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Patrick Moore

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Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. [1]

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constituency), Children in Need, Chris Lintott, Chris Moyles' Quiz Night, Cliff Michelmore, Clive Anderson, Comedy Lab, Comet Arend–Roland, Comet Kohoutek, Conspiracy theory, Constitutional monarchy, Cornwall, Countdown (game show), County Armagh, Crank (person), Cumbria, David Howell (chess player), Dentures, Doctor of Science, Doctor Who, Dominik Diamond, East Grinstead, Eclipse, Eleventh Doctor, Enoch Powell, European Union, Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, Evelyn Glennie, Face the Music (TV series), Far side of the Moon, Farce, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fielding (cricket), Flying officer, Flying saucer, Foodborne illness, Fox hunting, GamesMaster, Garden of Eden, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Gentlemen's agreement, Gerry Davis (screenwriter), Glockenspiel, Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, Guinness World Records, Halley's Comet, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Have I Got News for You, Hawkwind, Heroes of Comedy, Herschel Museum of Astronomy, HIV/AIDS, Holmewood House School, Home Guard (United Kingdom), Horizon (UK TV series), Hugh Dowding, Hugh Percy Wilkins, Iceland, Independence Day UK, International Astronomical Union, International Birdman, Iraq War, It'll Never Work?, It's a Knockout, Jack Horkheimer, Jackanory, Jackson-Gwilt Medal, James Burke (science historian), Jean Sibelius, Joel McIver, Jon Culshaw, Julius Heinrich Franz, Just a Minute, Kenneth Horne, Kit Pedler, Kitchen sink realism, Knight Bachelor, Langton Green, Le cygne, Leg spin, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Party (UK), Library of Congress, Libration, Liechtenstein, List of minor planets: 2001–3000, List of reported UFO sightings, Live & Kicking, Lord's Taverners, Luna 3, Luna 4, Mare Orientale, Maritime patrol, Martin Rees, MasterChef (UK TV series), Matt Smith (actor), Middlesex, Military Cross, Millom, Mission to Mars (novel), Modern flat Earth societies, Monocle, Moon, Morecambe and Wise, Muse (band), NASA, Neil Armstrong, New Britain Party, New Brunswick, Newsnight, Northern Ireland, Official Monster Raving Loony Party, Operetta, Ophthalmology, Order of the British Empire, Outer space, Panorama (TV series), Parkinson (TV series), Patricia Hodge, Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius), Peppercorn (legal), Pianist, Pilot officer, Pink Floyd, Pinner, Pioneer program, Planetarium projector, Platoon, Political correctness, Popular science, Queen (band), Question Time (TV series), Race Relations Act 1976, Radio Times, Red Dwarf, Reflecting telescope, Richard & Judy, Right-wing politics, Rock music, Ronald Reagan, Room 101 (TV series), Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Command Performance, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Variety Performance, Science fiction, Science Museum, London, Score with the Scaffold, Scott Saunders Space Adventure, Scouting, Selsey, Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Sex Pistols, Sir, Socialist Workers Party (UK), Society for Popular Astronomy, Society for the History of Astronomy, Solar eclipse, Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, South Downs Planetarium & Science Centre, Southampton, Soviet Union, Springer Science+Business Media, Star Trek, Starhyke, Story editor, Telly Addicts, That Sunday Night Show, Thatcherism, The Daily Telegraph, The Eleventh Hour (Doctor Who), The Goodies, The Goodies (TV series), The History Press, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series), The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow, The Selection Box, The Sky at Night, The Times, The Troubles, The Voices of Mars, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), This Morning (TV programme), Thought Police, Time Lord, Tom Hollander, Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Transient lunar phenomenon, UK Independence Party, United Country Party (United Kingdom), United Kingdom general election, 1979, United Kingdom general election, 2001, University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, Up Sunday, Vickers Wellington, Voyager program, Weightlessness, West 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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.

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Adam and Steve

"Adam and Steve" is a phrase that originated from a conservative Christian slogan "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve", intended to concisely summarize Judeo-Christian Bible-based arguments against gay sexual practices or homosexuality.

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Aircraftman

Aircraftman (AC) or aircraftwoman (ACW) is the lowest rank in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the air forces of several other Commonwealth countries.

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Airdrie Public Observatory

Airdrie Public Observatory (55° 51’ 56” N, 3° 58’ 58” W) is part of the library building in the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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Amateur astronomy

Amateur astronomy is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.

