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861 relations: A34 road, A483 road, A49 road, A55 road, A562 road, A580 road, A59 road, A590 road, A595 road, A596 road, A6 road (England), A6144(M) motorway, A62 road, A66 road, A74 road, A74(M) and M74 motorways, ABB, Accrington, Accrington Stanley F.C., Active radar homing, ADABAS, Adidas, AGC Inc., Agilent Technologies, Ainsdale, Aintree, Air-to-air missile, Aircraft engine, Airline hub, Alastair Pilkington, Albert, Somme, Alcoa, Alcopop, Alenia Marconi Systems, Allerdale, Almelo, Alsager, Alstom, Altena, Altrincham, Amazon (company), Ambleside, Amcor, American Airlines, American Axle, AMS Neve, Amsterdam, Anastrozole, Andy Burnham, Angers, ... Expand index (811 more) »
- NUTS 1 statistical regions of England
- Regions of England
A34 road
The A34 is a major road in England.
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A483 road
The A483, officially described as the Swansea to Manchester Trunk Road, although now ending in Chester, is a major road in the United Kingdom.
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A49 road
The A49 is an A road in western England, which traverses the Welsh Marches region.
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A55 road
The A55, also known as the North Wales Expressway (Gwibffordd Gogledd Cymru), is a major road in Wales and England, connecting Cheshire and North Wales.
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A562 road
The A562 is a road in England which runs from Liverpool to Warrington.
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A580 road
The A580 (officially the Liverpool–East Lancashire Road, colloquially the East Lancs) is the United Kingdom's first purpose-built A road.
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A59 road
The A59 is a major road in England which is around long and runs from Wallasey, Merseyside to York, North Yorkshire.
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A590 road
The A590 is a trunk road in southern Cumbria, in the north-west of England.
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A595 road
The A595 is a primary route in Cumbria, in Northern England that starts in Carlisle, passes through Whitehaven and goes close to Workington, Cockermouth and Wigton.
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A596 road
The A596 is a primary route in Cumbria, in northern England, that runs between Thursby (north-east of Wigton) and Workington.
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A6 road (England)
The A6 is one of the main north–south roads in England.
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A6144(M) motorway
The A6144(M) was a motorway in Carrington, Greater Manchester, England.
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A62 road
The A62 road in Northern England runs between the cities of Leeds in West Yorkshire and Manchester in Greater Manchester covering a distance of.
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A66 road
The A66 is a major road in Northern England, which in part follows the course of the Roman road from Scotch Corner to Penrith.
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A74 road
The A74, also known historically as the Glasgow to Carlisle Road, is a formerly major road in the United Kingdom, linking Glasgow in Scotland to Carlisle in North West England, passing through Clydesdale, Annandale and the Southern Uplands.
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A74(M) and M74 motorways
The A74(M) and M74 form a major motorway in Scotland, connecting it to England.
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ABB
ABB Ltd. is a Swedish–Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Västerås, Sweden, and Zürich, Switzerland.
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Accrington
Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England.
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Accrington Stanley F.C.
Accrington Stanley Football Club is a professional association football club based in Accrington, Lancashire, England, that compete in the, the fourth level of the English football league system.
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Active radar homing
Active radar homing (ARH) is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which uses only a receiver) and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously.
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ADABAS
Adabas, a contraction of “adaptable database system," is a database package that was developed by Software AG to run on IBM mainframes.
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Adidas
Adidas AG (stylized in all lowercase since 1949) is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.
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AGC Inc.
, formerly Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.'(旭硝子株式会社), is a Japanese global glass manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo. It is the largest glass company in the world and one of the core Mitsubishi companies. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX and Nikkei 225 stock indices.
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Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies, Inc. is a global company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for laboratories.
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Ainsdale
Ainsdale is a village near Southport in Merseyside, England, situated three miles south of the centre of Southport.
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Aintree
Aintree is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.
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Air-to-air missile
Python family of AAM for comparisons, Python-5 (displayed lower-front) and Shafrir-1 (upper-back) An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft (including unmanned aircraft such as cruise missiles).
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Aircraft engine
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system.
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Airline hub
An airline hub or hub airport is an airport used by one or more airlines to concentrate passenger traffic and flight operations.
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Alastair Pilkington
Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington (7 January 1920 – 5 May 1995), known as Sir Alastair Pilkington, was a British engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass.
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Albert, Somme
Albert is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
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Alcoa
Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation.
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Alcopop
An alcopop (or cooler) is any of certain mixed alcoholic beverages with relatively low alcohol content (e.g., 3–7% alcohol by volume), including.
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Alenia Marconi Systems
Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) was a major European integrated defence electronics company and an equal shares joint venture between BAE Systems and Finmeccanica (now Leonardo S.p.A.) until its dissolution on 3 May 2005.
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Allerdale
Allerdale was a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, England, with borough status.
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Almelo
Almelo is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands.
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Alsager
Alsager is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.
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Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets.
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Altena
Altena (Westphalian: Altenoa) is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Altrincham
Altrincham (locally) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey.
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Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Ambleside
Ambleside is a town and former civil parish (now in the parish of Lakes) in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.
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Amcor
Amcor plc is a global packaging company.
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American Airlines
American Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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American Axle
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. (AAM), headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, is an American manufacturer of automobile driveline and drivetrain components and systems.
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AMS Neve
AMS Neve Ltd is a privately owned audio engineering company who specialise in digital and analogue music consoles, outboard equipment and post production consoles.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
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Anastrozole
Anastrozole, sold under the brand name Arimidex among others, is an antiestrogenic medication used in addition to other treatments for breast cancer.
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Andy Burnham
Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.
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Angers
Angers is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris.
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Angoulême
Angoulême (Poitevin-Saintongeais: Engoulaeme; Engoleime) is a small city in the southwestern French department of Charente, of which it is the prefecture.
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Ann Lee
Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing following her death.
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Anthorn Radio Station
Anthorn Radio Station is a naval and government radio transmitting station located near Anthorn, Cumbria, England, overlooking the Solway Firth, and is operated by Babcock International (with whom former operators VT Communications are now merged).
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Aquatics GB
Aquatics GB (formerly British Swimming) is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, artistic swimming, diving and open water in Great Britain.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
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Arado Ar 234
The Arado Ar 234 Blitz (English: lightning) is a jet-powered bomber designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado.
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Arc lamp
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).
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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB;, AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.
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Areva
Areva S.A. is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power headquartered in Courbevoie, France.
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Armentières
Armentières (Armentiers, Armintîre) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
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Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire
The Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire is a British turbojet engine that was produced by Armstrong Siddeley in the 1950s.
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Arthur Wynne
Arthur Wynne (June 22, 1871January 14, 1945) was the British-born inventor of the modern crossword puzzle.
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Ashton-in-Makerfield
Ashton-in-Makerfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south of Wigan.
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Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.
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Asics
is a Japanese multinational corporation that produces sportswear.
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ASRAAM
The Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM), also known by its United States designation AIM-132, is an imaging infrared homing air-to-air missile, produced by MBDA UK, that is designed for close-range combat.
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Assembly line
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
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Associated Electrical Industries
Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) was a British holding company formed in 1928 through the merger of British Thomson-Houston (BTH) and Metropolitan-Vickers electrical engineering companies.
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AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca plc (AZ) is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with its headquarters at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge, England.
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Atherton, Greater Manchester
Atherton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire.
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Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances.
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Austenite
Austenite, also known as gamma-phase iron (γ-Fe), is a metallic, non-magnetic allotrope of iron or a solid solution of iron with an alloying element.
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Automatic transmission
An automatic transmission (sometimes abbreviated AT) is a multi-speed transmission used in motor vehicles that does not require any input from the driver to change forward gears under normal driving conditions.
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Avro
Avro (an initialism of the founder's name) was a British aircraft manufacturer.
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Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber.
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Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984.
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Axial compressor
An axial compressor is a gas compressor that can continuously pressurize gases.
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Électricité de France
Électricité de France SA (literally Electricity of France), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France.
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Ústí nad Labem
Ústí nad Labem (Aussig) is a city in the Czech Republic.
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BAC Mustard
The Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device or MUSTARD, usually written as Mustard, was a reusable launch system concept that was explored by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) during the mid-1960s.
