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| Joseph Lyons (caterer)
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4 December 2016
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1,707
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picture
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biography
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that caterer Sir Joseph Lyons staged Venice in London (programme pictured) in 1891 using 100 gondolas imported from Venice – along with their gondoliers?
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| St John Harmsworth
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20 November 2016
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2,847
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-
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biography
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that St John Harmsworth designed the iconic Perrier bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
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| Robert Scull
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14 November 2016
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1,590
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-
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biography
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that the auction in 1973 of 50 pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the "nouveaux riches cashing in"?
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| Alastair Storey
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13 November 2016
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3,401
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-
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biography
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that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
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| Alfred Harmsworth (1837–1889)
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12 November 2016
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12,881
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picture
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biography
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that Alfred Harmsworth (pictured) was the father of two viscounts, one baron, and two baronets?
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| Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet
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28 October 2016
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4,251
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-
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biography
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that the newspaper publisher Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his chauffeur killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
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| Foyles Building
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20 October 2016
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10,070
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last
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building
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that during the Blitz, staff of the Foyles Building stacked copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf on the roof in lieu of sandbags?
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| William Mostyn-Owen
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20 October 2016
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8,545
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-
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biography
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that as William Mostyn-Owen's three older brothers all died in the Second World War, he inherited Aberuchill Castle, where he and his wife lived in a wing of "23 rooms or so"?
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| David Carritt
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16 October 2016
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3,217
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last
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biography
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that David Carritt discovered a Fragonard misattributed at auction, a van der Weyden in a cottage, a Tiepolo on an Egyptian embassy ceiling, and five Guardis rolled up in a Dublin shed?
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| The Gladstone Arms
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4 September 2016
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5,590
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last
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pub
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that an MP crawled to save The Glad?
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| Bridge Inn, Topsham
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27 August 2016
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6,033
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-
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pub
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that Queen Elizabeth II was presented with a crate of ale when she visited the Bridge Inn, Topsham?
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| Jean Maxwell-Scott
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17 July 2016
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1,696
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-
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biography
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that Jean Maxwell-Scott was the last direct descendant of the novelist Sir Walter Scott?
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| Jack Baer (art dealer)
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14 July 2016
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3,358
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-
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biography
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that the British art dealer Sir Jack Baer saved £150 million of art for the nation?
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| Qriously
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7 July 2016
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3,840
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last
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company
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that Qriously was voted "worst name in ad-tech" in an Ad Age poll, beating Vungle, Nanigans, AdsWizz, and Burt?
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| Jennifer d'Abo
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7 July 2016
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5,482
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-
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biography
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that Jennifer d'Abo was once described as a "serial female entrepreneur"?
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| Bernard Shapero
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25 June 2016
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5,848
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-
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biography
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that Bernard Shapero has been called "London's most successful rare-book dealer and arguably the top dealer in the world today"?
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| Frederick Konig
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16 June 2016
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980
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-
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biography
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that Frederick Konig commissioned Edwin Lutyens to add a bathing pavilion and temple of music to Tyringham Hall?
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| James Bond (naval officer)
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13 June 2016
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12,628
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last
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biography
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that James Bond has died?
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| Sally Brampton
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28 May 2016
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1,278
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-
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biography
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that Sally Brampton was The Sunday Times's agony aunt?
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| Henry Hobhouse (author)
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27 May 2016
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783
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last
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biography
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that in Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind, Henry Hobhouse "altered the way we understand modern history"?
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| Gérard Lhéritier
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22 April 2016
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2,505
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-
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biography
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that Gérard Lhéritier's career took off when he discovered balloon mail?
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| Joan Bates
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8 April 2016
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7,949
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last
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biography
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that Joan Bates was a queen before she was a princess?
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| John Edgcumbe
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2 April 2016
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458
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-
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biography
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that John Edgcumbe, a collateral descendant of Joshua Reynolds and co-editor of The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, was Devon's first consultant haematologist?
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| Anthony Hidden
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2 April 2016
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5,090
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-
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biography
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that the Hidden Report was published?
