The UK Utterly Butterly display team flying Boeing Boeing-Stearman Model 75 | Stearman PT-17 biplanes at an English air show

ASROC ' Matchbox ' mounting installed just aft of the Otobreda 76 mm | 76 mm gun turret on the Japanese Self Defense Force Asagiri class destroyer DD 158 Umigiri, photographed 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

At 17 metres long, the Severn class lifeboat s are the largest class of UK Lifeboat ( rescue ) | lifeboat

A canal boat traverses the longest and highest aqueduct in the United Kingdom | UK, at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | Pontcysyllte in Denbighshire, Wales

The University of Cambridge is an institution of higher learning in England, United Kingdom | UK.

Flat Eric featured in the video for Mr. Oizo's " Flat Beat " in 1999 ; the puppet and instrumental UK number one were popularised through use in advert for Levi Strauss & Co. | Levi's Sta-Prest jeans.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK

An early design of electric locomotive showing the steeplecab arrangement: North Eastern Railway ( UK ) | North Eastern Railway British Rail Class ES1 | No. 1, England from 1905

File: Rocky Valley labyrinth Tintagel. jpg | Seven-ring classical labyrinth of unknown age in Rocky Valley near Tintagel, Cornwall, UK.

File: Dalby City of Troy turf maze. jpg | Small turf maze near Dalby, North Yorkshire, UK

File: Wing Maze. jpg | Turf maze at Wing in Rutland, UK.

File: Edinburgh labyrinth. jpg | Edinburgh labyrinth, George Square Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Mounted officer of the UK | British Metropolitan Police, the first modern police force.

The Penny Red was used in the United Kingdom | UK for many years, and comes in hundreds of variations which are subject to detailed study by philatelists.

Clement Attlee, U. K. Prime Minister, Labour Party ( UK ) | Labour Party government, 1945 – 51.

The story, where Den Watts served his wife Angie Watts | Angie with divorce papers, was the highest-rated soap episode in British history, and the highest-rated programme in the UK during the 1980s

Sinhalese poster for General Certificate of Education | GCE Advanced Level ( UK ) | Advanced Level Political science tuition class in Matale.

April 11: UK Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II | Silver Jubilee ( 25 red buses painted silver ).

Plaque recording the location of the formation of the Labour Party ( UK ) | British Labour Party in 1900.

File: Coat of Arms of Northern Ireland. svg | Coat of Arms of Northern Ireland, UK

Architects in the UK who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

A factorial randomized trial of 579 UK patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain, reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that patients who received Alexander Technique lessons reported afterwards having less back pain and significant improvement in their quality of life.

In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.

* British Virgin Islands ( UK )

Other systems used the Viewdata protocols made popular in the UK by British Telecom's Prestel service, and the on-line magazine Micronet 800 whom were busy giving away modems with their subscriptions.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

* The British Caving Association The national governing body for underground exploration in the UK.

The British Royal Mail first started using bicycles in 1880 ; now bicycle delivery fleets include 37, 000 in the UK, 25, 700 in Germany, 10, 500 in Hungary and 7000 in Sweden.

* British Cement Association ( UK )

In UK, the parallel act passed simultaneously by the British parliament was called the Canada Act 1982.

The differences are usually referred to as UK / US or British / American.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

This is equivalent to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery / Baccalaureus Dentalis Chirurgiae ( BDS, BDent, BChD, BDSc ) that is awarded in the UK and British Commonwealth countries.

— Listen to regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.