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The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between men's and women's open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. [1]

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Aberdeen Asset Management

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC is an international investment management group, managing assets for both institutions and private investors from offices around the world.

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Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication, also known as drunkenness or alcohol poisoning, is negative behavior and physical effects due to the recent drinking of ethanol (alcohol).

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Amateur

An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, "lover") is generally considered a person who pursues a particular activity or field of study independently from their source of income.

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Andrew Cotter

Andrew Cotter (born 20 July 1973) is a Scottish sports broadcaster working primarily for the BBC, covering mainly golf and rugby, but also tennis, athletics and The Boat Race.

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Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine (8 April 19028 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Everest Expedition, the third British expedition to the world's highest (8,848 m) mountain, Mount Everest.

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Andrew Lindsay

Andrew Lindsay MBE (born 25 March 1977) is a British former Olympic medal-winning rower and the CEO of Telecom Plus, which owns The Utility Warehouse.

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Anthony Buckeridge

Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge OBE (20 June 1912 – 28 June 2004) was an English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books.

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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 193013 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was a British photographer and film-maker.

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Barge

A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.

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Barnes Railway Bridge

Barnes Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed railway bridge in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Barney Williams

Barney Guillermo Williams (born March 13, 1977) is a Canadian rower.

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Barry Davies

Barry George Davies, MBE (born 24 October 1937 in London) is an English sports commentator and television presenter.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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BBC Radio 5 (former)

BBC Radio 5, a BBC radio network, carried sport, children's and educational programmes from 1990 to 1994.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live (also known as just 5 Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries.

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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is a department of the BBC North division providing national sports coverage for BBC Television, radio and online.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC World News

BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel.

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Beefeater Gin

Beefeater Gin is a brand of gin owned by Pernod Ricard and bottled and distributed in the United Kingdom, by the company of James Burrough.

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Bertie Wooster

Bertram "Bertie" Wilberforce Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories of British author P. G. Wodehouse.

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Birt Acres

Birt Acres (23 July 1854 – 27 December 1918) was an American and British photographer and film pioneer.

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Blue (university sport)

A blue is an award earned by athletes at a university and some schools for competition at the highest level.

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Blue Boat

The Blue Boat is the highest level boat representing the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge in the universities' annual rowing clashes on the River Thames: The Boat Race and Women's Boat Race.

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Boris Rankov

Boris Rankov (born 9 August 1954) is a professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Bow Street Magistrates' Court

Bow Street Magistrates' Court became the most famous magistrates' court in England in the latter part of its 266-year existence, on the specialisation of the Old Bailey to a Crown Court.

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Brian Johnston

Brian Alexander Johnston CBE, MC (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter.

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British Indoor Rowing Championships

The British Indoor Rowing Championships (BIRC) is an indoor rowing event previously organised by The Rowing Company.

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Business process outsourcing

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is defined as a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of a specific business process to a third-party service provider.

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Cambridge University Boat Club

The Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC) is one of the rowing clubs of the University of Cambridge, England (in addition to Cambridge University Women's Boat Club and Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club).

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Cambridge University Women's Boat Club

Cambridge University Women's Boat Club (CUWBC) is the rowing club for women at the University of Cambridge.

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Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

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Charles Merivale

The Very Reverend Charles Merivale (8 March 1808 – 27 December 1893) was an English historian and churchman, for many years dean of Ely Cathedral.

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Charles Wordsworth

Charles Wordsworth (22 August 1806 – 5 December 1892) was Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in Scotland.

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Chiswick Bridge

Chiswick Bridge is a reinforced concrete deck arch bridge over the River Thames in west London.

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Chiswick Eyot

Chiswick Eyot is a narrow, uninhabited ait (river island) in the River Thames.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædēs, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Clare Balding

Clare Victoria Balding (born 29 January 1971) is a broadcaster, journalist and author.

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Cockney

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.

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Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan

Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan (born 13 September 1955) is a British Olympic coxswain, businessman, Conservative politician, and sports administrator.

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Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

The Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC) is a second level military decoration of the British Armed Forces.

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Coxswain (rowing)

In a rowing crew, the coxswain (or simply the 'cox', or 'coxie') is the member who sits in the stern (except in bowloaders) facing the bow.

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Craig Doyle

Craig Doyle (born 17 December 1970, Dublin) is an Irish television and radio presenter.

