Once the other Adepts in London were notified, they elected a committee of seven on March 3 and requested a full investigation of the matter.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

He worked as a `` clothier '' in London, but was greatly concerned with religion.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;

He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

With these and similar tales he was entertaining his English friends, all of whom he was seeing when he was not showing Blackman the sights of London and its environs.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.

The London Universe devoted its centenary issue last December 8 to mapping out various aspects of Catholic progress during the last one hundred years.

* 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7: 12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.

The last horse bus in London stopped operation in 1914.

On his last night in London he had another, in the company of fellow poet Louis MacNeice.

In the last decades of that century, London experienced a revival of interest in the occult, and this was only further propagated when Francis Barrett published The Magus in 1801.

Though women's meetings had been held in London for the last ten years, this was an innovation in Bristol and the north-west of England, which many there felt went too far.

In the last years of his life, Fox continued to participate in the London Meetings, and still made representations to Parliament about the sufferings of Friends.

* Millionaire Howard Hughes lived in hotels during the last ten years of his life ( 1966-76 ), primarily in Las Vegas, as well as Acapulco, Beverly Hills, Boston, Freeport, London, Managua, Nassau, Vancouver, and others.

The current list of Emerging Groups after the last meeting of the Executive Committee ( London, 22 – 25 November 2008 ) is as follows:

* 1969 – The Beatles ' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London.

While the date of his death is not known, " Dowland's last payment from the court was on 20 January 1626, and he was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on 20 February 1626.

He spent time in London, then in 1945 moved to the Lake District, where, in August 1947, he began work on the last Merzbau, which he called the Merzbarn.

The units that still survive are A Company 231 KRRC ( Paddington ) Rifles ACF, B Company 232 KRRC ( Westminster ) Rifles ACF, C Company 233 KRRC ( Camden ) Rifles ACF and up until recent years D Company 234 KRRC ( Putney ) RGJ ACF, which formed the London Oratory School RGJ ACF unit ( now CCF ) although they were rebadged as Irish Guards in 2010 ( making them the last remaining RGJ unit and also the first Irish Guards CCF unit ).

* Edward Watkin, responsible for the building of the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's " London Extension " during the 1890s, which was the last main line to be constructed into London.

London Transport was taken in to public ownership and became part of the British Transport Commission, which brought London Transport and British Railways under the same control for the first and last time.

Although successful in terms of uniting the Welsh against their oppressors, the uprising eventually ran out of pace due to key home ground lost whilst chasing the English army towards London — Glyndŵr was last seen in 1412 and was never captured nor tempted by royal pardons and never betrayed.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

The British House of Lords, as the court of last appeal outside Scotland before the creation of the UK Supreme Court, was not strictly bound to always follow its own decisions until the case London Street Tramways v London County Council AC 375.

The Great Plague of London of 1665 – 66 was the last major outbreak of the plague in England.

An accurate account of the Victorian process by William Bishop, one of the last London quill dressers, is recorded in the ' Calligrapher's Handbook ' cited on this page.

It provided a link for the straw plait trade that existed in Hemel with the hat making centre of Luton, and this is reflected in the fact that the initial connection at Harpenden headed north towards Luton rather than south towards London.

The last straw for the Indians and for Croghan was the news that the French had ceded all Indian territory to the British in the Treaty of Paris, prompting Pontiac's Rebellion and Croghan's timely journey to London seeking confirmation of his Indian deeds and reparations for trade losses.

A group of Sudbury Merchants and gentlemen formed " The Stower Navigation Company " in 1708, making the river navigable to bring coal upriver and to transport corn, straw and hay downstream to be offloaded and shipped to London.

Giles finally quit working for The Daily Express in 1989 ; his cartoons had been allocated less and less space in the newspaper, and he said that the last straw was being stood up following a trip to London to lunch with the editor.

However, the final straw was the discovery of arms in the Iraqi embassy in Islamabad and Nawab Akbar Bugti's declaration of the London Plan, that alleged that NAP-led governments in Balochistan and NWFP was seceding to gain independence from Pakistan.