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...England; Richard Heaton, London Polymath 1,052: AJ Cullens, London Crossword 16,344: John Williams, Eastbourne, England; Reg Green, Belgium; Graham McKinnon, Salford, England Polymath 1,051: Ian Zant-Boer...
...His father was an officer veteran of the Boer war and first world war; his mother an Italian-born contessa. After education at Wellington College, he joined the RAF....
...Anthony Michaels-Moore gives us vocal heft and authority as an austere, tyrannical Germont. Conducting with panache, Roland Böer never once allows the momentum to sag. To March 13, eno.org...
...As his biographer, Anthony Sampson, said: “He was to become more famous in the shadows than he had ever been in broad daylight.”...
...The Norse god Odin, played by Anthony Hopkins in a beard and eyepatch, assures Thor and his younger brother Loki that both are fit to succeed him, but rules are rules....
...Last month, he started publicly singing “Kill the Boer”, an anti-apartheid resistance anthem....
...It is simply not true, for instance, that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader, was, like Lloyd George, opposed in principle to the Boer war....
...He wrote thrillers about the continent, under assorted pseudonyms, including The Buchan Papers, a Boer war era adventure spoof based on John Buchan (two of whose grandsons he hired on to the paper)....
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