Verbs

In Open Plaques, a verb indicates whet the plaque subject was doing at that particular location a that particular time

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was held near
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Drafted the South African Bill of Rights
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defacted their pants
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was inspired
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Chair of Governors at Handsworth College
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lived
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sited
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was
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worked
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was born
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designed
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built
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stayed
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lived near
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died
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visited
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played
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performed
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was buried
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founded
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attended school
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is commemorated
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owned
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died near
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studied
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donated
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was killed
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opened
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preached
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worshipped
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taught
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was founded
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worked near
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was near
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recorded
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sited near
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was filmed
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Lived here
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filmed
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landed
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funded
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lodged
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met
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wrote about
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wrote
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spoke
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donated land
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rebuilt
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restored
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fought
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sailed from
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was executed
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was a student
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was baptised
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stood near
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was published
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was headquartered
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passed through
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unveiled
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was imprisoned
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purchased
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trained
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named
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dined
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established
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inaugurated
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re-opened
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was killed near
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practised
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occupied
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was murdered
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first met
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married
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fell
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gifted
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created
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drank
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was hanged
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was created
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founded a school
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formed
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bought
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was sentenced
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read
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experimented
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painted
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interred
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practised medicine
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was the architect of the building
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first performed live
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moved to
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organised
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minister
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established a church
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owned land
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took their last drink here on their way to the gallows
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acted
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demolished
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held meetings
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hid
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was burned
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erected
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was discovered
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preached near
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was martyred near
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was deported from
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was shot
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walked
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was burned near
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was fought
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murdered
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first gigged
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bequeathed
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occurred
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was detained
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lay in state
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inspired
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composed
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mentioned
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had his studio
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grew up
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was martyred
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was arrested
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was allegedly
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managed
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lived and worked
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was Headmaster
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was inspired to paint
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endowed
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flew
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lies
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settled
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escaped
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surrendered
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sailed from the port near
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jammed
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was built near
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shot
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was married at
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was entertained
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built a bridge
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acquired
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built near
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ran a school
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set sail
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owned a house
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gave Beacon Hill to The City of Birmingham
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first recorded
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tried
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was stationed
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was assassinated
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had its headquarters
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met regularly
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fatally wounded
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closed
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was buried near
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manufactured
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gave this cottage
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surveyed
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granted a charter
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member
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served an apprenticeship
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were
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slept
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destroyed by fire
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gave
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began
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repaired
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spoke near
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travelled from
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lectured
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established a business
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was manufactured
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bought musical instruments
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had his office
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was president
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sculpted
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deeded
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refurbished
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was held
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educated
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built on
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stood
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invented
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was demolished
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reputedly stayed
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found a haven
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was written
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skirmished
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commanded
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debuted
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laid the stone
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rehearsed
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rested
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was attacked
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was landlord
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made Tunbridge ware
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commemorated the Royal Jubilee
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met here
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was formed
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was captured
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presented an award
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re-erected
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renovated
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participated
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engineered
