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Briton (other)
A Briton is a national or native of Great Britain. Briton or Britons may also refer to: Peoples * Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from the British Iron Age into the Middle Ages * British people, citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Individuals * William Briton or Breton (died 1356), Breton Franciscan theologian * Briton Hadden (1898–1929), co-founder and first editor of ''Time'' magazine * Briton Hammon, 18th century slave in British North America who wrote an autobiography published in 1760 * Briton Rivière (1840–1920), British painter Other uses * , various Royal Navy ships * , a paddle steamer launched in 1862 * Briton Motor Company, a car manufacturer (1909–1919 and 1922–1929) based in Wolverhampton, England * The Britons, an English antisemitic organization * Britons, nickname of the Albion College sports teams * Kaptain Briton, a Marvel Comics alternate version of Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briton
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain during the British Iron Age, Iron Age, whose descendants formed the major part of the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, Bretons and considerable proportions of English people. It also refers to those British subjects born in parts of the former British Empire that are now independent countries who settled in the United Kingdom prior to 1973. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Britons
The Britons ( *''Pritanī'', , ), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were the Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages. The earliest written evidence for the Britons is from Greco-Roman writers and dates to the Iron Age. Ancient Britain was made up of many tribes and kingdoms, associated with various hillforts. The Britons followed an ancient Celtic religion overseen by druids. Some of the southern tribes had strong links with mainland Europe, especially Gaul and Belgica, and minted their own coins. The Roman Empire conquered most of Britain in the 1st century AD, creating the province of Britannia. The Romans invaded northern Britain, but the Britons and Caledonians in the north remained unconquered, and Hadrian's Wall became the edge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain during the British Iron Age, Iron Age, whose descendants formed the major part of the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, Bretons and considerable proportions of English people. It also refers to those British subjects born in parts of the former British Empire that are now independent countries who settled in the United Kingdom prior to 1973. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Briton
William Briton or Breton (died 1356) was a Breton Franciscan theologian. John Bale places his death in 1356 at Grimsby. Works Briton's works, enumerated by Bale, are principally concerned with dialectics Dialectic (; ), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument. Dialectic resembles debate, but the .... He is remembered, however, for his 'Vocabularium Bibliæ,' a treatise explanatory of obscure words in the Scriptures. The prologue and some other components are in Latin verse. These, with supplemental specimens, were printed by Angelo Maria Bandini. Extracts are given by Ducange.'Glossar. Med. et Infim. Latin.' praef., cap. xlix. References Year of birth missing 1356 deaths French Franciscans 14th-century Breton people French male writers Writers from Brittany {{Christian-theologian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of ''Time'' magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was ''Time''s first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle. Though he died at 31, he was considered one of the most influential journalists of the twenties, a master innovator and stylist, and an iconic figure of the Jazz Age. Early life Born in Brooklyn, Hadden got his start in newspaper writing at Brooklyn's Poly Prep Country Day School, where he wrote for the school magazine, the ''Poly Prep'', and distributed a hand-written, underground sheet to his classmates that was called ''The Daily Glonk''. Moving to the Hotchkiss School, he wrote for the ''Hotchkiss Record'', a weekly newspaper. After an intense competition, he was elected the chairman of the newspaper and Luce the assistant managing editor. Hadden then turned the ''Record'' from a weekly into a bi-weekly. At Yale, Hadden was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briton Hammon
Briton Hammon was a slave of African descent who lived in British North America during the middle of the 18th century. On December 25, 1747, by leave of his owner, Hammon left his home in Marshfield, Massachusetts, to board a ship in neighboring Plymouth to work on a sailing ship headed for Jamaica. On June 15, 1748, the ship wrecked. Hammon and the crew were cast away off the coast of Florida, beginning a series of hardships and adventures that he chronicled in an autobiographical account, ''A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man'', first published in 1760. His experiences after the shipwreck included being held captive by the indigenous peoples of Florida, spending four years in a Spanish prison in Cuba, being rescued by a British lieutenant who smuggled him on board a British man-o-war, and then serving several years in the British Navy before suffering wounds during a skirmish with a French warship. Hammon was honorably discharged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briton Rivière
