Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. ^[1]

A38 road

The A38, part of which is also known as the Devon Expressway, is a major A-class trunk road in England.

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A50 road

The A50 is a major trunk road in England between Warrington and Leicester; historically it was also a major route from London to Leicester.

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A52 road

The A52 is a major road in the East Midlands, England.

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A6 road (England)

The A6 is one of the main historic north–south roads in England.

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A61 road

The A61 is a major trunk road in England connecting Derby and Thirsk in North Yorkshire by way of Alfreton, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon.

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ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipments, and automation technology areas.

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Abney effect

The Abney effect describes the perceived hue shift that occurs when white light is added to a monochromatic light source.

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Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

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Advanced Passenger Train

The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line (WCML).

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates, (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Alfred Waterson

Alfred Edward Waterson (5 August 1880, Derby – 25 November 1964) was a Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.

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Alfreton

Alfreton is a town and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire based in the East Midlands, England, adjoining the Bolsover and North East Derbyshire districts.

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Alice Wheeldon

Alice Ann Wheeldon (27 January 1866 – 21 February 1919) was a British supporter of suffrage and anti-war campaigner.

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Allenton, Derby

Allenton is a suburb of the city of Derby, England, situated about three miles south of the city centre.

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Allestree

Allestree is a suburb and ward of the city of Derby, a unitary authority area, in Derbyshire, England.

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Allestree Woodlands School

Allestree Woodlands School (formerly Woodlands School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located on Blenheim Drive in Allestree, Derby in the East Midlands of England.

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Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens

Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens PC (1 March 1753 – 19 February 1839)Fitzherbert, Alleyne, Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomatist by Stephen M. Lee in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was a British diplomat.

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Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

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Alvaston

Alvaston (/ˈɒlvəstən/ or /ˈælvəstən/) is a large suburb and ward of Derby, England.

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Andrew Handyside and Company

Andrew Handyside and Company was an iron founder in Derby, England, in the nineteenth century.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Anti-Pasti

Anti-Pasti are a British punk band, founded by vocalist Martin Roper and guitarist Dugi Bell in 1978, featuring Kev Nixon on drums and Will Hoon on bass guitar.

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Anton Rippon

Anton Rippon (born 20 December 1944) is a British journalist, author and publisher.

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Arboretum (Derby ward)

Arboretum is an electoral ward in the city of Derby, England.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arriva Midlands

Arriva Midlands is a bus operator providing services in the East Midlands and West Midlands areas of England.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Arthur Cox (footballer)

Arthur Cox (born 14 December 1939 in Southam, Warwickshire) is a former English football manager.

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Arthur Keily

Arthur Patrick Keily (18 March 1921 – 2 March 2016) was a British marathon runner.

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Ashbourne, Derbyshire

Ashbourne is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales, England.

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Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest.

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Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)

Ashfield is a Nottinghamshire constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Gloria De Piero of the Labour Party.

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Astronomer Royal

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

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Æthelflæd

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (870 – 12 June 918), ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death.

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Bakewell

Bakewell is a small market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, well known for the local confection Bakewell pudding.

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Bare-knuckle boxing

Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, fist fight or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports.

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Baseball Ground

The Baseball Ground (sometimes referred to as the BBG) was a stadium in Derby, England.

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Battle of Hopton Heath

The Battle of Hopton Heath, in Staffordshire, was a battle of the First English Civil War, fought on Sunday 19 March 1643 between Parliamentarian forces led by Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet and Sir William Brereton and a Royalist force under Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton.

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Battle of the Beams

The Battle of the Beams was a period early in the Second World War when bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing in the United Kingdom.

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BBC

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

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BBC Radio Derby

BBC Radio Derby is the BBC Local Radio station for the English county of Derbyshire, covering all but the northern tip of the county, and also serves eastern Staffordshire, mainly Uttoxeter and Burton upon Trent.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995.

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Beeston, Nottinghamshire

Beeston is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, southwest of Nottingham city centre.

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Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet is a British independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels.

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Belper

Belper is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent.

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Bhikkhuni

A bhikkhunī (Pali) or bhikṣuṇī (Sanskrit) is a fully ordained female monastic in Buddhism.

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Billet

A billet is a living quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway

The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was a British railway company.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.

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Bob Laxton

Robert Laxton (born 7 September 1944) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby North from 1997 until standing down at the 2010 general election.

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Bobby Hassell

Robert John Francis Hassell (born 4 June 1980) is an English former footballer who played for Mansfield Town, Barnsley FC and Bharat FC in I-League as a defender.

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Bodmin

Bodmin (Bosvena) is a civil parish and historic town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Bold Lane

Bold Lane is a street that holds one of the most secure places in the world, a multi-storey car park in Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.

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Borrowash

Borrowash is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated immediately east of the Derby city boundary.

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Borrowash Victoria A.F.C.

Borrowash Victoria Association Football Club is a football club based in Spondon, Derby, England.

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Boulton, Derby

Boulton is a suburb and local government ward of the city of Derby, England, and is located about four miles to the south-east of Derby city centre.

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Brazzers

Brazzers is a pornographic production company based in Montreal, Canada.

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Breadsall

Breadsall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire,.

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Breaston

Breaston is a large village and civil parish in the south-east of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England near Long Eaton and close to the M1.

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Brian Clough

Brian Howard Clough, OBE (21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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British Basketball League

The British Basketball League, often abbreviated to the BBL, is a men's professional basketball league in Great Britain, the highest level of play in the country.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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British Rail Class D16/1

LMS No.

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British Rail Research Division

The British Rail Research Division came into being in 1964 directly under the control of the British Railways Board, moving into purpose-built premises at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby.

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British Sign Language

British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language of some deaf people in the UK; there are 125,000 deaf adults in the UK who use BSL plus an estimated 20,000 children.

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Burnaston

Burnaston is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, just south-west of the city of Derby.

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Burton upon Trent

Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a town on the River Trent in East Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire.

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Business improvement district

A business improvement district (BID) is a defined area within which businesses are required to pay an additional tax (or levy) in order to fund projects within the district's boundaries.

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Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.

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Caernarfon (UK Parliament constituency)

Caernarfon was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Caernarfon in Wales.

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Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Saga is a free-to-play match-three puzzle video game released by King on April 12, 2012, for Facebook; other versions for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 10 followed.

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Capital East Midlands

Capital East Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network.

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Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Cask ale

Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is unfiltered and unpasteurised beer which is conditioned (including secondary fermentation) and served from a cask without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure.

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Castle Donington

Castle Donington is a small market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalysthttp://goldbook.iupac.org/C00876.html, which is not consumed in the catalyzed reaction and can continue to act repeatedly.

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Cathedral Quarter, Derby

The Cathedral Quarter is one of five areas within Derby city centre, based around the name of the Cathedral.

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Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family.

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Central England Co-operative

Central England Co-operative is a regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom, based in Lichfield and which trades from over 400 sites across the English Midlands and East Anglia.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.