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| Africa Centre, London
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22 March 2016
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1,502
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last
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building
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that in London's Africa Centre, Desmond Tutu and Thabo Mbeki used to meet at the bar?
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| The Goat, Kensington
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15 March 2016
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4,128
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last
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pub
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that the Acid Bath Murderer met his first victim in The Goat?
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| Green Man, Putney
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7 March 2016
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2,981
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last
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building
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that after the highwayman Jerry Abershawe was hanged, his body was gibbeted outside The Green Man in London?
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| Tibs the Great
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24 February 2016
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12,134
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last
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biography
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that Tibs the Great vanquished all his foes during his 14-year reign?
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| Henry Worsley (explorer)
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23 February 2016
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pulled
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biography
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type
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that Henry Worsley attempted to complete the first solo and unaided crossing of the Antarctic, but died with only 30 miles to go?
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| Lionel Bussey
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21 February 2016
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?
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last
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biography
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that the mechanical engineer Lionel Bussey had 600 pairs of women's shoes?
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| Cornelia James
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15 February 2016
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?
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-
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biography
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that Queen Elizabeth II's glovemaker, Cornelia James, was accepted by the art college that rejected Adolf Hitler?
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| Matt Hobden
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9 February 2016
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?
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-
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biography
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that Matt Hobden scored 65 not out in a Sussex County Cricket Club record tenth-wicket partnership of 164 with Ollie Robinson?
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| Mitre Inn, Chipping Barnet
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1 February 2016
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?
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picture
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building
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that a man reputedly died riding a horse backwards up a hill at the Mitre Inn (pictured) in Chipping Barnet?
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| Pranav Dhanawade
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30 January 2016
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1,753
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-
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biography
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that schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade broke a 116-year-old cricket world record by scoring 1,009 runs not out?
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| Ernie Blake
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5 January 2016
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9,300
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-
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biography
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that Ernie Blake helped interrogate Nazis Hermann Göring and Albert Speer, and adopted his code name as his real name, before founding Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico?
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| Mohamed Hadid
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4 January 2016
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7,184
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-
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biography
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that devout Muslim Mohamed Hadid, a lifelong teetotaler, owns a 5,000-bottle wine cellar and a Beverly Hills winery?
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| Francis Fowler (architect)
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30 December 2015
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928
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-
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biography
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that Francis Fowler, architect of London's Metropole Hotel, was found guilty of corruption and was forced to resign from the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1888 after 20 years of service
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| Martin Selig
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30 December 2015
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3,913
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-
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biography
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that Martin Selig and his family fled the Nazis via Poland, Russia, Korea, and Japan, got off the boat in Seattle "on a whim", and later built the tallest building there
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| Ahmet Burak Erdoğan
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28 December 2015
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4,986
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last
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biography
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that it cost the son of Turkey's president $20 million to get Pretty
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| James Larratt Battersby
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23 December 2015
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6,975
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-
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biography
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that James Battersby of Battersby Hats believed that Adolf Hitler was Christ returned despite his father being on the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat
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| Battersby Hats
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23 December 2015
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2,244
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-
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building
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that James Battersby of Battersby Hats believed that Adolf Hitler was Christ returned despite his father being on the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat
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| James Johnson Battersby
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23 December 2015
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958
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-
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biography
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that James Battersby of Battersby Hats believed that Adolf Hitler was Christ returned despite his father being on the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat
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| Mark Hovell
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22 December 2015
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3,106
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-
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biography
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that Mark Hovell, a historian of Chartism, died during the First World War when he fell down a mine shaft
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| Konrad Bernheimer
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14 December 2015
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3,457
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-
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biography
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that art dealer Konrad Bernheimer was born in Venezuela after his grandfather made a deal with Hermann Göring to allow the family to flee Germany
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| Walid Juffali
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13 December 2015
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1,581
|
-
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biography
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that the guests at Saudi billionaire Walid Juffali's first wedding included Margaret Thatcher, John Major and George H. W. Bush
