Two British civil servants, Miss Ethel Gee, 46, and her newly devoted friend, Harry Houghton, 55, and divorced.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter ( British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii ) and the Isabella Psalter ( State Library, Munich ), contain full Bestiary cycles.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

Two investigations have been held by the British government.

Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.

* Disney bomb, a British " rocket-assisted " bomb of World War Two

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

Two decades earlier the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 had stated that the United Kingdom and the dominions were " equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations ".

Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.

Two British children's annuals were produced based on the show published by Collins in 1960 and 1961.

Two British physicists, Andrew Noble and Frederick Abel, worked to improve the properties of blackpowder during the late 19th century.

* 1961 – Gillian Gilbert, British musician ( New Order and The Other Two )

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

The British historian D. C. Watt wrote " Two hours later, Berlin Radio broadcast the sixteen points, adding that Poland had rejected them.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier.

For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2. 1 litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12.

* 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash ; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

* 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.

Although pulp magazines were primarily an American phenomenon, there were also a number of British pulp magazines published between the Edwardian era and World War Two.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah espoused the Two Nation Theory and led the League to adopt the Lahore Resolution of 1940, demanding the formation of independent states in the East and the West of British India.

Two copies of the pamphlet exist in the British Museum.

Two Polish slave janitors of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide in early 1943 provided maps, sketches and reports to Polish Home Army Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the " rocket assembly hall ', ' experimental pit ', and ' launching tower '.

Two of their six boats were swamped on their detour to the east, and as they came in under fire, three of the four remaining boats were damaged by artillery or mines, and the fourth was hung up on an obstacle.

Two of the largest and richest open pit mines in the world are located in Antofagasta: La Escondida and Chuquicamata.

When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 ( see Francis II of the Two Sicilies ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the island, built a villa, reopened the local mines and planted vineyards for grapes that would later be used to make Malmsey wine.

Two small gold mines in Mariposa county, the Mockingbird and the Colorado Quartz, intermittently produce world-class ( and very expensive ) specimens of crystalline gold for mineral collectors.

Two mines operated in Minonk: the first mine was located on the north edge of the city, and the second was situated a half-mile north of town.

Two major mines are employee more than 400 workers.

After the addition of the railroad in 1888, the mines began shipping the iron ore to the docks of Lake Superior in Two Harbors.

Two other coal mines soon opened nearby, and the population grew to 483 by 1910.

Both Time and Life magazines did stories on Nanty Glo as their prime exhibit for their coverage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's taking control of the nation's coal mines after mine workers defied a Congressional law by going on strike at the height of World War Two.

Two sets of death duties in the 1940s, and the nationalization of their coal mines, greatly reduced the wealth of the Fitzwilliams, and most of the contents of the house were dispersed, in auction sales in 1948, 1986 and 1998, though many remain in the family, with many works loaned to museums by the " Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Estates ".

The Times of 6 July 1991 reported: Two men who claimed that a television documentary accused them of being SAS members who trained Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge to lay mines, accepted " very substantial " libel damages in the High Court yesterday.

Old tales claim that during World War Two the National Gallery stored their treasures in one of the mines in the town in order to protect them from damage or destruction.

26 October: Two British ships destroyed by mines off Albania's coast in the Straits of Corfu, see Corfu Channel Incident,.

Two coal mines were opened-Czeladź ( 1870 ), and Saturn ( 1880 ).

Two groups of local miners formed co-operatives and leased the mines at Crosshow and Townhead from the Lowthers.

Two branch railroads connected to the main line at Horseshoe Curve in the early-20th century ; both the Kittanning Run Railroad and the railroad owned by the Glen White Coal and Lumber Company followed their respective creeks to nearby coal mines.

Two mine sweepers with two destroyers to provide covering fire entered the lagoon in the pre-dawn hours and cleared the shallows of mines.

Two of the original 21 mines were not ignited because they were outside the area of the offensive.

* 1 November 1918: Two men of the Regia Marina, Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, in diving suits, rode a primitive manned torpedo ( nicknamed Mignatta or " leech ") into the Austro-Hungarian Navy base at Pola ( Istria ), where they sank the Austrian battleship Viribus Unitis and the freighter Wien using limpet mines.

The nearby coal mines became worked out and closed prior to World War Two.

Two other areas in Romania have some surface mining, while the Jiu Valley contains deep shaft underground mines.

Two large uranium mines, at Arlit and nearby Akouta, are exploited by open top strip mining.

Two other Japanese minesweepers were also damaged by mines.

* 16 August – Two Limpet mines destroy the second and third floors of the building houseing the " South African Police HQ Soweto East " in Roodepoort.