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10 unusual facts about Great Britain


2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy

Austrian Karl Wendlinger and Brit Ryan Sharp won their second successive RAC Tourist Trophy after having won the event the previous year for Jetalliance Racing.

Ace Combat

Strangereal also contains scattered and/or distorted Earth landmasses, such as a distorted Mediterranean near the equator, and Svalbard and Britain-like islands in the north.

Buca

Its rich Levantine residents who acquired the surrounding vineyards typically had Latin backgrounds, as opposed to those who originally came from Britain and who preferred Bornova.

Caretaker Ministry

Caretaker Ministry may refer to three short-lived governments of Great Britain or the United Kingdom.

Ice dancing

Many of the compulsory dances were developed by dancers from Great Britain in the 1930s.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

A special anniversary tour including Great Britain and (in the US) the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Rolling stock

In Great Britain, types of rolling stock were given code names, often of animals.

Tom Bosworth

Thomas Stewart "Tom" Bosworth (born 17 January 1990) is a British race walker who holds two British Records.

Welsh Nobel laureates

Wales is a country within the United Kingdom, this means that Welsh Nobel laureates are included in the list of Nobel laureates for Great Britain by the Nobel Foundation.

Yehiam

The local British authorities assisted in the kibbutz establishment, despite it being against British policy.


1972 Winston 500

There were fifty drivers on the racing grid; 49 of them were born in the United States while Jackie Oliver was born in Great Britain.

Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke

Lord Alanbrooke lives in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, Great Britain, where his father Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke is buried.

Alex Dunn

During the summer of 2008, Dunn made the decision to move to Europe, when along with Jackalopes team-mate Nathan Ward he moved to sign for the EIHL Manchester Phoenix, a team icing at the highest standard of ice hockey in Great Britain.

Alexander Kilham

For this he was arraigned before the Conference of 1796 and expelled, and he then founded the Methodist New Connexion (1798, merged since 1907 in the United Methodist Church (Great Britain)), and now part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain following the reunification of 1932.

Alfred De Courcy

Abbey Cyclone, The Thunderer, The Thunderer Patent, LYR, L&NWR, LMS, GNR, Army ordnance mark 1916, 1917, 1918

Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams

In 1906, she married Harold Williams (1876–1928), a New Zealand-British Slavist who was working as a journalist in Saint Petersburg for the Morning Post.

Armenia Fund

All-Armenian Fund through its 25 affiliate organizations has presence in 22 countries around the world: United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Australia.

Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra

The ASYO has hosted or exchanged visits with youth orchestras from Great Britain, Australia, and Berlin, Germany.

Awsworth

Awsworth once had a station on the Great Northern (later LNER) line from Nottingham to Derby which crossed the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct, closed in September 1964.

Charles Goodson-Wickes

He served as Chairman of BFFS (British Field Sports Society) from 1994–1997 and was a member of the Public Affairs Committee (1980–1987) and is Vice President of the Great Bustard Group (2008-) which is re-introducing the Great Bustard to Great Britain.

Chris Hodgetts

Chris Hodgetts (born 6 December 1950 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire) is a British former racing driver.

Christopher Sanderson

Chris Sanderson's testimonial match at Leeds on the Thursday 12 May 1977, was a match between Leeds and Great Britain, it was attended by 11,000 people and raised £7,000 for his family (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £56,900 in 2010).

Clinton McKenzie

McKenzie represented England and Great Britain throughout his amateur career which culminated in representing Great Britain at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

ECT Mainline Rail

ECT Mainline Rail was a British railway rolling stock hire and maintenance company.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

First Hellenic Republic

The Fifth National Assembly at Nafplion drafted a new royal constitution, while the three "Protecting Powers" (Great Britain, France and Russia) intervened, declaring Greece a Kingdom in the London Conference of 1832, with the Bavarian Prince Otto of Wittelsbach as king.

General Post Office

In 1868, as part of the Volunteer Movement, John Lowther du Plat Taylor, Private Secretary to the Postmaster General, raised the 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Corps (Post Office Rifles) from GPO employees, who had been either members of the 21st Middlesex Rifles Volunteer Corps (Civil Service Rifles) or special constables enrolled to combat against Fenian attacks on London in 1867/68.

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

Ivan Supek

"Heisenberg and von Weizsäcker came to Bohr in German army uniforms. Von Weizsäcker's idea, probably originating from his father who was Ribbentrop's deputy, was to persuade Bohr to mediate for peace between Great Britain and Germany."

James Lebon

James Lebon (May 3, 1959 – December 22, 2008) was a British film and music video director who taught fashion photography at London College of Fashion.

Jimmy Page discography

Jimmy Page is a British rock musician, best known as the guitarist and producer for English rock band Led Zeppelin.

Jirō Osaragi

This led to the foundation of the Japan National Trust, modeled after the National Trust in Great Britain, and which has been successful in preserving the historical ambience of Kamakura and parts of other cities around Japan.

Jonas Žnidaršič

He is also a serious poker player and has appeared on Late Night Poker in Great Britain.

