• The British king could declare war on anyone he cared to, but only Parliament could tax or borrow to fund it.

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  • The Nash Conservatory was relocated from Buckingham Palace grounds in 1836 by reigning British monarch King William IV.

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  • British movie The King's Speech was awarded the top honour at this year's Directors Guild of America Awards.

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  • Six British crew members and one American were killed Saturday in a midair collision between two British Navy Sea King helicopters over the Persian Gulf, according to the UK Central Command in Qatar and the Pentagon.

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  • Ben Bernanke and his British counterpart, Mervyn King, might be heroes to some.

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  • Almost the only thing a Catholic (or even the spouse of a Catholic) cannot be, by British law, is king or queen.

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  • Among other British names, Mary King and Imperial Cavalier are seventh while world number one William Fox-Pitt is back in 13th and 17th aboard Navigator and Cool Mountain respectively.

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  • The result, says Roger King, a British-based expert on the global higher education business, can be more than 10% extra turnover for a university that runs its offshore business well.

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  • In the first three months of last year, British Oscar-winner The King's Speech led the UK box office, while Hollywood productions Tangled and Black Swan were in second and third places.

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  • Pirelli doles out "the Cal, " as those in the know call it, to a select group of 40, 000 special people, including members of the British royal family, the king of Spain, Paul Newman and Bill Gates.

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  • The old dogfighters like Frank Lorenzo (once of Continental and Eastern) and Lord King (of British Airways) have given way to a younger generation of marketeers, more suited to the world of virtual airlines, alliances and empowerment programmes.

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  • The UK's Christopher Nolan is also nominated in this category for Inception, as is David Seidler - the British-American writer of The King's Speech.

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  • Two British researchers, Harry McConnell of King's College Hospital and Robert Smith of the Imperial College School of Medicine, reported that mismanagement of the disorder occurs in Britain, too.

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  • Members of British royalty, Napoleon Bonaparte, King Louis Philippe of France, Frederick II of Prussia and other dignitaries all drank wines from Constantia and served it to special guests in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

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  • Although few details of the book's creation are known, it is generally believed to have been the work of an English bookseller, publisher, journalist, and staunch antipapist named Benjamin Harris, who fled London for Boston in 1686 following the ascent of King James II to the British throne.

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  • He said security was not an issue during the trip and that he would speak to the British Council about revisiting Iraq with pupils from King Edward VI.

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  • British-based Diageo purchased Pillsbury, Burger King and Green Giant.

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  • In 1793 Lord George Macartney was sent to Peking by King George III to establish a permanent British presence and open up trade relations with China.

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  • It is less thrilling than yesterday's weather forecast, yet Mr Gillmeister's opinions become ever more fanciful, until he finds himself maintaining that Count Voss's trip to the green courts of the British Isles resembled the quest of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's itinerant knight.

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  • Herbert, who followed up his best-selling debut with another hit, "The Fog, " and another 21 books over the decades, was seen as a British rival to U.S. horror supremo Stephen King.

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  • Accessible via privately chartered plane from Vancouver to Bella Bella with a transfer to float planes for the final leg, King Pacific Lodge is in the middle of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest.

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  • Spain's king and queen were there, along with the British, Italian and Portuguese prime ministers.

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  • In 1683, George II, king of England 1727-1760 and the last British monarch to take part in a battle (Dettingen, 1743), born.

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  • His grandfather, he says, was a host of the country's reformist leader, King Amanullah Khan, after it gained independence from the British in 1919, and imported fuel, cooking oil, foods, technical equipment and construction materials from Iran and the Soviet Union.

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  • Chief executive of Sainsbury's Justin King said his supermarket was committed to doubling the amount of British food it sold by 2020.

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  • And on Saturday, two Royal Navy Sea King helicopters collided over the northern Arabian Gulf, killing six British and one U.S. crew member aboard.

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  • Ireland's King of Kings dethroned French champion Xaar to land a first British classic for trainer Aidan O'Brien in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

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  • By the late 1800s the Royal Yacht Squadron had become a social nexus abuzz with the beautiful mistresses of King Edward VII and with American heiresses on the prowl for British aristos.

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  • The journey to three of British Columbia's most renowned wilderness fishing and adventure lodges--King Pacific Lodge, Sonora Resort, and Clayoquot Wilderness Resort--begins, almost inevi-tably, with an air connection out of YVR, Vancouver International Airport.

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