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Anarchy in the U.K.

"Anarchy in the U.K." is a song by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

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Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec are an English comedy TV presenting duo, consisting of Anthony McPartlin (born 18 November 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born 25 September 1975), from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Apollo 10

Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon.

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Apollo 11

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon.

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Apollo 12

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon.

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Apollo 17

Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program.

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Apollo 8

Apollo 8, the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth.

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Apollo 9

Apollo 9 was the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program and the first flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM, pronounced "lem").

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Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

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April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day is an annual celebration in some European and Western countries commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

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Armagh Planetarium

Armagh Planetarium is a planetarium located in Armagh, Northern Ireland close to the city centre and neighbouring Armagh Observatory in approximately fourteen acres of landscaped grounds known as the Armagh Astropark.

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Arthritis

Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.

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Artificial cardiac pacemaker

A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to contract the heart muscles and regulate the electrical conduction system of the heart.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Astrology

Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.

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Astronomer Royal

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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B3ta

B3ta (stylised as b3ta) is a popular British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by The Guardian.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Batting order (cricket)

In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time.

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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 One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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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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Big Brother (franchise)

Big Brother is a Dutch reality television game show franchise created by John de Mol Jr., broadcast in the Netherlands and subsequently syndicated internationally.

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Blankety Blank

Blankety Blank (later called Lily Savage's Blankety Blank) is a British comedy game show based on the 1977–79 Australian game show Blankety Blanks (which was in turn based on the American game show Match Game).

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Blood sport

A blood sport is a category of sport or entertainment that involves bloodshed.

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Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis is a seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, south-west of London, west of Brighton, south-east of Chichester and east of Portsmouth.

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Bowling (cricket)

Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

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Brian Cox (physicist)

Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

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Brian May

Brian Harold May, (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist, and photographer.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Astronomical Association

The British Astronomical Association (BAA) was formed in 1890 as a national body to support the UK's amateur astronomers.

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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), or Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War.

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British National Party

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right and fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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British television Apollo 11 coverage

British television coverage of the Apollo 11 mission, man's first to land on the moon, lasted from 16 to 24 July 1969.

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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer, former astronaut, and Command Pilot in the United States Air Force.

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Caldwell catalogue

The Caldwell Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Carlton Television

Carlton Television (now part of the non-franchise ITV London region) was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties from 9.25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday.

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Cats Protection

Cats Protection, formerly The Cats Protection League, is a UK charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming stray, unwanted or homeless cats and educating people about cats and cat welfare.

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Cedric Allingham

Cedric Allingham (born June 27, 1922) is a fictional British writer reputed in the 1954 book Flying Saucer from Mars to have encountered the pilot of a Martian spacecraft.

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Celebrity Squares

Celebrity Squares is a British comedy game show based on the American comedy game show Hollywood Squares.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Chichester (UK Parliament constituency)

Chichester is a constituency in West Sussex, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Gillian Keegan of the Conservative Party.

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Children in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant Mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Chris Lintott

Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

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Chris Moyles' Quiz Night

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night is a British television comedy panel game show, presented by Chris Moyles.

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Cliff Michelmore

Arthur Clifford "Cliff" Michelmore (11 December 1919 – 17 March 2016) was an English television presenter and producer.

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Clive Anderson

Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952 in Stanmore, Middlesex) is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister.

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Comedy Lab

Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows.

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Comet Arend–Roland

Comet Arend–Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956, by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland on photographic plates.

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Comet Kohoutek

Comet Kohoutek, formally designated C/1973 E1, 1973 XII, and 1973f, was first sighted on 7 March 1973 by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors.

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Constitutional monarchy

A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign exercises authority in accordance with a written or unwritten constitution.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles.

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County Armagh

County Armagh (named after its county town, Armagh) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland.

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Crank (person)

"Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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David Howell (chess player)

David Wei Liang Howell (born 14 November 1990) is an English chess grandmaster and British champion in 2009, 2013 and 2014.

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Dentures

Dentures (also known as false teeth) are prosthetic devices constructed to replace missing teeth; they are supported by the surrounding soft and hard tissues of the oral cavity.

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Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science (Latin: Scientiae Doctor), usually abbreviated Sc.D., D.Sc., S.D., or D.S., is an academic research degree awarded in a number of countries throughout the world.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dominik Diamond

Paul Dominik Diamond, known as Dominik Diamond (born 31 December 1969) is a Scottish television and radio presenter and newspaper columnist.