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BAe Dynamics
British Aerospace Dynamics Limited (BADL or BAe Dynamics) was a division of British Aerospace.
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BAE Systems
BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, based in London, England.
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Barbie
Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959.
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Barnoldswick
Barnoldswick (pronounced) is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, Lancashire, England.
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Barrow A.F.C.
Barrow Association Football Club is a professional football club based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.
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Barrow Raiders
The Barrow Raiders are a professional rugby league team in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.
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Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.
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BASF
BASF SE, an initialism of its original name, is a European multinational company and the largest chemical producer in the world.
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Béziers
Béziers (Besièrs) is a city in southern France.
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BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio (also referred to as Local BBC Radio) is the BBC's local and regional radio division for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of forty stations.
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BBC North West Tonight
BBC North West Tonight (known as BBC North West Today during daytime) is the BBC's regional television news programme covering North West England and the Isle of Man.
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BBC Radio Cumbria
BBC Radio Cumbria is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cumbria.
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BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Lancashire.
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BBC Radio Merseyside
BBC Radio Merseyside is the BBC's local radio station serving Merseyside, north-west Cheshire and West Lancashire.
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BBC Radio Stoke
BBC Radio Stoke is the BBC's local radio station serving Staffordshire and South Cheshire.
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Beat music
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
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Belt (mechanical)
A belt is a loop of flexible material used to link two or more rotating shafts mechanically, most often parallel.
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Bengbu
Bengbu is a city in northern Anhui Province, China.
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Bentley
Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs.
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Beta blocker
Beta blockers, also spelled β-blockers, are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia), and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack (secondary prevention).
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Bibby Line
Bibby Line is a UK company concerned with shipping and marine operations.
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Bicalutamide
Bicalutamide, sold under the brand name Casodex among others, is an antiandrogen medication that is primarily used to treat prostate cancer.
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Bielefeld
Bielefeld is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Biosynthesis
Biosynthesis, i.e., chemical synthesis occuring in biological contexts, is a term most often referring to multi-step, enzyme-catalyzed processes where chemical substances absorbed as nutrients (or previously converted through biosynthesis) serve as enzyme substrates, with conversion by the living organism either into simpler or more complex products.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.
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Blackburn
Blackburn is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England.
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Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the, the second level of the English football league system.
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Blackburn with Darwen
Blackburn with Darwen is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, North West England.
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Blackley
Blackley is an area of Manchester, England.
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Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.
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Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in the seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
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Blowick
Blowick is a suburb on the east side of the town of Southport, Merseyside, England.
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Bob the Builder
Bob the Builder is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation.
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Boddingtons Brewery
Boddingtons Brewery was a regional brewery in Manchester, England, which owned pubs throughout the North West.
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Bollington
Bollington is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury.
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Bolton
Bolton (locally) is a town in Greater Manchester in England.
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Bolton Wanderers F.C.
Bolton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.
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Bootle
Bootle (pronounced) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449.
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Borough of Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness was a local government district with borough status in Cumbria, England.
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Borough of Burnley
The Borough of Burnley is a local government district with the borough status in Lancashire, England.
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Borough of Chorley
The Borough of Chorley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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Borough of Copeland
The Borough of Copeland was a local government district with borough status in western Cumbria, England.
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Borough of Fylde
The Borough of Fylde is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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Borough of Halton
Halton is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, North West England.
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Borough of Rossendale
Rossendale is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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Borough of Wyre
Wyre is a local government district with borough status on the coast of Lancashire, England.
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Bottrop
Bottrop is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Bramhall
Bramhall is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.
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Brierfield, Lancashire
Brierfield is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England.
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Brimstone (missile)
Brimstone is a ground or air-launched ground attack missile developed by MBDA UK for the UK's Royal Air Force.
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Bristol Myers Squibb
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, doing business as Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), is an American multinational pharmaceutical company.
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Britannia Airways
Britannia Airways was a charter airline based in the UK.
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British Aerospace 146
The British Aerospace 146 (also BAe 146) is a short-haul and regional airliner that was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later part of BAE Systems.
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British Aircraft Corporation
The British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960.
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British Airways
British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom.
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British Chinese
British Chinese, also known as Chinese British or Chinese Britons, are people of Chineseparticularly Han Chineseancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second-largest group of Overseas Chinese in Western Europe after France.
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British Cycling
British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national governing body for cycle sport in Great Britain.
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British Energy
British Energy was the UK's largest electricity generation company by volume, before being taken over by Électricité de France (EDF) in 2009.
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British Midland International
British Midland Airways Limited (trading at various times throughout its history as British Midland, bmi British Midland, bmi or British Midland International) was an airline in the United Kingdom with its head office in Donington Hall in Castle Donington, close to East Midlands Airport, England.
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British Thomson-Houston
British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
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British Touring Car Championship
The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA.
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Brother Industries
is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan.
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Burnley
Burnley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021.
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Burnley F.C.
Burnley Football Club is a professional football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.
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Burscough
Burscough is a town and civil parish in the district of West Lancashire, Lancashire, England.
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Burtonwood
Burtonwood is a village in the civil parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.
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Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to locally as Bury is a cathedral and market town in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.
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Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury is a market town on the River Irwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
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Business jet
A business jet, private jet, or bizjet is a jet aircraft designed for transporting small groups of people, typically business executives and high-ranking associates.
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Cabin pressurization
Cabin pressurization is a process in which conditioned air is pumped into the cabin of an aircraft or spacecraft in order to create a safe and comfortable environment for humans flying at high altitudes.
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Calder Valley line
The Calder Valley line (also previously known as the Caldervale line) is a railway route in Northern England between the cities of Leeds and Manchester as well as the seaside resort of Blackpool.
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Camelot Group
The Camelot Group was the operator of the UK National Lottery whose most recent franchise period started in 2009 and ran until January 2024.
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Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.
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Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. North West England and Canary Islands are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union.
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Capital Liverpool
Capital Liverpool is an Independent Local Radio station serving Liverpool, England.
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Carbon steel
Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content from about 0.05 up to 2.1 percent by weight.
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Carcraft
Carcraft was an independent group of used car hypermarkets established in 1951 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, with eleven locations around the country.
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Carlisle
Carlisle (from Caer Luel) is a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cumbria in England.
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Carlisle United F.C.
Carlisle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, England.
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Carnforth
Carnforth is a market town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England, situated at the north-east end of Morecambe Bay.
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Castlefield
Castlefield is an inner-city conservation area in Manchester, North West England.
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Castleton, Greater Manchester
Castleton is an area of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, south-southwest of Rochdale town centre and north-northeast of the city of Manchester.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.
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Cefuroxime
Cefuroxime, sold under the brand name Zinacef among others, is a second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat and prevent a number of bacterial infections.
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Centrica
Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire.
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Cephalosporin
The cephalosporins (sg.) are a class of β-lactam antibiotics originally derived from the fungus Acremonium, which was previously known as Cephalosporium.
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Ceremonial counties of England
Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed.
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Chadderton
Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal.
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Chain Home
Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal early warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft.
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Chalk River Laboratories
Chalk River Laboratories (Laboratoires de Chalk River; also known as CRL, Chalk River Labs and formerly Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, CRNL) is a Canadian nuclear research facility in Deep River, about north-west of Ottawa.
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Chalon-sur-Saône
Chalon-sur-Saône (literally Chalon on Saône) is a city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
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Chaumont, Haute-Marne
Chaumont, also known Chaumont-en-Bassigny, is a commune of France, and the prefecture of the Haute-Marne department.
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Cheadle (UK Parliament constituency)
Cheadle is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Cheadle Hulme
Cheadle Hulme is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England,.
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Chemnitz
Chemnitz (from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden.
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Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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Cheshire cheese
Cheshire cheese is a dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire, and four neighbouring counties: Denbighshire and Flintshire in Wales, and Shropshire and Staffordshire in England.
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Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.
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Chorley
Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester.
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Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (12 May 190122 June 1983) was a British nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station.
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City of Carlisle
The City of Carlisle was a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city.
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City of Lancaster
The City of Lancaster, or simply Lancaster, is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England.
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City of Salford
Salford, also known as the City of Salford, is a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England.
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Clayton-le-Moors
Clayton-le-Moors is an industrial town in the Borough of Hyndburn in the county of Lancashire, England.
