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  2. List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")

  3. List of ship names of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Ships of the Royal Navy. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.

  4. List of forts - Wikipedia

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    Many buildings and structures bear the name fort in Canada. Most of these places are either military installations, or a trading post that was established by a North American fur trading company. A number of "forts" in northern and western Canada were also established as exploratory, or policing outposts.

  5. Category:Noble families of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    A. Abercromby family ‎ (26 P) Acton family ‎ (17 P) Aitken family ‎ (1 C, 21 P) Alexander family (British aristocracy) ‎ (31 P) Allsopp family ‎ (1 C, 9 P) Annesley family ‎ (36 P) Anson family ‎ (35 P) Arbuthnot family ‎ (66 P)

  6. List of Scottish Gaelic given names - Wikipedia

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    SG equivalent of En Patrick, Peter [24] (both En names are etymologically unrelated to one another). SG Peadar is used for the name of the saint (Saint Peter). Pàra, Pàdair are SG dialectal forms. [24] Para is a contracted form. [49] Pàdruig Patrick [54] Pàl Paul [52] See also SG Pòl. Pàra Patrick [24] Dialectal form of SG Pàdraig. [24 ...

  7. Category:Royal Navy ship names - Wikipedia

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    HMS Auricula. HMS Aurora. HMS Avenger. HMS Avon. (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: Ships of the Royal Navy. Ship names. Template Large category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 2,001–5,000 pages.

  8. Glossary of names for the British - Wikipedia

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    British sailor, circa 1790. " Limey " (from lime / lemon) is a predominantly North American slang nickname for a British person. The word has been around since the mid-19th century. Intended as a pejorative, the word is not commonly used today, though it retains that connotation. [ 3][ 4] The term is thought to have originated in the 1850s as ...

  9. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    Kincardine, Kinallen. prefix. anglicised from Ceann. Cognate of C, P and W pen and in some place names, may represent a Gaelicisation of the C and P form. king. OE/ON. king, tribal leader. King's Norton, King's Lynn, Kingston, Kingston Bagpuize, Seven Kings, Kingskerswell, Coningsby.