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East Grinstead

East Grinstead is a town and civil parish in the northeastern corner of Mid Sussex district of West Sussex in England near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders.

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Eclipse

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object is temporarily obscured, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer.

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Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell (16 June 19128 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist and poet.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom

Euroscepticism, i.e. the opposition to policies of supranational European Union institutions and/or opposition to Britain's membership of the European Union, has been a significant element in the politics of the United Kingdom (UK).

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Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist.

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Face the Music (TV series)

Face the Music was a weekly BBC television programme in the form of a classical music quiz.

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Far side of the Moon

The far side of the Moon (sometimes figuratively known as the dark side of the Moon) is the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth.

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Farce

In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.

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Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

Fellowship of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) is a fellowship granted to individuals whose application is approved by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Fielding (cricket)

Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, to limit the number of runs that the batsman scores and/or to get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or by running the batsman out.

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Flying officer

Flying officer (Fg Off in the RAF and IAF; FLGOFF in the RAAF; FGOFF in the RNZAF; formerly F/O in all services and still frequently in the RAF) is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.

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Flying saucer

A flying saucer (also referred to as "a flying disc") is a descriptive term for a supposed type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flying object.

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Foodborne illness

Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well as toxins such as poisonous mushrooms and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.

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Fox hunting

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers led by a "master of foxhounds" ("master of hounds"), who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.

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GamesMaster

GamesMaster is a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.

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Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden (Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן, Gan ʿEḏen) or (often) Paradise, is the biblical "garden of God", described most notably in the Book of Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and also in the Book of Ezekiel.

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Gérard de Vaucouleurs

Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (25 April 1918 – 7 October 1995) was a French astronomer.

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Gentlemen's agreement

A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.

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Gerry Davis (screenwriter)

Gerry Davis (23 February 1930 – 31 August 1991) was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre.

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Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

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Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport

Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, (GMIA, Aéroport international Roméo-LeBlanc du Grand Moncton) or Moncton/Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport is located in the city of Dieppe east northeast of downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Halley's Comet

Halley's Comet or Comet Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley, is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 74–79 years.

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Harry Hill's TV Burp

Harry Hill's TV Burp (also known as just TV Burp) is a British television comedy programme which was broadcast between 2001 and 2012 on ITV.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Heroes of Comedy

Heroes of Comedy is a British television series, produced by Thames Television, and broadcast on Channel 4, which devotes each episode to a legend of British comedy.

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Herschel Museum of Astronomy

The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath, England, is a museum that was inaugurated in 1981.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Holmewood House School

Holmewood House School is an IAPS independent, co-educational preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3–13, in Langton Green, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Horizon (UK TV series)

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.

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Hugh Dowding

Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Hugh Percy Wilkins

Hugh Percy Wilkins (4 December 1896 –23 January 1960) was a Welsh-born engineer and amateur astronomer.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Independence Day UK

Independence Day UK is a one-hour BBC Radio 1 science fiction special, first broadcast on 4 August 1996.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.

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International Birdman

The International Birdman is a series of two English competitions held in the West Sussex towns of Bognor Regis and Worthing.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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It'll Never Work?

It'll Never Work? was a television programme for children showcasing new inventions and developments in scientific technology.

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It's a Knockout

It's a Knockout! is a British comedy game show first broadcast in 1966.

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Jack Horkheimer

Jack Horkheimer (born Foley Arthur Horkheimer; June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010) was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.

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Jackanory

Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 to 1996.

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Jackson-Gwilt Medal

The Jackson-Gwilt Medal is an award that has been issued by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) since 1897.

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James Burke (science historian)

James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer, who is known, among other things, for his documentary television series Connections (1978), and for its more philosophically oriented companion series, The Day the Universe Changed (1985), which is about the history of science and technology.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 186520 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.

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Joel McIver

Joel McIver (born 10 February 1971) is a British author.

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Jon Culshaw

Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian, best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000.

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Julius Heinrich Franz

Julius Heinrich Franz (28 June 1847 – 28 January 1913) was a German astronomer.

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Just a Minute

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons.

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Kenneth Horne

Charles Kenneth Horne, generally known as Kenneth Horne, (27 February 1907 – 14 February 1969) was an English comedian and businessman.