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frequently visited
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leased
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set forth
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was recorded
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lived and died in this house
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broadcasted
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signed the Definitive Treaty of Peace recognizing the independence of the United States
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convalesced
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eloped
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was found
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made a film
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practiced music
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sold land
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directed
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won The US Masters golf tournament
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was crowned King
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received
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was situated close to
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was built
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landscaped
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left
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planted a tree
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founded an almshouse
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farmed
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captured
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landed near
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travelled
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sank near
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was burnt at the stake near
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stayed near
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was based
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presided as Master of Ceremonies
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ascended in a balloon near
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commissioned
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was defeated
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formed a band
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frequented
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billeted
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traded
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had business premises
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connected in an unknown way
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named after public house
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practised orthopaedic surgery
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received the first transatlantic radio signals
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sat
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expanded the museum
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first appeared on the stage
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entered the city
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ministered
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lodged near
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owned a factory
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crowned
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was taught
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raised his standard
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commemorated on the centenary of his birth
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was honoured
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sailed at
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installed
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was widened
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hanged near
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dispensed
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laid out grounds
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had a studio
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held a wedding reception
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was raised
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was brought
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was part of a team of scientists that discovered a previously unknown pure carbon molecule, C60, which they dubbed buckminsterfullerene
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located
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was launched
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created the ska phenomenon
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was sunk
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was mortally wounded
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took the salute
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founded a church near
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gave a speech
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founded Britain's aircraft seaplane and flying boat industry
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practised law
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led the 60s folk revival
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was first performed
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designed The Bombe
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assembled
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excavated
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spent his childhood
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jailed for preaching the gospel
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accepted a surrender
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served
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started near
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attended a housewarming
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is mentioned
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erected a gate or bar
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conducted experiments
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rector
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opened the first Waitrose shop
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had her studio
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founded a charity school
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operated
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commemorated the Royal Coronation
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swam
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opened a store
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executed a will
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imagined
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had a workshop
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extended
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was a patient
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had a printing works
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was proprietor
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set up business
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advanced the science of gold thread manufacture
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ran The Dancing Club
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transmitted Britains first official radio broadcast
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rode
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celebrated it's 300th anniversary
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lived above
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was lost at sea
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took a set of iconic images that graced the covers of the first two Specials albums
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laid out his original cricket ground
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spent his active life and died
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competed
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founded the Pioneer Health Centre
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was Librarian
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printed Scotland's first book
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drilled oil
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founded the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association
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exchanged the first radio message across water
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sang duets
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held house parties
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saved a life
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fought in a skirmish
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first wove Kidderminster Carpet
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celebrated it's 21st anniversary
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wined and dined
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left a cup and sword
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hit his first home run as a professional near
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rendered service from the garage
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ran The Ritz Ballroom
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founded the Mercury Theatre
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developed the fundamental technologies of the World Wide Web
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built bicycles
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retired
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had a shop
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played their first gig
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spent a night at the house
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demonstrated
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set up
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helped
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was vanquished
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held speech
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held a parliament
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built ships
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had a cricket ground
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set the world air speed record
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died in this house
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were manufactured
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was converted
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damaged by an air raid
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named after inn
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founded a company
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marked
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led a rebellion
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founded The Club
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haunts
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found a way to understand the chemical structure of simple sugars
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held a Council of War
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marched
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was composed
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rested in a coffin
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founded the Bournville Works
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opened an early Methodist preaching room
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built The Great Eastern
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boxed
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built a suite of offices
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won a battle
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ran the Rapier Players repertory company
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crossed the river
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was designed
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was interred
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burnt down a building
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played New Orleans jazz
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walked past
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used as a hunting lodge
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built a house
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tunnelled
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had a shop here
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re-established
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gave readings
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was granted
