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Briton-class corvette

Between them, they were assigned to the China, East Indies, African, North American, and the Pacific Stations.


1918 in Wales

Able Seaman Richard Morgan, serving aboard HMS Garland, is the last Welshman – and the last Briton – to be killed in action in the First World War, in the course of which over 40,000 Welsh people have lost their lives.

19384 Winton

It is named after Nicholas Winton - a Briton that organized a rescue mission to save 669 of mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children from their horrific fate in Nazi concentration camps.

2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident

The aircraft took off from Baghdad International Airport en route to Bahrain International Airport at 06:30 UTC with an experienced crew of three: two Belgians, 38-year-old Captain Eric Genotte and 29-year-old First Officer Steeve Michielsen, and a Briton, 54-year-old flight engineer Mario Rofail.

2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles

In the heats, Briton Dai Greene completed an unexpected and comfortable win, while seventeen-year-old Jehue Gordon of Trinidad and Tobago surprised with a senior national record to qualify for the semis.

2010 Catalunya GP2 Series round

At that point he seemed out of contention, but the Briton produced a stunning drive from the back of the grid, reminicest of Lewis Hamilton's drive through the field in Turkey 2006, to haul himself back up to ninth at the finish, falling just 1.6s short of taking the final point and sprint race pole from Ocean Racing's Fabio Leimer.

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings

The Age of Kings allows the player to command any one of five historical civilizations: the Britons, Franks, Mongols, Saracens and Japanese.

Anatolian Bulgarians

The existence of Bulgarian villages in Anatolia was noted by western travellers such as the Italian Dr Salvatori (1807), the Frenchman J.M. Tancoigne and the Briton George Keppel (1829).

Andéramboukane

On 1 June, an Al-Qaeda website claimed that the Briton, Edwin Dyer, had been killed following demands for the release of the radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada from a British jail.

Andrew Robson

In 1998 he was the first Briton, with teammate Forrester, to win a prestigious US Major, the Reisinger, and the same squad won the event a second time the following year.

Anthemiolus

It can probably be further narrowed to the period when Anthemius is known to have been organising a concerted effort to remove the Visigoths from Gaul between 468 and 471, a period during which an army led by the Briton Riothamus was defeated near Déols.

Aycliffe Stadium

However, photographs from 1955 of a driver's presentation evening at the North Briton Pub (in Aycliffe Village) suggest that stock car racing had already taken place at Aycliffe in 1955.

Belgian Grand Prix

On lap 17, Briton Chris Bristow, driving a Cooper, was fighting for sixth with Belgian Willy Mairesse.

Briton Ferry

In 1875 the French-born engineer Louis Gustave Mouchel established himself in Briton Ferry and quickly became involved in a number of successful enterprises.

Briton Hadden

Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce.

Briton Motor Company

However the car industry was changing as companies such as Austin and Morris adopted mass production techniques meaning they were able to produce and sell cars at a cost that Briton could not match, putting the company in deep financial trouble.

Child of the Prophecy

Northumbria: The area in Briton where Harrowfield is located.

Civil Air Transport

Among the dead were 20 Americans, one Briton and members of the Malaysian delegation to the 11th Film Festival in Asia, including businessman Loke Wan Tho and his wife Mavis.

Clan Galbraith

As many as 600 members of the clan were forced to flee after the failure of the revolt, exiled to Kintyre and the Isle of Gigha, where they adopted the new name of MacBhreatneaich of M'Vretny ("son of the Briton") .

Club Athletico Paulistano

1907 Paulistano made the Briton John Hamilton coach of the team, which is believed to be the first appointment of a professional trainer by a Brazilian team.

Cottesmore School

Doug Scott (teacher), mountaineer, first Briton to climb Mount Everest

Damnak Chang'aeur District

In June 1994, Phnom Voar in Damnak Chang'aeur hit the international headlines as the site of the kidnapping of three westerners, Australian David Wilson, 29, Briton Mark Slater, 28, and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, 27 from a train by Khmer Rouge forces led by Commander Chouk Rin.

Elafius

By means of comparison, a Briton Germanus is recorded as having met seventeen years earlier, in 429, is described by Constantius as being of tribunician rank.

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood

The road trip/film pairs Thompson with Finch's fellow Briton the illustrator Ralph Steadman.

Frederick Farey-Jones

He was a supporter of Spain and in 1958 was given the honour of being made a Knight Commander of the Order of Civil Merit; this was the first occasion since the Spanish Civil War that a Briton had been given this award.