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Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 147,284 (2020).
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Cleveleys
Cleveleys is a town on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, England, about north of Blackpool and south of Fleetwood.
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Clifford Cocks
Clifford Christopher Cocks (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer.
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Clitheroe
Clitheroe is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester.
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Cockermouth
Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, so named because it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent.
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Colne
Colne is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England.
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Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
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Congleton
Congleton is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.
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Conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.
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Cookware and bakeware
Cookware and bakeware is food preparation equipment, such as cooking pots, pans, baking sheets etc.
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Crankshaft
A crankshaft is a mechanical component used in a piston engine to convert the reciprocating motion into rotational motion.
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Crewe
Crewe is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.
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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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Crosby, Merseyside
Crosby is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.
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Crossens
Crossens is the northernmost district of the town of Southport, Merseyside, England.
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Crossword
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues.
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Crown Wallpaper
Crown Wallpaper, also known as the Crown Wallpaper Company, was an agglomeration of some of the largest wallpaper manufacturers in the United Kingdom in 1899.
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Crumpsall
Crumpsall is an outer suburb and electoral ward of Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, bordered by Cheetham Hill, Blackley, Harpurhey, Broughton, and Prestwich.
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Cumberland
Cumberland is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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Cumbric
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what became the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (now combined as Cumbria), and also Northumberland and northern parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands.
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Curtain wall (architecture)
A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building from the elements.
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Cyclotron
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932.
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Daily Express
The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format.
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Daily Star (United Kingdom)
The Daily Star is a tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Saturday in the United Kingdom since 1978.
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Daisy Group
Daisy Group Holdings Limited, trading as Daisy Group or simply Daisy, is a British business-to-business (B2B) provider of IT, communications, and cloud services to UK organizations.
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Dalton, Pennsylvania
Dalton is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Dalton-in-Furness
Dalton-in-Furness is a town in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, north east of Barrow-in-Furness.
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Daresbury
Daresbury is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England.
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Darts
Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed projectiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard.
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Darwen
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England.
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Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.
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DCC plc
DCC plc is a leading Irish international sales, marketing and support services group.
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De Havilland Firestreak
The de Havilland Firestreak is a British first-generation, passive infrared homing (heat seeking) air-to-air missile.
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De La Rue
De La Rue plc is a British company headquartered in Basingstoke, England, that produces secure digital and physical protections for goods, trade, and identities in 140 countries.
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Dee Radio
Chester's Dee Radio is an Independent Local Radio station serving the city of Chester and surrounding areas.
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Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Demographics of the United Kingdom
The population of the United Kingdom was estimated at in.
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Denton, Greater Manchester
Denton is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, five miles (8 km) east of Manchester city centre.
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Department for Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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DHL Group
Deutsche Post AG, trading as DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany.
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Diageo
Diageo plc is a British multinational alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in London, England.
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Digestive biscuit
A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Distribution board
A distribution board (also known as panelboard, breaker panel, electric panel, fuse box or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit in a common enclosure.
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Districts of England
The districts of England (officially, local authority districts, abbreviated LADs) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.
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Diving regulator
A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving.
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DNA paternity testing
DNA paternity testing is the use of DNA profiles to determine whether an individual is the biological parent of another individual.
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Douglas, Isle of Man
Douglas (Doolish) is the capital city and largest settlement of the Isle of Man, with a population of 26,677 (2021) and an area of.
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Droylsden
Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, east of Manchester city centre and west of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
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Dukinfield
Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester.
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Eastham, Merseyside
Eastham is a village and an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England.
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Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman Chemical Company is an American company primarily involved in the chemical industry.
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EasyJet
EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport.
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Eaton Corporation
Eaton Corporation plc is an Irish/American multinational power management company, founded in the United States and incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, with a primary administrative center in Beachwood, Ohio.
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Eccles, Greater Manchester
Eccles is a market town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, west of Salford and west of Manchester, split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south.
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Eden District
Eden was a local government district in Cumbria, England, based at Penrith Town Hall in Penrith.
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Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
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Electrical wiring
Electrical wiring is an electrical installation of cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets, and light fittings in a structure.
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Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom
Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom is commonly understood to be an electrical installation for operation by end users within domestic, commercial, industrial, and other buildings, and also in special installations and locations, such as marinas or caravan parks.
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Electromagnet
An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current.
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Electron diffraction
Electron diffraction is a generic term for phenomena associated with changes in the direction of electron beams due to elastic interactions with atoms.
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Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in 18 countries.
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Elihu Thomson
Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 – March 13, 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England.
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Emirates (airline)
Emirates (طَيَران الإمارات DMG: Ṭayarān Al-Imārāt) is one of the two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates (the other being Etihad Airways).
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Electric
The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice ending the fighting of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during the war, made munitions, armaments and aeroplanes.
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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 five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isle of Man also competing.
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Enriched uranium
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation.
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EPR (nuclear reactor)
The EPR is a Generation III+ pressurised water reactor design.
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Ernest Marsden
Sir Ernest Marsden (19 February 1889 – 15 December 1970) was an English-New Zealand physicist.
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Ethylene
Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula or.
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Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
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Euston railway station
Euston railway station (or London Euston) is a major central London railway terminus managed by Network Rail in the London Borough of Camden.
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Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.
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Failsworth
Failsworth is a town in Greater Manchester, England, north-east of Manchester and south-west of Oldham.
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Faisalabad
Faisalabad (Punjabi, فیصل آباد), formerly known as Lyallpur (Punjabi), is the second largest city and industrial centre of the Pakistani province of Punjab.
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Falkenberg
Falkenberg is a locality and the seat of Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 27,813 inhabitants in 2019 (out of a municipal total of about 45,000).
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Farnworth
Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Bolton, 4 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and northwest of Manchester.
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Fazakerley
Fazakerley is a suburb of north Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
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Ferranti
Ferranti or Ferranti International PLC was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993.
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Ferranti Mark 1
The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced by British electrical engineering firm Ferranti Ltd.
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Fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.
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Filing cabinet
A filing cabinet (or sometimes file cabinet in American English) is a piece of office furniture for storing paper documents in file folders.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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First Choice Airways
First Choice Airways Limited was a British charter airline of European tour operator TUI Travel plc, based in Crawley, England until its merger with Thomsonfly to form Thomson Airways (now TUI Airways) in 2008.
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Fish and chips
Fish and chips is a hot dish consisting of fried fish in batter, served with chips.
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Fleetwood
Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde.
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Fleetwood, also called ''Schlegelschteddel'' in Pennsylvania Dutch, is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Flensburg
Flensburg (Danish and Flensborg; Flensborre; Flansborj) is an independent town in the far north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Float glass
Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for the process in the past.
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Flybe (1979–2020)
Flybe (pronounced), styled as flybe, was a British airline based in Exeter, England.
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Focus DIY
Focus was a British do-it-yourself and home improvement retailer, founded in 1987.
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Foodservice
The foodservice (US English) or catering (British English) industry includes the businesses, institutions, and companies which prepare meals outside the home.
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Football pools
In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of association football matches taking place in the coming week.
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Ford Mondeo
The Ford Mondeo is a car manufactured by Ford since 1993.
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Forest of Bowland
The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however roughly half of the area falls into the area of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire).
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Formby
Formby is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.
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Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (21 May 1736 – 8 March 1803), known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was a British nobleman from the Egerton family.
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Frank Hornby
Frank Hornby (15 May 1863 – 21 September 1936) was an English inventor, businessman and politician.
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Frodsham
Frodsham is a market town, civil parish, and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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FTSE 100 Index
The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie", is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange.
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Fulvestrant
Fulvestrant, sold under the brand name Faslodex among others, is an antiestrogenic medication used to treat hormone receptor (HR)-positive metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women with disease progression as well as HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer in combination with abemaciclib or palbociclib in women with disease progression after endocrine therapy.
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Furness
Furness is a peninsula and region of Cumbria, England. North West England and Furness are regions of England.
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G-suit
A g-suit, or anti-g suit, is a flight suit worn by aviators and astronauts who are subject to high levels of acceleration force (g).
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GABA receptor
The GABA receptors are a class of receptors that respond to the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the chief inhibitory compound in the mature vertebrate central nervous system.
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Garston, Liverpool
Garston is a district of Liverpool, England.