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housed
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was resited
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was kidnapped
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was buried here in the church of Benedictine monastery
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entered Texas
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defended the town
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commanded the town's forces
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feasted
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was housed
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ran the oar-driven ferry
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used to sit
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distributed the Royal Maundy
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sketched
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piloted Britain's first public airmail flight
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built under
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residence of
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made an announcement
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portrayed
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contributed
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destroyed in The Blitz
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wrote the iconic song Summer Holiday
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love and cared for this garden
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sang
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was a lecturer
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was in protective custody
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debated
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came to dine
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trod the boards
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was broken
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was headmistress
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was a constant visitor
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held summer camps
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the first Eisteddfod to which the public were admitted was held in this hotel
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was director of the observatory
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founded the Texas Youth Camp
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first kissed
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provided
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was restored to its original condition
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had his works
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collected
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founded Morley College
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replaced
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was consecrated the first bishop of the church in America
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had his Headquarters
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mustered
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was destroyed by a bomb
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received a medal
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laid the foundation stone near
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originated and played the game of Lawn Tennis
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taught near
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discovered penicillin
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produced Waterford Glass
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took tea
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edited
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had a printing shop
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wrote an autobiography
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began printing fabrics
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spent his boyhood
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had works performed
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translated a novel
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founded The Queen's Technical Training Institute for Women
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made his last recording
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starred in The Wicker Man filmed on this location
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was hung in chains near
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devised the restoration of the country's independence
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wrote "Jumping Frog of Calaveras" here from notes made at Angels Camp Tavern
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rebuilt 9 East Street as a pharmacy
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damaged a church
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proclaimed Regent by the Jacobite Army near here
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the band performed here under the name U2 for the first time
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arranged the meeting of King Charles I and his children
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visited Sherborne Castle
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wrote the Mayor of Casterbridge based on this house
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drowned
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was Mayor
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founded in Silver Street
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with his army of 5000 Barons and Londoners defeated royalist forces of twice that size under Henry III on the Downs northwest of Lewes
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founded Lotus Engineering Co
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refused to surrender Elizabeth Castle
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was mine host
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began writing his <Deutsche Chronik>
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Formerly the main entrance to
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served as founder-minister
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entered England through this port
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built this stone seat into the wall beside the road
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originally designed
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ran a museum
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ran workshops
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code-breaking assisted by two computing machines developed here by teams led by
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founded the first youth hostel
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introduced daguerreotype
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came here
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preached from this window on the text Mark 3v35
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made the unique Shrewsbury Cakes to his original recipe
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held the foundation meeting of the Society of Arts
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wrote Fahrenheit 451
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established an evening club at the Essex Head
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painted a mural in lieu of rent
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bestowed the site "in vico qui vocato la straunde"
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fought a duel near here
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wrote his first piece of poetry
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was secretly married here to Anne Hyde
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joined the club
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became an honorary president
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designed and created Villa San Michelle
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purchased the land for the park
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initiated the method of antiseptic treatment
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invented the photophone which sent the first wireless telephone message in the history of the world from here
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finished The Naked Lunch
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given citizenship of Capri
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wrote part 1 of The Rights of Man
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seized from Thomas Lynch Fitz-Ambrose following the surrender of Galway to Cromwell's invading forces in 1653
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was first president
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was Reader in Mathematics
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mentioned Postigo del Alcazar in his novel Rinconete y Cortadillo
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landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here
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erected on this site "The Orphan House" headquarters of Methodism in the North
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carried out his research in this building
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practiced psychoanalysis
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regained her health
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conducted worship
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first met Paul McCartney
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first met John Lennon
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flew a powered aircraft of his own design and manufacture
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wrote the first two Sherlock Holmes novels
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discovered radium
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proclaimed national property the museum and excavations
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spoke here frequently to unemployed workers
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fled Naples
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expelled Jesuits from the realm
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met Christian converts upon his return from Wales
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gave the first bells to the village
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decreed the reorganization of the National Museum
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occupied a workshop
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founded Cadbury Brothers
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ordered the museum open
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for excavations in Pompeii and energetically conducted Elsewhere
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designed the Egyptian Halls
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wrote Jean-Christophe
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designed the Grosvenor Building
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his meeting with St Columbus is said, by some historians, to have taken place near this spot
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in the early morning hours of October 31, 1920, conceived an idea for research that led to the discovery of insulin
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is reputed to have met and dined with James Boswell in this building
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held his first public meetings in the United States
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built to commemorate the silver wedding anniversary of Mr & Mrs George Cadbury
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by tradition died here
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led a cavalry charge
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peed
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wrote a missionary hymn
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wrote the Spettri
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led the rebels who burned and destroyed the Palace of the Savoy
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created an outstanding rose garden
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struck the first blow for Scottish independence near this spot
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played the organ in this church at the funeral of tenor Adolphe Nourrit
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wrote "Il N'y A Pas D'Amour Heureux"
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lived for some time in "Muriel", the house which formerly occupied this corner site
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founded the Cork Examiner newspaper in this building
