New Britain

  

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New Britain

Definition: New Britain

New Britain

Noun

1. The largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

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Crosswords: New Britain

English words defined with "New Britain": Geneva conventionMoorukPapuan, Papuan language. (references)
Specialty definitions using "New Britain": 06051, 06052, 0605318901dranyamspodVAX. (references)

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Specialty Definition: New Britain

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Its principal city is Rabaul.

It was discovered on February 27, 1700. It was named Neu-Pommern ("New Pomerania") when ruled by Germany.

Postage stamps

When German New Guinea was occupied by Australian troops in 1914, there was soon a need for postage stamps. This was met by overprinting existing stocks of the (unwatermarked) German New Guinea and Marshall Islands stamps with "G.R.I" (short for Georgius Rex Imperator, George V being king at the time), along with values ranging from one pence to five shillings. The values roughly corresponded with the values of the original stamps; 1p on 3pf and 5pf stamps, 2p on 10pf and 20pf, and so forth.

A first setting of the overprint was issued on 17 October 1914, followed by a second setting (with slightly different spacing) issued on 16 December. In all, some 50 distinct stamps were produced.

In addition, registration labels were pressed into service as 3p stamps, overprinted in the same way as the others. Labels of the Friedrich Wilhelmshaven, Herbertshohe, Kawieng, Kieta, Manus, and Rabaul post offices are known to have been overprinted.

In 1915, these improvised stamps of New Britain were superseded by stamps of the "North West Pacific Islands".

Because of the short period of use of the New Britain issues, they are rather uncommon, and expensive to collect; the most common denominations are at least $15 US apiece, and the five shilling overprints fetch prices of over $10,000 on the rare occasions when they come up for sale. In addition, a number of errors were produced in the overprinting process, and these also command high prices.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "New Britain."

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Modern Usage: New Britain

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Attack! Battle of New Britain (1944)

The New Britain (1940)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: New Britain

DomainTitle

Books

  • The marketing of cocoa and copra in Papua New Guinea : with case studies of East New Britain and East and West Sepik (reference)

  • To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain (New Directions in Anthropological Writing) (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: New Britain

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: New Britain

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USS Phoenix (CL-46) firing her 6"/47 guns during the pre-invasion bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, circa 24-26 December 1943. Photographed from the ship's fantail, looking forward.Credit: NAVY.

New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Cities: New Britain


1. New Britain, CT (city, FIPS 50370)
Location: 41.67510 N, 72.78781 W
Population (1990): 75491 (32335 housing units)
Area: 34.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 06051, 06052, 06053
Country: USA


2. New Britain, PA (borough, FIPS 53296)
Location: 40.29915 N, 75.17861 W
Population (1990): 2174 (828 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 18901
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: New Britain

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

new britain ct

628

new britain rock cat

158

new britain

77

new britain connecticut

39

new britain high school

21

city of new britain

13

new britain museum of american art

9

new britain school

6

new britain pa

3

new britain map

3

new britain hotel

3

new britain ct hotel

2

new britain ct real estate

2

new britain connecticut real estate

2

new britain screw machine

2
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Modern Translations: New Britain

Language Translations for "New Britain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

новая британия. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: New Britain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-n-n-r-t-w"

-1 letter: inebriant.

-2 letters: triennia.

-3 letters: biennia, entrain, inertia, intwine, tawnier, tinnier, tinware, twinier.

-4 letters: baiter, banner, bannet, banter, barite, bawtie, binate, inaner, innate, intern, intine, narine, ratine, rebait, retain, retina, tanner, terbia, tibiae, tinier, tinner, twiner, waiter, wanier, wanner, wanter, winier, winner, winter.

-5 letters: anent, antre, bairn, benni, binit, biter, brain, brant, brawn, brent, brine, entia, inane, inert, inner, inter, irate, niter, nitre, rawin, renin, retia, rewan, rewin, riant, taber, tawer, tawie, tenia, terai, tibia, tinea, train, tribe, trine, twain, twier, twine, water, witan, write.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-n-n-r-t-w"
 

+5 letters: unanswerability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: New Britain


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 77      42 72 69 74 61 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110111 00100000 01000010 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#119 &#32 &#66 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0077      0042 0072 0069 0074 0061 0069 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487189236847586677580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Cities
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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