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Agave
Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
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Air raid shelter
Air raid shelters, also known as bomb shelters, are structures for the protection of non-combatants as well as combatants against enemy attacks from the air.
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Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption
In response to concerns that volcanic ash ejected during the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland would damage aircraft engines, the controlled airspace of many European countries was closed to instrument flight rules traffic, resulting in the largest air-traffic shut-down since World War II.
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Al Murray
Alastair James Hay Murray (born 10 May 1968), is an English comedian and TV personality.
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Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, FRSL (born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author.
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Alan Davies
Alan Roger Davies ("Davis"; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor.
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Alan Shepard
Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman.
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Alan West, Baron West of Spithead
Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, (born 21 April 1948) is a retired senior officer of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for security and a security advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Alastair Fothergill
Alastair Fothergill (born 10 April 1960) is a British producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema.
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Albinism
Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes.
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Alex Bellos
Alexander Bellos (born 1969) is a British writer and broadcaster.
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Alex Horne
Alexander James Jeffrey "Alex" Horne (born 10 September 1978) is a British comedian.
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Alexis Soyer
Alexis Bénoit Soyer (4 February 18105 August 1858) was a French chef who became the most celebrated cook in Victorian England.
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Alice Roberts
Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, television presenter and author.
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Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language.
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Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen (born) is an English shepherd and writer.
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Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Palmer (AFP), is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls.
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Amber Butchart
Amber Jane Butchart is a British fashion historian and writer.
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Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
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Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.
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Andre Geim
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP (born 21 October 1958) is a Soviet-born Dutch-British physicist working in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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Andrew O'Neill
Andrew O'Neill (born 14 September 1979) is a comedian, musician, presenter, and writer.
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Andy Miller (writer)
Andy Miller is a British writer and editor.
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Andy Nyman
Andrew Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor, writer and director.
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Anna Keay
Anna Keay, born, in the West Highlands of Scotland, is a British architectural historian, author, and television personality, and since 2012, Director of The Landmark Trust.
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Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley (born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Archaic human admixture with modern humans
There is evidence for interbreeding between archaic and modern humans during the Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic.
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Arthur Cravan
Arthur Cravan (born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd on 22 May 1887, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a Swiss boxer, and poet.
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Arthur Smith (comedian)
Brian Arthur Smith (born 27 November 1954) is an English alternative comedian and writer.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.
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Ascidiacea
Ascidiacea (commonly known as the ascidians or sea squirts) is a paraphyletic class in the subphylum Tunicata of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders.
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Asian giant hornet
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), including the subspecies Japanese giant hornet (V. m. japonica), colloquially known as the yak-killer hornet, is the world's largest hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia.
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Attention
Attention, also referred to as enthrallment, is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.
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Australian English vocabulary
Australian English is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia.
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Autonomous sensory meridian response
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine.
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Baculum
The baculum (also penis bone, penile bone, or os penis, or os priapi) is a bone found in the penis of many placental mammals.
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Barnsley
Barnsley (locally) is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield.
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Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall, AC, FRACP, FRS, FAA (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia.
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Battle of Actium
The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic, a naval engagement between Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the promontory of Actium, in the Roman province of Epirus Vetus in Greece.
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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BBC Micro
The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by the Acorn Computer company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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Bee Wilson
Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson (born 7 March 1974) is a British food writer, journalist and historian and the author of five books on food-related subjects.
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Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
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Beth Healey
Beth Healey (born) is a British medical doctor who spent a year in Antarctica at Concordia Station, a French-Italian base, as a Research MD.
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Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes (born 14 May 1967) is an English historian, author and broadcaster.
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Big Bang
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution.
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Bigfoot
In North American folklore, Bigfoot or Sasquatch is a hairy, upright-walking,ape-like being who reportedly dwells in the wilderness and leaves behind large footprints.
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Bill Bailey
Mark Robert "Bill" Bailey (born 13 January 1965) is an English comedian, musician, singer, actor, TV and radio presenter and author.
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Blonde on Blonde
Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in mid 1966, on Columbia Records.
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Blue Peter badge
A Blue Peter badge is a much coveted award for Blue Peter viewers, given by the BBC children's television programme for those appearing on the show, or in recognition of achievement.
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Botulinum toxin
Botulinum toxin (BTX) or Botox is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.
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Bradley Garrett
Bradley Garrett (born c. 1981) is an American social and cultural geographer at the University of Sydney in Australia and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom.
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Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, writer, presenter, and comedian.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.
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British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide or BCG (formerly the British Sitcom Guide or BSG) is a British website covering all forms of British comedy, across all media.
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Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.
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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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C. B. Fry
Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956), was an English sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer.
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Cadbury Dairy Milk
Cadbury Dairy Milk is a brand of milk chocolate manufactured by Cadbury.
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Cariad Lloyd
Cariad Lloyd (born 21 August 1982) is a British comedian, actress writer, and podcaster who has been performing since 2007.
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Cathach of St. Columba
The Cathach of St.
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Caulophryne polynema
Caulophryne polynema is a species of fish in the family Caulophrynidae, the fanfins.
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Cave
A cave is a hollow place in the ground, specifically a natural space large enough for a human to enter.