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described it as 'the very heart of Leeds'
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mentioned these steps in his novel Rinconete y Cortadillo
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co-created this steam engine with Matthew Boulton
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invented Cluedo in this house
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reputedly at least once stood beneath this tree and preached
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purchased this land which had been the private golf course of Albert Austin of nearby Spadina
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restored this tower for his wife Georgie
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constructed this road as part of the Kendal to Lancaster Turnpike
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continued the early development of hovercraft
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spent the night of 6th January after public entry into Dundee
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controlled his industrial his empire from these offices
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held a victory ball
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admired
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attempted to derail a train
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was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on his ship The Golden Hinde near here in recognition of the honouyr that he had brought to England by his discoveries and circumnavigation in the years 1577 - 1580
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on several occasions visited this locality
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Standing on this stone, on the balcony of Federal Hall, took the oath as the first President of the United States of America
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created on this site the Merieux Institute
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was greeted enthusiatically
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held up the bank
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discovered radioactivity
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flourished
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spanned the River Wensum
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took over this building in 1915 with her suffragettes for use as a day nursery
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died whilst rescuing
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lavished a great deal of money on buildings and decorations here
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lavished a great deal of money on buildings in the bailey, making it one of the most luxurious royal residences in England
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was widened and reconstructed
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drove this engine, hauling the inaugural train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first steam-worked public railway
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piloted the first aircraft to land in Jersey
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first stepped on American soil
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flooded
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presented to mark it's 20th anniversary
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reputedly designed
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observed in the church yard at Banbury several tombs and monuments of the Gulliver's
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had a recording studio
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brought over two Turkish bronze guns
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here began his best known work "Fathers & Sons"
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established his first bookshop
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lived in a house a few yards from this spot, at 126 Upper Shadwell
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built Priory House
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killed buffalo
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founded the National Land League
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repeatedly quoted in his works the Calle de la Sierpe, and in it the Carcel Real and Casa de Pierres Papin
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built in commemoration of the coronation of King Edward VII
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conceived the Rip Van Winkle story
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campaigned for Birmingham to have its own Assay Office
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was the first iron bridge in the world
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bought the gardens
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was the inspiration for Shakespeare's much-loved character of Falstaff
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destroyed by Puritans
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built on the site of the monastic ruins
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wrote his early musical works
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opened the first Birmingham Central Library
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built boats
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began a sea career
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departed for the Normandy Invasion 6 June 1944
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committed an assassination
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gave the rest of the bells
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invested
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made the first electrical measurements of starlight
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designed braille
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recorded Night Train
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filmed the MTV video Blue Jean
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wrote Crime and Punishment
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had her horse's shoes reversed
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re-interred
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built 100 foot experimental aerial mast here
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generously supported
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captured a gun
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over 300 craft left the quays of Poole for the Normandy Landings
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founded the Scout Movement in Poole
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lived at Alderney Manor (dem)
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placed in her present berth the oldest dock in the world
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led climbs
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wrote part of Nicholas Nickleby
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wrote Purple Haze
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was transferred
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built one of the first Christian churches in Staffordshire
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created a garden
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set land aside
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damaged by enemy action
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moved from Digbeth to Cannon Hill Park
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learned to play the violin
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opened the second Birmingham Central Library
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opened the 3rd Birmingham Central Library
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sold boats
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founded Birmingham
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built Lion Locomotive
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Motorsport Exhibition Mud, Track & Tarmac opened
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developed by The Tramway Museum Society
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constructed by the Trent River Authority
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given to the Bakewell Historical Society
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got drunk
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was poisoned
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curated
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founded the Austin Motor Company
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first recorded nearby
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founded his business
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designed the Mini
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obtained laudenum
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wrote Billy Budd
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served as butler
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established the Water Cure
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ran the first steam locomotive to draw passengers
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converted to a flour mill
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met at the Britannia (formerly Victoria) Hotel
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founded an Abbey
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tried to escape Louis XVI
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became a bingo hall
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danced
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predicted
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barracked
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began pioneering studies into the chemistry of giant molecules
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began to write The Eve of Agnes
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swam from Penarth to Weston-super-Mare
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celebrated it's 90th anniversary
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had an eye test
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was organist
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founded a fortress at 'Waeringwicum'
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was fired
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recovered after being scalped
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was remodelled
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staged its first football game
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scalped
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fired the first shot of the Texas Revolution near
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opened the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
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served articles
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policed matches
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owned his first hotel
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robbed
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housed outcast women
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observed the Transit of Venus
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made cars
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made one of his most famous videos 'Old Town'
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formerly known as Waterhouse Street
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was the solo entertainer
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is commemorated in the name of
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served as the town's bailiff
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wrote "Rat Trap"
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presented to the Pavilion Gardens
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was Governor of this Castle
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imprisoned for his faith
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was self-taught
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opened an architectural partnership
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attended a banquet
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constructed two Chitty Chitty Bang Bang racing cars
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erected the first house in Bournemouth
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dug a well
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regularly swore at everybody
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produced carpets, tapestries, printed fabrics, and stained glass made to designs and patterns which were typical of the best of the Arts and Crafts Movement
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was involved in a fracas
