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Thursday, April 24, 2008

More (semi-)useless knowledge

Only non-royal eight Britons have been given state funerals. Among them are Winston Churchill (the Prime Minister during World War II); Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (commanding general at the Battle of Waterloo); and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (commanding admiral at the Battle of Trafalgar). The strange things you learn reading late at night...

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