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Cave painting
Cave paintings, also known as parietal art, are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, beginning roughly 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Charlotte Uhlenbroek
Charlotte Jane Uhlenbroek (born 16 May 1967) is a British zoologist and BBC television presenter.
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Cheese
Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.
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Chelmsford
Chelmsford is the principal settlement of the City of Chelmsford district, and the county town of Essex, in the East of England.
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Chemical element
A chemical element is a species of atoms having the same number of protons in their atomic nuclei (that is, the same atomic number, or Z).
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Childhood
Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.
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Chimpanzee
The taxonomical genus Pan (often referred to as chimpanzees or chimps) consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo.
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Chivalry
Chivalry, or the chivalric code, is an informal, varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220, never decided on or summarized in a single document, associated with the medieval institution of knighthood; knights' and gentlewomen's behaviours were governed by chivalrous social codes.
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Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a late-12th-century French poet and trouvère known for his work on Arthurian subjects, and for originating the character Lancelot.
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Chris Addison
Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is an English comedian, writer, actor and director from Manchester.
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Chris Donald
Not to be confused with Kriss Donald Chris Donald (born 25 April 1960 in Newcastle, England) is the founder of, and one of the principal contributors to, the British comic magazine Viz.
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Christofer Clemente
Christofer J. Clemente is an Australian scientist specialising in biomechanics.
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Chuño
Chuño is a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Bolivia and Peru, and is known in various countries of South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
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Chutney
No description.
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Cleo Rocos
Cleo Rocos (born 24 July 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a UK-based comedy actress, producer, presenter and businesswoman, who starred alongside Kenny Everett on The Kenny Everett Television Show.
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Cliché
A cliché or cliche is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.
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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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Clive James
Vivian Leopold James, AO, CBE, FRSL (born 7 October 1939), known as Clive James, is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism.
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Clive Oppenheimer
Clive Oppenheimer is a British volcanologist, and Professor of Volcanology in the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge.
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Cloak of invisibility
A cloak of invisibility is a fictional theme and a device under some scientific inquiry.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
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Coffee
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.
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Comedy
In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.
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Compact Cassette
The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
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Compass
A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points).
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Corey Taylor
Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and author, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the bands Slipknot and Stone Sour.
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Coronal mass ejection
A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant release of plasma and magnetic field from the solar corona.
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Cottingley Fairies
The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.
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Cow dung
Cow dung, also known as cow pats, cow pies or cow manure, is the waste product of bovine animal species.
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Crab louse
The crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood.
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Craig Brown (satirist)
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957) is an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye.
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Crossroads (UK TV series)
Crossroads is a British television soap opera that ran on ITV over two periods – the original 1964 to 1988 run, followed by a short revival from 2001 to 2003.
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Curator
A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.
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Curiosity
Curiosity (from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus "careful, diligent, curious", akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals.
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Curta
The Curta is a small mechanical calculator developed by Curt Herzstark.
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Dan Schreiber (producer)
Daniel "Dan" Schreiber is a radio producer living in the United Kingdom and is also a writer for radio and television.
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Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is an English essayist, novelist, translator, and autistic savant.
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Dave Gorman
David James Gorman (born 2 March 1971) is an English comedian, author, and television presenter.
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Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson (born 1965) FRSE FRES University of Sussex, 2014.
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Dave Trott
Dave Trott is a creative director, copywriter, and author.
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David Bramwell
David Bramwell is a British writer, musician, performer and broadcaster.
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David Crystal
David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author.
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David Eagleman
David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American writer and neuroscientist, teaching at Stanford University as an in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
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David Frost
Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer.
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David McCandless
David McCandless (born 1971) is a British data-journalist, and information designer based in London.
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Deathwatch beetle
The deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum, is a woodboring beetle.
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Deborah Frances-White
Deborah Frances-White is a comedian and writer who also delivers seminars to women in business on subjects including charisma, diversity and inclusion.
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Deep frying
Deep frying (also referred to as deep fat frying) is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat, most commonly oil, rather than the shallow oil used in conventional frying, done in a frying pan.
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Deep Space Climate Observatory
Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR; formerly known as Triana, unofficially known as GoreSat) is a NOAA space weather and Earth observation satellite.
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Denarius
The denarius (dēnāriī) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War c. 211 BC to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238-244), when it was gradually replaced by the Antoninianus.
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Desire
Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome.
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Detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.
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Deterrence (legal)
Deterrence is the use of punishment as a threat which is considered as a means to prevent people from offending or to reduce the probability and/or level of offending.
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Dillie Keane
Louise Miriam "Dillie" Keane (born 23 May 1952) is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedian. She is perhaps best known as one third of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda since its 1983 inception, but she has also had a prominent solo career.
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Dionysiaca
The Dionysiaca (Διονυσιακά, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus.
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Dog
The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the gray wolf or Canis familiaris when considered a distinct species) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.
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Dogme 95
Dogme 95 was a filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" (kyskhedsløfter).
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Don Quixote
The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Donald Wolfit
Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE (20 April 1902 – 17 February 1968) was an English actor-manager, known for his touring wartime productions of Shakespeare.
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Dord
The word dord is a notable error in lexicography, an accidental creation, or ghost word, of the G. and C. Merriam Company's staff in the New International Dictionary, second edition (1934), in which the term is defined as a synonym for density used by physicists and chemists.