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dedicated this lakeside terrace
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invented the Float Glass Process
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opened Cadbury World
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reformed
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made the first public transmission of wireless signals
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sent the first telegram ever dispatched from the air
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rescued people
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built a coal and timber wharf
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headquarters when he with a force of 2000 men attacked Birmingham on Easter Monday 3rd April 1643
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established the first antique shop on Portobello Road
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was Minister to the Gravel Pit Meeting
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founded the promenade concerts
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ran the Omega Workshops
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founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat
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helped establish the first Oxfam shop and office
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began his historic "Cressy" cruise
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first screened
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opened the original shop which later became Huntley & Palmers
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had his music shop Beethoven House here
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founded the First Provincial School of Anatomy
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invented the first successful pneumatic tyre
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first demonstrated the incandescent light bulb at a public lecture
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addressed a large crowd
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completed his pioneering studies on the frequencies of X-rays emitted from the elements
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met frequently with literary friends and hill-walking friends
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discovered the fundamental law for electric current
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by order of, the Confession of Faith was drawn up
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was inspired to use Whitby as the setting of part of his world-famous novel Dracula
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occupied at Jourdelay's Place
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founded a hospital for aged or infirm men
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observed the periodicity of the star ALGOL and discovered the variation of δ CEPHEI
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ran a refuge
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Springfield native Seuss memorialized Mulberry Stree in the first book he authored 'And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street'
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played at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton on 27 occasions
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was played
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was crowned Queen
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was acquitted
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bravely continued playing to soothe the anguish of their fellow passengers until the ship sank in the deep
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breached the town wall
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is reputed to have met and dined with Dr Samuel Johnson in this building circa 1770
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lived in this house when he directed the publication of the encyclopedia
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conducted the opening services
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makes a reference to St Thomas's Church in his novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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frequently met with delegations of Alabama Indians
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had the vision to bring these once derelict buildings back to life
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saw with shame and indignation the pauper's funeral, which helped to awaken his lifelong devotion to the service of the poor an oppressed
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site of the last public Hanging in Birmingham
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became the cathedral of the Diocese of Coventry
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was the country's first woman, other than a member of the Royal family, to be commemorated by a statue
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killed on this spot by the balance bar which broke and fell from the firebell
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read lectures about aviation and space travel
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created an artwork
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taught physics and mathematics
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built for Oliver Cromwell's Troops
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based in an office at this station
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designed St. Pancras Station
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performed its first calculation
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scored the first ever league goal
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was first white person to set foot
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rendezvoused troops
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drove a ball to the green
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was Manager here of The Coventry Theatre
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got into trouble
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commemorated on the centenary of becoming a City
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was modernised
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destroyed by enemy action
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benefitted from from the waters of the well
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commemorated on the 400th anniversary of the accession
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smashed windows
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was scattered
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pioneered in active research for anti-gravity and a partial gravity insulator
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made the first penicillin for civilian use
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was partly demolished
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used as a country retreat
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was injured
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was a grammar school
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commemorated on the 250th anniversary of his birth
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was fed
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was saved
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was detained near
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provided the city with a drinking water supply
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placed this memory
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had the museum moved here
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was impeached for High Treason
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received a donation of urns
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made their first sale
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attended dances
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was proclaimed Queen of England
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donated his collection of urns
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held concerts near
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donated his entire collection to the museum
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flowered
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grafittied
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was first blended
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held the Royal Maundy in this Cathedral
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introduced the concept of isotopes
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went missing
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set fire to a post-box
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was the first school in Holyhead
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offices were in this building
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waded across
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was pitched
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slashed a painting at this museum
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was first woman Birmingham City Councillor
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acquired these premises
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were baked
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was inspired to publish books
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became an internet sensation near
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received sasine
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declared a World Heritage Site
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loved this place
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was proclaimed Roman Emperor near
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surfed
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commemorated the 150th anniversary
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worked at lawyer's office
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was architect
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was inspired by Sudbury for The Hundred and One Dalmatians
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destroyed by the townspeople
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given to the people of Cheltenham
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invaded
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manufactured Hansom Cabs
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hit six sixes in one over
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was performed
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consecrated
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was printed
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was buried alive
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was investigated
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served as Bailiff
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helped preventing building development on this reserve
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pioneered cinema
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was elected
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gates moved from
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deficated their pants
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destroyed in the 1952 Flood Disaster
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lost in a storm
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opened a meeting house on this site
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had a royal residence
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explored
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was the first Curator of the Grosvenor Museum
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was set
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was treated
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opening of the Wirral branch
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was Founder Chairman of the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust
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was tried
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erected his Standard against Danish invaders
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made his first political speech
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was launched near this spot
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first voyage Bristol to New York
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engines forged
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introduced gas lighting to Frome
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planted a mast
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ran The Rum Runner
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on this spot shouted "Smelly Pants Wee!"
