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A House Called Awful End: Philip Ardagh: Novel Barmy in Wonderland* Angel Cake: P. G. Wodehouse: Novel The Whale* Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Herman Melville: Novel Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody* Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody: Michael Gerber: The book is a parody of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling ...
The United States would gain all of the area east of the Mississippi River, north of Florida, and south of Canada. The northern boundary would be almost the same as today. The United States would gain fishing rights off the Atlantic coast of Canada, and agreed to allow British merchants and Loyalists to try to recover their property. It was a ...
This is to be contrasted with the red book (1984) and blue book (1988) versions of ITU-T Recommendations. Yellow Book Transport Service (YBTS), the transport-layer protocol of the UK Coloured Book protocols; Yellow Book, a name for the Government Auditing Standards, standards relating to audits of governments in the United States, issued by the ...
The Acts of Union 1707 declared that the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland were "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [p] [22] The term "United Kingdom" has occasionally been used as a description for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although its official name from 1707 to 1800 was simply "Great Britain". [23]
to study again (as in preparing for an examination) (UK: revise), hence review (n.) revise to study again (as in preparing for an examination) (US: review), hence revision: to inspect, amend, correct, improve, esp. written material rider a person who rides a horse, bicycle or motorcycle [58] an addition or amendment to a document or law [58] [59]
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan in 1985. Their strong bond epitomised UK–US relations in the late 20th century.. The Special Relationship is a term that is often used to describe the political, social, diplomatic, cultural, economic, legal, environmental, religious, military and historic relations between the United Kingdom and the United States or its ...
The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. The Yellow Book was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897. It was published at The Bodley Head Publishing House by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland.
The British band Queen released an album called At the Beeb in the UK and it had to be called "At the BBC" for US release. Belisha beacon orange ball, containing a flashing light or now sometimes surrounded by a flashing disc of LEDs , mounted on a post at each end of a zebra crossing (q.v.); named after the UK Minister of Transport Leslie Hore ...