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Centre points of the United Kingdom

There has long been debate over the exact location of the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and its constituent countries, due to the complexity and method of the calculation, such as whether to include offshore islands, and the fact that erosion will cause the position to change over time.

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Ceremonial counties of England

The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed.

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Chaddesden

Chaddesden, also known locally as Chad, is a large residential suburb of Derby, United Kingdom.

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Changzhi

Changzhi (Pinyin: Chángzhì) is a prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province, China.

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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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Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart (31 December 1720 – 31 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII and after 1766 the Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain.

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Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer)

Sir Charles Fox (11 March 1810 in Derby, United Kingdom – 11 June 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor.

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Charles Herbert Aslin

Charles Herbert Aslin (15 December 1893 – 18 April 1959) was a British architect.

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Charles Hudson (VC)

Brigadier Charles Edward Hudson, (29 May 1892 – 4 April 1959) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Charles John Crompton

Sir Charles John Crompton (1797–1865), justice of the queen's bench, born at Derby on 12 June 1797, was the third son of Dr.

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Charles Rann Kennedy (playwright)

Charles Rann Kennedy (born Derby, England, 14 February 1871; died Los Angeles, California, 16 February 1950) was an Anglo-American dramatist.

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Chellaston

Chellaston is a suburb in the south of the City of Derby, which is in the East Midlands of England.

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Chellaston Academy

Chellaston Academy (formerly Chellaston Foundation School) is a comprehensive school and Academy in Chellaston in the Derby area of England, United Kingdom.

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Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club in London, England, that competes in the Premier League.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

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Chia Black Dragon

Chia Black Dragon is the eponymous anti-hero of a dark fantasy series of novels written by Stephen Marley.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chris Moncrieff

Christopher Wighton Moncrieff CBE, (born 9 September 1931) is a British journalist.

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Chris Palmer (footballer)

Christopher Palmer (born 16 October 1983) is an English professional footballer who most recently played for Conference Premier side Tamworth, where he played as a midfielder.

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Chris Riggott

Christopher Mark "Chris" Riggott (born 1 September 1980) is an English former footballer who played as a defender.

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Chris Williamson (politician)

Christopher Williamson (born 16 September 1956) is a Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Derby North since 8 June 2017, having served previously for the same seat from 2010 until 2015.

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Churchyard

A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself.

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City of Derby Academy

City of Derby Academy (formerly Sinfin Community School) is a mixed secondary school located in the Sinfin area of Derby in the English county of Derbyshire.

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City status in the United Kingdom

City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to a select group of communities:, there are 69 cities in the United Kingdom – 51 in England, six in Wales, seven in Scotland and five in Northern Ireland.

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Clay Cross

Clay Cross is a former industrial and mining town.

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Clockmaker

A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks.

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Colin Osborne

Colin Osborne (born 19 June 1975 in Middlesbrough) is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

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Colin Todd

Colin Todd (born 12 December 1948) is an English football manager and former player.

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Colwick

Colwick is a village, civil parish and suburb of the city of Nottingham, in the English ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Core Design

Rebellion (Derby) Ltd (formerly Core Design Limited) was a British video game developer based in Derby, England.

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Council of war

A council of war is a term in military science that describes a meeting held to decide on a course of action, usually in the midst of a battle.

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Countries of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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County borough

County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.

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County Championship

The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

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County Cricket Ground, Derby

The County Cricket Ground (known as The 3aaa County Ground for sponsorship reasons; usually shortened to the County Ground and also known as the Racecourse Ground) is a cricket ground in Derby, England.

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County town

A county town in Great Britain or Ireland is usually, but not always, the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Craig Short

Craig Jonathan Short (born 25 June 1968 in Bridlington, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a former football player who played as a central-defender.

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Crewe Alexandra F.C.

Crewe Alexandra Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Crewe, Cheshire, England.

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Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway.

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Cromford

Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock.

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CrossCountry

CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the New Cross Country franchise.

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Cultural center

A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts.

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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until 1982.

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Da Vinci Community College

da Vinci Community College is a coeducational foundation secondary school, located in Derby, Derbyshire.

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Dafydd Wigley

Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley, (born David Wigley; 1 April 1943) is a Welsh politician.

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Damien Walters

Damien Gareth Walters (born 6 April 1982) is a British Freerunner and former gymnast from Derbyshire who specialises in tumbling and trampoline.

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Danelaw

The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Dena lagu; Danelagen), as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Daniel Coke

Daniel Parker Coke (17 July 1745 – 6 December 1825), was an English barrister and Member of Parliament.

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Darley Abbey

Darley Abbey is a former historic mill village, now a suburb of the city of Derby, England (where the population is now included (Darley Ward)).

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Dave Brailsford

Sir David John Brailsford (born 29 February 1964) is a British cycling coach.

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Dave Mackay

David Craig Mackay (14 November 1934 – 2 March 2015) was a Scottish football player and manager.

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DE postcode area

The DE postcode area, also known as the Derby postcode area, is a group of 23 postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of 11 post towns.

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Deaf culture

Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

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Dean Saunders

Dean Nicholas Saunders (born 21 June 1964) is a Welsh football manager and former professional footballer who played as a striker in a career which lasted from 1982 until 2001.

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Demonym

A demonym (δῆμος dẽmos "people, tribe", ὄόνομα ónoma "name") is a word that identifies residents or natives of a particular place, which is derived from the name of that particular place.

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Denny Dennis

Denny Dennis (1 November 1913 in Derby – 2 November 1993 in Barrow-in-Furness) was a British romantic vocalist during the thirties, forties and fifties, when British dance bands were at the peak of their popularity.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is a government department, which was created by Theresa May on 14 July 2016 following her appointment as Prime Minister, created as a result of a merger between the Department of Energy and Climate Change and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Derby (UK Parliament constituency)

Derby is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency.

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Derby Airfield

Derby Airfield is located at the village of Egginton, Derbyshire, southwest of Derby in the East Midlands of England.

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Derby Arboretum

Derby Arboretum is a public park and arboretum in the city of Derby, England, located about south of the city centre in the Rose Hill area.

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Derby Arena

Derby Arena is a multi-use indoor arena and velodrome at Pride Park in Derby, England.

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Derby bus station

Derby Bus Station serves the city of Derby, England.

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Derby Canal

The Derby Canal ran from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to Derby and Little Eaton, and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre, in Derbyshire, England.

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Derby Catacombs

The Derby Catacombs (also referred to as the Guildhall Catacombs) are a series of tunnels running beneath the city of Derby, most notably beneath the Marketplace and Guildhall.

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Derby Cathedral

Derby Cathedral, known as the Cathedral of All Saints, is a grade I listed cathedral church in the city of Derby, in the county of Derbyshire, England.

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Derby Choral Union

Derby Choral Union is one of the UK’s longest standing choral societies having been formed in 1866.

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Derby City Council

Derby City Council is the local government unitary authority for Derby, a city in the East Midlands region of England.

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Derby City RLFC

Derby City RLFC are an amateur rugby league club based in Derby, England.

