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10 unusual facts about British


Allen baronets

The Allen Baronetcy, of Marlow in the County of Buckingham, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 23 January 1933 for Frederick Allen, Deputy Chairman of the P. and O. Company and Managing Director of the British-India Steam Navigation Company.

Atlantic Steam Navigation Company

This arrangement continued until 1961 when the operation transferred to the British-India Steam Navigation Company.

British-American Institute

The British-American Institute was a school started in 1842 by Josiah Henson near Dresden, Western District, Canada West, Province of Canada, as part of the Dawn Settlement, a community of fugitive slaves who had escaped to Canada.

British-Israel-World Federation

At one time this organization enjoyed the patronage of members of the British establishment including HRH Princess Alice of Athlone, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Dysart, Lord Gisborough, and William Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

John Rettie

Cartmell John Alexander Rettie (born November 24, 1925 in Colombo, Ceylon), known as John Rettie was a British newspaper journalist and broadcaster.

John Scoble

He came to Upper Canada in 1852 to try to assist the British-American Institute of Science and Industry, a vocational school for black people, which was being managed by Josiah Henson, a former fugitive slave.

Martin Vander Weyer

Martin Vander Weyer is a British financial journalist, business editor of The Spectator, and a leading figure within the British-American Project.

Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition

In addition to both ships, two light Auster aircraft intended for reconnaissance were included on the expedition.

RMS Quetta

RMS Quetta was a British-India Steam Navigation Company liner that travelled between England, India and the Far East.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site

Across the road is the burial ground for the Dawn Settlement and the British-American Institute, a school started by Josiah Henson.


380 BC

Pytheas, Greek explorer, who will explore northwestern Europe, including the British Isles (d. c. 310 BC) (approximate date)

Aden Emergency

British forces had opened fire 40 times, and during that period there were 60 grenade and shooting attacks against British forces, including the bombing of an Aden Airways Douglas DC-3, which was bombed in mid-air, killing all people on board.

Allen Coombs

Allen William Mark (Doc) Coombs (23 October 1911 – 30 January 1995) was a British electronics engineer at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.

Anthony Blair

Tony Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, British Prime Minister 1997–2007

Bloy

Harry Bloy (born 1946), BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province of British Columbia, Canada

Can U Dig It?

"Can U Dig It?" is a popular single by British Grebo band Pop Will Eat Itself, released in 1989 from the bands second album This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! and it peaked at #38 in the UK Charts.

Carol Wyatt

In 1988 the artist was included in The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting with John Bellany, Alan Davie, Christopher le Brun, Therese Oulton, Michael Porter and Lance Smith touring Spanish Museums which was curated by Keith Patrick.

Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes

On 29 December 1808, he was taken prisoner in the action of Benavente by the British cavalry under Henry Paget (later Lord Uxbridge, and subsequently Marquess of Anglesey).

Clinton Dawkins

Clinton Edward Dawkins (1859 – 1905), British businessman and civil servant

Des Morris

:For the British ethnologist and zoologist, see Desmond Morris

Diggle

Andy Diggle, British comic book writer and former editor of 2000 AD

Discovery Island

Discovery Islands, an archipelago near Campbell River, British Columbia.

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

Despite the group's longevity, they became for a time a favourite target for mockery from the British music press, especially Melody Maker, where their name was often invoked as the epitome of failure in the music business in the humorous section "Talk Talk Talk" written by David Stubbs.

English Musical Renaissance

The musicologist Colin Eatock writes that the term "English musical renaissance" carries "the implicit proposition that British music had raised itself to a stature equal to the best the continent had to offer"; among the continental composers of the period were Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Fauré, Bruckner, Mahler and Puccini.

Epuli Aloh Mathias

Furthermore, he has worked in helping develop key legislature, providing an insight into the customs and traditions of legal practice and how they were harmonized with local laws in the former West Cameroon under British rule.

Eye Spy

Eye Spy Magazine, a British magazine focusing on the Intelligence community.

