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personaggi Flashcards

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Dame Kelly Holmes

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2 gold medal 2004 Olympics, running

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David Hume

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Developed Human-nature ideas

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Harold McMillan

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Prime minister during decolonization, Wind of Change speech

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Clement Attlee

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‘45-‘51 PM of Labour; welfare state

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William Beveridge

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PM Liberal, 5 evils, Beveridge Report made basis for welfare state

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R.A. Butler

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MP Tory, Education Act 1944 for free education in Eng and Wales

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Dylan Thomas

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Welsh poet, Under Milk Wood, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon

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Soldiers who wrote their memories of WWI

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John Constable

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Landscape painter, works in Dedham Vale & Suffolk-Essex border

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Mary Quant, Alex McQueen

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fashion designers

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Kingsley Amish

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eng novelist and poet, wrote Lucky Jim

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Ellen McArthur

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sailor

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Dame Mary Peters

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gold medal pentathlon 1972, made Dame in 2000

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Ellie Simmonds

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gold paralympian swimmer

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15
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Frank Whittle

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invented jet engine

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Frank Launder

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movie director, Belles of St Trinians

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Baroness Tanny Grey-Thompson

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paralympian, wheelchair racing

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William Woldsworth

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writer, Daffodil

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Nick Park

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academy winner director, Wallace & Gromit

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William Wilberforce

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politician

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Francis Crick

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nobel prize for discovering DNA structure

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Ian Botham

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cricket, english team captain

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David Hockney

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pop painter, artist

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Sir Francis Chichester & Sir Robin Know-Johnston

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sailors

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Thomas Gainsborough

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portrait painter, people in countryside or garden scenery

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GF Haendel

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Composer, wrote Messiah for easter celebrations

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Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean

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ice skaters

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Robert Adam

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scottish architect, Dumfries House

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John Logie Baird

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scotsman, invented TV. 1932 first broadcast between london and glasgow

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Robert Watson-Watt

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scotsman, invented radar 1935

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Alan Turing

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mathematician, invented Turing machine in 1936

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John McLeod

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scotsman, invented insulin medication

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Sir Christopher Cockrell

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invented hovercraft

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James Goodfellow

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invented ATMs

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Sir Robert Edwards

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invented in-vitro fertilization

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Ian Wilmot & Keith Campbell

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cloned the sheep Dolly

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Sir Peter Mansfield

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co-invented MRI scan

38
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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invented the world wide web

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Roahl Dahl

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welsh writer

40
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Sir Richard Arkwkright

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leading entrepreneur, inventor, employed mechanization in production, ran his factories very efficiently

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Benjamin Britten

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composer, A young persons guide to the orchestra, Billy Budd, Peter grimes are some of his tunes

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Tony Blair

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labour PM when Scottish and Welsh parliaments were created.

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Kingdom Isambard Brunel

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engineer, made the great western railway

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Laurence Olivier

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actor, did lots of Shakespeare plays. Gave name to the Olivier Awards.

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Ian McEwan, Hillary Mantel, Julian Barnes

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Writers who all won Man Booker Prize for fiction

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Henry Purcell

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Organist of Westminster, composer

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Gustav Holst

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Composer, wrote The Planets, about solar system

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Roland Joffe

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Director, made The killing Fields

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David Lean

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Director, made Brief Encounters

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Sir Walter Scott

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Poet who wrote about Scotland and it’s stories, and stories about border between Scotland and england

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Evelyn Waugh

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Wrote satyrical novels, Brideshead Revisited

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Sake dean mahomet

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Opened first curry house in uk

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Sir Terence Conran

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Interior designer

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Thomas chippendale

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Furniture designer

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Michael newell

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4 weddings and a funeral director

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Sir Edward Elgar

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Musician, Pomp and Circumstance Marches.

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Sir Roger Bannister

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Runner, first man in world to run a mile in less the 4 minutes, 1954

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