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'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'

Born in Leicester, Leicestershire
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. - Charles Darwin
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Battle of the Boyne - 1690, First Day of the Somme - 1916, Disaster at Chilwell Shell Plant - 1918, Oxfam Opens its First Charity Shop - 1948, Wade wins Jubilee Wimbledon - 1977, Britain hands back Hong Kong to China - 1997, Smoking Ban in England - 2007
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