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Doris Vickers
Doris Vickers (born 1980) is an Austrian archaeoastronomer and content manager for the Unesco Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy.
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Eben Upton
Eben Christopher Upton CBE (born 5 April 1978) is a British technical director and ASIC architect for Broadcom.
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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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Economy class
Economy class, also called coach class, steerage, standard class or (slang) cattle class, is the lowest travel class of seating in air travel, rail travel, and sometimes ferry or maritime travel.
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Egg as food
Eggs are laid by female animals of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and fish, and have been eaten by humans for thousands of years.
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Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae.
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Emilia Lanier
Emilia Lanier (also spelled Aemilia (or Amelia) Lanyer) (1569–1645), née Bassano, was a British poet in the early modern English era.
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English Spot
The English Spot is a breed of domestic rabbit that was developed in England in the 19th century through selective breeding.
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Epping Forest
Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland between Epping in the north and Wanstead in the south, straddling the border between Greater London and Essex.
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Erica McAlister
Erica McAlister is a British scientist and museum curator.
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Eureka effect
The eureka effect (also known as the Aha! moment or eureka moment) refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept.
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Evil eye
The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware.
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Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas.
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Federation of Damanhur
The Federation of Damanhur, often called simply Damanhur, is a commune, ecovillage, and spiritual community situated in the Piedmont region of northern Italy about north of the city of Turin.
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Felicity Ward
Felicity Ward (born 1980) is an Australian comedian, best known for her TV appearances on Spicks and Specks, Thank God You're Here, Good News Week and as a writer/performer in the Channel 10 Network television programme The Ronnie Johns Half Hour.
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Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James It is the first instalment in the ''Fifty Shades'' trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.
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Fireplace mantel
The fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a fire grate to catch the smoke.
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Flatulence
Flatulence is defined in the medical literature as "flatus expelled through the anus" or the "quality or state of being flatulent", which is defined in turn as "marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine or stomach; likely to cause digestive flatulence".
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Football Manager
Football Manager (also known as Worldwide Soccer Manager in North America) is a series of football management simulation video games developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega.
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Francesca Beauman
Francesca Beauman (born 12 April 1977) is a writer historian and television presenter, living in both London, United Kingdom and Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Francesca Stavrakopoulou (born 3 October 1975) is a British theologian and broadcaster.
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Francis Grose
Francis Grose (b. before 11 June 1731 – 12 June 1791) was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer.
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Francis Wheen
Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster.
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Frank Close
Francis Edwin Close, (born 24 July 1945) is a particle physicist who is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959)"COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank", Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009; online edn, Nov 2009.
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Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part 3, also known as Friday the 13th Part III and Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D, is a 1982 American 3D slasher film directed by Steve Miner and the third installment in the ''Friday the 13th'' film series.
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Ganesha
Ganesha (गणेश), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar and Binayak, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.
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Gareth Edwards (director)
Gareth James Edwards (born 13 July 1975) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, production designer, and visual effects artist.
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Gary Sheffield (historian)
Gary D. Sheffield is an English academic at the University of Wolverhampton, specialising in military history.
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author, known for his books The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Wavewatcher's Companion. Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
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Gay bomb
The "halitosis bomb" and "gay bomb" are informal names for two theoretical, non-existent, non-lethal psychochemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing; the theories involve discharging female sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each other.
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George Monbiot
George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.
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Georges Couthon
Georges Auguste Couthon (22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794) was a French politician and lawyer known for his service as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution.
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Germans
Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.
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Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo (or Girolamo, or Geronimo) Cardano (Jérôme Cardan; Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged from being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler.
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Glasses
Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are devices consisting of glass or hard plastic lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically using a bridge over the nose and arms which rest over the ears.
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God
In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.
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Goodbyeee
"Goodbyeee", or "Plan F: Goodbyeee", is the sixth and final episode of the British historical sitcom Blackadders fourth series, entitled Blackadder Goes Forth.
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Graham Linehan
Graham Linehan (born 22 May 1968) is an Irish television comedy writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a string of successful television comedies.
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Grímsvötn
Grímsvötn (vötn.
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Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин; –) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
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Grog
Grog is any of a variety of alcoholic beverages.
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Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Half hitch
The half hitch is a simple overhand knot, where the working end of a line is brought over and under the standing part.
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Hannah Fry
Hannah Fry (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, lecturer on the Mathematics of Cities and a public speaker.
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Hannah Hauxwell
Hannah Hauxwell (1 August 1926 – 30 January 2018) was an English farmer who was the subject of several television documentaries.
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Harry Enfield
Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.
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Helen Arney
Helen Arney is a British physicist, presenter, stand-up comedian and musician.
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Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski (born 1 November 1978) is a physicist and oceanographer and television presenter.
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Helen Keen
Helen Keen is an English alternative comedian and writer born in Yorkshire, now living in London.
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Helen of Troy
In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy (Ἑλένη, Helénē), also known as Helen of Sparta, or simply Helen, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world, who was married to King Menelaus of Sparta, but was kidnapped by Prince Paris of Troy, resulting in the Trojan War when the Achaeans set out to reclaim her and bring her back to Sparta.
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Helen Scales
Helen Scales is a British marine biologist, broadcaster, and writer.
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Helen Sharman
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991.
