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 Briton Ferry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Briton Ferry (Welsh: Llansawel) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales.
The town encompases the electoral wards of Briton Ferry East and Briton Ferry West.
How to get there: Come into Briton Ferry from the Port Talbot side, drive through on the main road, turn right at the traffic lights onto Ynysymaerdy Road, follow thr road past the cemetery, turn right and your within 100 yards of the entrance to the woods.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Briton_Ferry   (289 words)

  
 Sun.Star Pampanga - Briton: No ‘relief order’
Briton said earlier reports of his so-called relief were based on a letter addressed to a “non-existent” position in the CLDRC, which merely “advises” the supposed addressee of the PNP’s plans for Briton.
Briton added that in spite of the fact that he is not, in capacity, actively working for the PNP, he is still performing his duties at the center.
Briton said he was relieved of his duties as DRDA at the regional headquarters because of an alleged “misunderstanding” with Chief Supt. Vidal Querol, regional police director.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/pam/2004/02/07/news/briton.no.relief.order..html   (357 words)

  
 Briton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Briton is often referred to in broad terms as being an inhabitant of the geographical region of Great Britain
Many prefer to identify themselves as distinctly English, Scottish, Cornish, or Welsh rather than British, referring to aspects of their own culture and origins which distinguish the peoples of Britain from each other.
Whether someone refers to their ethnic group as English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, it does not necessarily mean that they are not also British or cannot be classified as a Briton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Briton   (457 words)

  
 Building design Briton Door Closers
The Briton 5500 Series of high performance European Lockcases are CE marked, conform to EN12209 and meet the requirements of BS8300 and the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
The Briton 2100 Series of mechanical door closers, is CE marked to EN1154 and has been developed in conjunction with installers to provide one of the simplest, quickest and most accurate fixing systems available.
Briton is uniquely positioned to supply a complete security and safety package from cutting edge biometrics solutions through networked and stand-alone electronic access control systems such as the Briton Cobra, a battery powered electronic lockset which is ideal for new construction or retrofit applications.
www.buildingdesign.co.uk /arch/ingersoll/ingersoll.htm   (534 words)

  
 Remains of Briton, two Japanese found in Afghanistan - The Boston Globe
US-led coalition troops raiding a Taliban hide-out in the Afghan mountains found the body of a Briton believed to be David Addison, Britain's Foreign Office said yesterday.
The bodies of the two Japanese were found Thursday in the desert near a road leading from Kandahar to the Pakistani border.
Kim Howells, the British foreign office minister, said the Briton was found in western Farah Province during a search-and-rescue operation by coalition forces.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/09/04/remains_of_briton_two_japanese_found_in_afghanistan   (408 words)

  
 Sun.Star Pampanga - Editorial: On Briton’s relief
A lot of people have been prodding the Sagip-Bie Foundation Inc. (SBFI) to relieve Briton but the foundation claimed it could not act on the matter since the CLDRC Executive Director was assigned there by higher authorities of the Philippine National Police.
Briton, however, did not leave his post until he was finally relieved by PNP Director Jose F. Lalisan, Director for Personnel and Records Management.
And we hope that pending the conclusion of the investigation on Briton et al, he has to stop whining and submit himself peacefully the probe.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/pam/2004/02/05/oped/editorial.html   (337 words)

  
 Alcatel delivers seamless multi-site IP communicationsfor Briton Electronic Manufacturing Services
A lack of effective inter-site communication meant Briton was unable to make full use of the office facilities on one of the sites, while losing time and money transferring calls between the two systems.
Briton opted for the Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise, which was implemented by Switch Communications, an Alcatel Premium Business Partner, which specialises in selling unified communications solutions to both public and private sector organisations.
Briton EMS is a leading contract electronics manufacturer, selling equipment to SMEs within the industrial and instrumentation sectors.
www.home.alcatel.com /vpr/vpr.nsf/va_TousByIDPere/II298B895B792A157AC12570370050A7FAEngII   (613 words)

  
 Briton quotes & quotations
Britons never, never never shall be marr-i-ed to a mer-ma-id / At the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race.
Britons are quite separated from all the world.
en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/briton   (327 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Briton Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Britain was later dominated by other stronger cultures, such as the Romans, the Irish Scots, the Teuton tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes and finally the Normans, each of which, aside from the Normans, brought a definite cultural change in Great Britain that was markedly different from before.
The commonly held view of the earlier 20th century that the Anglo-Saxons wiped out the Britons of England and forced the remainder out to Wales and Cornwall has been refuted by modern genetic analysis.
The use of the word Briton is historically quite a recent development.
www.ipedia.com /briton.html   (641 words)

