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No Such Thing As A Sycamore In A Silver Coat
When he got back, he was at a dinner at the Royal Geographical Society. This is in 1912. The president, Lord Curzon, offered a toast, but not to him, but to the dog team.
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There was a thing called Deportatio in Insulam, which apparently means exile to an island. Sometimes you go to Britain if you've been particularly bad; Tiberius was exiled to Rhodes, which must have been quite nice in…
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There was a Royal Oak that Charles — when he was then Charles Stuart — was hiding in, and the Parliamentarian forces were rummaging around beneath the canopy. He dined out on the story for the rest of his life, then…
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Another theory is that Queen Victoria visited and they changed it for her, but we don't really know why. It might just evolve that way. You can still go and have a picnic underneath the oak tree, the vine, the house in…
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