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Craven Cottage

Craven Cottage is a football stadium located in Fulham, London.

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Dan Snow

Daniel Robert Snow (born 3 December 1978) is a British television presenter, who presents history programmes for the BBC and other broadcasters, has a history slot on The One Show and hosts the podcast, Dan Snow's History Hit.

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Daniel Lyons (rower)

Daniel K. Lyons (born March 8, 1958 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania) is an American rower who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in the coxed pair.

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Daniel Topolski

Daniel "Dan" Topolski (4 June 1945 – 21 February 2015) was a British author, rower, rowing coach and commentator on BBC television.

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David Coleman

David Robert Coleman OBE (26 April 1926 – 21 December 2013) was a British sports commentator and TV presenter who worked for the BBC for 46 years.

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Dead heat

A dead heat is a rare situation in various racing sports in which the performances of competitors are judged to be so close that no difference between them can be resolved.

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Dorney Lake

Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built rowing lake in England.

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Ed Coode

Edward Coode, MBE (born 19 June 1975) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist.

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Eight (rowing)

An eight is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing.

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Ely, Cambridgeshire

Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, about north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London.

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Emanuel School

Emanuel School is an independent, co-educational day school in Battersea, south-west London.

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Frank Bough

Frank Joseph Bough (born 15 January 1933) is a retired English television presenter.

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Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London, England.

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Fuller's Brewery

Fuller's Brewery (Fuller, Smith & Turner plc) is an independent, family-run regional brewery, founded in 1845 in Chiswick, West London, England.

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Gabby Logan

Gabrielle Nicole "Gabby" Logan (née Yorath; born 24 April 1973) is a British presenter and a former Welsh international gymnast who is best known for her presenting roles with BBC Sport and ITV.

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Geographic coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.

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Gerald Sinstadt

Gerald Sinstadt (born 19 February 1930) is an English sports commentator, broadcaster and newspaper columnist, usually on football.

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Goldie (Cambridge University Boat Club)

Goldie is the second boat of the Cambridge University Boat Club, which competes in an annual rowing race against Isis (the second boat of the Oxford University Boat Club) on Boat Race Day each year.

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Goldie Boathouse

Goldie Boathouse is the fitness and administrative base of Cambridge University Boat Club, located on the river Cam in Cambridge, England.

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Griffin

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn, early form γρύψ, grýps; gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet.

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Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district of west London, England, located west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Hammersmith Bridge

Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames in west London.

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Harrods

Harrods is a luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in Harrow, London, England.

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Harry Carpenter

Harry Leonard Carpenter, OBE (17 October 1925 – 20 March 2010) was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard–Yale Regatta

The Harvard-Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of Harvard University and Yale University.

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Head of the River Fours

The Fuller's Head of the River Fours (HOR4s) is a processional rowing race held annually on the Tideway of the River Thames in London on the Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney.

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Head of the River Race

The Head of the River Race (HORR) is an against-the-clock ('processional') rowing race held annually on the River Thames in London, England between eights, other such races being the Schools' Head of the River Race, Women's Head of the River Race and Veterans' Head of the River Race.

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Henley Boat Races

The Henley Boat Races are a series of rowing races between men's and women's lightweight crews representing the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

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Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta (or Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage) is a rowing event held annually on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead and southeast of Oxford, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.

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Howard Marshall (broadcaster)

Howard Percival Marshall (22 August 1900 in Surrey – 27 October 1973) achieved distinction in several fields, but is best remembered as a pioneering commentator for live broadcasts of state occasions and sporting events — in particular cricket Test matches — for BBC radio during the 1930s.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.

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Indefinite leave to remain

Indefinite leave to remain (ILR) or permanent residency (PR) is an immigration status granted to a person who does not hold the right of abode in the United Kingdom (UK), but who has been admitted to the UK without any time limit on his or her stay and who is free to take up employment or study, without restriction.

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Indoor rower

An indoor rower, or rowing machine, is a machine used to simulate the action of watercraft rowing for the purpose of exercise or training for rowing.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV Sport

ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV.

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Jake Wetzel

Jacob Wetzel (born December 26, 1976) is a Canadian rower.

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James Cracknell

James Edward Cracknell, OBE (born 5 May 1972) is a British athlete, rowing champion and double Olympic gold medalist and prospective Conservative Party politician.

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Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.

