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The British Museum’s interim director, Sir Mark Jones, said: “We are delighted
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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to
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queen from Wetwang, a plague surviving graffiti artist, a drunken Bible
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fathers of modern typography and the bankers who caused the finance crisis.

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I am looking at this in a museum. The label says his face is black to represent
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The lawyers are going to win this one, no contest. England's Act of Union with
Scotland was 1707 and with Ireland 1801. So the first argument will be which of
them pays, in what proportions? That should consume several million in legal
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