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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: SIMPSON
 Simpson, Alan - Steptoe and Son
Simpson, James (obstetrician)
 - on leprosy
- uses chloroform in childbirth
- first anaesthetic in childbirth
- invents 'air tractor'
 Simpson, Wallis - and the abdication crisis
- and Edward VIII
Simpson, William - in the Crimean War
Sinai - early copper mines
- mining by Egyptians in c.2550 BC
- monastery of St Catherine
- restored to Egypt in 1982
Sinan, Turkish architect
Sind - occupied by Arabs in 712
Sindbad the Sailor - in the Arabian Nights
- brief account
Singapore - and Britain
- falls to Japanese in 1942
Sing a Song of Sixpence
singeing the king of Spain's beard - in 1587
Singh - as Sikh name
Singing Detective (Potter)
Sinhalese - moving into Sri Lanka
- and the name Ceylon
sinking fund - introduced by Pitt
- brief account
Sinn Fein - origin of name
- by-election victories from 1916
- leaders arrested in 1918
- election success in 1918
- and the northern Irish peace process
- brief history
Sinn Fein Volunteers - splinter group in 1914
Sinop - in the Crimean War
Sino-Tibetan - language group of east Asia
Sinterklaas - and Father Christmas
Sintra, convention of - in the Peninsular War
Sioux - and the war of 1876
Siraj-ud-Daula - nawab of Bengal
siren suit (in World War II)
Sir Galahad, HMS - in the Falklands War
- as war grave
Sir Gawain and Green Knight - alliteration
Sirhind - battle in 1555
Sirius - and flooding of the Nile
Sir Patrick Spens (ballad)
Sir Tristram - in the Falklands War
Sissinghurst Castle (and garden), Kent
Sistine chapel - and Sixtus IV
- and Michelangelo
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