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unusual facts about ''Britannic''



Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Finsbury Circus

Fronting the northwest quadrant of the oval, with fronts on roads entering the Circus from the west stands Edwin Lutyens's massive Britannic House (1921–25, listed Grade II), designed for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which became BP; its free-standing architectural sculptures are by Francis Derwent Wood.

Gibraltar passport

on Gibraltar-issued passports, The Governor of Gibraltar replaces Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State.

HMBS

Her Majesty's Ship, aka "Her Majesty's Burmese Ship" or Her majesty's Britannic Ship

Hugh Kearney

He is the author of several articles on early modern economic history, a biography on Thomas Wentworth, and the acclaimed book British Isles: A History of Four Nations which advocated a multi-national, "Britannic" approach, rather than an Anglo-centric approach to their history, historiography and sociology.

Photographic grey

The White Star Line's third Olympic class ocean liner, the Britannic was painted photographic grey during her construction and for her launch.

Roger Acherley

London (1727), which was written to demonstrate the constitutional fitness of the accession of William III, and of the Hanoverian succession; a second edition, issued in 1759, incorporated ‘Reasons for Uniformity in the State, being a Supplement to the Britannic Constitution,’ which first appeared in 1741.


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