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Derby College

Derby College is a further education centre with sites located within Derbyshire (Derby and South East Derbyshire – Ilkeston, Morley & Heanor), England and the surrounding area.

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Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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Derby Etches Park

Derby Etches Park is a railway Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot (T&RSMD) operated by East Midlands Trains, and situated in Derby, England.

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Derby Friargate railway station

Derby Friargate Station was the main station in Derby on the Great Northern Railway Derbyshire Extension popularly known as the (Derby) Friargate Line.

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Derby Gaol

The term Derby Gaol historically refers to the five gaols in Derby, England.

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Derby Grammar School

Derby Grammar School is a selective independent school in Littleover near the city of Derby, England.

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Derby High School, Derby

Derby High School is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18 and boys up to age 11 in the suburb of Littleover in Derby, it is a member of the Girls' Schools Association and a member of IAPS.

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Derby Litchurch Lane Works

Derby Litchurch Lane Works (formerly Derby Carriage and Wagon Works) was built by the Midland Railway in Derby, England, in the 19th century.

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Derby Manufacturing UTC

Derby Manufacturing UTC is a mixed University Technical College located in Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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Derby Moor Academy

Derby Moor Academy, the successor school to Derby Moor Community Sports College Trust, formerly known as Derby Moor Community School, is a secondary school situated on Moorway Lane, Littleover, Derby.

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Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Derby Museum and Art Gallery was established in 1879, along with Derby Central Library, in a new building designed by Richard Knill Freeman and given to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass.

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Derby North (UK Parliament constituency)

Derby North is a constituency formed of part of the city of Derby represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Chris Williamson, of the Labour Party.

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Derby Philosophical Society

The Derby Philosophical Society was a club for gentlemen in Derby founded in 1783 by Erasmus Darwin.

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Derby Playhouse

Derby Playhouse was a theatre production company based in Derby, England and the former name of the theatre which it owned and operated from its opening in 1975 until 2008, when the company ceased operating after a period in administration.

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Derby Pride Academy

Derby Pride Academy is an Alternative Provision Free School that opened in September 2012.

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Derby railway station

Derby railway station, also known as Derby Midland, is a main line station serving the city of Derby in England.

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Derby RFC

Derby Rugby Club is an English Rugby Union team based in Derby, England.

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Derby School

Derby School was a school in Derby in the English Midlands from 1160 to 1989.

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Derby Silk Mill

Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England.

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Derby South (UK Parliament constituency)

Derby South is a constituency formed of part of the city of Derby represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1983 by Margaret Beckett of the Labour Party.

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Derby Storm

Derby Storm was a former British Basketball League (BBL) franchise from the city of Derby, Derbyshire.

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Derby Telegraph

The Derby Telegraph, formerly the Derby Evening Telegraph, is a daily tabloid-sized newspaper distributed in the Derby area of England.

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Derby Theatre

Derby Theatre is a theatre situated in Derby, England.

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Derby Trader

The Derby Trader was the UK's first free newspaper, founded in 1966 by Lionel Pickering and Tony Mather, who became its first editor.

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Derby Trailblazers

The Derby Trailblazers are a basketball club from Derby, which operates several men's teams in the English Basketball League, and women's and junior teams at a variety of levels.

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Derby Works

The Derby railway works comprised a number of British manufacturing facilities designing and building locomotives and rolling stock in Derby, England.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Derventio Coritanorum

Derventio was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia.

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Derwent Valley Mills

Derwent Valley Mills is a World Heritage Site along the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England, designated in December 2001.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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Districts of Germany

In most German states, the primary administrative subdivision is a Landkreis ("rural district"); the exceptions are the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, where the term is simply Kreis.

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Donna Kellogg

Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE (born 20 January 1978 in Derby) is an English badminton player.

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Drumsound & Bassline Smith

Drumsound & Bassline Smith are a British electronic production group, consisting of Andy Wright and Ben Wiggett (the duo known as Drumsound) along with Simon 'Bassline' Smith.

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Dubzy

Jesse James (born 1 February 1991), better known by his stage name Dubzy, is an English grime MC and entrepreneur.

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Duffield, Derbyshire

Duffield is a south Derbyshire village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, north of Derby.

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Duke of Devonshire

Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family.

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Duncan Lloyd

Duncan Lloyd is a guitarist, lead songwriter and backing vocalist for Maxïmo Park.

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Duty Free (TV series)

Duty Free is a British sitcom written by Eric Chappell and Jean Warr that aired on ITV from 1984 to 1986.

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E4 (TV channel)

E4 is a British-Irish terrestrial digital television channel, funded by advertising.

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East Anglia Transport Museum

The East Anglia Transport Museum is an open-air transport museum, with numerous historic public transport vehicles (including many in full working order).

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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East Midlands Airport

East Midlands Airport is an international airport in the East Midlands of England, located in Leicestershire close to Castle Donington.

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East Midlands Counties Football League

The East Midlands Counties Football League is an English football league that was founded in 2008.

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East Midlands Trains

East Midlands Trains (EMT) is a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach Group.

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East Staffordshire

East Staffordshire is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire in England.

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Eastwood, Nottinghamshire

Eastwood is a former coal mining town in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England, northwest of Nottingham and northeast of Derby on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

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Edward Blore

Edward Blore (13 September 1787 – 4 September 1879) was a 19th-century (Victorian and pre-Victorian) British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary.

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Egginton

Egginton is a village and civil parish in the local government district of South Derbyshire, England.

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Elizabeth Bridget Pigot

Elizabeth Bridget Pigot (1783–1866) was a correspondent, friend and biographic source for Lord Byron.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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English Basketball League

The National Basketball League is a league competition representing professional, semi-professional and amateur basketball clubs from England and Wales.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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English football league system

The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with six teams from Wales and one from Guernsey also competing.

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Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin (12 December 173118 April 1802) was an English physician.

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Eric Malpass

Eric Lawson Malpass (14 November 1910 – 16 October 1996) was an English novelist noted for his humorous and witty descriptions of rural family life, in particular that of his creation,the extended Pentecost family.

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Ernest Townsend

Ernest Townsend (1 January 1880 – 22 January 1944) was a portrait artist from Derby in England.

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Exeter House

Exeter House was an early 17th-century brick-built mansion, which stood in Full Street, Derby until demolished in 1854.

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Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.

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Filton

Filton is a large suburban town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, north of the City of Bristol and approximately from the city centre.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Five Boroughs of the Danelaw

The Five Boroughs or The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw (Old Norse: Fimm Borginn) were the five main towns of Danish Mercia (what is now the East Midlands).

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Foncquevillers

Foncquevillers is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Football League First Division

The Football League First Division is a former division of The Football League, now known as the English Football League.

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Foremark

Foremark is a hamlet and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.

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Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.

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Fox News

Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel, commonly abbreviated to FNC) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francis Fox (civil engineer)

Sir Francis Fox (29 June 1844 – 7 January 1927) was an English civil engineer, who was responsible for the bridges over the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi and Sydney Harbour, the Mersey Railway Tunnel and the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and extending the London Underground.