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inspired the world's first great Shakespeare library
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founded St Mary's Hospice
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Victor Emmanuel III
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fought a fire
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shopped
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supported the National Gardens Scheme
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one of the team who created Woolgate
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first used to treat infection here
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was thrown out of
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was heartbroken
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practiced
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made the The Statutes of Marlborough, an Act of Parliament passed in the Great Hall of Marlborough Castle near this place
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were struck
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first set up his press
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wrote The Planets
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expounded
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wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'
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was beached
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amalgamated
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transmitted
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felled a tree
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noted
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made the world famous Rudge
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celebrated mass
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discovered poetry
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befriended
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wrote part of Finnegans Wake
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gave his last public performance
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befriended and cared for prostitutes
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made a Freeman of the City
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was edited
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was administered
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spoke these deathless words 'You have been to Afghanistan, I perceive'
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first made Oxford marmalade
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ran the first sub four minute mile
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opened the first birth control clinic
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held rallies
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was inspired to write Canada's national song
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learned cricket
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was principal
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stopped to take ale
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designed the connection of the Looe & Caradon Railway with the GWR
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made her first public performance
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was first broadcast
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met his untimely end
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carried
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controlled
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paid a ploughman to mark out playing fields
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led the Norwegian government-in-exile
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studied the long drop
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was harshly murdered
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began work for children
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forgave the sins of those who contributed to the building of a bridge
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carried near to death
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burrowed
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wrote songs
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arrived
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fried
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played their penultimate British gig
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last performed
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contributed greatly to America's victory program for wartime production
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founded the first tuberculosis clinic in the world
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composed his first symphony
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landed in state
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left land
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founded the Round Table Movement and owned Langford's Restaurant
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cut a demo disk
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started his aircraft component business
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exposed the Davenport Brothers
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opened a branch
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led the Match Girls Strike
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started his electrical switchgear company here
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conducted motion picture research
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was exhibited
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made the first locomotive
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invented gas-lighting
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first used gas-lighting
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had their studios
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dropped
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made his first stage appearances
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drew the pond in the garden which featured in the Tale of Peter Rabbit
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used this site as the first commercial transatlantic wireless station
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jumped over the wall
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printed England's first provincial newspaper
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built cars
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discovered the electron
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established the Cavendish Laboratory
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measured the one mile points along the roads from Cambridge
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erected a drinking fountain
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founded an independent Benedictine monastery
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built the first Norwich Office of the Excise
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established a studio
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stopped off en route for America
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was an evacuee near
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apologised
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watered a horse
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established an infirmary for sick children
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had his studio near
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treated
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wrote six of his principal works
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frequently stayed
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founded this hospital
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began an acting career
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owned a shop near
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rebuilt with original timbers
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was bombed
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had the idea for the song Harbour Lights
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directed the Gaiety Theatre
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established the first large meat-packing house in Toronto
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manufactured the Maxim gun
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murdered his estranged wife Mildred
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made the first manned balloon ascent
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gave his first London concert
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was a frequent guest
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was Assistant Matron
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had a lease of a meadow
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referred
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was the seat of Walsall Government
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ordered commissioners to assemble for the revision of the liturgy
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secretly married
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built the Castle
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founded the congregation
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founded the London Penny Post
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broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain
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gave this building to the People
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trained in the gymnasium
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published the first edition of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense
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founded Cheltenham Archers
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played the blues
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made a successful descent by a parachute from a balloon which ascended from
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founded the first of the Lewis's department stores
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began to write Jane Eyre
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read a paper before the Canadian Institute
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founded Victoria College
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took refuge
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opened the second Methodist Preaching House
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printed two of his earliest works
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presented to the town in November 1938 the river meadows
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established his foundry
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affixed his declaration disowning Charles II as King to the cross
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made a declaration
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owned the mill
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founded the Manchester & Salford Adult Deaf & Dumb Benevolent Association
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founded the Collegiate Church
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practised from chambers
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encamped with his Royalist Army
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was happily billeted as a member of the Royal Corps of Signals
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ran the Bulls Head Inn
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opened a workshop
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started business from a workshop near
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had an evangelical conversion
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designed the Maxim gun
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erected this unique building of six small rooms as a brothel
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donated to the museum
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laid out by Walsall Borough Council
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was a stock exchange
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used as a Protestant church
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was ordained priest
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organist
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owned Hey Green House
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used as a bakery
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fell in the river
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was a corn and hay merchant
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built aircraft
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bought the estate
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had a warehouse
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met Tom Spencer
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met Michael Marks
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dictated "The Order of the Strata"
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found the planet Uranus
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surveyed routes
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met Frederick Henry Royce
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had a photography shop
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met Charles Stewart Rolls
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published prints and guidebooks
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sought spiritual help
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opened a boot and shoe shop
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founded by his will the Free Grammar School that later became the Perse School
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painted his famous picture, "The Boyhood of Raleigh"
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was received
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manufactured hats
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gave this building to the village
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had a coffee shop
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established the Wright Music Co.