  
 Kaptain Briton (Captain Britain Corps)
According to Yap of the Technet, Kaptain Briton and Captain Britain had very similar "auras", and they seemed to be well matched in combat; hence it seems likely that there power levels were all but identical.
I haven't listed Mastrex Sat-Yr-Nin as an enemy, nor put Briton's status as FORMER Konsort, as the tyrant seemed merely peeved at his running away, and there is nothing to suggest that he meant to leave his place in the Empire of Briton permanently.
Kaptain Briton's costume is not disposed of with his corpse.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/kapbriton.htm   (1317 words)

  
 Briton (II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Briton remained in commercial service during World War I, but her third class space was devoted to troops.
She was used at various times to carry South African troops to Britain, British troops to the Mediterranean, Nigerian troops from Mombassa to Lagos and United States troops to Europe.
Briton re-entered Union-Castle's mail service to South Africa in 1920, and remained in service through 1924.
www.greatships.net /briton.html   (229 words)

  
 American Bulldog History, Evolution of the Bulldog, Presented by Lone Oak Kennel.
Briton was made a Roman province in the year 50 AD, when the British chieftain Caractacus was defeated by Emperor Claudius.
These fighting dogs of Briton were known as the Broad Mouthed Dogs of Briton.
They appealed to the Romans, who sent considerable numbers of them from Briton to Rome, to take part in the sports of the amphitheater, and it has even been said that the Romans appointed an officer to select British dogs and export them to Rome.
www.americanbulldog.org /history.htm   (3249 words)

  
 Briton Information from Garb The World
The Britons were the original inhabitants of historical England, as early as 10,000 BC they were nomadic tribes living in particular areas, living on natural resources of its territory.
One of the first descriptions of the Britons was by Ceasar, when he visited the island.
History of the Scots, the Picts, and the Britons.
www.garbtheworld.com /pgs/hist/britons.shtml   (108 words)

  
 Dark Age of Camelot WarCry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the world of Albion, Britons are the average race, able to do anything yet have no specific traits that set them apart from the other races.
One defining feature of the Britons is their sole ability to become a Friar, being the only single-race class in the game.
As a natural citizen of the city of Avalon, one is expected to be more interested in feats of the mind than feats of the body, and this shows its effect in the stature and abilities of the Avalonians.
daoc.warcry.com /index.php/content/compendium/albion/races/menu/albion   (599 words)

  
 Briton, 5 others injured in bus holdup - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BALANGA CITY, Bataan--Six passengers, including a Briton, were injured at dawn Friday during a holdup on a Zambales-bound Victory Liner bus, police said.
The injured Briton was identified as Paul Howard.
Police said one of the injured victims resisted the holdup men and was shot several times by one of the suspects.
news.inq7.net /breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=60162   (256 words)

  
 Herald Sun: Web inventor voted top Briton (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His selfless act added to modesty and ingenuity were deemed by a panel of judges to make Berners-Lee the Greatest Briton of 2004 in the first of what organisers said they hoped would become an annual event.
Mr Brown, who opened the glittering award ceremony, said Britons were a wonderful people and invoked the bulldog spirit of World War II leader Winston Churchill – which he said was as valid now as in 1940.
Mad dogs and Englishmen may be renowned for going out in the midday sun, but eccentricity is not the sole criteria that separates a Briton from the rest of the world.
www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,12077029^1702,00.html   (566 words)

  
 Vanguard - Headlines : Armed youths kidnap Briton, Irish in Warri
WARRI— A GANG of armed youths, Wednesday night in Warri, seized a Briton and an Irish, both of whom are employees of Pan Ocean Oil Corporation.
The bus with which the expatriates were abducted has been recovered and was seen at the ‘A’ Division, yesterday, with the corpse of the dead bandit inside.
yesterday, the JTF issued a statement, saying the Briton and Irish who were kidnapped by a seven-man gang of militant youths had been freed.
www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/headline/f130092005.html   (701 words)

  
 Briton, Swede killed in Iraq -DAWN - Top Stories; 21 January, 2005
DUBAI, Jan 20: A militant group said on Thursday it had abducted and killed a Briton and a Swede in the central Iraqi city of Beiji.
The Swedish foreign ministry said it was not aware of any Swede dead or missing in Iraq and was checking the claim.
A Briton and an Iraqi were killed on Wednesday in an ambush while travelling in a convoy near Beiji.
www.dawn.com /2005/01/21/top11.htm   (214 words)

