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'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'

'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'

'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'

Born in Penzance, Cornwall
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/davy_humphrey.shtm The BBC page on Davy
http://www.humphry-davy.cornwall.sch.uk/ The Humphrey Davy school in Cornwall

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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. - Winston Churchill
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Scotland and France form their 'Auld Alliance' - 1295, Battle of Southwark - 1450, Newton’s Principia Published - 1687, Giant Hailstone Hits Plumstead - 1925, National Health Service established - 1948
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