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  2. Thomas Hood - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.

  3. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    A British Crown dependency off the coast of France. Also, a kind of buttonless, pullover shirt. An athlete's uniform shirt, also called a kit in British English. A colloquial term for the state of New Jersey Jesse (often as Big Jesse, derogatory insult for a man) Non-macho, effeminate, sometimes gay. A male name (uncommon in the UK).

  5. English folklore - Wikipedia

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    Robin Hood fought to protect himself and his group the Merry Men, regardless the class, age, or gender of their enemy. In stories such as 'Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons' and 'The Tale of Gamelyn', the joyful ending is in the hanging of the sheriff and the officials; in 'Robin Hood and the Monk', Robin Hood kills a monk and his young ...

  6. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    In the months before D-Day the solution words 'Gold' and 'Sword' (codenames for the two D-Day beaches assigned to the British) and 'Juno' (codename for the D-Day beach assigned to Canada) appeared in The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions, but they are common words in crosswords, and were treated as coincidences.

  7. Cluny Macpherson (physician) - Wikipedia

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    The design was adopted by the British Army and introduced as the British Smoke Hood in June 1915; Macpherson was appointed to the War Office Committee for Protection against Poisonous Gases. [4] More elaborate sorbent compounds were added later to further iterations of his helmet ( PH helmet ), to defeat other respiratory poison gases used such ...

  8. Battle of the Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    [55] Hood, in commentary written on the reverse of his copy, observed that this eliminated any possibility of engaging an enemy who was disordered, since it would require the British line to also be disordered. Instead, he maintained, "the British fleet should be as compact as possible, in order to take the critical moment of an advantage ...

  9. Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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    Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in ... The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, ...