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Henry Blofeld
Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, OBE (born 23 September 1939) nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is a retired English sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.
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Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)
Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS (born 5 March 1950) is a leading English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine.
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Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
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High Street
High Street (or the High Street, also High Road) is a metonym for the concept (and frequently the street name) of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.
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Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen (Hildegard von Bingen; Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Holly Walsh
Holly Walsh (born 8 November 1980) is an English comedian and comedy writer, known mainly for her work on TV and radio in the UK.
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Holmdel Horn Antenna
The Holmdel Horn Antenna is a large microwave horn antenna that was used as a satellite communication antenna and radio telescope during the 1960s at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, United States.
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Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is a vessel that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.
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Howard Goodall
Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE (born 26 May 1958) is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television.
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Howard Stringer
Sir Howard Stringer (born 19 February 1942) is a Welsh-American businessman.
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Humphrey Ker
David Humphrey Rivers Ker (born 11 October 1982) is an Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning British actor, writer and comedian, formerly of the sketch comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls.
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Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.
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Hygge
Hygge is a Norwegian and Danish word for a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality with feelings of wellness and contentment.
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Id, ego and super-ego
The id, ego, and super-ego are three distinct, yet interacting agents in the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon.
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.
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Invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process.
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Iron (golf)
An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole.
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Irving Finkel
Irving Leonard Finkel is a British philologist and Assyriologist.
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Isabel Behncke
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a Chilean primatologist who studies the social behaviour, especially play, of bonobos (pan paniscus) the other species, together with Chimpanzee, inside the genus Pan.
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Islington
Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.
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Jack Benny
Jack Benny (born February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist.
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Jack Carroll (comedian)
Jack Carroll (born 18 October 1998) is a British comedian, writer and actor.
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Jack Churchill
Lieutenant-Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996), was a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword.
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Jack Waley-Cohen
Jack Waley-Cohen (born 1979) was a co-host on the UK Game Show Totally Top Trumps, which was hosted by Sky Sports presenter Andy Goldstein, alongside regular panellists Rob Deering and Dan Clark and is a former president of the Oxford University Quiz Society.
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Jacques de Longuyon
Jacques de Longuyon of Lorraine is the author of a chanson de geste, Les Voeux du paon ("The Vows of the Peacock"), written for Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège in 1312.
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Jan Bondeson
Jan Bondeson (born 17 December 1962) is a Swedish-British rheumatologist, scientist and author, working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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Jane Bussmann
Jane Bussmann (born 1969 in Marylebone, London) is an English comedian and author, who has written for television and radio.
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Janey Godley
Janey Godley (born 20 January 1961) is a Scottish stand-up comedian and writer from Calton, Glasgow.
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Janina Ramirez
Janina Sara Maria Ramirez (née Maleczek; 7 July 1980), sometimes credited as Nina Ramirez, is a British art and cultural historian and TV presenter, based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
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Jenny Colgan
Jenny Colgan (born 14 September 1972 in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland) is a writer of romantic comedy fiction and science-fiction, and has written for the Doctor Who line of stories.
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Jimeoin
Jimeoin (born James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown, 24 January 1966) is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor.
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Jimmy Carr
James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an English stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.
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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia, and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.
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Jo Brand
Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English comedian, writer and actress.
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Joann Fletcher
Joann Fletcher (born 30 August 1966) is an Egyptologist and an honorary visiting professor in the department of archaeology at the University of York.
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Joe Lycett
Joe Harry Lycett (born 5 July 1988) is a British comedian.
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
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John Blashford-Snell
Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell OBE (born 22 October 1936) is a former British Army officer, explorer and author.
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John Gribbin
John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.
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John Hodgman
John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist.
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John Lloyd (producer)
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born 30 September 1951) is an English television producer and writer best known for his work on such comedy television programmes as Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder and QI.
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John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
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John Trinkaus
Professor John Trinkaus is a professor emeritus of the Zicklin School of Business in New York City.
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Jon Richardson (comedian)
Jon Joel Richardson (born 26 September 1982) is an English comedian.
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Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011).
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Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor.
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Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.
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Kaffe Fassett
Frank "Kaffe" Fassett (born 1937) is an American-born artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts—needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics.
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Karl Marx
Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.
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Kate Adie
Kathryn Adie, (born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist.
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Kate Fox
Kate Fox is a social anthropologist, co-director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research.
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Kate Williams (historian)
Kate Williams (born 30 November 1978) is a British author, historian and television presenter.
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Kathy Lette
Kathryn Marie Lette (born 11 November 1958), better known as Kathy Lette, is an Australian-British author who has written a number of bestselling books.
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Kees Moeliker
Cornelis W. "Kees" Moeliker (born 9 October 1960) is a Dutch biologist and director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.
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Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
The Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (after Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz) can occur when there is velocity shear in a single continuous fluid, or where there is a velocity difference across the interface between two fluids.
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Ken Dodd
Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer and occasional actor.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.
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Kevin Day
Kevin Day (born 1965 in London) is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter.
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Kevin Dutton
Kevin Dutton (born 1967) is a British psychologist and writer, specialising in the study of psychopathy.
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Kevin Eldon
Kevin Eldon (born 2 October 1959) is an English actor and comedian.
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Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick FIET, FCGI, (born 9 February 1954) is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.
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Kevlar
Kevlar is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.