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Francis Ley

Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet (3 January 1846 – 27 January 1916) was an English industrialist.

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Francis Mundy

Francis Mundy (29 August 1771 – 6 May 1837) was a landowner, member of parliament for Derbyshire and a High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

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Freda Bedi

Freda Bedi (sometimes spelled Frida Bedi, also named Sister Palmo, or Gelongma Karma Kechog Palmo) (5 February 1911 – 26 March 1977) was a British woman who was the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism, which occurred in 1972.

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Freerunning

Freerunning (or free-running/FR) is a way of expression by interacting with various obstacles and environment.

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Furnace

A furnace is a device used for high-temperature heating.

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GCE Advanced Level

The A Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational authorities of British Crown dependencies to students completing secondary or pre-university education.

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GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom)

The General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level, or A Level, is a main school leaving qualification in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Geoff Hoon

Geoffrey William Hoon (born 6 December 1953) is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield from 1992 to 2010.

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Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane

Geoffrey Dawson Lane, Baron Lane, (17 July 1918 – 22 August 2005) was a British Judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1980 to 1992.

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George Burley

George Elder Burley (born 3 June 1956) is a Scottish former football player and manager.

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George Sorocold

George Sorocold (c. 1668 – c. 1738) was an engineer in Derby, England, in the eighteenth century.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Ghost hunting

Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are reported to be haunted by ghosts.

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Glossop

Glossop is a market town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, England, about east of Manchester, west of Sheffield and north of the county town, Matlock.

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Gordon Pask

Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was an English author, inventor, educational theorist, cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology.

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Graham Coxon

Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and painter who came to prominence as a founding member of the rock band Blur.

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Graham Street Prims F.C.

Graham Street Prims Football Club is a football club based in Derby, England.

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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

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Grime (music genre)

Grime (also known as, Eskibeat, 8Bar, Sublow and UK Bashment) is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

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Gwen Taylor

Gwen Taylor (born 19 February 1939) is an English actress who has appeared in many British television programmes.

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Haarlem

Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in the English language) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.

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Handyside Bridge

Handyside Bridge, also known as Derwent Bridge, is a former railway bridge in Darley Abbey, Derbyshire, England, built by Andrew Handyside & Co. that was converted to a foot bridge in 1976.

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Heanor

Heanor is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England.

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Heat exchanger

A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids.

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Heatherton Village

Heatherton Village or Heatherton is a modern residential housing development in Derby, England, located at the southern end of the older suburb of Littleover, and approximately south west of Derby city centre.

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Hebron

Hebron (الْخَلِيل; חֶבְרוֹן) is a Palestinian.

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Helen Clark (British politician)

Helen Rosemary Clark, previously known as Helen Brinton, née Helen Rosemary Dyche, (b. 23 December 1954, Derby) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

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Henry Britton

Henry Britton (24 January 1843 – 21 February 1938) was a journalist in colonial Australia Britton was the second son of Alexander and Lydia Britton, born in Derby, England, where his father was engaged in tuition, was also a contributor to the press, and had some repute as a public lecturer.

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Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish FRS (10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was a British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist.

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Henry Lark Pratt

Henry Lark Pratt (1805–1873) was an English painter who trained in the porcelain industry.

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Henry Royce

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was an English engineer and car designer who, with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, founded the Rolls-Royce company.

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Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

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High Sheriff of Derbyshire

This is a list of High Sheriffs of Derbyshire from 1568.

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Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of Hilton.

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a British-owned American brand of hotels, and a subsidiary of InterContinental Hotels Group.

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Holy Moly

Holy Moly, often known as "HM", was an entertainment website based in the UK and had similarities to Popbitch, and B3ta.

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Horacio Carbonari

Horacio Angel Carbonari (born 2 May 1974) is a former Argentine footballer who played as a defender.

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Hosiery

Hosiery, also referred to as legwear, describes garments worn directly on the feet and legs.

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Hydropower

Hydropower or water power (from ύδωρ, "water") is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.

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Ilkeston

Ilkeston is a town within the Borough of Erewash, in Derbyshire, England.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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International Combustion

International Combustion Limited was a major engineering business based in Derby offering products for the nuclear engineering industry.

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Intu Derby

Intu Derby, originally The Eagle Centre then Westfield Derby, is a large indoor shopping centre in the centre of Derby, owned by Intu Properties.

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Intu Properties

Intu Properties plc, formerly Capital Shopping Centres Group plc, is a British Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), largely focused on shopping centre management and development.

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Iron founder

An iron founder (also iron-founder or ironfounder) is a worker in molten ferrous metal, generally working within an iron foundry.

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ISO 3166-2:GB

ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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It Ain't Half Hot Mum

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a BBC television sitcom, about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast on the BBC between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.

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J. H. Thomas

James Henry Thomas (3 October 1874 – 21 January 1949), sometimes known as Jimmy Thomas, was a British trade unionist and Labour (later National Labour) politician.

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Jack O'Connell (actor)

Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor.

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Jacob Rivers

Jacob Rivers VC (17 November 1881 – 12 March 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Jamaal Lascelles

Jamaal Lascelles (born 11 November 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender and is also the captain of Premier League club Newcastle United.

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James Fox (engineer)

James Fox, (fl 1780–1830), machine tool maker, was originally a butler in the service of the Rev.

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Jamie East

Jamie Alexander East (born 27 March 1974) is an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and singer-songwriter.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jedediah Strutt

Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England.

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Jessica Garlick

Jessica Julie Anne Garlick (born 1981) is a Welsh pop singer.

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Jet2.com

Jet2.com Limited, often known simply as Jet2, is a British low-cost airline based at Leeds Bradford Airport, England.

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Jim Smith (footballer, born 1940)

James Michael Smith (born 17 October 1940) is an English retired footballer and manager.

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Joan Waste

Joan Waste or Wast (1534 – 1 August 1556) was a blind woman who was burned in Derby for refusing to renounce her Protestant faith.

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John Cotton (minister)

John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies and considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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John Dexter

John Dexter (2 August 1925 – 23 March 1990) was an English theatre, opera and film director.

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John Emes

John Emes (1762–1810) was a British engraver and water-colour painter.

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John Flamsteed

John Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal.

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John Gregory (footballer)

John Charles Gregory (born 11 May 1954) is an English former footballer.

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John Haslem (artist)

John Haslem (1808–1884), was an English china and enamel painter, and writer.

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John Lombe

John Lombe (1693 in Norwich – November 20, 1722 in Derby) was a silk spinner in the 18th century Derby, England.

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John Loughhead

Prof John Neil Loughhead CB OBE FREng FIMechE FIET (born 24 September 1948) is a British businessman and Chief Scientific Adviser to Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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John Mawe

John Mawe (1764 – 26 October 1829) was a British mineralogist who became known for his practical approach to the discipline.

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John Osborne

John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms.

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John Port School

John Port School is an academy in the village of Etwall, Derbyshire, England.