  
 ARC ARTicles - Obituary of Briton Riviere - Paul Ripley - Page 1/1
Mr Riviere came from a family of French origin which had settled in England since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Goldwin Smith determined to spend his fee on a picture by Briton Riviere, who painted for him his Death of Marmion, which is now in a public collection in the United States.
Riviere matriculated at St Mary Hall, but attended no lectures, and applied himself mainly to the study of art, living in his father’s house in Beaumont-street.
www.artrenewal.org /articles/2002/Briton_Riviere/obituary.asp   (1537 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Two Americans, one Briton abducted in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BAGHDAD (AP) — A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday — a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.
West of the capital, U.S. forces launched attacks Thursday in the Sunni insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, killing up to 60 insurgents in strikes against allies of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a military statement said.
There were no blast walls or signs of extra security outside the home of the two Americans and the Briton.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-09-16-iraq_x.htm   (1308 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Britons accept gas prices of nearly $7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
JARROW, England (AP) — Peter Welsh, one of many Britons who ignored a call for nationwide fuel price protests Wednesday, figured out long ago how to cope with gasoline that has soared to nearly $7 a gallon — more than twice as much as Americans pay.
But they said Americans shouldn't be entirely surprised that Britons have accepted their fuel prices as a reality.
But he said many Britons accept high fuel taxes as a necessity in a country with a national health care system and an economy that is the envy of many other European countries.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-14-british-gas_x.htm?csp=34   (774 words)

  
 Jamaica's Mary Seacole named greatest Black Briton - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
The announcement was made at a ceremony held at the National Army Museum, which on Monday launched a special exhibition on the Crimean War and has a permanent display on Mary Seacole.
The 100 Great Black Britons had the support of the Greater London Authority (GLA) and was launched by the mayor of London, Ken Livingston.
He said it was significant, as her contribution to the care and welfare of British soldiers during the Crimean War had gone mostly unacknowledged.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040210T220000-0500_55613_OBS_JAMAICA_S_MARY_SEACOLE_NAMED_GREATEST_BLACK_BRITON.asp   (478 words)

  
 Beric the Briton
Remember too, Beric, that the Britons, now that Caractacus has been sent a prisoner to Rome, need a leader, one who is not only brave and valiant in the fight, but who can teach the people how to march to victory, and can order and rule them well afterwards.
Britons were more accustomed to fight with javelin than with spear, and the latter weapons were shorter and lighter than those of the Romans.
I spoke of their patriotism, of the love of country that never failed, of the stern determination that enabled them to pass through the gravest dangers without flinching, and to show a dauntless face to the foe even when dangers were thickest and the country was menaced with destruction.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/bbrit10h.htm   (21149 words)

  
 Briton speaks to officials over murders - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Briton speaks to U.S. police over double murder
LONDON - Neil Entwistle, a Briton whose American wife and baby were found shot dead at their home in suburban Boston home, went voluntarily to the U.S. Embassy in London on Friday to talk to officials about their deaths, British police said.
Entwistle was driven to the U.S. Embassy by police officers, but he is not under arrest and is not being treated as a suspect in the murder of his wife and baby,” a Nottinghamshire police spokeswoman said.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11057797/from/RSS   (546 words)

  
 A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon
A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man, -- -servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England; who returned to Boston, after having been absent almost thirteen years.
Containing an account of the many hardships he underwent from the time he left his master's house, in the year 1747, to the time of his return to Boston.
Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon...
etext.lib.virginia.edu /readex/8611.html   (1587 words)

  
 GENUKI: Briton Ferry - chapels database
Rheoboth Baptist Welsh chapel, Neath Rd, Briton Ferry.
Rheoboth Baptist Welsh chapel, Neath Rd, Briton Ferry Built in 1848 and rebuilt in 1861.
Rehobeth Welsh Baptist chapel, Neath Rd, Briton Ferry.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/wal/GLA/BritonFerry/Chapels.html   (1376 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Briton held over 452 fake passports
A Briton was arrested at Bangkok airport yesterday with 452 fake blank European passports in his luggage, as he prepared to board a plane to return to the UK.
Mahieddine Daikh, an Algerian who became a naturalised Briton two years ago, will probably escape punishment unless there is a formal complaint in the next few days from the government of one of the countries affected, Thai and British authorities told the Guardian yesterday.
Mr Daikh was caught at 1am while in transit from the southern Thai island of Koh Samui to Amsterdam, from where he was scheduled to fly to Glasgow.
www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1542045,00.html?gusrc=rss   (434 words)

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