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Kill switch
A kill switch, also known as an emergency stop (e-stop) and as an emergency power off (EPO), is a safety mechanism used to shut off machinery in an emergency, when it cannot be shut down in the usual manner.
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King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
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Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.
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Konnie Huq
Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq (Bengali: কনক হক; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter and writer.
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Kristen Lippincott
Kristen Lippincott is a London-based art historian and museums consultant.
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Lapwing
Vanellinae are any of various crested plovers, family Charadriidae, noted for its slow, irregular wingbeat in flight and a shrill, wailing cry.
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the most complex experimental facility ever built and the largest single machine in the world.
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Laughter
Laughter is a physical reaction in humans consisting typically of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system.
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Lee Mack
Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968), known as Lee Mack, is an English comedian and actor best known for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out.
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Leigh Francis
Leigh Francis (born 30 April 1973) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, and voice artist, best known for creating Channel 4's Bo' Selecta! and portraying Keith Lemon in several ITV and ITV2 shows including Celebrity Juice, Keith Lemon's LemonAid, Through the Keyhole and The Keith Lemon Sketch Show.
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Lieven Scheire
Lieven Scheire (born 3 May 1981) is a Belgian comedian, mainly known for being a member of Neveneffecten.
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Limerick (poetry)
A limerick is a form of verse, often humorous and sometimes obscene, in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth line rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.
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Living statue
A living statue is a street artist who poses as a statue or mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time.
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Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Necropolis Railway
The London Necropolis Railway was a railway line opened in November 1854 by the London Necropolis Company (LNC), to carry corpses and mourners between London and the LNC's newly opened Brookwood Cemetery southwest of London in Brookwood, Surrey.
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Longplayer
Longplayer is a self-extending composition by Jem Finer which is designed to continue for one thousand years.
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Lucie Green
Lucinda "Lucie" May Green (born c.1975) is a British science communicator and solar researcher.
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Lucy Cooke
Lucy Cooke is a British zoologist, author, television producer, director and presenter.
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Lucy Porter
Lucy Donna Porter (born 27 January 1973) is an English actress, writer and comedian.
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Lysergic acid diethylamide
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock (born 9 March 1968) is a British space scientist and science educator.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Marc Abrahams
Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and originator and emcee of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration.
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Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown (born 1959) is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine.
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Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics.
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Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth (born 2 April 1977) is a writer whose work concerns the meaning and etymology of English words.
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Mark Watson
Mark Andrew Watson (born 13 February 1980) is a British comedian and novelist.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).
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Mars cycler
A Mars cycler (or Earth–Mars cycler) is a special kind of spacecraft trajectory that encounters Earth and Mars on a regular basis.
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Martha Reeves (anchorite)
Martha Reeves (born 1941) is an Anglican solitary (or anchorite).
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Maternal bond
A maternal bond is the relationship between a mother and her child.
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Matt Lucas
Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer, best known for his work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain, as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby Georgie Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars, both Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Nardole in the tenth series of long-running British sci-fi drama Doctor Who.
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Matt Parker
Matthew Parker (born December 22, 1980) is an Australian stand-up comedian, author, YouTube personality and maths communicator.
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Matt Ridley
Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley (born 7 February 1958), commonly known as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist and businessman.
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Mauve
Mauve is a pale purple colour named after the mallow flower (French: mauve).
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Michael Welland
Michael Welland (1946 – October 2017) was a British petroleum geologist and expert on sand.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
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Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf (born June 21, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, producer and television host.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.
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Mike Shanahan (writer)
Mike Shanahan is a British biologist and writer whose work focuses on rainforests, climate change, biodiversity and related issues.
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Milgram experiment
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
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Milton Wainwright
Milton Wainwright (born 23 February 1950) is a British microbiologist who is known for his research into what he claims could be extraterrestrial life found in the stratosphere.
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Miranda Sawyer
Miranda Sawyer (born 1967) is an English journalist and broadcaster.
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Monster group
In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Monster group M (also known as the Fischer–Griess Monster, or the Friendly Giant) is the largest sporadic simple group, having order The finite simple groups have been completely classified.
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Moomins
The Moomins (Mumin) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland.
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Morgellons
Morgellons is the informal name of a self-diagnosed, unconfirmed skin condition in which individuals have sores that they believe contain some kind of fibers.
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Moscovium
Moscovium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Mc and atomic number 115.
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Moving walkway
A moving walkway or moving sidewalk (American English), also known as autowalk or as in British English as a skywalk, travolator, or travellator, is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people across a horizontal or inclined plane over a short to medium distance.
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Nameplate
A nameplate identifies and displays a person or product's name.
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Natalie Haynes
Natalie Louise Haynes (born 1974 in Birmingham) is an English writer and broadcaster and a former comedian.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.
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Neil Innes
Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944) is an English writer, comedian and musician.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Nicholas Lezard
Nicholas Lezard is an English journalist and literary critic.
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Nihonium
Nihonium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Nh and atomic number 113.
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Nikki Bedi
Nikki Bedi (born Nikhila Moolgaoker; 9 September 1966 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) is a British television and radio presenter, born to an Indian father of Maharashtrian origin and an English mother.
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Nish Kumar
Nishant "Nish" Kumar (born 26 August 1985) is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and radio presenter.
