* 1907: Twelve members of the British parliament nominate Zamenhof for the Nobel Peace Prize.

* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.

In television, the most notable mockumentaries in the 2000s have been: ABC Australia's The Games ( 1998 – 2000 ), Trailer Park Boys ( 2001-2008 ), the British shows Marion and Geoff ( 2000 ), Twenty Twelve ( 2011-2012 ) ( which follows the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, The Office ( 2001 ) and its many international offshoots, Come Fly with Me ( 2010 ), which follows the activity at a fictional airport and its variety of staff and passengers.

Twelve Illinois militiamen were killed in the humiliating defeat ; the British Band suffered only three fatalities.

Twelve years after the British defeated the French, the American Revolution broke out in Britain's lower thirteen colonies.

Twelve were British Army officers, one a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the last a civilian informant.

Since 1919, Irish Finance Minister, head of the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood and IRA Chief of Intelligence Michael Collins had operated a clandestine " Squad " of IRA members in Dublin ( a. k. a. " The Twelve Apostles "), which was used to assassinate RIC and British Intelligence officers.

A powerful unrest followed, after which Twelve Martial Laws were imposed by the British authorities.

After an unpleasant sea voyage from New York City, Snow met with some of the members of the Twelve Apostles who had opened the British Mission in 1839, including Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt.

Between 1934 and 1936, Kay was a regular at all the big British races like the Brooklands 500 Miles and Double Twelve Hours, plus sports car races at Donington Park and Crystal Palace.

Twelve hundred Canadian troops were part of the South Africa Constabulary under the leadership of Robert Baden-Powell, and it was after seeing these troops in action at the Relief of Mafeking that Baden-Powel ordered 10, 000 of these hats for the British Troops under his command.

Twelve British bombers are lost.

* May 27 – Twelve Italian Fiat CR. 42 bombers arrive at Mosul to support Iraqi forces against the British under the command of the German Fliegerführer Irak.

Twelve of the submarine chasers under his command participated with the British and Italian naval forces in the destruction of the Austrian naval base at Durazzo on 2 October 1918.

Twelve of the IRA men were killed in fighting with members of the British Army at the nearby Clonmult Ambush, while four more were captured and later executed.

In April 1847, Young consulted with members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who had recently returned from the British mission.

Very early on 22 June, she set out to warn the British at DeCou's house, walking about through the woods until she came upon a Native encampment on the Twelve Mile Creek.

The wounded Boerstler capitulated to Major de Haren of the 104th Regiment, who had just arrived on the field with another detachment of British regulars from Twelve Mile Creek.

He served as a member of the mission of the Twelve Apostles to the British Isles between 1839 and 1841.

Named a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1835, Pratt was part of the Quorum's successful British mission of 1839 to 1841.

He proposed a circular route, dubbed " The Twelve Days of Wicklow ", which he considered to be " a journey comparable to that along the celebrated " Pennine Way " but I would say more varied than its north British counterpart ".

A short time after his call as a member of the Twelve, Richards went to England where he served as president of the British Mission and then as president of the European Mission, still directly overseeing missionaries in Britain but also supervising the mission presidents in other parts of Europe.

Twelve cars were produced, but only four competed in the Ron Harris Team Lotus entrants ( drivers Jim Clark and Mike Spence ).

Subsequent fellowships such as Narcotics Anonymous have adopted and adapted the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions to their respective primary purposes.

Twelve graduates of Dalhousie have also served as provincial premiers across Canada, including Allan Blakeney, John Buchanan, Alex Campbell, Amor De Cosmos, Darrell Dexter, Joe Ghiz, John Hamm, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Russell MacLellan, Gerald Regan, Robert Stanfield, Clyde Wells, and Danny Williams.

Some scholars have argued that since the author of that letter has not identified himself as an apostle and actually refers to the apostles as a third party, he cannot be identified with the Jude who is listed as one of the Twelve.

Her films My Best Friend's Wedding ( 1997 ), Mystic Pizza ( 1988 ), Notting Hill ( 1999 ), Runaway Bride ( 1999 ), Valentine's Day ( 2010 ), The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ), Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), and Ocean's Twelve ( 2004 ) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $ 2. 4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.

However, many of these new small communities failed, but some are growing like the Twelve Tribes Communities that started in the United States and have grown to many tribes around the world.

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope:

He is holding a towel on which have been placed 12 scrolls, representing the teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The new releases have a much more emotional style from De Meyer, which was presaged in his later recordings with C-Tec and particularly Cobalt 60 on its album Twelve.

Finnian of Clonard is said to have trained the Twelve Apostles of Ireland at Clonard Abbey.

As a result of its success, all but two of Mel Brooks movies in Swedish have been given similar titles: " Springtime For Mother-In-Law " ( The Twelve Chairs ); " Springtime For The Sheriff " ( Blazing Saddles ); " Springtime For Frankenstein " ( Young Frankenstein ); " Springtime For The Silent Movies " ( Silent Movie ); " Springtime For The Lunatics " ( High Anxiety ); " Springtime For World History " ( History of the World, Part I ); " Springtime For Space " ( Spaceballs ); and " Springtime For The Slum " ( Life Stinks ).

The subsequent Twelve Years ' Truce ( 1609 – 1621 ) between Spain and the Dutch Republic would have ended Standish's service, although scholars are uncertain if Standish was still in active service.

All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of our galaxy, a human civilization lives on a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol.

The Twelve Colonies have warred for decades with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race.

Twelve members of the Long family have held elected office.

* Three movies have been filmed in part at Eglin Air Force Base or its outlying auxiliary airfields, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo in 1944, Twelve O ' Clock High in 1949, and On the Threshold of Space in 1955.

Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart ( Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975 ) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (# 23, 1972 ).

Twelve of the thirteen players who have offensive Triple Crowns have been elected to the Hall of Fame.

Fairy tales can have variants where one tale has an evil mother and the other an evil stepmother: in The Six Swans, the heroine is persecuted by her husband's mother, and in The Twelve Wild Ducks, by his stepmother.

Donald Tovey, writing in his Essays in Musical Analysis, commented on this movement's " Bacchic fury " and many other writers have commented on its whirling dance-energy: the main theme is in fact taken from Beethoven's arrangement of the Irish folk-song " Save me from the grave and wise ", No. 8 of his Twelve Irish Folk Songs, WoO 154.

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Thetis, named after the sea-nymph in Greek mythology:

It is not known when these short works were collected and transferred to a single scroll, but the first extra-biblical evidence we have for the Twelve as a collection is c. 190 BCE in the writings of Jesus ben Sirach, and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests that the modern order was established by 150 BCE.

Twelve rank and file survived to claim a Military General Service Medal in 1847 for serving at the battle, although others may not have bothered to do so.