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Kit Pedler

Christopher Magnus Howard "Kit" Pedler (11 June 1927 – 27 May 1981) was a British medical scientist, parapsychologist and science fiction author.

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Kitchen sink realism

Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film, and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Langton Green

Langton Green is a village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, England, lying around two miles west of the town centre along the A264.

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Le cygne

Le cygne,, or The Swan, is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

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Leg spin

Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Libration

In astronomy, libration is a perceived oscillating motion of orbiting bodies relative to each other, notably including the motion of the Moon relative to Earth, or of trojan asteroids relative to planets.

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Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in Central Europe.

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List of minor planets: 2001–3000

#FA8072 | 2078 Nanking || 1975 AD || January 12, 1975 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.

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List of reported UFO sightings

This is a partial list of sightings of alleged unidentified flying objects (UFOs), including reports of close encounters and abductions.

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Live & Kicking

Live & Kicking is a BBC Saturday morning children's magazine programme, running from 1993 to 2001.

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Lord's Taverners

The Lord’s Taverners (registered charity no. 306054) is the official charity for recreational cricket and the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity.

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Luna 3

Luna 3, or E-2A No.1 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme.

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Luna 4

Luna 4, or E-6 No.4 was a Soviet spacecraft launched as part of the Luna program to attempt the first soft landing on the Moon.

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Mare Orientale

Mare Orientale ("eastern sea" in Latin) is a lunar mare.

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Maritime patrol

Maritime patrol is the task of monitoring areas of water.

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Martin Rees

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

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MasterChef (UK TV series)

MasterChef is a BBC television competitive cooking show.

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Matt Smith (actor)

Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor.

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Middlesex

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

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Millom

Millom is a town and civil parish on the north shore of the estuary of the River Duddon around 7 miles north of Barrow-in-Furness in southwest Cumbria, England.

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Mission to Mars (novel)

Mission to Mars is a 1955 children's science fiction novel by Patrick Moore, published by Burke.

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Modern flat Earth societies

Modern flat Earth societies consist of individuals who promote the idea that the Earth is flat rather than a sphere.

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Monocle

A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the vision in only one eye.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

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Muse (band)

Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon.

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New Britain Party

New Britain was a minor British right wing political party founded by Dennis Delderfield in 1976.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.

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Newsnight

Newsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Official Monster Raving Loony Party

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party is a political party established in the United Kingdom in 1983 by the musician David Sutch, better known as "Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow" or simply "Lord Sutch".

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Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter.

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Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine and surgery (both methods are used) that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eyeball and orbit.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Outer space

Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.

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Panorama (TV series)

Panorama is a BBC Television investigative current affairs documentary programme.

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Parkinson (TV series)

Parkinson is a British television chat show that was presented by Michael Parkinson.

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Patricia Hodge

Patricia Ann Hodge, OBE (born 29 September 1946) is an English actor.

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Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius)

Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas och Mélisande), Op.

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Peppercorn (legal)

In legal parlance, a peppercorn is a metaphor for a very small payment, a nominal consideration, used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.

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Pianist

A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano.

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Pilot officer

Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; PLTOFF in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pinner

Pinner is a village in the London Borough of Harrow in northwest London, England, from Charing Cross.

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Pioneer program

The Pioneer program is a series of United States unmanned space missions that were designed for planetary exploration.

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Planetarium projector

A planetarium projector is a device used to project images of celestial objects onto the dome in a planetarium.

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Platoon

A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two or more squads/sections/patrols.

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Political correctness

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC or P.C.) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Question Time (TV series)

Question Time is a BBC topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on the radio programme Any Questions? The show typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by members of an audience selected on the basis of its political views and demographic.

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Race Relations Act 1976

The Race Relations Act 1976 was established by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to prevent discrimination on the grounds of race.

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Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine.

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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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Reflecting telescope

A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image.

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Richard & Judy

Richard & Judy (also known as Richard & Judy's New Position) was a British television chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Room 101 (TV series)

Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign those hates to oblivion in Room 101, a location whose name is inspired by the torture room in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the worst thing in the world".

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) consists of a number of groupings of Royal Air Force reservists for the management and operation of the RAF's Volunteer Gliding Squadrons and Air Experience Flights of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.

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Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by 'gentleman astronomers' rather than professionals).

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Royal Command Performance

A Royal Command Performance in the United Kingdom is any performance by actors or musicians that occurs at the direction or request of a reigning monarch.

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, moved from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames.