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John Raphael Smith

John Raphael Smith (1751 – 2 March 1812) was an English painter and mezzotinter, son of Thomas Smith of Derby, the landscape painter, and father of John Rubens Smith, a painter who emigrated to the United States.

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John Smith (BBC executive)

John Smith (born August 1957) is the Chief Executive Officer of BBC Worldwide.

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John Speed

John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer and historian.

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John Tams

John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician.

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John Whitehurst

John Whitehurst FRS (10 April 1713 – 18 February 1788), born in Cheshire, England, was a clockmaker and scientist, and made significant early contributions to geology.

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Joseph Pickford

Joseph Pickford (bap. 1734–1782) was an English architect, one of the leading provincial architects in the reign of George III.

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Joseph Strutt (philanthropist)

Joseph Strutt (1765–1844) was an English businessman and philanthropist, whose wealth came from the family textile business.

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Joseph Wright of Derby

Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter.

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Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, (21 June 1880 – 16 April 1941) was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker.

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Judith Hann

Judith Hann (born 8 September 1942 at Littleover, Derby, England) is a broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment.

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Kapurthala

Kapurthala is a city in Punjab state of India.

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Karl Slym

Karl Jonathon Slym (9 February 1962 – 26 January 2014) was a British businessman and the managing director of Tata Motors from October 2012 until his death in 2014.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Keene State College

Keene State College is a liberal arts college in Keene, New Hampshire.

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Keene, New Hampshire

Keene is a city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Kegworth

Kegworth is a large village (population of approximately 3,500) and civil parish in Leicestershire, England.

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Keir Hardie

James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish socialist, politician, and trade unionist.

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Keiran Lee

Keiran Lee (born Adam Diksa on 15 January 1984) is a pornographic actor, director, and producer who works for production company Brazzers.

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Kelly Bailey (Misfits)

Kelly Bailey is a fictional character in the British Channel 4 science fiction comedy-drama Misfits, portrayed by Lauren Socha.

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Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)

Kettering is a constituency in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Philip Hollobone, a Conservative.

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Kevin Coyne

Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems.

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Kevin Lloyd

Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 – 2 May 1998) was an English actor, best known for portraying DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines in Thames Television's The Bill.

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Labour movement

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Ladies European Tour

The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978.

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Landau Forte College

Landau Forte College Derby is an Ofsted 'Outstanding' academy in Derby, England.

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Lara Croft

Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider.

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Lauren Socha

Lauren Marie Socha (born 9 June 1990) is an English actress.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Lees Brook Community School

Lees Brook Community School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Chaddesden area of Derby, in the English county of Derbyshire.

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Leicester

Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Liam Sharp

Liam Roger Sharp (born 2 May 1968) is a British comic book artist, writer, publisher, and co-founder/CCO of Madefire Inc.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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Lightyear (band)

Lightyear is a seven-piece UK ska punk band, formed in 1997 in Derby.

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List of Big Brother (UK) shows

This is a complete list of shows about and relating to Big Brother UK and Celebrity Big Brother.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2017

The fifty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom is the legislature of the United Kingdom following the 2017 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.

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List of Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset, Nobelprisen) are prizes awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.

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List of urban areas in the United Kingdom

This is a list of the most populous urban areas as at the 2011 census, as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), although the basis for the sourced list (used for its ready availability of the data) is Citypopulation.de.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Litchurch

Litchurch is an area of the city of Derby in Derbyshire, England.

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Little Chester

Little Chester, also known as Chester Green after the area of open parkland at its centre, is a suburb of the city of Derby, in Derbyshire, England.

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Littleover

Littleover is a village and suburb in the city of Derby, in Derbyshire, England, between Rose Hill, Normanton, Sunny Hill and Mickleover, about southwest of Derby city centre.

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Littleover Community School

Littleover Community School is a coeducational secondary school situated on Pastures Hill, Littleover, Derbyshire in England, with an age range of pupils varying from 11–18.

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LMS Scientific Research Laboratory

The LMS Scientific Research Laboratory was set up following the formation of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

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Local Government Act 1888

The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c.41) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales.

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Lombe's Mill

Lombe's Mill was the first successful silk throwing mill in England.

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London Road Community Hospital

The London Road Community Hospital is a hospital in Derby that is part of the Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.

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Long Eaton

Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England.

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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LostAlone

LostAlone were a British rock band from Derby, Derbyshire formed in 2005.

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Loughborough

Loughborough is a town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, seat of Charnwood Borough Council, and home to Loughborough University.

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Louis Martin (weightlifter)

Louis George Martin (11 November 1936 – 16 January 2015) was a British middle-heavyweight weightlifter.

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Low-cost carrier

A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as ''no-frills'', ''discount'' or budget carrier or airline, or LCC) is an airline without most of the traditional services provided in the fare, resulting in lower fares and fewer comforts.

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Lucy Ward (musician)

Lucy Victoria Ward (born 12 December 1989) is a British singer-songwriter from Derby.

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Lunar Society of Birmingham

The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England.

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M1 motorway

The M1 is a motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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Mablethorpe

Mablethorpe is a small seaside town on a sandy shore in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Mackworth, Derby

Mackworth is a suburb and electoral ward of the city of Derby, England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Mansfield

Mansfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England.

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Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance race, completed by running, walking, or a run/walk strategy.

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Marco Gabbiadini

Marco Gabbiadini (born 20 January 1968) is an English former footballer whose career lasted 18 years from 1985 to 2003.

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Margaret Beckett

Dame Margaret Mary Beckett (born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983.

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Marion Adnams

Marion Elizabeth Adnams (3 December 1898 - 24 October 1995) was an English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman.

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Mark Robinson (darts player)

Mark W. Robinson (born 11 July 1963) is an former English professional darts player who played in the Professional Darts Corporation events.

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Markeaton

Markeaton is a suburban village within Derby in the East Midlands of England.

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Markeaton Brook

The Markeaton Brook is an tributary of the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England.

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Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

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Matlock, Derbyshire

Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England.

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Max Sciandri

Maximilian Sciandri (born 15 February 1967) is a retired British road racing cyclist of Italian descent.

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Maxwell Caulfield

Maxwell Caulfield (né Newby; born 23 November 1959) is a British-American film, stage, and television actor and singer.

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Mel Morris (businessman)

Melvyn Morris CBE is an English businessman, who currently owns Championship football club, Derby County F.C and is listed as one of the richest people in the UK.

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Melbourne, Derbyshire

Melbourne is a market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England.

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Melissa Reid

Melissa Rose Reid (born 19 September 1987) is an English professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour.

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Melle, Germany

Melle is a city in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Merrill Academy

Merrill Academy is a secondary school with a sixth form for students aged 11–19 years, located in Alvaston, Derby, England.

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Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest circulation newspaper, published in tabloid format by DMG Media.

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Mezzotint

Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method.

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Michael Knowles (actor)

Michael Knowles (born 1937) is an English actor and scriptwriter.

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Michael Rayner

Michael Rayner (6 December 1932 – 13 July 2015)Mackie, David.

