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Lit places in London
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Undergraduate 3
08/03/2009

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WWI
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1914-1918
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WWII
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1939-1945
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Standing Monarch of England
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Heir to the Monarch of England
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Prince Charles
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Current Prime Minister
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Gordon Brown
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Maximum number of years a P.M. may serve without an election
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6 Years
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Official Residence of P.M.
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10 Downing St.
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Queen Victoria's Reign
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1837-1901
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18th Century writer preserved at the University of London
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Jeremy Bentham
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Two politically and culturally important churches in London
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St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey
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Prime Minister of UK during WWII
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Winston Churchill
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King who's celebrating his 500th anniversary
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King Henry VIII
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"Smart lad, to slip betimes away..."
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A.E. Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Young"
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"I have said that poetry is the spontaneous..."
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Wordsworth and Coleridge, Preface to "The Subject and Language of Poetry"
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"Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe"
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John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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"If I should die, think only this of me:"
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Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"
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"God of our fathers, known of old"
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Rudyard Kipling, "Recessional"
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"Ah, love, let us be true."
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Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
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"The darkness drops again; but now I know"
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William Yeats, "The Second Coming"
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"It matters not how straight the gate"
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William Henley, "Invictus"
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"When Britain first, at Heaven's command"
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James Thomson, "Rule Britannia"
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Britain's Poet Laureate
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Famous writer celebrating his 200th birthday
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Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species"
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Imperialism
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A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
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Terrorism
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The calculated use of violence against civilians in order to attain loaded goals
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"I must make one thing plain:"
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Salman Rushdie, "Outside the Whale"
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"As far as English Literature is concerned"
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Salman Rushdie, "English is an Indian Literary Language"
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