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Briton and Stirling
Both young German Hans Herrmann ( who had a remarkable previous efforts with Porsche ) and Briton Stirling Moss relied on the support of navigators while Juan Manuel Fangio ( car # 658 ) preferred to drive alone as usual as he considered road races dangerous since his co-pilot was killed in South America.

Briton and one
The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".
There is, however, only one known account from a native Briton who lived at this time in the mid 5th Century A. D., ( Gildas ), and his description is of a forced takeover: For the fire ... spread from sea to sea, fed by the hands of our foes in the east, and did not cease, until, destroying the neighbouring towns and lands, it reached the other side of the island, and dipped its red and savage tongue in the western ocean.
Despite a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius, the first known bishop is one Asinio in 451 AD.
It is said that the highway that connects Angleton and West Columbia ( and also runs through Bailey's Prairie ) is haunted by the ghost of one James Briton Bailey-for whom the area was named.
Despite a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius, the first known bishop is one Asinio in 451 AD.
Hence, one whose genetic ancestors were from Britain is a Briton, whereas one with a passport from the country is considered British.
Some of the more famous cases were British spy Kim Philby, who defected to Russia to avoid exposure as a KGB mole, and 22 Allied POWs ( one Briton and twenty-one Americans ) who declined repatriation after the Korean War, electing to remain in China.
The village name is a common one in England, and is an Old English language word, meaning either ' village of the Britons ' ( wale being a word meaning Briton ) or ' walled village '.
Albion College's campus houses 89 % of the students that attend the college in four dormitories ( Wesley Hall, Seaton Hall, Whitehouse Hall, and the Mitchell Towers ), upper-class apartments ( the Mae Harrison Karro Residential Village, Munger Place, the Burns Street Apartments, and the Briton House Apartments ), nine women-only housing options ( Ingham Hall, Fiske Hall, Dean Hall, and six women-only annexes ), one men-only housing option ( 711 Michigan Avenue ), and six fraternity houses.
Among those killed are 16 Chinese government officials, one Briton, four East Germans and the son of the Cambodian ambassador to China.
Among the dead are 20 Americans, one Briton, and members of the Malaysian delegation to the 11th Film Festival in Asia, including businessman Loke Wan Tho and his wife Mavis.
Swansea Bay ( and all of the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel ) experiences one of the largest tidal ranges in the world with a maximum range of about 10 m. The shipping ports in Swansea Bay are Swansea Docks, Port Talbot Docks and Briton Ferry wharfs.
Briton Ferry Woods is a natural woodland that has never been felled and remains one of the oldest ancient woodland areas since the last Ice Age covered Great Britain.
The crew included six Filipinos, three Pakistanis, and one Briton.
With just 3 laps to go, Sebastian Vettel then also overtook the Briton on the track which meant he would end up with equal points to Massa, but with one victory less.
By claiming bronze in the Madison cycling on 25 August, to add to his earlier individual gold and a silver from the team pursuit, Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton for 40 years to claim three medals in one games.
According to a 13 November 1996 New York Times article, the passenger manifest included 17 people of other nationalities, including nine Nepalis, three Pakistanis, two Americans, one Bangladeshi, one Briton, and one Saudi.
On the second start, Senna led Mansell away, but during lap one the Briton tried to overtake the Brazilian.
This condition allows him to physically transform into one of his seven assassin personae: African American Garcian Smith, aggressive Irish American Dan Smith, barefoot Japanese American female KAEDE Smith, albino Briton Kevin Smith, Puerto Rican Coyote Smith, young Chinese American Con Smith, and Mexican American luchador MASK de Smith.
His background, as recorded by Orosius, was that he was a native Briton and one of the urban aristocracy.

Briton and greatest
He was invited to champion the case for John Lennon to be the greatest Briton of all time on the BBC's Great Britons series in 2002.
Cornwell's Derfel is a Saxon brought up as a Briton by Merlin, the greatest of all Druids.
Thus the two greatest magazine editors of the 1920s — Briton Hadden and Harold Ross — worked in the same building.
The Great Briton Awards are an annual event to indicate who has made the greatest contribution to British life during the year.

Briton and all
" This entry is all that is known of these Briton kings ; their names are in an archaic form that makes it very likely that this annal derives from a much older written source.
A Briton might say " Alice won with a majority of 9 " ( since Alice polled 9 more votes than her closest competitor ), whereas a Canadian would only say " Alice won with a plurality ", since the Canadian definition uses the word " majority " only if Alice would have polled more than all her competitors combined.
On 6 September, all the entrants had to complete a prova, a drawing exercise under examination conditions, and on 18 September 1758, Mylne was awarded a silver medal, as the first Briton ever to win the competition.
The Americans dominated all the early matches, and it was not until the 22nd contest when a Briton won for the first time.
Those ( in bronze ) of his fellow-artists Arthur Hackcoucoyer ( 1894 ), Briton Rivière and Sir WQ Orchardson ( 1895 ), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1896 ), Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Sir John Everett Millais ( 1897 ), and of AJ Balfour are all striking likenesses, and are equalled by that in marble of Sir Frederick Bramwell ( for the Royal Institution ) and by many more.
Tommy Atkins is a mythical Briton who filled out all his forms correctly, and as such lent his name to British soldiers generally ; his Canadian counterpart is " Corporal ( or some other rank ) Bloggins ".
Homer Jack notes in his reprint of this article, " To Every Briton " ( The Gandhi Reader ) that, " to Gandhi, all war was wrong, and suddenly it ' came to him like a flash ' to appeal to the British to adopt the method of non-violence.
Akinwande also defeated fellow Briton and future WBO cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson, former IBF heavyweight title holder Tony Tucker, Frankie Swindell and Gerard Jones, all from the USA, during this period.

Briton and time
This may indicate that Cerdic was a native Briton, and that his dynasty became Anglicised over time.
The museum was founded by two antique collectors, an American, Dallas Pratt ( August 21, 1914 – May 20, 1994 ) and a Briton, John Judkyn ( 1913 – July 27, 1963 ) and opened to the public for the first time on July 1, 1961.
From that time on he always sent me a Christmas card which was signed ' To Robin Hood from the Ancient Briton '" — Lord Crawshaw, House of Lords Hansard, Tuesday 8 July 1997
He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
She toured Europe again, this time opening for fellow Briton David Bowie.
They get there in time to see Vitellius and Lavinia being presented to the emperor ; while Claudius is distracted by Lavinia ’ s charms, a supposedly loyal Briton leaps at the emperor with a dagger.
Communist-bloc riders tended to dominate the event, but there were exceptions: Briton Ian Steel won the 1952 race, and the British League of Racing Cyclists team also won the team competition-the first time that both classifications had gone to the same nation.
In 1998 the California and Carnegie Planet Search team, after following a suggestion by Kevin Apps, a Briton who at the time was an undergraduate student found a possible planet orbiting the star.
The popularity of the game spread like wild fire within a short time along the coast culminating in the formation of the first football club, EXCELSIOR in 1903 by Mr. Briton, a Jamaican born British, who was then Head Teacher of Philip Quaque Government Boys School in Cape Coast.
Due to the previous win by fellow Briton Heather Watson, it is the first time since 1992 that two British women have cleared the first round of the French Open.
His " youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest " record was broken in 2006 by Rob Gauntlett who was 19 at the time.

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