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unusual facts about British American



Northwest Philadelphia

Northwest Philadelphia has substantial African American, Irish-American, Italian-American, German-American, and British American (English American/Scottish American) populations, but its culture is varied, and only smaller neighborhoods within it can be said to be known for one ethnicity predominating.


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Albert W. Hawkes

His daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the second wife of Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist and host of Masterpiece Theater.

Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland

Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010) is a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland written by British-American author J.T. Holden.

Arthur Chapman

Arthur B. Chapman (1908–2004), British-American animal genetic researcher

Brimelow

Peter Brimelow (born 1947), British-American financial journalist, author, and right-wing political activist

British American School of Charlotte

British Schools of America operates four additional schools similar to the British American School of Charlotte in various cities, including Boston, Chicago, Houston and Washington, D.C..

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.

Calabuch

This Spanish-Italian co-production was filmed in Peniscola, Castellón (province), and features an international cast led by British-American actor Edmund Gwenn in his last film role, and Italians Valentina Cortese and Franco Fabrizi.

Charles M. Falco

In 2000, Falco began collaborating with the British-American artist David Hockney, resulting in their discovery of scientific evidence in paintings made as early as c.1430 that demonstrated portions of them were created with the aid of optical projections.

Charles Parry

Charles Christopher Parry (1823–1890), British-American botanist and mountaineer

Cochrane Lake, Alberta

Cochrane Lake gets it name from Senator Matthew Henry Cochrane who in 1881 founded the Cochrane Ranche (later known as the British-American Ranche) which was a major producer of beef.

Colin Gray

Colin S. Gray, contemporary British-American scholar of international relations

David Abell

David Charles Abell (born 1958), British American orchestral conductor

Denis Stepanov

A multinational law enforcement group of British, American, and Russian private individuals and law enforcement agents captured Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.

Doniach

Sebastian Doniach (born 1934), British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University

Ernest Pollard

Ernest C. Pollard (1906–1997), British-American professor that helped work on the development of radar systems, and worked with biophysics

Garriott

Richard Garriott (born 1961), British-American video game developer and entrepreneur

Gonzalo Carrera

Carrera has also previously worked with Spanish progressive rock band Galadriel and British-American progressive rock band Quasar, as well as on solo projects by former members of Hawkwind (Huw Lloyd-Langton), Jethro Tull (Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick), Karnataka (Nick May), The Nice (David O'List), and Yes (Peter Banks).

Greenstick fracture

It was discovered by British-American orthopedist, John Insall, and Polish-American orthopedist, Michael Slupecki.

H. J. Heinz II

In 1979, Queen Elizabeth II made Heinz an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, citing him "for significant contribution in the furtherance of British-American relationships, especially in the cultural, educational and economic fields."

Herbert W. Armstrong

Armstrong adhered to a form of British Israelism which stated that the British, American and many European peoples were descended from the so-called Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, using this belief to state that biblical references to Israel, Jacob, etc., were in fact prophecies relating to the modern day, with literal application to the USA, Britain, and the British Commonwealth.

History of communism

In 1949 the British, American and other non-Communist unions broke away to form the rival International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Ivan Maksakov

A multinational law enforcement group made up of British, American, and Russian private individuals and law enforcement agents captured Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.

James Austin

Jimmy Austin (1879–1965), British-American baseball player and coach

Jason Brisbane

In 2011 Brisbane joined British American Football team Leicester Falcons as defensive coordinator.

Jean-Marie Bonnassieux

Bonnassieux subsequently taught at the Ecole, and among his students in the 1880s was the young American Lorado Taft, and the British-American sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson.

John Agnew

John A. Agnew (born 1949), British-American political geographer

John Angel

John Lawrence Angel (1915–1986), British-American biological anthropologist

John Nolan

Jonathan Nolan (born 1976), British-American writer and producer.

Juan Mauricio Wurmser

His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.

Motzstraße

The renowned British-American author Christopher Isherwood lived just around the corner in Nollendorfstraße, where he was remarkably inspired to write several of his best-selling books.

Norman Walker

Norman W. Walker (1886–1985), British-American raw food and alternative health advocate

Oh... Rosalinda!!

In 1955 Vienna, during its post-war occupation, the black-market dealer Dr. Falke (Anton Walbrook) moves freely through the French, British, American and Russian sectors, dealing in champagne and caviar amongst the highest echelons of the allied powers.

Province of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the British American colonies, and The Academy and College of Philadelphia, the predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, both opened.

Richard Janko

Richard Janko (born May 30, 1955 in Weston Underwood) is a British-American classical philologist whose work has focused primarily upon Bronze Age Greece, archaic Greek epic, ancient literary criticism and the reconstruction of ancient books on papyrus-rolls.

Rosehearty

Hugh Mercer (1726–1777) British/American soldier and physician

Softline International

Leading Russian and foreign Companies work with Softline, among which there are leading enterprises of large business: Public Corporation “Gazprom”, Public Corporation “Lukoil”, Public Corporation “GMK Norilskiy Nikel”, Public Corporation “Pivovarennaya Kompania “Baltika”, Coca-Cola, Samsung Electronics, Nestlé, British American Tobacco Plc, Toshiba and over fifty thousand of other companies from the segment of large-, medium- and small-scale business.

Stanley Electric

The company was founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano, who named the company after British-American Africa-explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

The Doyle School of Design and Technology

The Doyle School of Design and Technology was founded by American Old Blue, John Doyle who is a reputed British-American engineer and multimillionaire entrepreneur.

The Global Voices Program

Crewdson was awarded a British American Arts Administrative Training Institute Fellowship, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and was the official U.S. representative at Tashkent's First International Theater Festival in Uzbekistan, and has represented the Chicago Artists International Program in Egypt and Turkey, and addressed the United States Sister Cities International delegation in Casablanca Morocco, at the 50th Anniversary celebration of its founding.

Thomas Graham Brown

In 1936, Graham Brown was part of the joint British–American team that made the first ascent of Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalaya, though only two of the party, Bill Tilman and Noel Odell, made the summit.

Tumbling Down

The song was used in the 1998 British/American drama film Velvet Goldmine, directed and co-written by Todd Haynes.

William Oldham

William Fitzjames Oldham (1854–1937), Indian-born British-American bishop and missionary