Mainland Chinese

At the time when Hong Kong was colonised by Great Britain, the colony first covered only Hong Kong Island, with a population of only around 6 000, most of whom were fishermen.

Malietoa Tanumafili I

The joint commission of Germany, the United States and Great Britain abolished the Samoan kingship in June 1899 and placed Manu'a and Tutuila under American control while Germany received ‘Upolu, Savaii, Manono, and Apolima.

Michael G. Turnbull

His father, Gordon McKinnon Turnbull, was a soldier and World War II veteran of The Royal Canadian Regiment, frequently stationed in Great Britain as part of Canada's contribution to the Imperial Forces of the British Empire defending the political and cultural center of the Empire, the United Kingdom, during the Battle of Britain.

Norfolk Biffin

The estate records for Mannington, Norfolk, dating from 1698, of Robert Walpole (later the first Prime Minister of Great Britain) mention Norfolk Biffin apples which Walpole had sent up to his house in London.

North London Railway

The Docklands Light Railway follows the path of the long-disused North London Railway from Bow Church to Poplar, and the northern section of the East Cross Route (A12) built in the late 1960s used the route between Old Ford and Victoria Park stations, demolished for the road's construction.

Odonata Records Committee

The Odonata Records Committee (ORC) is the recognised national body which verifies records of rare vagrant dragonflies in Britain.

Park Sung-Hyun

She proceeded to defeat 33rd-ranked Russian archer Natalia Bolotova (165-148), 17th-ranked Naomi Folkard of Great Britain (171-159), 8th-ranked Evangelia Psarra of Greece (111-101), and Alison Williamson of Great Britain (110-100), to reach the final against fellow Korean Lee Sung-Jin.

Pavel Tigrid

In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) when he worked as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda in BBC, and kept it for the rest of his life.

Phil Houston

He controlled two Australia v New Zealand test matches in 1995 and in November 1997 he refereed all three matches of the Super League Test series between Great Britain and Australia in England.

Pusa

This includes the following countries and regions: Russia, Scandinavia, Britain, Greenland, Canada, the USA, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Japan.

Rexim-Favor

The Rexim-Favor was used as a prop in George Lucas' 1977 film Star Wars, produced by 20th Century Fox and filmed in Elstree Studios in Great Britain.

Rule 3: Conceal Your Intentions

Rule 3: Conceal Your Intentions E.P. is the debut EP by English alternative rock band Septembre.

Samuel Boteler Bristowe

After court sittings, Bristowe routinely left Nottingham on the 5.40pm Great Northern train to return to his home at West Hallam in Derbyshire, and on this occasion was followed unobserved by Arnemann, who bought a ticket to the same destination and followed the judge onto the platform.

Sighthill, Glasgow

The Sighthill Park hosts the first astronomically aligned stone circle built in Great Britain for 3,000 years, by the Glasgow Parks Department Astronomy Project guided by Duncan Lunan.

So Easy

The sampled lyrics are: "Blue on blue, heartache on heartache/Blue on blue, Now that we are through." "So Easy" was used for a time on British television adverts for T-Mobile, as well as the displays between programs on Channel 4.

Solon Borland

Immediately after his arrival in Managua, he called for the US Government to repudiate the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, and for the American military to support Honduras in its confrontation with Great Britain.

St James's Palace

For most of the time of the personal union between Great Britain (later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) and the Electorate of Hanover (later Kingdom of Hanover) from 1714 until 1837 the ministers of the German Chancery were working in two small rooms within St James's Palace.

Star Trails

"King of Scotland", the album's second single, is about Idi Amin, who once proclaimed himself king of Scotland after becoming infatuated with the country on a state visit to Great Britain.

Sulu Archipelago

In the second half of the 18th century, Great Britain became a new player in the archipelago After occupying Manila from 1762 – 64, during the Thirty years war between Spain and Great Britain, the British Army withdrew to the south and established trading alliances between the Sulu Sultanate and the British East India Company.

Swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Great Britain, with two of the individual finalists, won the gold while Germany took silver and Austria won bronze over the host Swedes.

Tadeusz Brzozowski

Later that year, Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis of Québec wrote to Pius VII and to Brzozowski, begging that Jesuits be sent from Great Britain not only for Halifax but to work among the aboriginal people in Upper Canada as well.

The Great War: American Front

The fighting in Europe quickly spreads to North America, where the pro-German United States under Theodore Roosevelt declares war on Woodrow Wilson's CSA, which is allied with Great Britain and France.

Trunk road

As of 2004, Great Britain has 7,845 miles (12,625 km) of Trunk Roads, of which 2,161 miles (3,478 km) are motorways.

Western Region of British Railways

The Region consisted principally of ex-Great Western Railway lines, minus certain lines west of Birmingham, which were transferred to the London Midland Region in 1963 and with the addition of all former Southern Railway routes west of Exeter, which were subsequently rationalised.

Willesden

By road, Willesden is connected to many places as the A41 road/A5 road runs close by in nearby Kilburn/Cricklewood.