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Oxford is a cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
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There's a dodo in Oxford's Museum of Natural History, and it's a celebrity dodo — this is the one that Lewis Carroll may have seen when he was writing Alice in Wonderland.
from 354: No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen, 2021-01-01 at 00:19:52 · read transcript
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Durham ox had a sort of quite sad end in a way well it died yeah yeah so it dislocated um its hip uh while being let out of the carriage the famous carriage that we've spoken about uh while in Oxford and it had to be slaughtered two months later but day ever the showman turned that into an event itself and I believe correct me if I'm wrong guys there was an autopsy which was sort of shown to the public on.
337: No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle, 2020-09-04 · listen
That's true. Actually, there is a thought that there were people who were running sub four minute miles before him, but they weren't Oxford graduates who had all the newspapers and everything like that. For instance, there's a guy called James Parrott, who is a costamonger, and he supposedly ran a mile under four minutes in 1770, and there was in 1796, someone called Weller, who did the same.
No Such Thing As A Face Mite With A Laptop, 2022-07-28 · listen
That was why most of the people who were quite successful runners back in the 50s were quite wealthy white men in Western countries because you couldn't really afford to do anything like that. That's true. Actually, there is a thought that there were people who were running sub-4 minute miles before him, but they weren't Oxford graduates who had all the newspapers and everything like that. For instance, there's a guy called James Parrott, who is a costamonger and he supposedly ran a mile in the four minutes in 1770.
437: No Such Thing As A Face Mite With A Laptop, 2022-07-29 · listen
I was trying to point going through the British newspaper archive trying to pinpoint the moment that we definitively lost the D. I think it's roughly 1920. So you're interested. It really took off again with Oxford and Cambridge competing against each other in the 60s, didn't it? It became a real source of pride for Cambridge. They had this notorious match. It was in, It was in 1958, and it was this guy called Peter Downs, who was head of the Tiddler Wings Society at Cambridge, and he wrote to Prince Philip, saying, Prince Philip, have you noticed there's been an article written in The Spectator claiming you cheat at Tiddly Wings?
No Such Thing As Tiddlywinks In The Wild West, 2022-02-25 · listen
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