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Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys

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Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys is a school of over 1300 pupils and staff, located on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent. [1]

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A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Adam Roberts (British writer)

Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist.

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Adrian Brett

Adrian Brett is a British flautist.

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Alec Rose

Sir Alec Rose (13 July 1908 – 11 January 1991) was a nursery owner and fruit merchant in England who after serving in the Royal Navy during World War II developed a passion for amateur single-handed sailing.

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Archbishop of York

The Archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Archdeacon of Canterbury

The Archdeacon of Canterbury is a senior office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury (a division of the Church of England Province of Canterbury).

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Archibald Cullen

Archibald Howard Cullen (24 September 1887 – 16 June 1968) was the sixth Bishop of Grahamstown.

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Bath stone

Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC Radio 6 Music (also still known as BBC 6 Music or BBC 6) is one of the BBC's digital radio stations.

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Ben Hancox

Ben Hancox is an English violinist most famous for co-founding the Sacconi String Quartet in 2001.

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Bernard Crossland

Prof Sir Bernard Crossland CBE, FRS (20 October 1923 – 17 January 2011) was a professor of engineering with a career spanning some seven decades.

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Blazer

A blazer is a type of jacket resembling a suit jacket, but cut more casually.

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Brigadier

Brigadier is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England.

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Canterbury scene

The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a subgenre of, or sibling to, progressive rock.

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Caravan (band)

Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan in 1968.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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Channel 4 News

Channel 4 News is the main news programme on British television broadcaster Channel 4.

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Charity school

A charity school, sometimes called a blue coat school, was significant in the history of education in England.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Commonwealth Day

Commonwealth Day, formerly Empire Day, is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations, often held on the second Monday in March.

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D. C. H. Rieu

Dominic Christopher Henry "D.

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Department for Education

The Department for Education (DfE) is a department of Her Majesty's Government responsible for child protection, education (compulsory, further and higher education), apprenticeships and wider skills in England.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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Ernest Walter Davie Western

Brigadier Ernest Walter Davie Western (1901–1952) was the first son of Walter Western (1871–1936) and Elizabeth Ann Heard (1875–1952).

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Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II

The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to protect people, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.

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F. W. Jordan

Frank Wilfred Jordan (6 October, 1881 - 12 January, 1941) was a British physicist who together with William Henry Eccles invented the so-called "flip-flop" circuit in 1918.

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Faulkes Telescope Project

The Faulkes Telescope Project (FTP) is supported by the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust.

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Flip-flop (electronics)

In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information.

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Folarin Ogunsola

Folarin L. Ogunsola (born 23 June 1997) is a Gambian swimmer. He competed in the 50 m freestyle and 50 m backstroke events (the latter of which he did not start) at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships and in the 50 m freestyle and 50 m butterfly events at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships.

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Foundation school

In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools.

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Freddie Laker

Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982.

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Gay News

Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE).

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General Certificate of Secondary Education

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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George II of Great Britain

George II (George Augustus; Georg II.; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.

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Gideon Coe

Gideon Jon Quantrill Coe (born 22 September 1967 in Canterbury, Kent) is a radio DJ, presenter, sportscaster, voiceover artist and journalist.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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House system

The house system is a traditional feature of schools in England, originating in England.

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Ian MacDonald

Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was a British music critic and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London (officially Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom.

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Interpol

The International Criminal Police Organization (Organisation internationale de police criminelle; ICPO-INTERPOL), more commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates international police cooperation.

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Joseph McManners

Joseph McManners (born 3 December 1992) is an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kent County Council

Kent County Council is a county council that governs most of the county of Kent in England.

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Leszek Borysiewicz

Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz (born 13 April 1951) is a Welsh immunologist and scientific administrator.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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LUCID

LUCID (Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector) is a cosmic ray detector built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and designed at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, in Canterbury, England.

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Mark Padmore

Mark Padmore is a British tenor appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera.

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Mathematics and Computing College

Mathematics and Computing Colleges were introduced in England in 2002 as part of the Government's Specialist Schools Programme which was designed to raise standards in 8-secondary education.

