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... world's largest animal collections , main- taining more than 5,350 specimens of about 885 species . A notable feature is the Alfred Brehm Animal House , one of the largest zoo buildings in the world . This structure houses a huge aviary ...
... world's largest animal collections , main- taining more than 5,350 specimens of about 885 species . A notable feature is the Alfred Brehm Animal House , one of the largest zoo buildings in the world . This structure houses a huge aviary ...
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... World War I , all the more compelling for its restraint . The war interrupted his studies at Oxford , but he returned in 1919 , moving the following year to London as associate editor of The Athenaeum . His poems began appearing in the ...
... World War I , all the more compelling for its restraint . The war interrupted his studies at Oxford , but he returned in 1919 , moving the following year to London as associate editor of The Athenaeum . His poems began appearing in the ...
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... World War I and its aftermath led to a more formal recognition of the special status of the dominions . When Britain had declared war on Germany in 1914 it was on behalf of the entire empire , the dominions as well as the colonies . But ...
... World War I and its aftermath led to a more formal recognition of the special status of the dominions . When Britain had declared war on Germany in 1914 it was on behalf of the entire empire , the dominions as well as the colonies . But ...
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Europe Beckford returned to England where | 239 |
Beckford detail from an oil painting | 297 |
John Hoppner c 1800 in the Salford | 518 |
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