themselves with social history while political history came next with 1, 425 ( 25 %).

Beginning in the mid-18th century and over the next century, large areas of India were annexed by the British East India Company.

The next to arrive were the Dutch, the British — who set up a trading post in the west coast port of Surat in 1619 — and the French.

Emigration continued into the next century ; over half a million Irish went to Britain in World War II to work in industry and serve in the British armed forces.

In Munster, the IRA carried out a significant number of successful actions against British troops, for instance the ambushing and killing of 17 of 18 Auxiliaries by Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal in West Cork in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13 British soldiers near Millstreet early in the next year.

But to everyone's surprise, the next day the British accepted Ribbentrop's demands and the A. G. N. A.

Ribbentrop's habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process, did immense damage to his reputation in British high society.

She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.

These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium ( London ), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels ' next target.

A priest and historian from Dithmarschen, Neocorus, wrote in 1598 that the banner captured in 1500, was brought to the church in Wöhrden and hung there for the next 59 years, until it was returned to the Danes as part of the peace settlement in 1559.

The town grew up as a settlement next to a fort constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the English Civil War, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

By that time the Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, had built a bridge over the river Isar next to a settlement of Benedictine monks — this was on the Salt Route and a toll bridge.

They imported livestock ( mainly goats ), fruit trees, and vegetables, built a chapel and one or two houses, and left their sick, suffering from scurvy and other ailments, to be taken home, if they recovered, by the next ship, but they formed no permanent settlement.

This settlement provided a modicum of stability for the next several decades, however the cities dropped out as a basis of the central Imperial authority.

The new province remained the government of the colonial territory for the next fifty years of growth and settlement.

Greeks settled heavily along the coast at an early date and several of their settlements, including the first Italian city called Rhegion ( Reggio Calabria ), and the next ones Sybaris, Kroton ( Crotone ), a settlement where the mathematician Pythagoras later resided, and Locri, were numbered among the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

The next year, on 24 August 1524, Gustav arrived in Malmö in order to reach a settlement with Denmark and its king Frederick.

The Cherokee have claimed the ancient settlement of Kituwa on the Tuckasegee River, formerly next to and now part of Qualla Boundary ( the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ), as the original Cherokee settlement in the Southeast.

Cartier attempted to create the first permanent European settlement in North America at Cap-Rouge ( Quebec City ) in 1541 with 400 settlers but the settlement was abandoned the next year after bad weather and first nations attacks.

Their first Spanish settlement in this zone was the Fort of Sancti Spiritu established in 1527 next to the Paraná River.

Some local historians consider that the settlement pre-dates Odessa by about thirty years and assert that the locality was founded by Moldavians who came to build the fortress of Yeni Dunia for the Ottomans and eventually settled in the area in the late 1760s, right next to the settlement of Khadjibey ( since 1795 Odessa proper ), on what later became the Prymorsky Boulevard.

Settlement days were on a fixed schedule ( such as fortnightly ) and a speculative buyer did not have to take delivery and pay for stock until the following settlement day, and on that day could " carry over " their position to the next by paying the contango fee.

He came to a settlement, though, because of his " unpopularity in the States at that moment and being under such court pressure, was terrified, not knowing what to expect next.

Excluding Santa Fe in New Mexico, settlement of northern New Spain was slow for the next 155 years.

By the terms of the settlement, his funds were much increased and he apparently devoted most of the next seven years to the amusement of the tournament.

During the next several decades, white settlement of the region was in full swing.

Over the next several years, farmer settlers from Pennsylvania came trickling in to the area, and by 1808, the first permanent settlement, New Philadelphia, was founded near the Goshen mission.