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Gateshead
Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England.
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Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom (ɡɐsˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg.
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Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Geiger counter
A Geiger counter (also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation.
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General anaesthetic
General anaesthetics (or anesthetics) are often defined as compounds that induce a loss of consciousness in humans or loss of righting reflex in animals.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
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General Electric Company
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.
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George Johnstone Stoney
George Johnstone Stoney (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist.
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George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.
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Getrag
Getrag, stylized as GETRAG, was a major supplier of transmission systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
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Gift card
A gift card, also known as a gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK, is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses.
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Gladstone Dock
Gladstone Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool.
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Golden syrup
Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick, amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made by the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar.
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Goserelin
Goserelin, sold under the brand name Zoladex among others, is a medication which is used to suppress production of the sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen), particularly in the treatment of breast cancer and prostate cancer.
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Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school.
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Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a honeycomb nanostructure.
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Great Britain road numbering scheme
In Great Britain, there is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads.
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Great British Nuclear
Great British Nuclear (GBN), formerly British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), is a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government.
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Great Sankey
Great Sankey is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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Greatest Hits Radio Cumbria & South West Scotland
Greatest Hits Radio Cumbria & South West Scotland formerly CFM is an Independent Local Radio station based in Carlisle, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network.
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Greatest Hits Radio Liverpool & The North West
Greatest Hits Radio Liverpool & The North West is an Independent Local Radio station based in Liverpool, England, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Growth hormone
Growth hormone (GH) or somatotropin, also known as human growth hormone (hGH or HGH) in its human form, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals.
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GSS coding system
GSS codes are nine-character geocodes maintained by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data.
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Gulf Oil
Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985.
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Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (née Phillips; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008) was a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe (later Crewe and Nantwich) from February 1974 to her death in 2008.
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Halewood
Halewood is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England.
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Halothane
Halothane, sold under the brand name Fluothane among others, is a general anaesthetic.
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Hans Geiger
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist.
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Hardknott Pass
Hardknott Pass is a hill pass between Eskdale and the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England.
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Haslingden
Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England.
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Haydock
Haydock is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England.
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Hazel Grove
Hazel Grove is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare.
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Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria
Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria (formerly The Bay) was an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network.
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Heart North West
Heart North West is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network.
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Heilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn District.
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Henry Tate
Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet (11 March 18195 December 1899), was an English sugar merchant and philanthropist, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery in London.
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Heysham
Heysham is a coastal village in the Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, overlooking Morecambe Bay.
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Heywood, Greater Manchester
Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire.
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High voltage
High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage.
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Hilden
Hilden is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Hindley, Greater Manchester
Hindley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.
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Hip replacement
Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis.
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History of atomic theory
Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms.
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History of the Jews in England
The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror.
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Hits Radio
Hits Radio is a network of 26 contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK.
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Horwich
Horwich is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment.
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Hunt's Cross
Hunt's Cross is a suburb of Liverpool, England.
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Hurdsfield, North Dakota
Hurdsfield is a city in Wells County, North Dakota, United States.
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Huyton
Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.
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Hyde, Greater Manchester
Hyde is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 35,890 in 2021.
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Hyndburn
Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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IBM 3270
The IBM 3270 is a family of block oriented display and printer computer terminals introduced by IBM in 1971 and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes.
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Ice cream van
An ice cream van (British) or ice cream truck (North American) is a commercial vehicle that serves as a cold-food specialty food truck or a mobile retail outlet for pre-packaged ice cream, usually during the spring and summer.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Icing (food)
Icing, or frosting, is a sweet, often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid, such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavorings.
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IKEA
Inter IKEA Systems B.V., trading as IKEA, is a Swedish multinational conglomerate that designs and sells, kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services.
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Imagine FM
Imagine FM was an Independent Local Radio station based in Stockport broadcasting to South Manchester and Cheshire in the North West of England.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company.
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Individual savings account
An individual savings account (ISA) is a class of retail investment arrangement available to residents of the United Kingdom.
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Industrial park
An industrial park, also known as industrial estate or trading estate, is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Influenza vaccine
Influenza vaccines, colloquially known as flu shots, are vaccines that protect against infection by influenza viruses.
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Infrared homing
Infrared homing is a passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it seamlessly.
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Ingvar Kamprad
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture.
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Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty.
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Inter-city rail
Inter-city rail services are express trains that run services that connect cities over longer distances than commuter or regional trains.
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InterCity (British Rail)
InterCity (or, in the earliest days, the hyphenated Inter-City) was a brand name introduced by British Rail in 1966 for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history).
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InterCity 125
The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125) or High Speed Train (HST) is a diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982.
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International airport
An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world.
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International Territorial Level
International Territorial Level (ITL) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of the United Kingdom for statistical purposes, used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Irish people in Great Britain
Irish people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants.
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Irish Travellers
Irish Travellers (an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland.
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Irlam
Irlam is a suburb in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
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Islam in the United Kingdom
Islam is the second-largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2021 Census recording just under four million Muslims, or 6.5% of the total population in the United Kingdom.
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.
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ITV Granada
ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man.
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J. J. Thomson
Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
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J. Lyons and Co.
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Jaffa Cakes
Jaffa Cakes are a cake introduced by McVitie and Price in the UK in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges.
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Jaguar Cars
Jaguar is the sports car and luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England.
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Jaguar X-Type
The Jaguar X-Type is a car built by British marque Jaguar from 2001 to 2009.
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James Brindley
James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer.
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James H. Ellis
James Henry Ellis (25 September 1924 – 25 November 1997) was a British engineer and cryptographer.
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James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves (– 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England.
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Jelly Babies
Jelly Babies are a type of soft sugar jelly sweets in the shape of plump babies, sold in a variety of colours.
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Jet2.com
Jet2.com Limited is a British low-cost leisure airline based at Leeds Bradford Airport, England.
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Jobseeker's Allowance
Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is an unemployment benefit paid by the Government of the United Kingdom to people who are unemployed and actively seeking work.
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John Dalton
John Dalton (5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist.
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John Lewis Partnership
The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company that operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities.
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Kalisz
Kalisz is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021).
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Kellogg's
Kellanova Company, formerly known as the Kellogg Company and commonly known as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, US.
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Kendal
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.
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Kerry Group
Kerry Group plc is a public food company headquartered in Ireland. It is quoted on the Dublin ISEQ and London stock exchanges. Given the company's origins in the co-operative movement, farmer-suppliers of the company retain a significant interest in the company.
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Keswick, Cumbria
Keswick is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England.
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KFC
KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.
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Killarney
Killarney (Cill Airne, meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland.
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King James Version
on the title-page of the first edition and in the entries in works like the "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", etc.--> The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Kirkby
Kirkby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.
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Kirklees
Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
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Kitchen sink realism
Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society.
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Kleeneze
Kleeneze is a British homeware company operating throughout the United Kingdom providing everyday laundry and cleaning staples and appliances, to UK retailers.
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Kranj
Kranj (Krainburg) is the third-largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 37,941 (2020).
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Lake County, Illinois
Lake County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Illinois, along the shores of Lake Michigan.
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Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. North West England and Lake District are regions of England.
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Lamb's
Lamb's Navy Rum is a sugar-cane based Caribbean rum popular in the UK and Canada.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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Lancaster University
Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.
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Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster is a city in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district.
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Land Rover Freelander
The Land Rover Freelander is a series of four-wheel-drive vehicles that was manufactured and marketed by Land Rover from 1997 to 2015.
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Landing gear
Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.
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Larne
Larne (the name of a Gaelic territory).
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Lörrach
Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders.
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Le Mans
Le Mans is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne.
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Leasowe
Leasowe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
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Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
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Leek, Staffordshire
Leek is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet north east of Stoke-on-Trent.
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Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.
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Leigh Leopards
The Leigh Leopards are a professional rugby league club based in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England.
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Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss.
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Leiria
Leiria is a city and municipality in the Central Region of Portugal.
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Linear particle accelerator
A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high speed by subjecting them to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline.
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List of largest companies by revenue
This list comprises the world's largest companies by consolidated revenue, according to the ''Fortune'' Global 500 2023 rankings and other sources.
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Litherland
Litherland is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside.
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Live attenuated influenza vaccine
Live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) is a type of influenza vaccine in the form of a nasal spray that is recommended for the prevention of influenza.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world.