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Jennings (novel series)

The Jennings series is a collection of novels written by Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), as children's literature, and concern the humorous escapades of J.C.T. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England.

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John Goldie (barrister)

John Haviland Dashwood Goldie (March 1849 – April 1896) was an English rower, and barrister.

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John Snagge

John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge OBE (8 May 1904 – 26 March 1996) was a British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio.

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Jon Champion

Jon Champion (born 23 May 1965 in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a sports commentator.

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Jonathan Legard

Jonathan Legard (born 7 July 1961 in Cardiff, Wales), is a sports journalist, best known as the lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One TV coverage in 2009 and 2010.

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Kieran West

Kieran Martin West (born 18 September 1977) is a retired English rower and Olympic champion who represented Great Britain.

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King's College School Boat Club

King's College School Boat Club is the rowing club of King's College School, Wimbledon, London, England.

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Ladbrokes Coral

Ladbrokes Coral Group plc is a British-based betting and gambling company.

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LBC

LBC (originally the London Broadcasting Company) is a London-based national talk and phone-in radio station.

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Leander Club

Leander Club, founded in 1818, is one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, and the oldest non-academic club.

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List of The Boat Race results

The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the men's senior boat clubs of the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").

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Littleport, Cambridgeshire

Littleport is the largest village by area in East Cambridgeshire, England.

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London

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

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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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Luka Grubor

Luka Grubor (born 27 December 1973) is a retired rower, born in Zagreb, who competed internationally for Yugoslavia, Croatia and Great Britain, as well as for Oxford in the 1997 Boat Race.

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Malcolm Howard (rower)

Malcolm Howard (born February 7, 1983) is a Canadian rower.

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Mark de Rond

Dr Mark de Rond is an author, researcher and ethnographer.

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Mark Durden-Smith

Mark Durden-Smith (born 1 October 1968 in Soho, London) is an English television presenter best known for presenting ITV shows such as I'm a Celebrity: Get Me out of Here! NOW! and This Morning Summer, Sky 1 shows such as The Match and Double or Nothing, and Channel 5's rugby union coverage.

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Martin Cross

Martin Patrick Cross (born 19 July 1957) is a British oarsman.

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Masters Tournament

The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside of North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf.

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Matthew Pinsent

Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent, CBE (born 10 October 1970) is an English rower and broadcaster.

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Māori language

Māori, also known as te reo ("the language"), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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Molesey Boat Club

Molesey Boat Club is a rowing club between Molesey Lock and Sunbury Lock on the River Thames in England.

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Mortlake

Mortlake is a suburban district of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes.

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Newton Investment Management

Newton Investment Management is a global investment management subsidiary of BNY Mellon based in London.

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Oar (sport rowing)

In rowing, oars are used to propel the boat.

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Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of "Oxford" and "Cambridge"; the two oldest, most prestigious, and consistently most highly-ranked universities in the United Kingdom.

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Oxford University Boat Club

Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) is the rowing club of the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford.

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Oxford University Women's Boat Club

Oxford University Women's Boat Club (OUWBC) is the rowing club for female rowers (and coxes of either sex) who are students at the University of Oxford.

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Oxford–Cambridge rivalry

Rivalry between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is a phenomenon going back many centuries.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Patrick Robinson (author)

Patrick Robinson (21 January 1940) is a British novelist and newspaper columnist living in Cotuit, Massachusetts.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.

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Peter Drury

Peter Drury (born 1968) is a football commentator, formerly with ITV Sport as their number two football commentator, a role he had held since joining the network in 1998, and with GMTV, where he spent nine years from 2000 reading the sport bulletins during its GMTV Today segment.

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Peter Jones (broadcaster)

Peter Jones (7 February 1930 – 2 April 1990) was a Welsh-born broadcaster, best known as a sports commentator on BBC radio in the United Kingdom, although many of his commentaries were also broadcast internationally on the BBC World Service.

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Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 24 February 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Public nuisance

In English criminal law, public nuisance is a class of common law offence in which the injury, loss, or damage is suffered by the public, in general, rather than an individual, in particular.

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Putney

Putney is a district in south-west London, England in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Putney Bridge

Putney Bridge is a bridge crossing of the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north.

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Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire

Queen Adelaide is a hamlet on the River Great Ouse in the Fens about northeast of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Regatta

A regatta is a series of boat races.

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Rhyming slang

Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language that uses rhyme.