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Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, writer, actor, artist, musician and television presenter.
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North American P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts.
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Northern Rock
Northern Rock, formerly the Northern Rock Building Society, was a British bank.
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Nothing
Nothing is a concept denoting the absence of something, and is associated with nothingness.
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Nottingham alabaster
Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century.
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Oganesson
Oganesson is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Og and atomic number 118.
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Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey from the street on which it stands, is a court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court.
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Oliver James (psychologist)
Oliver James (born 1953) is a chartered psychologist, registered with the British Psychological Society.
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Omega Point
The Omega Point is a spiritual belief and a scientific speculation that everything in the universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of divine unification.
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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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Pamela Stephenson
Pamela Helen Stephenson, Lady Connolly (born 4 December 1949) is a New Zealand-born Australian.
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Panel show
A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates.
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Pantalon
The pantalon (or pantaleon) was a large variation on the hammered dulcimer, invented by Pantaleon Hebenstreit in the early 18th century and briefly popular in France and Germany.
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Parasitoid wasp
Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita.
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Parsons (crater)
Parsons is an impact crater on the battered far side of the Moon.
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Paul Merton
Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known professionally as Paul Merton, is an English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter.
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Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949), is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
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Paul Sinha
Supriya Kumar "Paul" Sinha (born 28 May 1970) is a British Asian comedian, broadcaster, quiz player, and doctor of Bengali descent.
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙,♟) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest.
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Penan people
The Penan are a nomadic indigenous people living in Sarawak and Brunei, although there is only one small community in Brunei; among those in Brunei half have been converted to Islam, even if only superficially.
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Penny Rose
Penny Rose is a British costume designer who has worked in the film industry since the 1970s.
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Pet peeve
A pet peeve, pet aversion or pet hate is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly irritating to them, to a greater degree than would be expected based on the experience of others.
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Pete Brown (writer)
Pete Brown is an English writer who has written extensively on the subject of beer and drinking cultures around the world.
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Peter Frankopan
Peter Doimi De Frankopan Subic (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian.
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Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer.
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist.
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Phill Jupitus
Phillip Christopher Jupitus (born 25 June 1962) is an English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster.
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Phlogiston theory
The phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated that a fire-like element called phlogiston is contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.
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Pineapple
The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.
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Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.
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Ploughman's lunch
A ploughman's lunch (abbrev. to ploughman's) is an English cold meal which is based around bread, cheese, and onions,Hessayon, The new vegetable and herb expert, 2014, p.73 usually accompanied with butter and some form of pickle.
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Poison
In biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances in organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.
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Porch
A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a term used in architecture to describe a room or gallery located in front of the entrance of a building forming a low front, and placed in front of the facade of the building it commands.
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Portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.
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Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.
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Prospero (satellite)
The Prospero satellite, also known as the X-3, was launched by the United Kingdom in 1971.
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Prue Leith
Prudence Margaret "Prue" Leith, CBE, DL (born 18 February 1940) has been a restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist.
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Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.
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Puya raimondii
Puya raimondii, also known as queen of the Andes (English), titanka (Quechua) or puya de Raimondi (Spanish), is the largest species of bromeliad.
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Pygmy three-toed sloth
The pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus), also known as the monk sloth or dwarf sloth, is a sloth endemic to Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off the coast of Panama.
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QI
QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panelist Alan Davies.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).
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RADA Studios
RADA Studios (formerly The Drill Hall) is a theatrical venue in Chenies Street in the London Borough of Camden, just to the east of Tottenham Court Road, owned by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
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Radio Times
Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine.
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Railfan
A railfan, rail buff, or train buff (American English), railway enthusiast or railway buff (Australian/British English), trainspotter or anorak (British English, usually derogatory), is a person interested, recreationally, in rail transport.
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Rainer Hersch
Rainer Hersch (born 7 November 1962) is a British conductor, actor, writer and comedian known for his comical take on classical music.
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Rainmaking (ritual)
Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain.
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Rarajipari
Rarájipari is a running game played by the Tarahumara (also known as the Rarámuri) people of the Copper Canyons region in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Résumé
A résumé, also spelled resume, is a document used by a person to present their backgrounds and skills.
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Red
Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.
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Rich Hall
Richard Travis Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s.
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Richard Curtis
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director, who was born in New Zealand to Australian parents.
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Richard Fortey
Richard Alan Fortey FRS FRSL (born 15 February 1946 in London) is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007; he is married and has four children.
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Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian, comedy writer, podcaster and diarist whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring.
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Richard III of England
Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
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Richard Ingrams
Richard Reid Ingrams (born 19 August 1937 in Chelsea, London) is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and founding editor of The Oldie magazine.
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Richard Osman
Richard Thomas Osman (born 28 November 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, comedian and director.
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Richard Turner (producer)
Richard Turner is a radio producer for the BBC.
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Richard Williams (animator)
Richard Edmund Williams (born March 19, 1933) is a Canadian–British animator, voice artist, and writer, best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993).
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Richard Wiseman
Richard J. Wiseman (born 1966) is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
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Robert Llewellyn
Robert Llewellyn (born 10 March 1956 in Northampton, Northamptonshire) is a British actor, comedian and writer best known as the mechanoid Kryten in the hit TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and as a presenter of the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge.
