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Lawrence Oates

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Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 188017 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the Terra Nova Expedition. [1]

99 relations: Antarctic, Antarctica, Backwards (novel), Beardmore Glacier, Beryl Bainbridge, Brenda Clough, Cairn, Cambridge, Cape Colony, Cape Evans, Cape Town, Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), China Miéville, Cram school, Death (Discworld), Derek Bond, Derek Mahon, Descanso Dominical, Dirigible (film), Discworld, Douglas Stewart (poet), Eastbourne, Edgar Evans, Edward Adrian Wilson, El Sello De Los Tiempos, Embassytown, Eton College, Frank Capra, Frank Oates, Frederick Ranalow, Frostbite, Gangrene, Geraldine McCaughrean, Gestingthorpe, Henry Robertson Bowers, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Hooves of Fire, Jack Hayward, Jumpers (play), Kathleen Scott, Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), Madeira, Manor, Margaret Atwood, May Be Some Time, Meanwood, Mecano, Mentioned in dispatches, Michael Smith (author), Militia (United Kingdom), ..., Oates Coast, Orange River Colony, Polar Medal, Polheim, Putney, Queen's South Africa Medal, Reaper Man, Red Dwarf, Richard Morant, Roald Amundsen, Rob Grant, Robbie the Reindeer, Robert Falcon Scott, Roland Huntford, Roscoe Karns, Ross Ice Shelf, Royal Dragoon Guards, Scott of the Antarctic (film), Scott Polar Research Institute, Scurvy, Second Boer War, Second lieutenant, Selborne, Self-denial, SF Site, Siberian Husky, Small Gods, Soul Music (novel), South Africa, South African Republic, South Pole, Steven H Silver, Terra Nova Expedition, Terry Pratchett, The Birthday Boys, The Fire on the Snow, The Last Place on Earth, The Times, The White Darkness, The Year of the Flood, Titus Oates, Tom Stoppard, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Victoria Cross, WarCry (band), West Yorkshire Regiment, White Hole (Red Dwarf), Willington School, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. Expand index (49 more) »

Antarctic

The Antarctic (US English, UK English or and or) is a polar region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Backwards (novel)

Backwards is the fourth Red Dwarf novel.

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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.

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Brenda Clough

Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Cairn

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Cape Evans

Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.

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China Miéville

China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic.

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Cram school

Cram schools are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities.

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Death (Discworld)

Death is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a parody of several other personifications of death.

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Derek Bond

Derek William Douglas Bond, MC (26 January 1920 – 15 October 2006) was a British actor.

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Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941) is an Irish poet.

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Descanso Dominical

Descanso Dominical (English: Sunday Break) is an album by pop group Mecano.

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Dirigible (film)

Dirigible is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures and starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Fay Wray.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

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Douglas Stewart (poet)

Douglas Stewart AO OBE (6 May 191314 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor.

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town, seaside resort and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Brighton.

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Edgar Evans

Petty Officer Edgar Evans (7 March 1876 – 17 February 1912) was a member of the "Polar Party" in Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912.

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Edward Adrian Wilson

Edward Adrian Wilson FZS ("Uncle Bill") (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912) was an English physician, polar explorer, natural historian, painter and ornithologist.

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El Sello De Los Tiempos

El Sello de los Tiempos (en: "The Seal of Times") is the second studio album by the Spanish power metal band WarCry, released on December 1, 2002 (see 2002 in music and 2002 in heavy metal music) through Avispa Music.

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Embassytown

Embassytown is a science fiction novel by British author China Miéville.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Frank Oates

Frank Oates (1840–1875) was a British naturalist, explorer and uncle to Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates.

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Frederick Ranalow

Frederick Ranalow (7 November 18738 December 1953) was an Irish baritone who was distinguished in opera, oratorio, and musical theatre, but whose name is now principally associated with the role of Captain Macheath in the ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, which he sang close to 1,500 times.

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Frostbite

Frostbite occurs when exposure to low temperatures causes freezing of the skin or other tissues.

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Gangrene

Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply.

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Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean (born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist.

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Gestingthorpe

Gestingthorpe (pronounced, 'guesstingthorpe') is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the English county of Essex.