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exit
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wrote Dracula whilst working at the Lyceum
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developed the micro-corneal lens at his practice
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developed the first x-ray spectrometer
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wrote The Good Companions
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dreamt he was
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launched London's first antiques market
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gave the original pavilion to the club
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owned the generator
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ran a bookshop
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made experiments with an air pump designed by his assistant Robert Hooke
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restored to the parishioners
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held editorial meetings
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built one of Britain's earliest petrol driven vehicles
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built Preston’s first steam-powered cotton mill
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drew up the first public temperence pledge
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commenced scientific valve experiments
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had his London showrooms
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ruled the Cavendish hotel
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gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas, from a retort
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wrote Middlemarch
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entertained King Charles II
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wrote 'Dial M For Murder'
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opened a medical school
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founded what is now the Royal National Institute for Deaf People
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wrote 'You Only Live Twice'
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discovered Sooty
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had his consulting rooms
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held 'a satisfactory reading with the people'
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studied the galaxy
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discovered Boyle's Law
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established Britain’s first African Caribbean Carnival
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made her debut
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had Her Secretariat
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took the waters
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held a residency
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waited for a friend who did not turn up
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watched the rain
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adjusted her hat in the reflection
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became a member of The Selector
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operated a sound system
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lodged many "beautiful foreign ladies"
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grew the Bramley Apple Tree from a pip
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took cuttings from the tree
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developed manganese steel
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established an iron foundry
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discovered the Solitary Wave
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scored
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founded Enmore School
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used the Cornhill Standard
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was put to death near
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completed her three novels Over To Candleford, Candleford Green and Still Glides The Stream
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granted permission for the shrine
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beat Nicolas Mahut
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was beaten
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created Blandford's first museum
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supplied canal barges from his chandlery
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founded the Little Angel Theatre
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met his future wife Eva Leale
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owned a photographic shop and studio
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first projected a moving picture
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recreated Shakespeare's Globe
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mortally wounded
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founded a hospital for 6 poor widows
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punched his friend in the balls
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erected the first preaching house
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acted on recommendations by the Public Health Enquiry held
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established Salisbury Museum
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gave selected readings from his many works
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developed the machine belt manufacturing firm of J H Fenner and Co
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denied entry to King Charles I
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was denied entry
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founded the priory of Saint Michael
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developed and built program-controlled computers
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surveyed angles on the church tower
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established an academy
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wrote his PhD thesis
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discovered electro-dynamic forces
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had his laboratory
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was ordinary Professor for mathematics
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invented the first steam-engine
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forced a surrender
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wrote her first novel, Alexander's Bridge
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founded the first philosophical school of the world
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presented Gobshites
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established the Royal Marine Library
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planted his standard near this spot
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was erected near
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founded St Mark's Hospital
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appreciated
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founded The Ballet club and The Ballet Rambert
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began near
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held its sittings
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were installed
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held its first meeting
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held their first flower show
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was erected
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published own works
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sheltered
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sworn in as a constable
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held its first two meetings
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took place near
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was produced
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held the King of France captive
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wrote many of his poems
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This lightwell is part of the burial ground of
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Residence of Spike's father Leo and grandfather Sgt William Milligan
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is perceived to have lived and died here
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had his first shop
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presented to the town the public library
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gave birth to John Lennon
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founded St Paul's School
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accompanied
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founded Cooke's Hospital
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Received her secondary education here
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exploded
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had a grainstore
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raised the first troop of Gloucestershire Yeomanry
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conceived his design of the Crystal Palace
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saved the City Road Basin
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had the first contact lens only practice
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established the Free Age Press
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manufactured locks and safes
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directed Allied Expeditionary Forces
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had her fossil shop
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Directed the fortification of the City gates and towers
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had a bookshop
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crossed on his way to his execution
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thanked
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ran the first school in England for the education of deaf & dumb
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founded a free public library
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probably lived
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published the first number of the Norwich Post near
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assisted
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opened the first Norwich office of the Excise
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founded Saint Edward’s School
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founded as a convent
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invented the sparkplug
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had his observatory
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title granted
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hospitalised
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progress was checked
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created mosaics
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founded the first known building society in the world