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Liverpool Blue Coat School
The Liverpool Blue Coat School is a grammar school in Liverpool, England.
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Liverpool Echo
The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of Reach plc and is based in St.
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Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.
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Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool Hope University (abbreviated LHU) is a public university with campuses in Liverpool, England.
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Liverpool James Street railway station
Liverpool James Street (or simply James Street) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England; it is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network.
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Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is an international airport in Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey south-east of Liverpool city centre.
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Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU) is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, England.
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Liverpool Lime Street railway station
Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool.
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and locally nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam", is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England.
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Longdendale
Longdendale is a valley in the Peak District of England, north of Glossop and southwest of Holmfirth.
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Love on the Dole
Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England.
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Loyalty program
A loyalty program or a rewards program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of one or more businesses associated with the program.
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Ludwig Mond
Ludwig Mond FRS (7 March 1839 – 11 December 1909) was a German-born British chemist and industrialist.
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Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, or simply Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany.
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Lviv
Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.
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Lytham St Annes
Lytham St Annes is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England.
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M53 motorway
The M53 is an motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside and the borough of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula in England.
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M55 motorway
The M55 is a motorway in Lancashire, England, which can also be referred to as the Preston Northern Bypass.
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M56 motorway
The M56 motorway serves the Cheshire and Greater Manchester areas of England.
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M57 motorway
The M57 motorway, also known as the Liverpool Outer Ring Road, is a motorway in England.
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M58 motorway
The M58 is a motorway passing through Merseyside and Lancashire, terminating in Greater Manchester.
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M6 motorway
The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom.
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M60 motorway (Great Britain)
The M60 motorway, Manchester Ring Motorway or Manchester Outer Ring Road is an orbital motorway in North West England.
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M61 motorway
The M61 is a motorway in North West England between Manchester and Preston, linking the M60 Manchester orbital motorway with the M6 motorway.
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M62 motorway
The M62 is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester.
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M65 motorway
The M65 is a motorway between Preston and Colne in Lancashire, England.
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M66 motorway
The M66, also known as the Bury Easterly Bypass, is a motorway in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England.
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M67 motorway
The M67 is a urban motorway in Greater Manchester, England, which heads east from the M60 motorway passing through Denton and Hyde before ending near Mottram.
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Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.
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Madchester
Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene.
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Maersk
(), usually known simply as Maersk, is a Danish shipping and logistics company founded in 1904 by Arnold Peter Møller and his father Peter Mærsk Møller.
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Maghull
Maghull is a town and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside, England.
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Magna International
Magna International Inc. is a Canadian parts manufacturer for automakers.
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Makro
Makro is a Dutch international brand of warehouse clubs, also called cash and carry stores.
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Malcolm J. Williamson
Malcolm John Williamson (2 November 1950 – 15 September 2015) was a British mathematician and cryptographer.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
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Manchester Airport
Manchester Airport is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, south-west of Manchester city centre.
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Manchester Airport Holdings
Manchester Airport Holdings Limited, trading as MAG (originally Manchester Airports Group) is a holding company which is owned by the ten metropolitan borough councils of Greater Manchester, in North West England, and Australian investment fund IFM Investors.
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Manchester Baby
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer.
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Manchester city centre
Manchester City Centre is the central business district of Manchester, England, within the confines of Great Ancoats Street, A6042 Trinity Way, and A57(M) Mancunian Way, which collectively form an inner ring road.
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Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England.
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Manchester docks
Manchester docks were nine docks in Salford, Stretford and Manchester, at the eastern end of the Manchester Ship Canal in North West England, Retrieved on 20 August 2009.
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Manchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.
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Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is located in the centre of Manchester, England.
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Manchester Piccadilly station
Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.
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Manchester Ship Canal
The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.
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Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Manchester Velodrome
Manchester Velodrome is an indoor Olympic-standard cycle-racing track in Manchester, England, which opened in 1994.
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Manual transmission
A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission system, where gear changes require the driver to manually select the gears by operating a gear stick and clutch (which is usually a foot pedal for cars or a hand lever for motorcycles).
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Marks & Spencer
Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products.
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Marple, Greater Manchester
Marple is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Mars Inc.
Mars, Incorporated is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022; that year Forbes ranked the company as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States.
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Marshmallow
Marshmallow is a confectionery made from sugar, water and gelatin whipped to a solid-but-soft consistency.
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Maryport
Maryport is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England.
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Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Marzahn-Hellersdorf is the tenth borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf.
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Marzipan
Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract.
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Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire.
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Matra
Matra (an acronym for Mécanique Aviation Traction) was a major French industrial conglomerate.
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MBDA
MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles.
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McVitie's
McVitie's is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits.
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Meccano
Meccano is a brand of model construction system created in 1898 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England.
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Merseyside
Merseyside is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England.
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Metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which are sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.
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Metropolitan borough
A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest town, Bolton, but covering a larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Westhoughton, and part of the West Pennine Moors.
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Metropolitan Borough of Bury
The Metropolitan Borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley
The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale
The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is a local government district with borough status in Merseyside, North West England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England.
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Metropolitan county
Metropolitan counties are a subdivision of England which were originally used for local government.
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Metropolitan-Vickers
Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.
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Metropolitan-Vickers F.2
The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Middleton, Greater Manchester
Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk.
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Middlewich
Middlewich is a town in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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Midlands
The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea. North West England and Midlands are regions of England.
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.
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Millom
Millom is a town and civil parish on the north shore of the estuary of the River Duddon in southernmost Cumberland, Cumbria, England.
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Milnrow
Milnrow is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Mixing console
A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems.
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Monarch Airlines
Monarch Airlines, simply known as Monarch, was a British charter and scheduled airline founded by Bill Hodgson and Don Peacock and financed by the Swiss Sergio Mantegazza family.
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Monetary Policy Committee (United Kingdom)
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for three and a half days, eight times a year, to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom (the Bank of England Base Rate).
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Mons, Belgium
Mons (German and Bergen,; Walloon and Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
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Montebello Islands
The Montebello Islands, also rendered as the Monte Bello Islands, are an archipelago of around 174 small islands (about 92 of which are named) lying north of Barrow Island and off the Pilbara coast of north-western Australia.
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Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay is an estuary in north-west England, just to the south of the Lake District National Park.
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Morecambe F.C.
Morecambe Football Club is a professional association football club based in Morecambe, Lancashire, England.
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Moreton, Merseyside
Moreton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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MOSFET
W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.
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Moss Side
Moss Side is an inner-city area of Manchester, England, south of the city centre, It had a population of 20,745 at the 2021 census.
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Mossley
Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.
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Mullard
Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronic components.
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Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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Mutare
Mutare, formerly known as Umtali until 1982, is a heavily populated city in the province of Manicaland.
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Nacelle
A nacelle is a streamlined container for aircraft parts such as engines, fuel or equipment.
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Nantwich
Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.
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Narbonne
Narbonne (Narbona; Narbo; Late Latin:Narbona) is a commune in Southern France in the Occitanie region.
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National Football Museum
The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football.
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National Highways
National Highways (NH), formerly the Highways Agency and later formerly Highways England, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England.
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National League (division)
The National League is the highest level of the National League System and fifth-highest of the overall English football league system.
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National parks of the United Kingdom
National parks of the United Kingdom (parciau cenedlaethol; pàircean nàiseanta) are 15 areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape across the country.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Náchod
Náchod (Nachod) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.
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Nîmes
Nîmes (Nimes; Latin: Nemausus) is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France.
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Nelson, Lancashire
Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, it had a population of 29,135 in the 2011 Census.
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Nenthead
Nenthead in the county of Cumbria is one of England's highest villages, at around.
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Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland.
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Neston
Neston is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.
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Network Rail
Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Newton Heath
Newton Heath is an area of Manchester, England, north-east of Manchester city centre and with a population of 9,883.
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Newton-le-Willows
Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.
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Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS (Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes.
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Non-metropolitan county
A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a subdivision of England used for local government.
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North East England
North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. North West England and North East England are NUTS 1 statistical regions of England, NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union, northern England and regions of England.
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North Wales
North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas.
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Northenden
Northenden is a suburb of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 14,771 at the 2011 census.