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Robert Twigger
Robert Twigger (born 30 October 1962) is a British author.
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison
(Airling) Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE, DL, Dsc, Dhc, MA, FLS, FRGS (born 7 May 1936) is a Cornish based explorer.
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Robin Ince
Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English comedian, actor and writer.
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Roger Graef
Roger Arthur Graef OBE (born 18 April 1936) is a theatre director and filmmaker.
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Roger Highfield
Roger Ronald Highfield (born 1958 in Griffithstown, Wales) is an author, science journalist, broadcaster and director of external affairs at the Science Museum Group.
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Roger Law
Roger Law (born 6 September 1941, Ely) is a caricaturist and one half of Luck and Flaw (with Peter Fluck), creators of the satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.
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Romesh Ranganathan
Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born January 30, 1978) is a British stand-up comedian and actor.
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Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton (born 1953) is an English historian who specialises in the study of Early Modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion and contemporary Paganism.
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Ronni Ancona
Veronica Ancona (born 4 July 1968) is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author.
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Rook (chess)
A rook (♖,♜) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess.
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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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Rory Bremner
Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner,"Rory Bremner".
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Rose d'Or
The Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) is an international awards festival in entertainment broadcasting and programming.
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Ross Noble
Ross Markham Noble (born 5 June 1976) is an English stand-up comedian and actor.
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Rowan Pelling
Rowan Dorothy Pelling (born 17 January 1968) is a British journalist, broadcaster, writer and stand-up comedian who first achieved note as the editor (or "editrice", to use her term) of a monthly literary/erotic magazine, the Erotic Review.
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Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound (born Robert James Blair Simpson on 6 March 1979) is an English comedian, actor and presenter.
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Rupert Sheldrake
Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who developed the concept of "morphic resonance".
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Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her nature writing and connections with music, science, Greece and conservation.
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Safety coffin
A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive.
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Sally Phillips
Sally Elizabeth Phillips (born 10 May 1970) is an English actress, television presenter and comedian.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.
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Sandbag
A sandbag is a bag or sack made of hessian (burlap), polypropylene or other sturdy materials that is filled with sand or soil and used for such purposes as flood control, military fortification in trenches and bunkers, shielding glass windows in war zones, ballast, counterweight, and in other applications requiring mobile fortification, such as adding improvised additional protection to armoured vehicles or tanks.
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Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Birgitte "Sandi" Toksvig, (born 3 May 1958) is a British-Danish comedian, writer, actor, presenter and producer on British radio and television, and political activist.
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Sandra Knapp
Sandra Diane Knapp (born 1956) is a botanist.
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Sara Pascoe
Sara Pascoe (born 22 May 1981) is an English writer, stand-up comedian and actress.
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Sara Wheeler
Sara Diane Wheeler FRSL (born 20 March 1961) is a British travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions.
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Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell (born 1962/63) is a British author of non-fiction.
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Sarah Millican
Sarah Jane Millican (King; born 29 May 1975) is an English comedian.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
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Scotland on Sunday
Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by The Scotsman Publications Ltd and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate The Scotsman.
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Seahorse
Seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is the name given to 54 species of small marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus.
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Sean Hughes (comedian)
Sean Hughes (10 November 1965 – 16 October 2017) was an English-born Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor.
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Sean Lock
Sean Lock (born 22 April 1963) is an English comedian and actor.
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Shappi Khorsandi
Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi (شاپرک خرسندی, born 8 June 1973) is a British comedian and author of Iranian origin.
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Shaw Theatre
The Shaw Theatre is a theatre in Somers Town, in the London Borough of Camden.
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Shepherd's whistle
A shepherd's whistle is a specialized, modulatable, variable-pitch whistle used to train and transmit commands to a sheepdog to aid in herding.
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Short-faced bear
The short-faced bears (Arctodus spp.) is an extinct bear genus that inhabited North America during the Pleistocene epoch from about 1.8 Mya until 11,000 years ago.
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Shreddies
Shreddies are a breakfast cereal made from lattices of wholegrain wheat.
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Silence
Silence is the lack of audible sound, or the presence of sounds of very low intensity.
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Simon Evans
Simon Evans (born 9 May 1965) is an English comedian, born in Luton and now living in Hove.
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Simon Munnery
Simon Munnery, also known as his characters "Alan Parker: Urban Warrior" and "The League Against Tedium", is an English comedian.
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Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist whose works largely contain a strong mathematical element.
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Sindhu Vee
Sindhu Vee is an Indian stand-up comedian.
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Singing sand
Singing sand, also called whistling sand or barking sand, is sand that produces sound.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.
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Skirt lifter
A skirt lifter, also known as a dress lifter, skirt grip, dress suspender, hem-holder, page or porte-jupe, was a device for lifting a long skirt to avoid dirt or to facilitate movement.
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Slow Food
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking.
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Smile
A smile is a facial expression formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth.
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Snail
Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods.
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Soap bubble
A soap bubble is an extremely thin film of soapy water enclosing air that forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface.
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Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen is a London-based Danish comedian.
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Solent University
Solent University (formerly Southampton Solent University) is a public university based in Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Sophie Scott
Sophie Kerttu Scott (born 1966) is a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL).
