1874 – Gustav Theodore von Holst born in Cheltenham (21st September). 1882 – Death of Gustav’s mother sees him brought up by an aunt, then a stepmother. 1885 – Gustav’s father remarries and has two ...
Oxford was named the best-performing university globally, ahead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, which took second place. The University of Cambridge took fifth ...
There’s a section in comedian George Carlin’s 2004 book When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? titled “Count the Superfluous Redundant Pleonastic Tautologies.” “My fellow countrymen ...
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Ten Welsh words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it has been announced. The OED is updated quarterly with new words, senses and revisions to entries ...
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