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Northern England
Northern England, or the North of England, is a region that forms the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. North West England and northern England are regions of England.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region. North West England and Northern Ireland are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union.
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Northumbria
Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland. North West England and Northumbria are northern England and regions of England.
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Northwich
Northwich is a market and port town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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NORWEB
Norweb, originally the North Western Electricity Board, was a British electricity supply and distribution company.
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Novartis
Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.
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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (formerly the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) formed by the Energy Act 2004.
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
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Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) 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 (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Oldham
Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, it lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester.
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Oldham R.L.F.C.
Oldham Rugby League football Club, is a professional rugby league football club based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
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Operation Hurricane
Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device.
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Organometallic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and sometimes broadened to include metalloids like boron, silicon, and selenium, as well.
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Ormskirk
Ormskirk is a market town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England.
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Osborne Reynolds
Osborne Reynolds (23 August 1842 – 21 February 1912) was an Irish-born British innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics.
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Osram
OSRAM Licht AG is a German company that makes electric lights, headquartered in Munich and Premstätten (Austria).
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Oswaldtwistle
Oswaldtwistle ("ozwel twizzel") is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England, southeast of Blackburn, contiguous with Accrington and Church.
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Ozone layer
The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.
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Ozone–oxygen cycle
The ozone–oxygen cycle is the process by which ozone is continually regenerated in Earth's stratosphere, converting ultraviolet radiation (UV) into heat.
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Paderborn
Paderborn (Westphalian: Patterbuorn, also Paterboärn) is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district.
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Pampers
Pampers is an American brand for babies and toddlers products marketed by Procter & Gamble.
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Paper towel
A paper towel is an absorbent, disposable towel made from paper.
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Peak District
The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.
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Peine
Peine (Eastphalian: Paane) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Peine.
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Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham.
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Pendlebury
Pendlebury is a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Pennines
The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of uplands mainly located in Northern England. North West England and Pennines are northern England.
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Penrith, Cumbria
Penrith is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.
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Permanent marker
A permanent marker or indelible marker is a type of marker pen that is used to create permanent or semi-permanent writing on an object.
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Persil
Persil is a German brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed by Henkel around the world except in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Latin America (except Mexico), China, Australia and New Zealand, where it is manufactured and marketed by Unilever.
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Philae (spacecraft)
Philae was a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the ''Rosetta'' spacecraft until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth.
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Physical geography
Physical geography (also known as physiography) is one of the three main branches of geography.
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Pilkington
Pilkington is a glass-manufacturing company which is based in Lathom, Lancashire, England.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
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Poly(methyl methacrylate)
Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is the synthetic polymer derived from methyl methacrylate.
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Polyether ether ketone
Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a colourless organic thermoplastic polymer in the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) family, used in engineering applications.
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Polyethylene
Polyethylene or polythene (abbreviated PE; IUPAC name polyethene or poly(methylene)) is the most commonly produced plastic.
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Polyethylene terephthalate
Polyethylene terephthalate (or poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibres for clothing, containers for liquids and foods, and thermoforming for manufacturing, and in combination with glass fibre for engineering resins.
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Polypropylene
Polypropylene (PP), also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications.
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Port of Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.
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Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight is a model village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
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Potato chip
A potato chip (NAmE and AuE; often just chip) or crisp (BrE and IrE) is a thin slice of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy.
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Poulton-le-Fylde
Poulton-le-Fylde, commonly shortened to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde.
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Premier League
The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.
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Premium Bond
A Premium Bond is a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government since 1956.
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Preston North End F.C.
Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire, England.
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Preston, Lancashire
Preston is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England.
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Prestwich
Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester, north of Salford and south of Bury.
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Primo Water
Primo Water Corporation (formerly Cott Corporation) is an American-Canadian water company offering multi-gallon bottled water, water dispensers, self-service refill water machines, and water filtration appliances.
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Prince's Dock, Liverpool
Prince's DockAlthough many texts give the name without an apostrophe as Princes Dock, this is an incorrect plural form.
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Printing press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
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Process engineering
Process engineering is the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature that allow humans to transform raw material and energy into products that are useful to society, at an industrial level.
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Propranolol
Propranolol, sold under the brand name Inderal among others, is a medication of the beta blocker class. It is used to treat high blood pressure, a number of types of irregular heart rate, thyrotoxicosis, capillary hemangiomas, performance anxiety, and essential tremors, as well to prevent migraine headaches, and to prevent further heart problems in those with angina or previous heart attacks.
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Proton therapy
In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer.
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Public library
A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes.
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Public-key cryptography
Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys.
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Pulmonology
Pulmonology (from Latin pulmō, -ōnis "lung" and the Greek suffix -λογία "study of"), pneumology (built on Greek πνεύμων "lung") or pneumonology is a medical specialty that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract.
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Punjabi language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.
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Queen's Dock, Port of Liverpool
Queen's Dock is a dock on the River Mersey and part of the Port of Liverpool.
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Radcliffe, Greater Manchester
Radcliffe is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
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Radio Wave 96.5
Radio Wave was an Independent Local Radio station serving Blackpool, The Fylde and surrounding areas.
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RAF Hooton Park
Royal Air Force Hooton Park or more simply RAF Hooton Park, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, is a former Royal Air Force station originally built for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 as a training aerodrome for pilots in the First World War.
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RAF Woodvale
Royal Air Force Woodvale or more simply RAF Woodvale is a Royal Air Force Station located next to the towns of Formby and Ainsdale in an area called Woodvale which is located to the south of Southport, Merseyside.
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Railway track
A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
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Rallying
Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.
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Ramsbottom
Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
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Rapier (missile)
Rapier is a surface-to-air missile developed for the British Army to replace their towed Bofors 40/L70 anti-aircraft guns.
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Reach plc
Reach plc (known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher.
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Recklinghausen
Recklinghausen (Westphalian: Riäkelhusen) is the northernmost city in the Ruhr-Area and the capital of the Recklinghausen district.
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Recusancy
Recusancy (from translation) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
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Reddish
Reddish is an area in Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Regional assembly (England)
The regional chambers of England were a group of indirectly elected regional bodies that were created by the provisions of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.
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Rehovot
Rehovot (רְחוֹבוֹת /) is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv.
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Rendsburg
Rendsburg (Rendsborg, also Rensborg, Rendsborg, also Rensborg) is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. North West England and Republic of Ireland are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union.
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Resolution-class submarine
The Resolution class was a class of four nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) built for the Royal Navy as part of the UK Polaris programme.
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Reutlingen
Reutlingen (Swabian: Reitlenga) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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RFL Championship
The Rugby Football League Championship, (known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the second highest division of rugby league in Britain (with one team in the league also being based in France) after the Super League.
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Ribble Valley
Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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Ribble Valley line
The Ribble Valley line is a railway line that runs from through, in Lancashire, to in North Yorkshire.
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Ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country.
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Rinteln
Rinteln is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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River Bollin
The River Bollin is a major tributary of the River Mersey in the north-west of England.
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River Croal
The River Croal is a river located in Greater Manchester, England.
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River Dane
The River Dane is a tributary of the River Weaver that originates in the Peak District area of England.
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River Douglas, Lancashire
The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland or Astland, flows through parts of Lancashire and Greater Manchester in North West England.
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River Eden, Cumbria
The River Eden is a river that flows through the Eden District of Cumbria, England, on its way to the Solway Firth.
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River Irk
The River Irk is a river in the historic county of Lancashire in the North West England that flows through the northern most Lancastrian towns of the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester.
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River Kent
The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England.
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River Ribble
The River Ribble runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England.
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Robert Whitehead
Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer who was most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo.
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Rochdale
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.
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Rochdale A.F.C.
Rochdale Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.
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Rolls-Royce Holdings
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.
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Rolls-Royce Merlin
The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litre (1,650 cu in) capacity.
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Romani people
The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
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Romiley
Romiley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England, located in Southport, Merseyside.
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Royal Liverpool Golf Club
The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a golf club in Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, is one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royton
Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011.
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RSA (cryptosystem)
RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission.
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Runcorn
Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England.
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Ruppichteroth
Ruppichteroth is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in the southern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Rutherford scattering experiments
The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass is concentrated.
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Ryanair
Ryanair is an Irish ultra low-cost carrier group headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland.
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Saddleworth
Saddleworth is a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.
