Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
100 Greatest Britons is a television series that was broadcast by the BBC in 2002. It was based on a television poll conducted to determine who the British people at that time considered the greatest Britons in history.
100 Great Black Britons is a poll that was first undertaken in 2003 to vote for and celebrate the greatest Black Britons of all time. It was created in a campaign initiated by Patrick Vernon in response to a BBC search for 100 Greatest Britons, together with a television series (2002), which featured no Black Britons in the published listing. [1]
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, [1] as well as a surname of Occitan origin. [2] It is common in the English-speaking world.
Brian Boru, High King.. The following year Brian came to blows with the Norsemen of Limerick at Scattery Island where a monastery was located. Whilst all parties were Christians, when their king Ivar and his sons took refuge in the monastery, Brian desecrated it and killed them in the sanctuary; the Vikings of Limerick had earlier killed Brian's mother.
Bryan Guy Adams CC OBC (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million [2] and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, [3] [4] placing him on the list of best-selling music artists.
Brian, Scott and Mike Bloom; actors and musician, respectively; Kevin-Prince and Jérôme Boateng; German-Ghanaian football players; Martin and Bobby Boer; founders of the band 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor; Frank and Ronald de Boer; football (soccer) players, football coach and analytic, respectively, identical twins
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845): Scottish con man who tried to attract investment and settlers for the non-existent country of "Poyais". [2]Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756–1791): Chief conspirator in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which further tarnished the French royal family's already-poor reputation and, along with other causes, eventually led to the French Revolution.
Robert Surcouf, famous corsair Jeanne de Clisson , ‘Lioness of Brittany’, who conducted naval action against French ships and ports in revenge for her husband's execution Riothamus , ‘King of the Britons’, an ally of the Roman emperor Anthemius and a correspondent with Sidonius Apollinaris ; a possible inspiration for some of the ...