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Michael Socha

Michael Robert Socha (born 13 December 1987) is an English actor, known for his roles in the films This Is England and Summer, and the television series This Is England '86, '88, '90, Being Human, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and the BBC Three miniseries Our World War.

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Mickleover

Mickleover is the most westerly suburb of the city of Derby in the United Kingdom.

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Mickleover Sports F.C.

Mickleover Sports Football Club is a football club based in the Mickleover suburb of Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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Mid Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Derbyshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Pauline Latham, a Conservative.

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Middle school

A middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) is an educational stage which exists in some countries, providing education between primary school and secondary school.

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Middlesbrough F.C.

Middlesbrough Football Club is a professional association football club based in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Midland Counties Railway

The Midland Counties' Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1839 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, to London.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Midlands 1 East

Midlands 1 East is an English semi-professional level 6 rugby union regional league for rugby clubs in the eastern region of the Midlands, including sides from Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and occasionally Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

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Midlands Co-operative Society

Midlands Co-operative Society Limited was the second largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom.

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Milford, Derbyshire

Milford is a village in Derbyshire, England, on the River Derwent, between Duffield and Belper on the A6 trunk road.

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Misfits (TV series)

Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm.

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Most Haunted

Most Haunted is a British paranormal reality television series.

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Mount St. Helens

Mount St.

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Multifaith

To be multifaith is to feel an affinity with aspects of more than one religion, philosophy or world-view, and perhaps to believe that no one is superior to the others.

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Municipal Corporations Act 1835

The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. IV., c.76), sometimes known as the Municipal Reform Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in the incorporated boroughs of England and Wales.

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Murray Park School

Murray Park School is a secondary school on Murray Road in Mickleover, Derby, England.

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Nantgarw Pottery

The Nantgarw Pottery was a noted pottery, located in Nantgarw on the eastern bank of the Glamorganshire Canal, north of Cardiff in the River Taff valley, Glamorganshire, Wales.

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National Badminton League

The National Badminton League (NBL) was a professional team badminton league in England.

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National Character Area

A National Character Area (NCA) is a natural subdivision of England based on a combination of landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity and economic activity.

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National Express Coaches

National Express is an intercity and InterRegional coach operator providing services throughout Great Britain.

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National Tramway Museum

The National Tramway Museum is located at Crich,, Derbyshire, England.

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National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT) is a British trade union covering the transport sector.

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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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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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New Model Army

The New Model Army of England was formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, and was disbanded in 1660 after the Restoration.

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Newcastle United F.C.

Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.

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Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme (locally; or Underlem, cf. Burslem, Audlem), is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal settlement in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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Nigel Rudd

Sir Nigel Rudd, (born 31 December 1946 in Derby, England) is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.

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Noel-Baker School

Noel-Baker Academy (formerly Noel-Baker Community School) is a mixed comprehensive secondary school in Alvaston, Derby, UK.

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Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

The Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS; French: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes.

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Norah, Lady Docker

Norah Docker, Lady Docker (1906–1983) was an English socialite.

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Normanton Barracks

Normanton Barracks was a military installation in Normanton, Derby, England.

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Normanton, Derby

Normanton is an inner city suburb and ward of the city of Derby in Derbyshire, England, situated approximately south of the city centre.

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North Midland Railway

The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masbrough) and Leeds in 1840.

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Northern Premier League

The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (pronounced or; abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west.

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Oakwood, Derby

Oakwood is a modern housing estate in Derby, UK, built mainly in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Ockbrook

Ockbrook is an ancient village in Derbyshire, England.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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ONS coding system

In the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics maintains a series of codes to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data.

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used in Great Britain, distinct from latitude and longitude.

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Osmaston, Derby

Osmaston is a suburb of the city of Derby, England.

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Osnabrück

Osnabrück (Ossenbrügge; archaic Osnaburg) is a city in the federal state of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany.

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Osnabrück Land

Osnabrück Land (Osnabrücker Land) is a region in southwest Lower Saxony in Germany, which extends into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Parkin Jeffcock

Parkin Jeffcock, C.E. (27 October 1829 – 13 December 1866), was a mining engineer who died trying to effect the rescue of miners during the Oaks mining disaster which eventually killed more than 350 people.

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Patricia Greene

Patricia Honor Greene MBE (born 1931) is an English television and radio actress, who is best known for her long-standing role as Matriarch Jill Archer in the radio serial The Archers.

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Pauline Latham

Pauline Elizabeth Latham, (born 4 February 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Derbyshire, a new constituency created as a result of changes made by the Boundary Commission for England.

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Pear Tree, Derby

Pear Tree (or Peartree) is an inner city suburb of the city of Derby, in Derbyshire, England, located about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) south of the city centre.

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Peartree railway station

Peartree railway station is a railway station serving the areas of Pear Tree, Normanton and Osmaston in the city of Derby, England.

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Pen pal

Pen pals (or penpals, pen-pals, penfriends or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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Peregrine falcon

The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.

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Peter Hammill

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter.

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Peter Shilton

Peter Leslie Shilton OBE (born 18 September 1949) is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Philip Noel-Baker

Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament.

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Pickford's House Museum

Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life and Costume is in Derby, England.

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Piedmont

Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piedmontese, Occitan and Piemont; Piémont) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.

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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.

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Polymath

A polymath (πολυμαθής,, "having learned much,"The term was first recorded in written English in the early seventeenth century Latin: uomo universalis, "universal man") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas—such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Polyphony (choir)

Polyphony is a small English choir formed by Stephen Layton for one particular concert put on in King's College, Cambridge in 1986.

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Pornographic film actor

A pornographic actor (or actress for female), or porn star, is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie.

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Postcodes in the United Kingdom

Postal codes used in the United Kingdom are known as postcodes (originally postal codes).

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Premier League

The Premier League is the top level of the English football league system.

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Press Association

The Press Association (PA) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Pride Park

Pride Park is a business park on the outskirts of the city centre of Derby, England.

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Pride Park Stadium

Pride Park Stadium, commonly known as Pride Park, is an all-seater football stadium in Derby, England, that is the home ground of English Football League club Derby County.

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Professional Darts Corporation

The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation to form what was initially called the World Darts Council (WDC).

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Public housing in the United Kingdom

Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.

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Quad (arts centre)

Quad (branded as QUAD and also known as Derby QUAD), is an arts centre in Derby, United Kingdom, first opened on 26 September 2008.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is a British government agency that investigates rail accidents in the United Kingdom and the Channel Tunnel in order to find a cause, not to lay blame.

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Rail Operations Group

Rail Operations Group (ROG) specialize in ad-hoc hires particularly for locomotive and multiple unit moves.

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Rail transport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and previously consisted of Great Britain and the whole of Ireland.

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Railway engineering

Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems.

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Railway Technical Centre

The Railway Technical Centre (RTC) in London Road, Derby, England, was built by the British Railways Board in the early 1960s to be its technical headquarters.