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Saint-Gobain
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie.
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Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (literally "Saint-Ouen on Seine") is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France, located from the centre of Paris.
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Sale, Greater Manchester
Sale is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Cheshire on the south bank of the River Mersey, south of Stretford, northeast of Altrincham, and southwest of Manchester.
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Salford
Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.
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Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, in Peel Park, Salford, Greater Manchester, opened to the public in November 1850 as the Royal Museum and Public Library.
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Salford Quays
Salford Quays is an area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal.
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Salford Red Devils
The Salford Red Devils are a professional rugby league club in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, England.
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Salt mining
Salt mining extracts natural salt deposits from underground.
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Sandbach
Sandbach (pronounced) is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire East borough of Cheshire, England.
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Sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.
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Słupsk
Słupsk (Stolp) is a city with powiat rights located on the Słupia River in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland, in the historical region of Pomerania or more specifically in its part known in contemporary Poland as Central Pomerania (Pomorze Środkowe) within the wider West Pomerania (Pomorze Zachodnie).
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SCA (company)
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA is a Swedish timber, pulp and paper manufacturer with headquarters in Sundsvall.
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Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Scottish & Newcastle
Scottish & Newcastle plc was a brewing company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, which expanded from its home base to become an international business with beer volumes growing almost tenfold.
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Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders (the Mairches, 'the Marches'; Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.
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ScottishPower
Scottish Power Limited, trading as ScottishPower, is a vertically integrated energy company based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Scouse
Scouse, more formally known as Liverpool English or Merseyside English, is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region.
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Sellafield
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England.
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Sellafield Ltd
Sellafield Ltd is a British nuclear decommissioning Site Licence Company (SLC) controlled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), a UK government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004.
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Sellotape
Sellotape is a British brand of transparent, cellulose-based, pressure-sensitive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom.
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Sens
Sens is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris.
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Sewing machine
Diagram of a modern sewing machine Animation of a modern sewing machine as it stitches A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread.
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Shakers
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s.
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Shock absorber
A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses.
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Silica gel
Silica gel is an amorphous and porous form of silicon dioxide (silica), consisting of an irregular tridimensional framework of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with nanometer-scale voids and pores.
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Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
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Silk 106.9
Cheshire's Silk Radio is an Independent Local Radio serving Macclesfield and parts of East Cheshire, owned and operated by neighbouring station Chester's Dee Radio.
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Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines (abbreviation: SIA or SQ) is the flag carrier of Singapore with its hub located at Changi Airport.
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Sink
A sink is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture for washing hands (also known as washbasin in the UK), dishwashing, and other purposes.
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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist.
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Sir John Deane's College
Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College is a sixth form college in Northwich, Cheshire, UK.
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Sira (notified body)
Sira is a UK-based notified body, specialising in ATEX, IECEX and North American product approvals.
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Skipton
Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.
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Smile (bank)
Smile is a British banking brand that operates as a trading division of The Co-operative Bank.
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Smooth Lake District
Smooth Lake District is an Independent Local Radio station for the Lakes, owned and operated by Global and part of the Smooth network.
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Smooth North West
Smooth North West is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp UK and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network.
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SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (abbreviated as SNCF; "National Company of the French Railways") is France's national state-owned railway company.
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South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. North West England and South East England are NUTS 1 statistical regions of England, NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of England.
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South Lakeland
South Lakeland was a local government district in Cumbria, England, from 1974 to 2023.
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South Ribble
South Ribble is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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Southport
Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England.
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Spade
A spade is a tool primarily for digging consisting of a long handle and blade, typically with the blade narrower and flatter than the common shovel.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Speke
Speke is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
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Spinning jenny
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution.
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Spinning wheel
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres.
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St Helens R.F.C.
St Helens R.F.C., commonly known as Saints, is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside, England.
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St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629.
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St Johns Beacon
St Johns Beacon (also known as the Radio City Tower) is a radio and observation tower in Liverpool, England.
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Stalybridge
Stalybridge is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census.
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Standard atmosphere (unit)
The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as Pa.
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Standard English
In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc.
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Stella Artois
Stella Artois is a pilsner beer, first brewed in 1926 by Brouwerij Artois in Leuven, Belgium.
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Stena Line
Stena Line is a Swedish shipping line company and one of the largest ferry operators in the world. It services Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Finland and Sweden. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the Stena Sphere.
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Stockport
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield.
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Stockport County F.C.
Stockport County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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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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Stored-program computer
A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically or optically accessible memory.
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Stratosphere
The stratosphere is the second-lowest layer of the atmosphere of Earth, located above the troposphere and below the mesosphere.
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Street furniture
Street furniture is a collective term for objects and pieces of equipment installed along streets and roads for various purposes.
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Stretford
Stretford is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, sited on flat ground between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal; the Bridgewater Canal bisects the town.
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
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Subdivisions of England
The subdivisions of England constitute a hierarchy of administrative divisions and non-administrative ceremonial areas.
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Substation
A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.
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Supersonic speed
Supersonic speed is the speed of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).
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Surf (detergent)
Surf (known as Sunil in the Netherlands) is a British brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed around the world by Unilever, except in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, where it has been owned by Sun Products (now Henkel North American Consumer Goods) since 2008.
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Surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles.
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Surgical mask
A surgical mask, also known by other names such as a medical face mask or procedure mask, is a personal protective equipment used by healthcare professionals that serves as a mechanical barrier that interferes with direct airflow in and out of respiratory orifices (i.e. nose and mouth).
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Sydney Chapman (mathematician)
Sydney Chapman (29 January 1888 – 16 June 1970) was a British mathematician and geophysicist.
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Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweißenburg; Alba Regia;; Serbian: Стони Београд), known colloquially as Fehérvár, is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city.
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Tameside
Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, named after the River Tame, which flows through it, and includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge.
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Tamoxifen
Tamoxifen, sold under the brand name Nolvadex among others, is a selective estrogen receptor modulator used to prevent breast cancer in women and men.
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Tamworth, Staffordshire
Tamworth is a market town and borough in Staffordshire, England, north-east of Birmingham.
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Tate
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.
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Tczew
Tczew (Dërszewò; formerly Dirschau) is a city on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021).
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Teledyne Technologies
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is an American industrial conglomerate.
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Telephone card
A telephone card, calling card or phone card for short, is a credit card-size plastic or paper card used to pay for telephone services (often international or long-distance calling).
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Thales Group
Thales Group is a French multinational company that designs, develops and manufactures electrical systems as well as devices and equipment for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security sectors.
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Thalidomide
Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan and Thalomid among others, is an oral medication used to treat a number of cancers (e.g., multiple myeloma), graft-versus-host disease, and many skin disorders (e.g., complications of leprosy such as skin lesions).
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The Blue Coat School, Oldham
The Blue Coat School is a co education Church of England academy for 11- to 18-year-olds, located in the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
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The Co-operative Bank
The Co-operative Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank based in Manchester, England.
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The Leader (Welsh newspaper)
The Leader (formerly The Wrexham Evening Leader) is a daily newspaper in Wales which is distributed on weekday mornings, combining both local and national news.
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The Revolution (radio station)
Revolution 96.2 was an Independent Local Radio station serving the Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside areas of Greater Manchester.
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The Very Group
The Very Group Limited is a multi-brand online retailer and financial services provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Thelwall
Thelwall is a suburban village in the civil parish of Grappenhall and Thelwall, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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Thermoplastic
A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.
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Thomas Cook Airlines
Thomas Cook Airlines Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline headquartered in Manchester, England.
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Thomson Marconi Sonar
Thomson Marconi Sonar or TMS was formed in 1996 by the merger of the sonar systems businesses of French defence electronics specialist Thomson-CSF and British company GEC-Marconi after the payment of a balance by the latter.
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Thomson-CSF
Thomson-CSF was a French company that specialized in the development and manufacture of electronics with a heavy focus upon the aerospace and defence sectors of the market.
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Thrust reversal
Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is the temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust for it to act against the forward travel of the aircraft, providing deceleration.
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Time from NPL (MSF)
The Time from NPL is a radio signal broadcast from the Anthorn Radio Station near Anthorn, Cumbria, which serves as the United Kingdom's national time reference.
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Timperley
Timperley is a suburban village in the borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Tom Kilburn
Tom Kilburn (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English mathematician and computer scientist.
