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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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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer - George Orwell
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Battle of Towton - 1461, Battle of Alresford - 1644, Albert Hall Opens - 1871, Captain Scott dies - 1912, First London Marathon - 1981
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