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Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which Queen Elizabeth II is life-patron).

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Score with the Scaffold

Score with the Scaffold is a BBC children's programme, which ran during 1970-71.

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Scott Saunders Space Adventure

The Scott Saunders Space Adventure series are a series of young adult science-fiction novels written by amateur astronomer Patrick Moore.

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Scouting

Scouting or the Scout Movement is a movement that aims to support young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society, with a strong focus on the outdoors and survival skills.

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Selsey

Selsey is a seaside town and civil parish, about eight miles (12 km) south of Chichester in West Sussex, England.

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Sex Discrimination Act 1975

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which protected men and women from discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Sir

Sir is an honorific address used in a number of situations in many anglophone cultures.

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Socialist Workers Party (UK)

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in Britain.

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Society for Popular Astronomy

The Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) is a national astronomical society based in the United Kingdom for beginners to amateur astronomy.

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Society for the History of Astronomy

The Society for the History of Astronomy is an organisation based in the United Kingdom that promotes research into the history of astronomy.

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Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse (as seen from the planet Earth) is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks ("occults") the Sun.

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Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999

A total solar eclipse occurred on 11 August 1999 with an eclipse magnitude of 1.029.

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South Downs Planetarium & Science Centre

The South Downs Planetarium and Science Centre is an educational facility in Chichester, West Sussex, run by a team of volunteers and astronomy enthusiasts and inaugurated in 2002.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Starhyke

Starhyke is a British science fiction/comedy series filmed in 2004.

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Story editor

Story editor is a job title in motion picture and television production, also sometimes called "supervising producer".

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Telly Addicts

Telly Addicts is a game show that aired on BBC1 from 3 September 1985 to 29 July 1998 and hosted by Noel Edmonds.

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That Sunday Night Show

That Sunday Night Show was a British television chat show presented by Adrian Chiles.

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Thatcherism

Thatcherism describes the conviction, economic, social and political style of the British Conservative Party politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.

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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 Eleventh Hour (Doctor Who)

"The Eleventh Hour" is the first episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 3 April 2010.

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The Goodies

The Goodies are a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie.

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The Goodies (TV series)

The Goodies is a British television comedy series shown in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series)

The Morecambe & Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television and the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise.

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The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow

The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow is a BBC television light entertainment show which was broadcast on Saturday evenings from 3 September 1988 to 15 December 1990.

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The Selection Box

The Selection Box was a talent search reality TV show produced by Adare Productions for RTÉ.

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The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC.

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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 Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.

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The Voices of Mars

The Voices of Mars is a 1957 children's science fiction novel by Patrick Moore, published by Burke.

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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.

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This Morning (TV programme)

This Morning is a British daytime television programme that is broadcast on ITV.

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Thought Police

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol) are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish thoughtcrime, personal and political thoughts unapproved by the Party.

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Time Lord

The Time Lords are a fictional, ancient extraterrestrial species in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' protagonist, the Doctor, is a member.

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Tom Hollander

Thomas Anthony Hollander (born 25 August 1967) is an English actor.

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Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Torquay Boys' Grammar School is a selective boys grammar school in Torquay, Devon, England.

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Transient lunar phenomenon

A transient lunar phenomenon (TLP) or lunar transient phenomenon (LTP) is a short-lived light, color, or change in appearance on the surface of the Moon.

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UK Independence Party

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.

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United Country Party (United Kingdom)

The United Country Party was a minor political party in the United Kingdom during the late 1970s.

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United Kingdom general election, 1979

The 1979 United Kingdom general election was held on 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2001

The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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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 Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.

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Up Sunday

Up Sunday was a British late night comedy satire TV show shown on BBC2 that ran for 55 editions over four series from January 1972 to December 1973, featuring many comedy stars of its era.

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Vickers Wellington

The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber.

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Voyager program

The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, to study the outer Solar System.

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Weightlessness

Weightlessness, or an absence of weight, is an absence of stress and strain resulting from externally applied mechanical contact-forces, typically normal forces (from floors, seats, beds, scales, etc.). Counterintuitively, a uniform gravitational field does not by itself cause stress or strain, and a body in free fall in such an environment experiences no g-force acceleration and feels weightless.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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Woking

Woking is a town in northwest Surrey, England.

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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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Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (p; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

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100 Greatest (TV series)

100 Greatest is a long-running TV strand on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom that has been broadcasting since 1999.

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References

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

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