Briton Rivière (14 August 1840 – 20 April 1920) was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animal paintings. Biography Briton's father, William Rivière (1806–1876), was for some years drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and then an art teacher at the University of Oxford. Briton was educated at Cheltenham College and Oxford, where he took his degree in 1867. For his art training he was indebted almost entirely to his father. This cites Sir Walter Armstrong, "Briton Riviere, R.A.: His Life and Work", ''Art Annual'' (1891). His paternal uncle Henry Parsons Rivière (1811–1888) was also a noted watercolourist, exhibiting works at the Royal Watercolour Society, London and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. His first pictures appeared at the British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three works at the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briton Motor Company
The Briton Motor Company was a Wolverhampton-based car manufacturer that produced cars from 1909 to 1919 then from 1922 to 1929. The company produced a number of models ranging from 7 to 16 horsepower and played an important role in the Wolverhampton motor industry. History Foundation The Briton Motor Company was formed in 1909 after the Star Motor Company, Star Engineering Company took over the Star Cycle Company and manufacture of the 'Starling' and 'Stuart' cars was ended. They were replaced by Briton cars produced by the Briton Car Company, managed by Edward Lisle Junior, son of Star's founder.Wolverhampton History and HeritageBriton Cars, Retrieved 9 September Briton continued to work out of Star's Stewart Street Works using the same workforce as had been there previously. The first model produced was the two-Cylinder (engine), cylinder, 7 hp, 'Little Briton' which sold for 175 guineas, increasing to 10 and 12 hp. These were followed by four-cylinder models ranging f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Britons
The Britons was an English anti-Semitic and anti-immigration organisation founded in July 1919 by Henry Hamilton Beamish and John Henry Clarke. The organisation published pamphlets and propaganda under the names Judaic Publishing Co. and later The Britons, and (The) Britons Publishing Society. These entities mainly engaged in disseminating antisemitic literature and rhetoric in the United Kingdom. The organisation was on the forefront of British Fascists. Imprints under the first label exist for 1920, 1921, and 1922. According to historian Sharman Kadish, The Britons was "the most extreme group disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda in the early 1920s - indeed the first organisation set up in Britain for this express purpose." History The group was founded in London in 1919 by Henry Hamilton Beamish, who had developed an antisemitic worldview while living in South Africa. Beamish wrote The Britons' constitution and the group was launched at a meeting of 14 people chaired b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albion College
Albion College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Albion, Michigan. The college was founded in 1835 and its undergraduate population was approximately 1,500 students as of Fall 2021. The college competes in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division III and the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). History On March 23, 1835, Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist settlers in Spring Arbor Township, Michigan, Spring Arbor Township obtained a charter for a new seminary from the Michigan Territory, Michigan Territorial Legislature. Construction began in 1837 outside Spring Arbor but the Panic of 1837 ended the project. A petition to move the seminary to Albion was approved by the legislature in 1839. Sixty acres (243,000 m2) of land were donated by Jesse Crowell to the renamed "Wesleyan Seminary", and construction began in 1841. The first classes were held in 1843 in the local Methodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Britain
Captain Britain is a title used by various superheroes in comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Excalibur. The moniker was first used in publication by Brian Braddock in ''Captain Britain'' #1 by writer Chris Claremont and artist Herb Trimpe, and is currently held by Brian's twin sister, Betsy Braddock. The designation of the publisher's primary continuity as Earth-616 originated in Dave Thorpe, Alan Davis and Alan Moore's Marvel UK '' Captain Britain'' stories. The strip also established the multiversal Captain Britain Corps, members of which act as the champions of their own respective versions of the British Isles, which act as a nexus point between dimensions via Otherworld. Creation Marvel UK, the British wing of Marvel Comics, had been established in 1972. In order to fit in with the style of British weeklies, titles such as '' The Mighty World of Marvel'' consisted of reprinted Marvel material in an anthology magazine format, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breton (other)
Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany **Breton (horse), a breed **Galette or Breton galette or crêpe, a thin buckwheat flour pancake popular in Brittany **Breton (hat) headgear with upturned brim, said to be based on designs once worn by Breton agricultural workers Breton may also refer to: *Breton (surname) *Breton (band), a South London-based music group *Breton (Elder Scrolls), a race in ''The Elder Scrolls'' game series who are descendants of men and Elves *Breton, an alternative name for these wine grapes: **Cabernet Franc **Béquignol noir *Breton (company) *Breton, Alberta, village in Alberta, Canada *Cape Breton An island occupying roughly the northern fifth of Nova Scotia, Canada See also *''Bretonne'', 2010 album by Nolwenn Leroy *Briton (other) *Brereton (other) *Bretton (disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
