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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs - Robert Peel
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On this day:
Work starts on the Manchester Ship Canal - 1887, End of the First World War - 1918, First Two-Minute Silence - 1919, Britains 1st New Town - 1946, First edition of Panorama - 1953, Church of England votes to allow female priests - 1992
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