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was punched in the balls
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mapped
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holed-in-one
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was Professor of Natural Philosophy
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named after the quay
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was completed
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named after the castle
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debuted "Blithe Spirit"
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founded a town
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was born twenty miles from Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon
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ordered the building of the Great Tower
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gave money and timber
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set foot
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raised a regiment of foot
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designed Worcester Bridge
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created The Bournville Building Estate
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built a school in purfuance of the will
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planned modern Solihull
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Here in Joyce's imagination was born
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built University Church
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addressed the staff
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had rooms here
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was Birmingham's first Member of Parliament
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opened the first Health Food Store in the United Kingdom
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named after the church
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gave a lookout
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decorated
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founded Monte de Piete a charitable pawn office
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sculptor of Bicentennial Washington
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trial of the murderers of Ellen Hanley The Collen Bawn took place here
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was the last Master
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these gates were presented by the people of Olton
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swam around Jersey
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stepped
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named after elm trees
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met her future husband
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named after short-lived monastery
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spent some time working in this hospital
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former actor in Heaphy's company
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redeveloped
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redesigned facade
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Founding Member of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
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lodged here in the 1920s
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stood without shoes on a market day and denounced the City of Lichfield
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operated the ferry
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reconsolidated
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portrait medallion
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prayed
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invested his son
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received the Legion of Honour
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liked to sit and write at these steps
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carved
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were Architects
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played a prominent role in the 18th century development of Georgian Limerick, known as Newtown Pery
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published the 'All The Year Round' magazine
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was strapped to the rails
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wrote "Revelations of Divine Love"
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found her vocation as a writer for the very young
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was first woman mayor of
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built as the headquarters of Provincial Militia
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had their funeral
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was innkeeper
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Used these rotative beam engines and pumps which were a key part of his sewage system that rid London of cholera and typhoid
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founded Motown Records
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gave his first public performance
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made bagpipes
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consecrated and transformed into a Christian church from the Great Mosque
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Professor of Greek
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founded Mission Church
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site from which Chaucer's Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off in April 1386
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was licencee
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vanquished Professor Moriarty
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erected the original motte and bailey castle on this site
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first exploded
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met Samuel Johnson
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had his original draper's shop here
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wrote A Streetcar Named Desire
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was beheaded
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here perfected the first practical typewriter in September 1869
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established a ferry service
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conducted the Pittsburgh Orchestra
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eagled
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leapt on horseback across the then narrower road cutting to escape his pursuers
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gave a public reading of "David Copperfield"
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wrote part of David Copperfield
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birdied
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sub-librarian
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painted "On The Shore, Bonchurch"
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sold this house
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the "Motown Sound" was created on this site
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climbed into the river
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helped preserve Old Bank House with Coleshill Civic Society
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mentioned in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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was bequeathed this house
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won the Eurovision Song Contest
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facade
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originated and played here by Major T. H. Gem and J. B. A. Perera
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painted Guernica
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finally left in 1967
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introduced lithography
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was critically injured
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estblished law and order
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first laid to rest
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Prebendary
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What he called "The exact point of becoming U2" occurred here
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was preserved
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met James Boswell
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declared his father James King of England, Wales and Scotland
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penned the immortal poem, "A Visit From Saint Nicholas", (T'was The Night Before Christmas)
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was his first workshop in Paris
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was curator of the Whitby Museum
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won The Virgin Trains Volunteers Award
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lived in Buxton
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realized William H Tatum IV's dream to to find the Titanic
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sold for half a crown by her husband
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master
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spectator
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reputedly arrested
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wrote the poem "The Deil's Awa' Wi' Th'Exciseman"
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implanted
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made a house on this site his London home and studio
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founded this theatre
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improved the cultural facilities for Clarks employees and other Streetonians
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ran a bank
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was christened at the nearby Norwegian Church
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reconstructed a building called Wandle Cottage
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had its offices
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was inaugurated the second President of the United States
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used the experience of his father having been imprisoned here for debt in 1824 as the Marshalsea setting for his novel Little Dorrit
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with his army entered the city through this gate
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was reputedly born at No 7 Hoey's Court (now demolished) about 100 feet north west of this spot
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established his headquarters
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founded the Cork Ballet Company and School in this building
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wrote to William Shakespeare
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discovered the Joule-Thomson Effect
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was celebrated the Coronation
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lost the middleweight title
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designed All Saints Church