The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

In English, " American " was used especially for people in the British America, and came to be applied to citizens of the United States when the country was formed.

Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.

This change is not universal for British English and traditionally is not considered a feature of Received Pronunciation.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

It arose from the intermingling of children of early settlers from a great variety of mutually intelligible dialectal regions of the British Isles and quickly developed into a distinct variety of English.

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 ).

This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows:

* British English ( BrE ) is the form of English used in the United Kingdom.

NATO adopted the 7. 62x51 NATO round ( which in reality is only slightly different ballistically to the. 308 Winchester and. 303 British cartridges ), along with several rifles such as the FN FAL and M14.

In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.

" A separate reference also identifies the geographic mile as being identical to these international nautical miles ( and slightly shorter than British nautical miles, which were identified as being equivalent to 1853. 184 meters ).

According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).

Common ingredients are also slightly different quantities from the British version ; the New Zealand version has high levels of potassium, for example.

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.

Despite their slightly lower output, " Toasters " produce a brighter, cleaner sound, and are generally seen as key to obtaining the true British Invasion guitar tone, as they were original equipment of the era.

Early issues featured two SF-themed stories aimed at a slightly older age group than 2000 AD and soon became a magnet for British creators who wanted to create comics for the adult market.

British government sources suggest that prices have risen over 61-fold since 1914, so a mediæval sterling silver penny might have the equivalent purchasing power of around £ 4. 50 today, and a farthing ( a quarter penny ) would have the value of slightly more than today's pound ( about £ 1. 125 ).

The uncertainty of tenure and slightly ambivalent official British attitude to the fate of the Territory influenced the early population-for many years only debtors from other islands, pirates and those fleeing the law were prepared to undertake the risk of settling in the Virgin Islands.

Albarn explained to the NME in January 1997 that " We created a movement: as far as the lineage of British bands goes, there'll always be a place for us ", but added, " We genuinely started to see that world in a slightly different way.

This reduction left Silver City's fares only slightly higher than the Dover — Calais ferry fares of British Railways ' Southern Region and, together with the service's earlier extension permitting the carriage of cyles and motor cycles, helped establish the airline's ferry services as a serious competitor to the railways.

The British subspecies, Erithacus rubecula melophilus, differs only slightly from Continental birds.

The first paratroopers were issued jump helmets similar to that used by the British at the time, as the rest of the equipment slightly based on the Fallschirmjäger.

" British film critic Barry Norman was slightly cautious about the Marx Brothers overall, but considered that Duck Soup was their best and included it in his 100 best films of all time.

The first, Minus Manus, shown on Norwegian TV3, was more or less identical in tone and form to the British show, but the second, Spinn, shown on TVNorge had a slightly different set-up.

Many of the networks recruited and controlled by the British and Americans were not perceived by the French as being especially interested in establishing a united or integrated Résistance operation, and the guerrilla groups controlled by the communists were only slightly more engaged by the idea of a Résistance " umbrella " organization.

Differences in naming conventions for cartridges can cause confusion ; for example, the projectiles of the. 303 British are actually slightly larger in diameter than the projectiles of the. 308 Winchester, because the ". 303 " refers to the bore diameter in inches, while the ". 308 " refers to the groove diameter in inches ( 7. 70 mm and 7. 82 mm, respectively ).

At 2. 00 PM, Allied warships, with Codrington in the lead in Asia, began filing into the bay through the southern entrance, proceeding in two lines, British followed by French to starboard ( SE, closest to Navarino ) and Russians to port abreast but slightly behind the French.

A small amount of crystal or other coloured malt is added to the basic pale ale base to produce a slightly darker colour, as in some Irish and British pale ales.

At this point, slightly after 4 pm, Washington and Greene arrived with reinforcements to try to hold off the British, who now occupied Meeting House Hill.

As Major Calloway, he played the character type with which he became most associated, the slightly dry, slightly crusty, but capable British military officer.

" Itchycoo Park " was the first British record to use flanging, the technique of playing two identical master tapes simultaneously but altering the speed of one of them very slightly by touching the " flange " of one tape reel, which yielded a distinctive comb-filtering effect.

The Charleville's. 69 " ( 17. 5mm ) caliber barrel was slightly smaller than its main competitor, the. 75 caliber Brown Bess produced by the British.

Tizer and Lucozade are British carbonated drinks, the latter marketed as an energy drink.

Ribena ( ) is a British brand of fruit-based uncarbonated soft drink, carbonated soft drink and fruit drink concentrate produced by GlaxoSmithKline.

In 1872, British soft drink maker Hiram Codd of Camberwell, London, designed and patented a bottle designed specifically for carbonated drinks.

The addition of carbonated water to dilute spirits was especially popular in hot climates and seen as a somewhat " British " habit.

In 1872, British soft drink maker Hiram Codd of Camberwell, London, designed and patented the bottle designed specifically for carbonated drinks.

By the early 1970s most beer in Britain was keg beer, filtered, pasteurised and artificially carbonated, and most British brewers used carbon dioxide for dispensing keg beers.

William Painter, an American of British descent, invented the crown cap for bottled carbonated beverages in 1891, and obtained patents 468. 226 and 468. 258 for it on February 2, 1892.