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River Cam

The River Cam is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England.

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River source

The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Robert Hudson (broadcaster)

Robert Cecil Hudson (30 January 1920 – 3 June 2010) was a British broadcaster and administrator for the BBC, primarily on radio but also on television, between 1947 and 1981.

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Robin Bourne-Taylor

Robin Edwin Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, CGC (born 22 July 1981 in George Town, Grand Cayman) is a former British officer and sportsman.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often referred to as crew in the United States, is a sport whose origins reach back to Ancient Egyptian times.

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Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.

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Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events.

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Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Rowing competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

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Sports marketing

Sports marketing is a subdivision of marketing which focuses both on the promotion of sports events and teams as well as the promotion of other products and services through sporting events and sports teams.

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St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge (the full, formal name of the college is The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge).

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St Paul's School, London

St Paul's School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre (180,000m2) site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London.

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Statistical significance

In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis.

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Steve Fairbairn

Steve Fairbairn (25 August 1862 – 16 May 1938) was a rower and an influential rowing coach at Jesus College Boat Club, Cambridge University, Thames Rowing Club and London Rowing Club in the early decades of the 20th century, and founded the prestigious Head of the River Race in 1925.

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Steve Redgrave

Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000.

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Steve Rider

Stephen Rider (born 28 April 1950 in Dartford, Kent) is an English sports presenter, and was the anchorman of ITV's football coverage.

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Surrey

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

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Bank of New York Mellon

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, which does business as BNY Mellon, is an American worldwide banking and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City.

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The Boat Race 1829

The 1st Boat Race took place at Henley-on-Thames on 10 June 1829.

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The Boat Race 1836

The 2nd Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 17 June 1836.

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The Boat Race 1839

The 3rd Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 3 April 1839.

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The Boat Race 1859

The 16th Boat Race took place on 15 April 1859.

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The Boat Race 1912

The 69th Boat Race took place on 30 March 1912 with a re-row on 1 April.

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The Boat Race 1925

The 77th Boat Race took place on 28 March 1925.

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The Boat Race 1951

The 97th Boat Race took place on 24 and 26 March 1951.

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The Boat Race 1978

The 124th Boat Race between crews from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge took place on the River Thames on 25 March 1978.

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The Boat Race 1984

The 130th Boat Race took place on 18 March 1984.

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The Boat Race 1986

The 132nd Boat Race took place on 29 March 1986.

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The Boat Race 2012

The 158th Boat Race took place on 7 April 2012.

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The Boat Race 2018

The Boat Race 2018 (also known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Race for the purposes of sponsorship) took place on 24 March 2018.

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The Boat Races 2015

The 2015 Boat Races took place on 11 April 2015.

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The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student, commonly known as TCS, is one of Cambridge University's student newspapers (Varsity and The Tab are the others).

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The Championship Course

The stretch of the River Thames between Mortlake and Putney in London, England is a well-established course for rowing races, most famously the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Isis

"The Isis" is an alternative name for the River Thames, used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the Thame at Dorchester in Oxfordshire.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race (film)

The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Birt Acres.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Yanks at Oxford

The Yanks at Oxford: The 1987 Boat Race Controversy is a non-fiction book written by Allison Gill and published in 1991.

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Thorsten Engelmann

Thorsten Engelmann (born 20 July 1981 in Berlin) is a German rower.

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Tideway

The Tideway is the part of the River Thames in England that is subject to tides.

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Tim Foster

Timothy James Carrington Foster, MBE (born 19 January 1970) is an English rower.

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Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education (THE), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education.

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True Blue (1996 film)

True Blue is a 1996 British sport drama film based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson.

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True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny is a non-fiction book written by Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson and published in 1989.

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University Boat Race Stones

The University Boat Race Stones are two small stone markers on the southern bank of the River Thames in west London, one 129m upstream of Putney Bridge and the other at Mortlake, 112m downstream of Chiswick Bridge.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Varsity match

A varsity match is a sporting fixture between two university rivals.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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Westminster School

Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school in London, England, located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

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Women's Boat Race

The Women's Boat Race is an annual rowing race between Cambridge University Women's Boat Club and Oxford University Women's Boat Club.

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Women's Boat Race 2011

The 66th Women's Boat Race took place on 27 March 2011.

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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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Xchanging

Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, owned by DXC Technology, with a wide range of multinational customers across many industries in 48 countries.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_Race

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