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Just one guess each, thank you.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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K - On the Moon. I remember watching that. Apparently it should have been 'a small step for A man' but he got the words wrong.
Debster | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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i. For better or for worse, Maggie was elected for the first time.
Marc | 02.01.09 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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E - Charles Darwin
ganching | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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a) Louis Braille
stroppycow | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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a) Braille? Alas, I don't know the first name. I thought it might be Morse at first but it wasn't quite right, but then it clicked.
Jag | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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Bugger, strop beat me to it.I'll have to guess again.
Jag | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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m) Tennyson; famous poet.
Jag | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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h) Henry VIII
Novaelius | 02.01.09 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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j) Big Ben
Mark | 02.01.09 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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t) Er... New Orleans?
dg writes: Not pre-Columbus, no.
RogerW | 02.01.09 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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O has to be Concorde.
Pedantic of Purley | 02.01.09 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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n) Dr Johnson I presume...whose dictionary always brings to mind the excellent Blackadder version portrayed by Robbie Coltrane.
NiC | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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t) Oxford, University of?
dg writes: sorry, wrong one
A nony mouse | 02.01.09 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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t) is the university of cambridge
Sam | 02.01.09 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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b) - British Museum.
Artemis | 02.01.09 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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c) Rabbie Burns
Nebbish | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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s) Guiness
Amused | 02.01.09 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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r - Kew
disgruntled | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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P) the M1
IsarSteve | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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Q) Berlin Wall coming down?
Rhys | Retro Garden | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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d) Felix Mendelssohn
Alfie | 02.01.09 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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d: Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (I would have thought "down" the aisle would be more accurate)
Jeremy | 02.01.09 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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Please, Sir... Jeremy is copying!
... and Jag is cheating as well because he's had more than one go 
RogerW | 02.01.09 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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Roger: Ever pressed 'Publish' in a comments box to discover that somebody else has just posted the comment you were busy writing? Jag and Jeremy just have.
This blog tolerates mis-timed commenting.
But it doesn't tolerate mistakes 
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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L Louis Blériot flies the channel!!
Ann | 02.01.09 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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d mendelson, apologies for the spelling
jerym | 02.01.09 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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g north pole
jerym | 02.01.09 - 12:30 p.m. | #
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please sir! Mendelssohn has two S'sssss
Is it also allowed for me to add a link to him & me - so to speak?
http://www.isarsteve.de/?p=648
IsarSteve | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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f) Selfridges?
Leuconoe | 02.01.09 - 1:24 p.m. | #
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That's the lot!
Answers as follows:
a) birth of Louis Braille
b) public opening of the British Museum
c) birth of Robert Burns
d) birth of Felix Mendelssohn
e) birth of Charles Darwin
f) opening of Selfridges
g) Peary reaches the North Pole
h) Henry VIII become King
i) Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
j) Big Ben rings out for the first time
k) Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
l) Louis Blériot flies the Channel
m) birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson
n) birth of Samuel Johnson
o) Concorde's first supersonic flight
p) opening of the M1 motorway
q) the Berlin Wall falls
r) Kew Gardens is founded
s) Guinness first brewed
t) Cambridge University founded
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.01.09 - 1:25 p.m. | #
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Happy New Year, people! 
Crumbs, I decided to go to work today and it looks as if I've missed one of DG's famous quizzes. Maybe I'll just console myself with kittens instead.
Andrewh | 02.01.09 - 7:53 p.m. | #
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Ah the joy of kittens. The true purpose of teh internets.
Debster | Homepage | 03.01.09 - 12:03 a.m. | #
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(c) *Robert* Burns, please, never "Rabbie" or "Robbie". As in the main tribute/info site http://www.robertburns.org/ which uses "Robert" throughout.
dg writes: Sorry. I've now de-Robbie-d.
kenromford | 03.01.09 - 1:07 p.m. | #
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