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Medway

Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in Kent in the region of South East England.

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Michael Evans (bishop)

Michael Charles Evans (10 August 1951 – 11 July 2011) was the third Roman Catholic Bishop of East Anglia, in the Ecclesiastical Province of Westminster.

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Middle class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.

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Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos (born Milo Hanrahan; 18 October 1984; also writing under the pen name Milo Andreas Wagner) is a British polemicist, political commentator, public speaker, and writer.

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Mind map

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Myelin basic protein

Myelin basic protein (MBP) is a protein believed to be important in the process of myelination of nerves in the nervous system.

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Nackington

Nackington is an English village south of Canterbury in Kent.

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Necktie

A necktie, or simply a tie, is a long piece of cloth, worn usually by men, for decorative purposes around the neck, resting under the shirt collar and knotted at the throat.

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Nik Gowing

Nik Keith Gowing (born 1951) is a British television journalist.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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PaveGen

Pavegen Systems is a technology company that has developed paving slabs to convert energy from people's footsteps into small amounts of electrical power.

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon, on Perseus) is one of the four fundamental states of matter, and was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Raymond Kendall

Raymond Edward Kendall, QPM (born 5 October 1933), is a British law enforcement officer and former Interpol Secretary-General.

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Religious education

In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion (although in England the term religious instruction would refer to the teaching of a particular religion, with religious education referring to teaching about religions in general) and its varied aspects: its beliefs, doctrines, rituals, customs, rites, and personal roles.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career.

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Ross Clark (journalist)

Ross Clark (born 12 September 1966) is a British journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Spectator, The Times and other publications.

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Science College

Science Colleges were introduced in 2000 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom.

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Simon Langton (priest)

Simon Langton (died 1248) was an English medieval clergyman who served as Archdeacon of Canterbury from 1227 until his death in 1248.

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Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School

Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School is a single-sex voluntary controlled grammar school in Canterbury, Kent, England.

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Simon Scarrow

Simon Scarrow (born 3 October 1962) is a UK-based author, born in Nigeria and now based in Norfolk.

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Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final 1-3 years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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Specialist schools programme

The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement.

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St Ann's Church, Manchester

St Ann's Church in Manchester, England was consecrated in 1712.

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Steve Goldsmith (cricketer)

Steven Clive Goldsmith (born 19 December 1964), known as Steve Goldsmith, is a former English professional cricketer who played for Kent and Derbyshire between 1986 and 1992 before moving to Norfolk in 1993.

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Straw hat

A straw hat is a brimmed hat that is woven out of straw or straw-like materials from different plants or synthetics.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The King's School, Canterbury

The King's School is a selective British co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in the English city of Canterbury in Kent.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Wilde Flowers

The Wilde Flowers were the archetypal Canterbury scene music group based in the vicinity of Canterbury, England.

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Tony Buzan

Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan (born 2 June 1942) is an English author and educational consultant.

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Tony Coe

Anthony George Coe (born 29 November 1934 in Canterbury) is an English composer and jazz musician who plays clarinet, bass clarinet, flute and soprano, alto & tenor saxophone.

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Trevor Pinnock

Trevor David Pinnock (born 16 December 1946) is an English harpsichordist and conductor.

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Union Jack

The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom.

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University of Kent

The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury), abbreviated as UKC, is a semi-collegiate public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom.

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Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust is a biomedical research charity based in London, United Kingdom.

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Whitefriars Shopping Centre

Whitefriars Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Canterbury, Kent, England.

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Whitehouse v Lemon

Whitehouse v Lemon is a 1977 court case involving the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom.

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Who's Who (UK)

Who's Who is a leading source of biographical data on more than 33,000 influential people from around the world.

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WHSmith

WHSmith PLC (also known as WHS or colloquially as Smith's, and formerly W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary.

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William Eccles

William Henry Eccles FRS (23 August 1875 – 29 April 1966) was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Year Seven

Year 7 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand.

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