François Olivennes

François Olivennes has three children, Hannah, 25, Joseph, 22 and George, 13, with his ex-wife, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas.

George Huff

George Albert Huff (died 1934), merchant and political figure in British Columbia

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke (c.1742-26 December 1774), of Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire, was a British Member of Parliament, representing Derbyshire.

Guy Fithen

Guy L. Fithen (born 1962 in Oxford) is a British actor and screenwriter best known for his roles as a pirate.

Henge of Keltria

The order draws upon the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology and some other early Celtic/British texts for inspiration.

Henry George Purchase

In 1915, he was sent on a special mission to France for the purpose of organising a British and American hospital at Neuilly.

History of Rajasthan

Following the Mughal tradition and more importantly due to its strategic location Ajmer became a province of British India, while the autonomous Rajput states, the Muslim state (Tonk), and the Jat states (Bharatpur and Dholpur) were organized into the Rajputana Agency.

Holzgau

The Simms waterfall was created in the 19th century by the British industrialist Frederick Richard Simms.

Jack Marx

In 1999, he became editor of Australian Style, causing controversy when he assigned accused anti-Semite author Helen Darville to interview British Holocaust denier David Irving.

James Edgar Dandy

James Edgar Dandy (Preston, Lancashire, 24 September 1903 - Tring, 10 November 1976) was a British botanist, Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History) between 1956 and 1966.

John Knatchbull

John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005), British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer

Journal of Contemporary History

The winner of the first George L. Mosse Prize in 2006 was the British historian of Nazi Germany Alex J. Kay, who won for his article Germany’s Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941.

Livsey

Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth CBE (1935–2010), British politician and Liberal MP

Masindi

As capital of Bunyoro, Masindi was visited by Samuel Baker, a British explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, from 25 April 1872 to 14 June 1873.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Michael Henry Herbert

He created with the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay a joint commission to establish the border between the U.S. district of Alaska and British interests in the Dominion of Canada, where gold had been found in the 1890s, which resulted in the definitive Alaskan boundary treaty of 1903.

Mount Pleasant Airport

RAF Mount Pleasant, a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands (IATA: MPN)

Nek'af uzhas, nek'af at

In the first track, Vhod (Entrance), there is a motif from the Judas Priest's anthem "Breaking the Law", expressively added in honour of the British band's frontman Rob Halford.

Order of St. Andrew

The colour of the sash differs from the colour of the Imperial era, and resembles the shade of the sash of the British Order of the Garter.

Planche

James Planché, a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms

Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends

Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends is the third album from the British 10-strong singing group Fisherman's Friends.

Ray Cooney

With Tony Hilton, he co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961), which features Sid James and Kenneth Connor.

Rifkind

Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC MP (born 1946), British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Kensington and Chelsea

Rinjani Scops Owl

Seven specimens of the owl were obtained from May to July in 1896 by British naturalist Alfred Everett, who also used paid local collectors.

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Scottish lion

British big cats, alleged big feline creatures living on the British Isles

Slavery in Bhutan

Outside Bhutan proper, various ethnic groups of the Assam Duars including the Mechi were subject to taxation and slaving such that entire villages were abandoned when the British examined the region in 1865.

Tactical Air Control Party

Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, served as a TACP commander in Afghanistan.

Tessellation

"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).

The Taking of Planet 5

The Taking of Planet 5 is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Thomas Colby

Thomas Frederick Colby (1784–1852), British major-general and director of the Ordnance Survey

Tommaso dei Cavalieri

John Addington Symonds, the early British homosexual activist, undid this change by translating the original sonnets into English and writing a two-volume biography, published in 1893.

William Nelson Page

Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “front man” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.

Yorktown campaign

These forces were first opposed weakly by Virginia militia, but General George Washington sent first the Marquis de Lafayette and then Anthony Wayne with Continental Army troops to oppose the raiding and economic havoc the British were wreaking.