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Soprano recorder
The soprano recorder in c2, also known as the descant, is the third-smallest instrument of the modern recorder family and is usually played as the highest voice in four-part ensembles (SATB.
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Spandex
Spandex, Lycra or elastane is a synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity.
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Spice
A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, video game, film, or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events).
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St Edward's Crown
St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
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Star clock
A star clock (or nocturnal) is a method of using the stars to determine the time.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen J. Dubner (born August 26, 1963) is an American journalist who has written seven books and numerous articles.
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Stephen K. Amos
Stephen Kehinde Amos (born 3 December 1967)https://www.facebook.com/stephenkamos/posts/10153377148827991 is an English stand-up comedian and television personality.
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Stevyn Colgan
Stevyn Colgan (born 11 August 1961) is a British writer, artist and speaker.
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Storytelling
Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment.
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Stratosphere
The stratosphere is the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere, just above the troposphere, and below the mesosphere.
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Stuart Clark (author)
Stuart Clark is a contemporary English writer and widely read astronomy journalist.
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Stupidity
Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or common sense.
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Subterranean rivers of London
The subterranean or underground rivers of London are the tributaries of the River Thames and River Lea that were built over during the growth of the metropolis of London.
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Suggs (singer)
Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), known by the stage name Suggs, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actor.
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Susan Calman
Susan Grace Calman (born 6 November 1974) is a Scottish comedian, television presenter and panellist on a number of BBC Radio 4 shows including The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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Susie Dent
Susie Dent (born 19 November 1964) is an English lexicographer and etymologist.
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Suzy Lishman
Dr Suzannah Claire "Suzy" Lishman CBE (born) is the President of the Royal College of Pathologists.
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Sydney Padua
Melina Sydney Padua is a graphic artist and animator based in London, England.
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Tea cosy
A tea cosy (American English: tea cozy) or tea warmer is a cover for a teapot,Article of the Boston Journal, 25 November 1879 traditionally made of cloth.
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Telepathy
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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Ten realms
The ten realms, sometimes referred to as the ten worlds, are part of the belief of some forms of Buddhism that there are ten conditions of life which sentient beings are subject to, and which they experience from moment to moment.
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Tennessine
Tennessine is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Ts and atomic number 117.
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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 Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis.
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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 Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.
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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 Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.
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The Moon Under Water
"The Moon Under Water" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the Evening Standard on 9 February 1946, in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious Moon Under Water.
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The Nixon Interviews
The Nixon Interviews were a series of interviews of former U.S. President Richard Nixon conducted by British journalist David Frost, and produced by John Birt.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.
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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 Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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Thomas Thwaites (designer)
Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer.
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Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.
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Tim FitzHigham
Tim FitzHigham FRSA FRGS, an award-winning British comedian, author, artist and world record holder.
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Tim Minchin
Timothy David Minchin (born 7 October 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician and director.
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Tim Smit
Sir Timothy Bartel Smit KBE (born 25 September 1954) is a Dutch-born British businessman, famous for his work on the Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project, both in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Time travel
Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine.
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Toilet
A toilet is a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human urine and feces.
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Tom Hart Dyke
Thomas Guy Hart Dyke (born 12 April 1976) is an English horticulturist, author and plant hunter from the Hart Dyke family.
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Tom Shakespeare
Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 11 May 1966), better known as Tom Shakespeare, is an English sociologist and broadcaster.
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Tom Swifty
A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.
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Tongue
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of most vertebrates that manipulates food for mastication, and is used in the act of swallowing.
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Tony Robinson
Sir Anthony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter and political activist.
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Tooting Broadway tube station
Tooting Broadway is a London Underground station in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South London.
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Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.
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Trifle
Trifle in English cuisine is a dessert made with fruit, a thin layer of sponge fingers soaked in sherry or another fortified wine, and custard.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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University of Buckingham
The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit, private university in the UK and the oldest of the country's five private universities.
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Vic Reeves
James Roderick Moir (born 24 January 1959), better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, artist, actor and television presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob).
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Victoria Finlay
Victoria Finlay is a writer and journalist, known for her books on colour and jewels.
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Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.
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Volker Sommer
Volker Sommer (born June 2, 1954) is a German anthropologist and Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London (UCL).
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Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Watts Towers
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles.
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Wayzgoose
A wayzgoose (or wayz-goose, waygoose or wayzegoose) was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August).
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Wheelie
In vehicle acrobatics, a wheelie, or wheelstand, is a vehicle maneuver in which the front wheel or wheels come off the ground due to sufficient torque being applied to the rear wheel or wheels, or rider motion relative to the vehicle.
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William Hartston
William Roland Hartston (born 12 August 1947) is an English journalist who writes the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express and a chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 with a highest Elo rating of 2485.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Williams tube
The Williams tube, or the Williams–Kilburn tube after inventors Freddie Williams (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977), and Tom Kilburn (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001), is an early form of computer memory.
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Winnie-the-Pooh (book)
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
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Witch bottle
Witch bottles began as countermagical devices used by both witches and non-witches as protection against other witchcraft and conjure.
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Woolsack
The Woolsack is the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Yangtze
The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
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Yarn bombing
Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.
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Yeti
In the folklore of Nepal, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman (Nepali: हिममानव himamānav, lit. "snow man") is an ape-like entity, taller than an average human, that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Museum_of_Curiosity
