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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Cheshire Cheese
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(London EC4)
A pub of great antiquity, just off Fleet Street, with many writers and artists among its past patrons. Even Samuel *Johnson is claimed to have been of their number, though hard evidence is lacking. A more certain regular was a parrot at the time of World War I. On Armistice night it repeated some 400 times its trick of imitating the pop of a champagne cork, before collapsing from temporary exhaustion.
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