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Henry Vollam Morton

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Henry Canova Vollam Morton (known as H. V. Morton), (26 July 1892 – 18 June 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, England. [1]

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A. G. Street

Arthur George Street (7 April 1892 – 21 July 1966), who wrote under the name of A. G. Street, was an English farmer, writer and broadcaster.

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Bruce Feiler

Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality.

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Charlie Connelly

Charlie Connelly (born 22 August 1970, London, England) is an author of popular non-fiction books.

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Curse of the pharaohs

The curse of the pharaohs refers to an alleged curse believed by some to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Drisheen

Drisheen (drisín) is a type of blood pudding made in Ireland.

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Fabia Drake

Fabia Drake OBE (20 January 1904 – 28 February 1990) was a British actress whose professional career spanned almost 73 years during the 20th century.

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George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

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George Lailey

George Lailey (1869–1958) was a craftsman from the United Kingdom, noted as the last professional practitioner of the traditional craft of bowl-turning using a pole lathe.

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Henry Morton

Henry Morton may refer to.

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HMS Implacable (1805)

HMS Implacable was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

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Howard Carter

Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb (designated KV62) of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king"), in November 1922.

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I, James Blunt

I, James Blunt is a 1942, wartime alternate history short-story by English journalist H. V. Morton.

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Inchcailloch

Inchcailloch (Innis na Cailleach) is an island on Loch Lomond in Scotland.

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Inchcruin

Inchcruin is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland.

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Inchlonaig

Inchlonaig is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland.

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Inchmahome

Inchmahome, an anglicisation of Innis Mo Cholmaig ("my-Colmac's island"), is the largest of three islands in the Lake of Menteith, in Stirlingshire.

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Inchmurrin

Inchmurrin (Innis Mheadhran) is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland.

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King Edward's School, Birmingham

King Edward's School (KES) is an independent day school for boys in Edgbaston, an area of Birmingham, England.

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List of people from Birmingham

This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Birmingham in England.

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List of travel books

Travel books have been written since Classical times.

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Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn - 'Lake of the Elms'Richens, R. J. (1984) Elm, Cambridge University Press.) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands.

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Morton (surname)

Morton is an English, Irish, and Scottish surname.

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Nicholas Crane

Nicholas Crane (born 6 May 1954) is an English geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster.

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Rail transport in Vatican City

Rail transport in Vatican City consists of two 300-metre sets of rail tracks and two freight sidings within Vatican City (named Vatican Railway, Ferrovia Vaticana), the shortest national railway system in the world, with only one station.

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Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea is a 1940 American film directed by Gordon Douglas, distributed by United Artists, and Laurel and Hardy's last film produced by the Hal Roach Studio.

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Somerset West

Somerset West (Somerset-Wes) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Talisker distillery

Talisker distillery is an Island single malt Scotch whisky distillery based in Carbost, Scotland on the Isle of Skye.

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Tarsus, Mersin

Tarsus (Hittite: Tarsa; Greek: Ταρσός Tarsós; Armenian: Տարսոն Tarson; תרשיש Ṭarśīś; طَرَسُوس Ṭarsūs) is a historic city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean.

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The Ghosts of London

The Ghosts Of London is a book written by Henry Vollam Morton ("H.V."), published in 1939 by Methuen & Co Limited in London.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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1927 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1927 in the United Kingdom.

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2LO

2LO was the second radio station to regularly broadcast in the United Kingdom (the first was 2MT).

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References

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

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