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unusual facts about British National




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24: Live Another Day

Judy Davis as Margot — A British national and the widow of a notorious terrorist.

Anthony Deane-Drummond

He was British National Champion in 1957, as well as a member of the British Gliding Team in 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1965 at the World Gliding Championships.

Barney Storey

In 2005 he won the British national title for the 200 metres tandem sprint competing with Craig MacLean.

BNOC

Britoil, originally formed in 1975 as the British National Oil Corporation.

Buxton Hjordis

It had been designed and built for the well-known British glider pilot, Philip Wills, and he flew it at the British National Gliding Competitions at Sutton Bank in September 1935.

Charles Kerr

Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot (1874–1968), British National Liberal Member of Parliament 1932–1940, ennobled 1940

Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend

The German journalist and newspaper editor Friedrich Schrader, himself married to a British national, reported that Townshend appeared personally in the office of his newspaper "Osmanischer Lloyd" to receive the cable from London notifying him about the award.

Criticism of sport utility vehicles

The British national newspaper The Independent reported on a study carried out by CNW Marketing Research which suggested that CO2 emissions alone do not reflect the true environmental costs of a car.

Darwin Mountains

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

Derwent Valley Railway

The Derwent Valley Line, part of the British national rail network in Derbyshire.

Eddie Butler

Eddy Butler (born 1962), former elections officer of the British National Party

Forest Hill station

Forest Hill railway station, railway station in Forest Hill, London built by historic former London & Croydon Railway; the station is now used by British National Rail

God gene

John Polkinghorne, an Anglican priest, member of the Royal Society and Canon Theologian at Liverpool Cathedral, was asked for a comment on Hamer's theory by the British national daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

Harrogate Grammar School

Jenny Duncalf - Professional squash player: Current British National Championship holder

Ian Dennis / Fox Bronte

In January 2010, he drank different coloured juices to change the colour of his urine - to create a portrait of British National Party leader Nick Griffin.

ITV News at 5:30

The 30-minute programme covered British national and international news stories, a brief business update, a look at the mornings newspapers and regular NBC News segments and broadcasts at 5:30am every day.

John Kabbaj

Instead of playing the British national anthem God Save The Queen, the Sex Pistols song of the same name was played, much to Kabbaj's disgust.

Léon Zack

Zack has work in British National collections including the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia.

Liza Pulman

Her previous acting credits include her portrayal of Violet in the London Palladium's production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and she starred opposite Phillip Schofield and Russ Abbot in the British national tour of Doctor Dolittle.

Lynne Bateson

Bateson has contributed to seven British national newspapers: Daily and Sunday Express, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, The Times and Sunday Times, as well among other publications, the London Evening Standard, the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Pudsey News and Money, Real and Your Life magazines.

MC7

British NVC community MC7, a classification for maritime cliff communities in the British National Vegetation Classification

NICF

British Cycling, the British national governing body for cycle racing

Oshwal Academy

Its curriculum follows the British National Curriculum of General Certificate of Education

Penygraig

Penygraig, like many of the villages of the Rhondda, also produced notable boxers, including Tom Thomas, who in 1908 became the first British national middle-weight champion, and in 1909 was the first winner of the Lonsdale Belt at the same weight.

Sandwell Council election, 2004

During the campaign the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown visited Sandwell and called on voters to reject the British National Party.

SD1

British NVC community SD1, the only shingle community in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

SD18

British NVC community SD18 - one of the 16 sand-dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system

Sigismund Payne Best

Best, Stevens and Dutch Lieutenant Dirk Klop (pretending, for neutrality's sake, to be a British national) began a series of meetings, which, despite Best's misgivings about Fischer and his putative friends (who were in fact SD agents), culminated in what pretended to be an agreement to form, post-Hitler, a united German-British front against the Soviet Union.

Sounds of The Four Tops

Controversy has been sparked as Freddie Lee Peterkin took action in 2009 against two British national touring theatre shows for misappropriating his original choreographed works.

Talbot Street bomb-making haul

On 28 September 2006, Robert Cottage, a former candidate for the British National Party, was arrested at his home in Talbot Street, Colne.

United Kingdom and the euro

However, as national variation is a requisite of euro coins, it remains an option for the Royal Mint to incorporate the symbols of the Home Nations into its designs for the British national sides of euro coinage.

Wingates Band

In 1906 it achieved the "double" by winning the British Open brass band championships and the British National championships (the latter staged at the Crystal Palace in London) in the same year.