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Tongling
Tongling is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province of China.
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Torfaen
Torfaen is a county borough in the south-east of Wales.
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Tourcoing
Tourcoing (Toerkonje; Terkoeje; Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border.
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Tower FM
Greatest Hits Radio Bolton & Bury (formerly Tower FM) is an Independent Local Radio station serving the Bolton and Bury areas of Greater Manchester.
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Traffic cone
Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks cones, or just cones, are usually cone-shaped markers that are placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic in a safe manner.
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Trafford
Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, with an estimated population of in.
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Trafford Centre
The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre and entertainment complex in Urmston, Greater Manchester, England.
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Tranmere Rovers F.C.
Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England.
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Transatlantic flight
A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Latin America, or vice versa.
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Truancy
Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education.
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Tube Alloys
Tube Alloys was the research and development programme authorised by the United Kingdom, with participation from Canada, to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War.
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Tulle
Tulle is a commune in central France.
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Turbofan
A turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion.
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Turboprop
A turboprop is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller.
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TVR
TVR is a British manufacturer of sports cars.
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Twiglets
Twiglets are a wheat-based snack marketed in the United Kingdom that have a "distinctive knobbly shape" similar to that of twigs and a speckled-brown-over-pale-colour appearance.
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Tyco International
Tyco International plc was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.). Tyco International was composed of two major business segments: security solutions and fire protection.
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UGM-27 Polaris
The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
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Ulverston
Ulverston is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.
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Umbro
Umbro is an English sports equipment manufacturer founded in 1924 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and based in Manchester.
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Unilever
Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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University of Bolton
The University of Bolton, Bolton University or UoB (legally: The University of Bolton Higher Education Corporation) is a public university in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.
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University of Central Lancashire
The University of Central Lancashire (abbreviated UCLan) is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England.
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University of Chester
The University of Chester is a public university located in Chester, England.
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University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England.
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University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.
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University of Salford
The University of Salford is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, west of Manchester city centre.
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Up Holland
Up Holland (or Upholland) is a village in Skelmersdale and civil parish in the West Lancashire district, in the county of Lancashire, England, west of Wigan.
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Upton, Merseyside
Upton is a village in the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, England, and is situated within of Birkenhead, of the Dee Estuary, a similar distance from the River Mersey, and from Liverpool Bay.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Urmston
Urmston is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 41,825 at the 2011 Census.
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Val-de-Reuil
Val-de-Reuil is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in north-western France.
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Vauxhall Astra
The Vauxhall Astra is a compact car/small family car (C-segment) that has been sold by Vauxhall since 1980.
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Vauxhall Motors
Vauxhall Motors Limited,;Company No.
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Vickers-Armstrongs
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927.
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Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England.
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Vimto
Vimto is a British mixed fruit soft drink containing the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants, flavoured with herbs and spices.
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Vinci SA
Vinci (corporately styled VINCI) is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Entreprises.
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Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England.
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Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.
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VisiCalc
VisiCalc ("visible calculator") is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp on October 17, 1979.
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Vitry-sur-Seine
Vitry-sur-Seine is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris.
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen (VW)English:,. is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Wallasey
Wallasey is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
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Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel Love on the Dole (1933).
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Wapping Tunnel
Wapping or Edge Hill Tunnel in Liverpool, England, is a tunnel route from the Edge Hill junction in the east of the city to the Liverpool south end docks formerly used by trains on the Liverpool-Manchester line railway.
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Warrington Borough Council
Warrington Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Warrington, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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Warrington Wolves
The Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league club based in Warrington, England.
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Wast Water
Wast Water or Wastwater is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park, England.
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Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom.
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West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh.
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West Lancashire
West Lancashire is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England.
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West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial Level for statistical purposes. North West England and West Midlands (region) are NUTS 1 statistical regions of England, NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of England.
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West Riding of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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Westhoughton
Westhoughton is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southwest of Bolton, east of Wigan and northwest of Manchester.
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Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is an American nuclear power company formed in 1999 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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Whiston, Merseyside
Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England.
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Whitbread
Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England.
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White people
White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.
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Whitefield, Greater Manchester
Whitefield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
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Whitehaven
Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumberland, Cumbria, England.
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Whitehaven R.L.F.C.
Whitehaven 2010 R.L.F.C. is a professional rugby league club playing in Whitehaven in west Cumbria.
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Widnes Vikings
The Widnes Vikings are an English rugby league club in Widnes, Cheshire, which competes in the Betfred Championship.
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Wienerberger
Wienerberger AG is an Austrian brick maker which is the world’s largest producer of bricks, (Porotherm, Terca) and number one on the clay roof tile market (Koramic, Tondach) in Europe as well as concrete pavers (Semmelrock) in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
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Wigan Warriors
Wigan Warriors are an English professional rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester.
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Wigton
Wigton is a market town in Cumberland, Cumbria, England.
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William Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton
William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton (18 September 1772 – 20 November 1838), also known as Lord Dashalong, was a sportsman, gambler and a friend of the Prince Regent.
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William Sturgeon
William Sturgeon (22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first practical electric motor.
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Williams tube
The Williams tube, or the Williams–Kilburn tube named after inventors Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn, is an early form of computer memory.
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Wilmslow
Wilmslow is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.
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Windermere
Windermere (sometimes tautologically called Lake Windermere to distinguish it from the nearby town of Windermere) is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District.
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Windermere, Cumbria (town)
Windermere is a town in the civil parish of Windermere and Bowness, in the Westmorland and Furness district in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England; it is within the Lake District National Park.
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Winsford
Winsford is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich. It grew around the salt mining industry after the river was canalised in the 18th century, allowing freight to be conveyed northwards to the Port of Runcorn on the River Mersey.
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Winstanley College
Winstanley College is a sixth-form college in the Billinge Higher End area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.
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Winter Hill transmitting station
The Winter Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site on Winter Hill, at the south eastern boundary of the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, and above Bolton.
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Wire FM
Greatest Hits Radio Liverpool & The North West (Warrington) (formerly Wire FM) is an Independent Local Radio station serving the Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn areas of Cheshire.
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Wish FM
Wish FM was an Independent Local Radio station serving Wigan in Greater Manchester and the St Helens area of Merseyside from studios in the Orrell area of Wigan.
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Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903.
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Woodbury, New Jersey
Woodbury is the county seat of Gloucester County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Woodley, Greater Manchester
Woodley is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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Workington
Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in Cumbria, England.
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Worksop
Worksop is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England.
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World Netball
World Netball, previously known as the International Netball Federation and the International Federation of Netball Associations, is the worldwide governing body for Netball.
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Wuhan
Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province of China.
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Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is an area of south Manchester, England.
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Xaverian College
Xaverian College is a Roman Catholic college located in Rusholme, Manchester, approximately two miles south of the city centre.
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Yokogawa Electric
is a Japanese multinational electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its measurement, control, and information technologies.
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Yorkshire and the Humber
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber are NUTS 1 statistical regions of England, NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union, northern England and regions of England.
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Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales are a series of valleys, or dales, in the Pennines, an upland range in England.
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Zeneca
Zeneca (officially Zeneca Group PLC) was a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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2001 United Kingdom census
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.
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2BR
Two Boroughs Radio (known on air as 2BR) was an Independent Local Radio station serving East and Central Lancashire, England.
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See also
NUTS 1 statistical regions of England
- East Midlands
- East of England
- Greater London
- ITL 1 statistical regions of England
- North East England
- North West England
- South East England
- South West England
- West Midlands (region)
- Yorkshire and the Humber
Regions of England
- Devonwall
- East Anglia
- East Midlands
- East of England
- Furness
- Greater London
- Hen Ogledd
- Historical and alternative regions of England
- Home counties
- Lake District
- London metropolitan area
- M4 corridor
- Mercia
- Midlands
- NUTS 1 statistical regions of England
- North East England
- North Midlands
- North West England
- Northern England
- Northumbria
- Oxford–Cambridge Arc
- Regions of England
- South East England
- South Midlands
- South West England
- Southern England
- Stockbroker Belt
- Threefold division of England
- Welsh Marches
- Wessex
- West Cornwall (UK region)
- West Country
- West Midlands (region)
- West of England
- Yorkshire and the Humber
References
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