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| Estrella de Chile (ship)
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7 December 2015
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5,004
|
picture
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artifact
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that when the Estrella de Chile (pictured) ran aground in 1888, the crew climbed into the rigging to escape the rising water
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| Andreas Panayiotou (businessman)
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10 November 2015
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3,421
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-
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biography
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that Andreas Panayiotou was kicked out of school at the age of 14 for punching his teacher, and became an amateur boxing champion and the UK's largest private landlord
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| Joseph Grendys
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8 November 2015
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5,232
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-
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biography
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that billionaire Joseph Grendys has built a business that kills 12 million chickens a week, but lives in the "bungalow where he grew up and drives a beat-up old Cadillac"
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| Ernst Beyeler
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29 October 2015
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4,779
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-
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biography
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that Ernst Beyeler, "the greatest art dealer since the war", left a collection worth at least $1.85 billion when he died in 2010
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| Brendan Clouston
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23 October 2015
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2,193
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last
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biography
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that the holder of the Scottish title Baron of Dunure is a Canadian telecoms billionaire from Montreal
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| G. David Thompson
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20 October 2015
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1,348
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last
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biography
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that G. David Thompson had such a large art collection that he was able to sell 88 works by Paul Klee and 70 by Alberto Giacometti in the 1960s
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| The Star, St John's Wood
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16 October 2015
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2,500
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-
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building
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that The Star—despite being an asset of community value—was converted into an estate agency in April, leaving St John's Wood with just three pubs but 13 estate agents
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| A. E. Sewell
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11 October 2015
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2,837
|
picture
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biography
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that at least five of the London pubs designed by A. E. Sewell are now listed buildings (one pictured)
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| David Litvinoff
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1 August 2014
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1,736
|
-
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biography
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that as a technical adviser on the 1970 film Performance, David Litvinoff introduced the cast and crew to London's underworld?
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| Maitland Armstrong
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30 July 2014
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1,546
|
-
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biography
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that Maitland Armstrong showed U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant around the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle and was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work there?
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| Lady Jane (boutique)
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29 July 2014
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8,478
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last
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building
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that Lady Jane led to Sweet Fanny Adams and Pussy Galore?
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| James Wedge
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29 July 2014
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1,090
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-
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biography
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that according to James Wedge, the famous white frock worn by Mick Jagger at 1969's Stones in the Park free concert came from Wedge's Countdown boutique?
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| Muriel Pemberton
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26 July 2014
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546
|
-
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biography
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that Muriel Pemberton "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain"
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| Sally Tuffin
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25 July 2014
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1,624
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last
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biography
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that the fashion designer Sally Tuffin created clothes on James Wedge's billiard table
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| Fann Street Foundry
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24 July 2014
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1,492
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-
|
building
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that typographers at the Fann Street Foundry created the first lower-case sans serif typeface, and the first patented one
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| Freddie Hornik
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23 July 2014
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2,775
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-
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biography
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that Freddie Hornik co-founded Dandie Fashions and helped turn Granny Takes a Trip into an international fashion brand
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| Common (film)
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23 July 2014
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2,887
|
-
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media
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that reviewers found the BBC One film Common "unrelentingly depressing" and "profoundly engaging"
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| William H. Herriman
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21 July 2014
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1,437
|
-
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biography
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that William H. Herriman donated artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, and his sister founded the world's first skyscraper hospital
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| Milo Moiré
|
18 July 2014
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7,174
|
-
|
biography
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that performance artist Milo Moiré claims her naked works are inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology
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| John Crittle
|
18 July 2014
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4,885
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last
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biography
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that John Crittle's mother mistook Jimi Hendrix for Jesus
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| Homage to Cézanne
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12 July 2014
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1,357
|
picture
|
media
|
that in the 1900 painting Homage to Cézanne (pictured) Paul Gauguin is represented by one of his paintings
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| Chiltern Firehouse
|
11 July 2014
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5,027
|
last
|
building
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that one reviewer wrote that checking in for a meal at London's Chiltern Firehouse restaurant "feels a bit like arriving at a Scientology meeting"
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| André Mellerio
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11 July 2014
|
1,604
|
picture
|
biography
|
that André Mellerio (pictured, left) was a member of the family that owned Mellerio dits Meller, considered the world's oldest jeweller and Europe's oldest family-owned company
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