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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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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
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Two nursery-rhyme characters who are about to fight over a rattle when they are frightened out of it by a crow. They are now best known from their appearance, illustrated by Tenniel, in *Through the Looking-Glass, but they were familiar figures long before that. In 1725 a poet and diarist, John Byrom, compared two composers, Handel and Bononcini, to this indistinguishable pair of puny rivals.
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