Hints and tips:
...Despite having successfully negotiated with the king of Benin for a massive shipment of pepper, they found themselves marooned after their crew mutinied in protest at their treatment by the captain, Mr Wyndam...
...Edmond Halley, of comet fame, saw a transit of Mercury from St Helena in 1677; in 1716, he outlined how future transits of Venus, a bigger, closer planet, could be used to calculate the distance between...
...Edmond de Rothschild, the €150bn Paris private banking and asset management group, has named Yves Stein as chief executive of its business in Europe....
...Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, lived here....
...The captain of the ship, Pierre Henri Philibert, was a Creole from Réunion and he also brought the plant to his native island....
...All the others have had a real job. 9) 999; unless you are being attacked by a celebrity, in which case phone Max Clifford. 10) i) a) Arthur Scargill; b) Bob Crow; c) John Edmonds; d) Tony Woodley. ii)...
...Giles says the captain’s chief virtue as a leader is “honesty. Everyone appreciates it.” So, honestly, how will the next six weeks go? “If we play our best, we have a good chance....
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