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Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982) is a British racing driver from Northern Ireland who competes in the British Touring Car Championship for Team BMW.He is a 4 time BTCC champion, winning the title in 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2019, having made his debut in the series in 2002.
The late Michael Jackson has five albums that have charted for over 150 weeks: Number Ones (587 weeks), Thriller (287 weeks), Off the Wall (225 weeks), Bad (187 weeks) and The Essential Michael Jackson (171 weeks). Lady Gaga charted for 313 weeks with her debut album The Fame. Lana Del Rey has charted for 267 weeks with her album Born to Die.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the U.S. and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [49] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [50] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
The dispute continued in the US, and is being investigated by the UK and Ireland Financial Reporting Council. On June 9, 2015, HP agreed to pay $100 million to investors who bought HP shares between August 19, 2011 and November 20, 2012, to settle the lawsuits over the Autonomy purchase.
The culture of the United Kingdom may also colloquially be referred to as British culture. Although British culture is a distinct entity, the individual cultures of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse. There have been varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness between these four cultures.
Erik Weisz was born in Budapest, Republic of Hungary to a Jewish family. [5] [6] His parents were Rabbi Mayer Sámuel Weisz (1829–1892) and Cecília Steiner (1841–1913).). Houdini was one of seven children: Herman M. (1863–1885), who was Houdini's half-brother by Rabbi Weisz's first marriage; Nathan J. (1870–1927); Gottfried William (1872–1925); Theodore (1876–1945); [7] Leopold D ...
e. English is the most widely spoken and official language of the United Kingdom. [ 13 ] A number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional English variant languages are Scots and Ulster Scots; indigenous Celtic languages are Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
The highest earners at the box-office are mostly American films and UK-US co-productions. Sequels, remakes and adaptations dominate, with seven films in the Harry Potter franchise, five Star Wars instalments, the five Daniel Craig James Bond films, five films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Peter Jackson's first four Tolkien adaptations having earned in excess of £50 million.