Xenophon PCDGS
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Sorry, perhaps I did not phrase my previous reply as clearly as I could have!
You were right concerning the Stanford reference, but not concerning "stepping into his father's shoes literally"
As you will appreciate, Stanford had many pupils, and Vaughan Williams was not the one I was looking for!
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Xenophon PCDGS
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My apology...please carry on with the current conundrum...I have now deleted my last one.
Xenophon PCDGS
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You said it was not Edward Benjamin Britten, so I am now stymied.
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OK - I don't like to think of you as stymied, so here's one further clue [which should now make it easy!]. 
I said that he "did not step into his father's shoes [literally], and that was an important clue. His father, John, was a founder of K Shoes.
I said that he "did not step into his father's shoes [literally], and that was an important clue. His father, John, was a founder of K Shoes.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Arthur Somervell
Song cycles would include Maud (1898) and A Shropshire Lad (1904)
Choral works would include The Forsaken Merman (1895) and The Passion of Christ (1914)
Song cycles would include Maud (1898) and A Shropshire Lad (1904)
Choral works would include The Forsaken Merman (1895) and The Passion of Christ (1914)
Xenophon PCDGS
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I will now relaunch the one that I had earlier intended to.....
In the early years of the 20th century, which Franco-Peruvian reached his journey's end at Fatu Iwa ?
In the early years of the 20th century, which Franco-Peruvian reached his journey's end at Fatu Iwa ?
martinsh
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Well the only Franco-Peruvian with Polynesian connections that I know of was Paul Gauguin.
Xenophon PCDGS
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You are most correct.
Your turn to set the next one.
Your turn to set the next one.
martinsh
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Open floor
Buttsy
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Which song do the following lines come from and who was the original artist?:
My illusion, worn like a mask of self-hate, confronts and then dies.
My illusion, worn like a mask of self-hate, confronts and then dies.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Being a Mancunian by birth, I will venture....
Atmosphere....by Joy Division
Atmosphere....by Joy Division
Buttsy
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Correct
Xenophon PCDGS
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Which pioneer achieved whole-hearted substation in the "great barn" ?
cjp
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Could this be Christian Barnard the heart transplant surgeon?
- a bit of a barn and he was a pioneer and you could have meant substitution rather than substation - grasping at straws here
Xenophon PCDGS
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Indeed it is. Well done for solving my cryptically-worded clue.
Please set the next one.
Please set the next one.
cjp
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OK just so people think but it is easy to look up
A 747 jet typically flies at 35.000' i
In the UK what is the difference between this height and the greatest height obtained by an unpowered glider and where was this achieved?
Xenophon PCDGS
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On 30th August 2006 as part of the Perlan Project, Einar Enevoldson and Steve Fossett reached a height of 50,720 feet in an unpowered glider over Argentina, so the difference would be 15,720 feet.
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cjp
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This is all true but I asked about the UK
where difference is much smaller
Xenophon PCDGS
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This is all true but I asked about the UK
Just two letters "UK"...which I overlooked..
cjp
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Easily done, and I was impressed by your precision - to the nearest 500' will do now people appreciate how high gliders can go. In the UK just ordinary gliders were used for a wave flight.Just two letters "UK"...which I overlooked..
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clearly too obscure and as I may not be on for day or two
. . . . 3,000' Scotland - launched at Aboyne.
Open floor
Xenophon PCDGS
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In the early years of the 20th century, whose weekly journal began to publicise atrocities in what then was known as the Congo Free State ?
D841 Roebuck
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W T Stead?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Not so.
deltic1989
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A friend of mine who has a soft spot for African history informs me, that he has a book on his Kindle entitled, A Journal of a tour in the Congo Free State written by one Marcus Dorman.
From what he has told me of it it seems to be a piece of literature that I would be as well to avoid, however my curiosity will inevitably get the better of me sooner or later.
I will call open floor if I am correct as I am working tomorrow and unlikely to be home until Tuesday Evening.
From what he has told me of it it seems to be a piece of literature that I would be as well to avoid, however my curiosity will inevitably get the better of me sooner or later.
I will call open floor if I am correct as I am working tomorrow and unlikely to be home until Tuesday Evening.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Not that one either. The clue referred to a weekly journal and was by a different author,
johnnychips
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Blackwood's Magazine? Or if it's a person I'll go for Arthur Conan-Doyle.
EDIT: This is annoying me. Let's try E.D. Morel in Speaker
EDIT: This is annoying me. Let's try E.D. Morel in Speaker
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Xenophon PCDGS
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I will give this to you. I had E.D.Morel....but in "The West African Mail"
Over to you.