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C P Snow
Christopher Bruce
Ernest Gimson
Gary Lineker
Gok Wan
Graham Chapman
Harold Hopkins
Henry Bates
Joe Orton
Joseph Merrick
Julian Barnes
Sue Townsend

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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. - Kenneth Tynan
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Battle of Edgehill - 1642, First Parliament of Great Britain - 1707, War of Jenkins’ Ear Begins - 1739, First British-Made Ford Car - 1911, Battle of El Alamein - 1942
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