Geoff Eley

Eley is particularly well known for his early study, The Peculiarities of German History (first published in German as Mythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung in 1984), co-authored with David Blackbourn (a fellow Briton, who now teaches at Vanderbilt University), which challenged the orthodoxy in German social history known as the Sonderweg thesis.

George Mavrotas

He is, jointly with Spaniard Chiqui Sans, the sixth water polo player to compete at five Olympics, after Briton Paul Radmilovic, Brazilian João Gonçalves Filho, Hungarian Dezső Gyarmati, Italian Gianni De Magistris, and fellow Spaniard Manuel Estiarte.

Ghazi-ud-Din Haider

Ghazi-ud-Din first appointed a British artist, Robert Home (1752–1834) as his court artist and after his retirement in 1828, he appointed another Briton, George Duncan Beechey (1798–1852) as his court artist.

Gianni De Magistris

He is the fourth water polo player to compete at five Olympics, after Briton Paul Radmilovic, Brazilian João Gonçalves Filho, and Hungarian Dezső Gyarmati.

Gioconda de Vito

In 1949, she married a Briton, David Bicknell, an executive with EMI, and she lived in the UK from 1951, although her English was always rudimentary and she often needed a translator.

Giuseppe Wilson

He was born in Darlington to a Neapolitan woman Lina Di Francesca and Dennis Wilson, a Briton who worked as an iron and steel worker at the local factory, but had met Lina while serving with the British Army.

HMS Calypso

HMS Calypso (1883), a Calypso-class corvette launched in 1883, used as a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve from 1902, renamed HMS Briton in 1916, sold in 1922 and used as a storage hulk, and now awash north of Lewisporte.

John Darwin

John Darwin disappearance case, Briton who in 2002 faked his own death in a canoeing accident.

Karl Hudson-Phillips

Along with Hudson-Phillips, the panel includes Briton Desmond Lorenz de Silva and Malaysian Mary Shanthi Dairiam.

Konrad Bartelski

Konrad Bartelski (born 27 May 1954) is a former British alpine ski racer who produced the best result by a Briton on the Alpine Skiing World Cup circuit in 1981 by coming within 0.11 seconds of winning a World Cup downhill race at Val Gardena.

Major Nichols

He was a vice-president of the Hill Top Cycling Club and at its 21st anniversary dinner in 1956 he presented one of his early track frames to the first Briton to finish the Tour de France, Brian Robinson.

Marathon des Sables

James Cracknell, British rower and adventurer, competed in the 2010 race and became the highest placing Briton to ever compete in the race, finishing 12th.

Matej Mináč

He has directed two films about Nicholas Winton, a Briton who organised the rescue of 669 Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport: the drama All My Loved Ones (1999) and the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an Emmy Award.

Nizar Trabelsi

He was also implicated by Briton Saajid Badat, who alleged that both of them had conspired with Richard Reid supposedly to blow up two US-bound airliners using shoe bombs simultaneously.

Oyapock

Early European colonists referred to the river as the Wiapoco, and it was the site of early settlements by Briton Robert Harcourt in 1608 and Dutchman Jan van Ryen in 1627.

Reg Cudlipp

He remained director until 1986, and in 1982 was the first Briton to be awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

Richard Charlton

About this time Charlton alienated another fellow Briton: the HBC agent since 1834 in Honolulu, George Pelly, who was cousin of HBC Governor John Henry Pelly.

Robert de Castella

Briton Mike Gratton finished third in 2:12:06, and Shahanga faded to finish 6th.

Roy Chung

List of American and British defectors in the Korean War: the 21 Americans and 1 Briton who refused repatriation during Operation Big Switch in 1953 (to remain in China)

Shirley Ballas

Shirley was first married to, and competed with, fellow Briton Sammy Stopford.

The House I Grew Up In

With the presenter Wendy Robbins, each week an influential Briton explains some of their thoughts and memories as he or she goes back to the locality and the house (or houses) in which he or she was brought up.

Timothy Peake

If successful, Peake would become the first Briton to fly into space without a private contract (Helen Sharman, Sarah Brightman) or American citizenship (Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick).

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov

At the time, only Americans John B. Kelly, Sr. and Paul Costello and Briton Jack Beresford had won three Olympic Gold Medals in the sport of rowing (since surpassed by Steven Redgrave and others)).


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