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  • Serge, un Français avec les Allemands, ça ne vas pas non!! les allmands dan le pub "britannia"??? zut alors!!!!!

    London SE1 community website 2010

  • Serge, un Français avec les Allemands, ça ne vas pas non!! les allmands dan le pub "britannia"??? zut alors!!!!!

    London SE1 community website 2010

  • Serge, un Français avec les Allemands, ça ne vas pas non!! les allmands dan le pub "britannia"??? zut alors!!!!!

    London SE1 community website 2010

  • Guardian | Lebanon, North Korea, Russia... here is the world's new multipolar disorder A questão das ordens mundiais tem muito que se lhe diga, da pax romana ao rule britannia, sem esquecer a guerra fria e a famosa new world order proclamada pelo pai do agora presidente norte-americano.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • So again, today ` s "Entertainment Weekly" Oscar quiz -- Oscar statuettes were first made of bronze before the Academy switched to which of these gold-plated alloys, adamantium, britannia metal, cupronickel or brass?

    CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2005 2005

  • It touched up the cruet-stand and the britannia metal in the little dining-room at the Green Man and an emaciated ray even found its way to the rows of bottles in the bar and to the anvil at Copse Forge.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

  • Also, as a new or improved manufacture, a waiter or salver of britannia metal, having a metallic strengthening-ring and cap molding combined and arranged with its body in manner as specified.

    Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

  • "I wanted to get away from that awful mob," she explained, pushing back her veil as they seated themselves at a table with red-and-white napkins and a britannia sugar bowl.

    The Refugees 1919

  • Whenever he had to work at night, she used to make him a cup of tea in an old britannia metal teapot, which had been his mother's and he used to call this beverage his "Ethiopian nectar."

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • "We are calling this artists 'alliance - The Good Crude Britannia (riff on the good ship britannia/the good crew britannia and of course Rude Britannia - current Tate show, etc)."

    The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk 2010

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  • Royal Mint Reveals New Coin Designs, and everyone hates them because there's no Britannia.

    I'm not British so my opinion doesn't count, but I think the new coins are gorgeous.

    April 8, 2008