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Ralph Downes

Ralph William Downes CBE KSG (16 August 1904 – 24 December 1993) was an English organist, organ designer, teacher and music director and was Professor of Organ in the Royal College of Music.

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Reg Parnell

Reginald Harold Haslam Parnell (2 July 1911 – 7 January 1964) was a racing driver and team manager from Derby, England.

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Regions of England

The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England.

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Repton Rural District

Repton was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

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Resonate Group

Resonate Group Limited is a British software, technology and services company.

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Respite care

Respite care is planned or emergency temporary care provided to caregivers of a child or adult.

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Revolution (cycling series)

Revolution is a series of track cycling events primarily held at the Manchester Velodrome in the north west of England.

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Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.

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Richard Bell (British politician)

Richard Bell (1859 – 1 May 1930) was one of the first two British Labour Members of Parliament, and the first English one, elected after the formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900.

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Richard Felix

Richard Felix (born 23 February 1949) is an English paranormal investigator from Stanley, Derbyshire most noted for his appearances on Living TV's Most Haunted series.

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Richard Turner (artist)

Richard Turner (29 December 1940 – 11 January 2013), also known as Turneramon, was a British artist and poet.

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Ripley, Derbyshire

Ripley is a town in the Amber Valley borough of Derbyshire, England.

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River Derwent, Derbyshire

The Derwent is a river in Derbyshire, England.

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River Trent

The River Trent is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Humpston

Robert Humpston VC (1832 – 22 December 1884) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Rolling stock

The term rolling stock in rail transport industry originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational public limited company incorporated in February 2011 that owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries.

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Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero engine manufacturing business established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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Ronald Binge

Ronald Binge (15 July 19106 September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music.

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Roy McFarland

Roy Leslie McFarland (born 5 April 1948) is an English former football manager and former player.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Royal Crown Derby

The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company is the oldest or second oldest remaining English porcelain manufacturer, based in Derby, England (disputed by Royal Worcester, who claim 1751 as their year of establishment).

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Royal Derby Hospital

Royal Derby Hospital is one of two teaching hospitals in the city of Derby, the other being the London Road Community Hospital.

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Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,500-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London.

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Royalist

A royalist supports a particular monarch as head of state for a particular kingdom, or of a particular dynastic claim.

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Rufus Brevett

Rufus Brevett (born 24 September 1969 in Derby) is an English former professional football player who played as a defender.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Running

Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot.

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Ryanair

Ryanair is an Irish low-cost airline founded in 1984, headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland, with its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports.

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Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy

Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy is a Catholic secondary school with academy status in the Darley Abbey district of Derby.

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Samuel Bourn the Elder

Samuel Bourn the Elder (1648–1719) was an English dissenting minister.

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Samuel Plimsoll

Samuel Plimsoll (10 February 1824 – 3 June 1898) was an English politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draft, and therefore the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions).

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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

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Sarah Mawe

Sarah Mawe (1767-1846) was an English mineralogist of the 19th century, appointed to serve Queen Victoria in that capacity from 1837 to 1840.

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Savoy opera

Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Shelton Lock

Shelton Lock is a small suburb in the south of the city of Derby, England, United Kingdom, located between Chellaston and Allenton.

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Showcase Cinemas

Showcase Cinemas is a movie theater chain owned and operated by National Amusements.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Silk throwing

Silk throwing is the industrial process wherein silk that has been reeled into skeins, is cleaned, receives a twist and is wound onto bobbins.

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Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

The Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marked the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.

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Sinfin

Sinfin is a suburb and ward of the city of Derby, in Derbyshire, England.

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Sinfonia Viva

Sinfonia Viva is a British orchestra based in Derby, United Kingdom.

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Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet

Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet VC KCB (3 February 1831 – 7 April 1901) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet

Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet (22 June 1593 – 26 October 1671) was a Parliamentarian politician and military figure in the English Civil War.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Sixth form

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

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Sky Living

Sky Living is a British television channel, airing in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned and operated by Sky plc.

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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Slum clearance

Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.

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South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Derbyshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Heather Wheeler, a Conservative.

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South East Derbyshire Rural District

South East Derbyshire was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

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South Yorkshire Coalfield

The South Yorkshire Coalfield is so named from its position within Yorkshire.

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Special needs

In the United States, special needs is a term used in clinical diagnostic and functional development to describe individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological.

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Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is the twisting together of drawn-out strands of fibers to form yarn, and is a major part of the textile industry.

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Spondon

Spondon is a ward of the city of Derby.

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Spondon railway station

Spondon railway station serves Spondon in Derby, England.

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St Alkmund's Church, Derby

Saint Alkmund's Church was a Victorian church, which stood in a Georgian square between Bridgegate and Queen Street in Derby; this was the only Georgian square in the city.

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St Helen's House

St Helen's House is a Grade I listed building situated in King Street, Derby, England.

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St Mary's Church, Derby

St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Derby, England.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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St Peter's Church, Derby

St Peter's in the City is a Church of England parish church in the city of Derby, UK.

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Stanley, Derbyshire

Stanley is a village located roughly halfway between Derby and Ilkeston in Derbyshire, England.

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Starfish site

Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate burning British cities.

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Stenson Fields

Stenson Fields is a modern suburban housing development and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.

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Stephen Layton

Stephen Layton (born 23 December 1966) is an English conductor.

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Stephen Marley (writer)

Stephen Marley is a British author and video game designer, best known for his Chia Black Dragon series.

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Steve Bloomer

Stephen Bloomer (20 January 1874 – 16 April 1938) was an England international footballer and manager who played for Derby County - becoming their record goalscorer - and Middlesbrough.

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Steve Holland (footballer)

Steve Holland (born 30 April 1970) is an English football coach who is currently the Assistant Manager to Gareth Southgate with the England national team.

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Stocking frame

A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry.

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Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of.

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Street art

Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues.

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Stuart Varney

Stuart Varney (born July 7, 1948) is a British-American economic consultant who works for the Fox News and the Fox Business Network.

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Stunt performer

A stunt performer, often referred to as a stuntman, stuntwoman, or daredevil, is a trained professional who performs stunts, often as a career.

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Summer (2008 film)

Summer is a 2008 film directed by Kenneth Glenaan and starring Robert Carlyle and Rachael Blake.

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Sunny Hill, Derby

Sunny Hill (or Sunnyhill) is a southern suburb of the city of Derby, England, situated mainly along the Stenson Road (which goes out to the hamlet of Stenson, on the Trent and Mersey Canal).

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Sustrans

Sustrans is a UK sustainable transport charity.

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Swadlincote

Swadlincote is a town in Derbyshire, England, near the borders with Leicestershire and Staffordshire.

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Swanwick, Derbyshire

Swanwick is a village in Derbyshire, England, also a Parish within the Amber Valley district, with a population of 5,316 at the 2001 census, falling to 5,084 at the 2011 Census.

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Swarkestone Bridge

Swarkestone Bridge is a medieval bridge crossing the River Trent between the villages of Swarkestone and Stanton by Bridge, about 6 miles south of Derby.

