Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

The British presence also left a lasting popularity for British chocolate, which is readily available in Faroese shops but uncommon in Denmark.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Despite more than a century of exposure to Western classical music and two centuries of British colonialism, classical music in India has never gained more than ' fringe ' popularity.

The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government took drastic measures using the militia or army to protect industry.

Due to the series ' popularity, people who constantly complain and are irritated by minor things are often compared to Victor Meldrew by the British media.

During this period, the portrayal of opium in literature became squalid and violent, British opium trade was largely supplanted by domestic Chinese production, purified morphine and heroin became widely available for injection, and patent medicines containing opiates reached a peak of popularity.

In recent decades the game of pool ( both the British and American versions ) has increased in popularity as well as other table based games such as snooker or Table Football also becoming common.

Nevis's popularity as a destination grew, and it continued to be in the favour of the British elite.

Influenced by the British Levellers, the movement's popularity rose again during the 1990s, once more due to a housing crisis, this time related to the 1992 Summer Olympics and the concomitant urban regeneration.

The UK hip-hop scene tended to sample more deeply from Jamaican influences, due to the larger Caribbean ancestry of the British black population, and the existing mass British popularity of reggae, dancehall and dub in the 1980s.

This output of published wargaming titles from British authors coupled with the emergence at the same time of several manufacturers providing suitable wargame miniatures ( e. g. Miniature Figurines, Hinchliffe, Peter Laing, Garrisson, Skytrex, Davco, Heroic & Ros ) was responsible for the huge upsurge of popularity of the hobby in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

Because of their endearing ( if quirky ) personalities and widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture in particular and the British people in general.

Other historians argue that the invasion occurred to protect the interests of British investors with assets in Egypt and also to boost the political popularity of the Liberal Party.

Blues went on to influence rock and roll in the 1950s, which only increased in popularity with the British Invasion of the mid-to-late 1960s.

When it was admitted that his private letters had indeed been opened, and its contents revealed by the Foreign Office to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments, Mazzini gained popularity and support among the British liberals, who were outraged by such a blatant intrusion of the government into his private correspondence.

In the United Kingdom, espresso coffee initially gained popularity in the form of the cappuccino, due to the British custom of drinking coffee with milk, the desire for a longer drink so the café may serve as a destination, and the exotic texture of the beverage.

Lingard's popularity as an historian had its day, but his contribution to historical method came at a critical point in British intellectual history.

The sport gained popularity in British, then American schools in the 19th century and culminated in the creation of the first International Cross Country Championships in 1903.

This has continued to a degree in recent years, due to the continued popularity of Scatman John, and segments in the British television comedy series The Mighty Boosh which featured scat singing ( referred to by its performers as " crimping ").

The sagging popularity of the Republic did, of course, not escape the attention of the British intelligence services.

While psychedelic rock began to waver at the end of the 1960s, psychedelic soul continued into the 1970s, peaking in popularity in the early years of the decade, and only disappearing in the late 1970s as tastes began to change.

Now the term R & B is almost always used instead of the full rhythm and blues, and mainstream use of the term usually refers to contemporary R & B, which is a newer version of soul and funk-influenced pop music that originated as disco faded from popularity.

Other genres such as house, techno, reggae, and soul all developed during the latter half of the century and went through various periods of popularity.

Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1970s.

They performed their stage show for four weeks in Sydney and a further four in Melbourne ; because of their existing popularity in Australia and, what Corbett terms, the Australian audiences ' " soul that still related to the UK ," they made no changes to the routine.

By 1969 the group's popularity had deteriorated as public interest moved towards rock with a harder edge, deeper soul music, and music with more socially conscious lyrics.

The Blues Brothers, who helped create a resurgence of popularity for soul, R & B, and blues in the 1980s, were influenced by Sam & Dave-their biggest hit was a cover of " Soul Man ", and their act and stage show had many similarities to the duo.

The band was formed in October 1967 by Andrew Loog Oldham with soul singer P. P. Arnold, a performer who reached a higher level of popularity in the UK than her native US.

When African-American musical tastes began to change in the early 1960s, moving toward soul and rhythm and blues music, country blues found renewed popularity as " folk blues " and was sold to a primarily white, college-age audience.

Baduizm serves as a landmark album in the neo soul genre, as it helped develop its popularity and commercial visibility at the time of the album's release.

Baduizms commercial and critical success earned Erykah Badu popularity at the time and helped establish her as one of the emerging neo soul genre's leading artists.

" Subsequently, other neo soul artists attained success in the early 2000s, including Bilal, Musiq Soulchild, India. Arie, and Alicia Keys, who broke through to broader popularity with her debut album Songs in A Minor ( 2001 ).

In the 1960s, Hawaiian-style music declined in popularity amid an influx of rock, soul and pop acts from the American mainland.

Though the concert is now mostly remembered for its role as a catalyst in the subsequent Ghanaian roots revival, it also led to increased popularity for American rock and soul.

The popularity of classic funk / R & B / soul acts performing in the US and abroad started to expand in the mid-1990s on events like the awarded Sinbad's Summer Jam: ' 70s Soul Music Festival.

To illustrate, their popularity was based on innovative hybridization of music as they creatively mixed the genres like rap, soul, raock and roll.

In the 1990s, while the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups like Take That, and Spice Girls, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music.

Album-oriented soul continued its popularity, while musicians such as Smokey Robinson helped turn it into Quiet Storm music.

Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1970s.

Méringue has lost popularity to Compas ( Kompa ), but Méringue remains the soul of the Haitian Carnival ( Mardi Gras ).

However, by the late 1960s, the popularity of the music and lifestyle associated with the club had spread further across the north and midlands of England, and a number of new venues had begun to host soul all-nighters.

Northern soul reached the peak of its popularity in the mid to late 1970s.

Despite its popularity, the club closed down due to licensing problems in March, 1972 and attention switched to soul nights at Blackpool Mecca's Highland Room, which had started hosting rare soul nights a few months earlier.