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Henry Robertson Bowers

Lieutenant Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers (29 July 1883 – 29 March 1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition (1910–1913), all of whom died during their return from the South Pole.

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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916), was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.

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Hooves of Fire

Hooves of Fire is one of three animated BBC Christmas comedy television specials, filmed using stop motion techniques, and presented in aid of Comic Relief.

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Jack Hayward

Sir Jack Arnold Hayward (14 June 1923 – 13 January 2015) was an English businessman, property developer, philanthropist and president of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Jumpers (play)

Jumpers is a play by Tom Stoppard which was first performed in 1972.

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Kathleen Scott

Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, FRBS (27 March 1878 – 25 July 1947) was a British sculptor.

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Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)

Lieutenant (Lt) is a junior officer rank in the British Army and Royal Marines.

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Madeira

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal.

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Manor

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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May Be Some Time

May Be Some Time is a science fiction novella by Brenda Clough.

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Meanwood

Meanwood is a suburb and former village in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Mecano

Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in 1981 and active until 1992.

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Mentioned in dispatches

A member of the armed forces mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Michael Smith (author)

Michael Smith (born 1946) is a British author and journalist specialising in the history of polar exploration.

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Militia (United Kingdom)

The Militia of the United Kingdom were the military reserve forces of the United Kingdom after the Union in 1801 of the former Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland.

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Oates Coast

Oates Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Hudson and Cape Williams.

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Orange River Colony

The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War.

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Polar Medal

The Polar Medal is a medal awarded by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Polheim

Polheim ("Home at the Pole") was Roald Amundsen's name for his camp (the first ever) at the South Pole.

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Putney

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

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Queen's South Africa Medal

The Queen's South Africa Medal is a British campaign medal which was awarded to British and Colonial military personnel, civilians employed in official capacity and war correspondents who served in the Second Boer War in South Africa.

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Reaper Man

Reaper Man is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Richard Morant

Richard Morant (30 October 1945 – 9 November 2011) was an English actor.

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Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.

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Rob Grant

Robert Grant is an English comedy writer, television producer and co-creator of Red Dwarf.

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Robbie the Reindeer

Robbie the Reindeer is a series of three animated comedy television specials shown on BBC One at Christmas, filmed in aid of Comic Relief.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913).

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Roland Huntford

Roland Huntford (born Roland Horwitch in 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers.

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Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013 an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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Royal Dragoon Guards

The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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Scott of the Antarctic (film)

Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 Technicolor film which depicts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition and his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in Antarctica.

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Scott Polar Research Institute

The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide.

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Scurvy

Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant (called lieutenant in some countries) is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1b rank.

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Selborne

Selborne is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Self-denial

Self-denial (related but different from self-abnegation or self-sacrifice) is an act of letting go of the self as with altruistic abstinence – the willingness to forgo personal pleasures or undergo personal trials in the pursuit of the increased good of another.

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SF Site

SF Site is a science fiction online magazine edited by Rodger Turner.

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Siberian Husky

The Siberian Husky (Сибирский хаски) is a Large size working dog breed that originated in Northeast Asia.

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Small Gods

Small Gods is the thirteenth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, published in 1992.

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Soul Music (novel)

Soul Music is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the sixteenth book in the Discworld series, first published in 1994.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Republic

The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface.

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Steven H Silver

Steven H Silver (born April 19, 1967, Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American science fiction fan and bibliographer, publisher, and editor.

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Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Birthday Boys

The Birthday Boys is a novel by Beryl Bainbridge.

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The Fire on the Snow

The Fire on the Snow is a verse play by Douglas Stewart about the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott.

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The Last Place on Earth

The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven-part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford.

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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 White Darkness

The White Darkness is a novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.

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The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on September 22, 2009 in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom.

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Titus Oates

Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705), also called Titus the Liar, was an English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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WarCry (band)

WarCry is a Spanish power metal band led by founder, singer, and songwriter Víctor García.

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West Yorkshire Regiment

The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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White Hole (Red Dwarf)

"White Hole" is the fourth episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series IV and the twenty-second episode in the series run.

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Willington School

Willington Independent Preparatory School is situated in Wimbledon, London.

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6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons

The 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1689 as Sir Albert Cunningham's Regiment of Dragoons.

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