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Tata Motors

Tata Motors Limited (formerly TELCO, short for Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company) headquartered in Mumbai, is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company and a member of the Tata Group.

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Ted Moult

Edward Walker Moult (11 February 1926 – 3 September 1986) was a British farmer at Scaddows Farm near Ticknall, Derbyshire, who became a radio and television personality.

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Terry Lloyd

Terence Ellis "Terry" Lloyd (21 November 1952 – 22 March 2003) was an English television journalist who reported extensively from the Middle East.

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The Archers

The Archers is the world's longest-running radio soap opera.

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The Beekeepers

The Beekeepers were an English rock band from Derby, signed to the Beggars Banquet Records label.

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The Bemrose School

The Bemrose School is a foundation trust all-through school situated on Uttoxeter New Road, Derby, England, with an age range of pupils from 3 – 19.

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The Bill

The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.

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The Derby Ram

The Derby Ram or As I was Going to Derby is a traditional tall tale English folk song (Roud) that tells the story of a ram of gargantuan proportions and the difficulties involved in butchering, tanning, and otherwise processing its carcass.

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The King of Rome

The King of Rome was a successful racing pigeon, winning a race from Rome, Italy to England, in 1913.

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The Struts

The Struts are an English rock band from Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft

The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft is a transport museum which specialises in the preservation of trolleybuses.

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Theatre in the round

A theatre in the round, arena theatre or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage.

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Thirsk

Thirsk is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England.

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This Is England

This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows.

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Thomas Bott

Thomas Bott (1688–1754) was an English cleric of the Church of England, known as a controversialist.

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Thomas Smith (English painter)

Thomas Smith (died 12 September 1767), also known as Thomas Smith of Derby, was a landscape painter and father of John Raphael Smith and miniaturist painter Thomas Corregio Smith.

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is the form of Buddhist doctrine and institutions named after the lands of Tibet, but also found in the regions surrounding the Himalayas and much of Central Asia.

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Tom Huddlestone

Thomas Andrew Huddlestone (born 28 December 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championship club Derby County.

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Tom Johnson (bareknuckle boxer)

Tom Johnson (born Tom Jackling; c. 1750 – 21 January 1797) was a bare-knuckle fighter who was referred to as the Champion of England between 1784 and 1791.

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Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider, also known as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider between 2001 and 2007, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design.

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Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series on new developments in science and technology.

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Toyota

, usually shortened to Toyota, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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Toyota Manufacturing UK

Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd is the United Kingdom manufacturing operation of Toyota, established in December 1989.

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Toyota, Aichi

is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Trentbarton

Trent Barton, stylised as trentbarton, is a bus operator based in Heanor, Derbyshire.

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Trolleybuses in Derby

The Derby trolleybus system once served Derby, the county town of Derbyshire in central England.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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Unitary authorities of England

Unitary authorities of England are local authorities that are responsible for the provision of all local government services within a district.

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Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.

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United Kingdom census, 1851

The United Kingdom Census of 1851 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 30 March 1851, and was the second of the UK censuses to include details of household members.

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United Kingdom census, 1901

The United Kingdom Census 1901 was the 11th nationwide census conducted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and was done on 1 April 1901 "relating to the persons returned as living at midnight on Sunday, March 31st".

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United Kingdom census, 1921

The United Kingdom Census 1921 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that was carried out on 19 June 1921.

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United Kingdom census, 1951

The United Kingdom Census 1951 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out on 8 April 1951.

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United Kingdom census, 1961

The United Kingdom Census 1961 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out on 23 April 1961.

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United Kingdom census, 1971

The United Kingdom Census 1971 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out on 25 April 1971.

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United Kingdom census, 1981

The United Kingdom Census 1981 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out on 5 April 1981.

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United Kingdom census, 1991

A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 1991, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 21 April 1991.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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University of Derby

The University of Derby (formerly Derby College of Art and Technology or simply Derby College) is a public university in the city of Derby, England.

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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Urban enterprise zone

An urban enterprise zone is an area in which policies to encourage economic growth and development are implemented.

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Urban park

An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places to offer recreation and green space to residents of, and visitors to, the municipality.

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Uttoxeter

Uttoxeter (sometimes) is a market town in Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire, one mile (1.61 km) west of the River Dove.

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Van der Graaf Generator

Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records.

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Velodrome

A velodrome is an arena for track cycling.

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Victoria Cross

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

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.

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W. J. Coffee

William John Coffee (1774–1846) was an internationally renowned English artist and sculptor who worked in porcelain, plaster, and terra cotta.

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Walter Weston

Walter Weston (25 December 1860 – 27 March 1940), was an English clergyman and Anglican missionary who helped popularize recreational mountaineering in Japan at the turn of the 20th Century.

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Warrington

Warrington is a large town and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey, east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester.

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Waterline

The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water.

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Watnall

Watnall is an area of settlement in Nottinghamshire, England.

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West Park School

West Park School is a mixed secondary school located in the Spondon area of Derby in the English county of Derbyshire.

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White Town

White Town is a British musical act and is a solo project of Jyoti Prakash Mishra.

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Who's Who

Who's Who (or "Who is Who") is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biographical information on the prominent people of a country.

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Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester.

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William Billingsley (artist)

William Billingsley (1758–1828) was an influential painter of porcelain in Derby, and Mansfield and porcelain producer at Pinxton and Brampton in Torksey.

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William de Wiveleslie Abney

Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney, KCB, FRS (24 July 1843 – 3 December 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer.

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William George Spencer

(William) George Spencer (1790–1866) was an English schoolmaster and tutor, known as a mathematical writer.

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William Hutton (historian)

William Hutton (30 September 1723 – 20 September 1815) was an English poet and historian.

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William Mundy (MP)

William Mundy (14 September 1801 – 20 April 1877) was the son of Francis Mundy, a member of parliament for South Derbyshire.

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Williams Holdings

Williams Holdings was a major British conglomerate.

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Wilmorton

Wilmorton is a suburb of the city of Derby, England.

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Wolverton railway works

Wolverton railway works, known locally as Wolverton Works or just The Works, was established in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in 1838 at the midpoint of the -long route from London to Birmingham.

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Women in Love (film)

Women in Love is a 1969 British romantic drama film directed by Ken Russell, and starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, and Jennie Linden.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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World war

A world war, is a large-scale war involving many of the countries of the world or many of the most powerful and populous ones.

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Ye Olde Dolphin Inne

Ye Olde Dolphin Inne is a Grade II listed pub in the city of Derby, England.

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Youngman (MC)

Youngman (born Simon Smith) is an urban MC and vocalist signed to Shy FX’s label Digital Soundboy Records.

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Zeppelin

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.

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1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade), was an international multi-sport event that was held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy.

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2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries.

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2007–08 in English football

The 2007–08 season was the 128th season of competitive football in England.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing, China.

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2011 Solheim Cup

The 2011 Solheim Cup was the 12th Solheim Cup matches, held 23–25 September in Ireland at Killeen Castle in County Meath, northwest of Dublin.

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References

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

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