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Authors: George MacDonald Fraser

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    Quartered Safe Out Here
    300
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    311
  • Queen Mother
    8
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    9
  • Quentin Durward
    283
  • Quinn, Anthony
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    201
     
  •  Rabelais, Francois
    283
  • race relations
    213
    –
    229
  • Radio City Music Hall
    42
  • Rae, Douglas
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    199
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    237
  • Raft, George
    245
  • “Rapid Reaction Force”
    193
  • Rathbone, Basil
    168
  • Ravel, Maurice
    208
  • Reade, Charles
    318
  • Redford, Robert
    57
  • Redgrave, Michael
    140
  • Red Beret, The
    31
  • Red Circle School
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  • Red Sonja
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  • Reed, Carol 56fn.
  • Reed, Oliver
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  • Reeve, Christopher
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  • Reform Club 20fn. Reith, Lord
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  • Return of the Musketeers, The
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    87
  • Reyes, Ernie
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  • Richard III
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  • Rio Grande
    307
  • Ritt, Martin
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  • Robertson, Lord
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    184
  • Robeson, Paul
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  • Robin Hood
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  • Robinson, Edward G.
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    294
  • Rochester, comedian
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  • Rodeo Drive
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  • Roma
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  • Roman Catholic Church
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  • Roosevelt, Theodore 113fn.
  • Roots
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  • Rosenbloom, Maxie 57fn.
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  • Rubinstein, Helena
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  • Ruman, Sig
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  • Rumsfeld, Donald 20fn.
  • Runymede Trust
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  • Russell, Lord John
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  • Russell, Ken
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  • Russia
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  •  Sabatini, Rafael
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  • Sabu
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  • Salkind, Bertha
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  • Salkind, Ilya
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  • Salome
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  • Saltzkammergut
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  • Sanders, George
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  • Sandhurst
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  • Sanitsky, Larry
    280
  • Savalas, Telly
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  • Savoy Operas, The
    297
  • Sawyer, Tom
    173
  • Schiller, Johann
    75
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur
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  • Schulberg, Budd
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  • Schwarzenegger, Arnold
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  • Scofield, Paul
    173
  • Scotland
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  • Scotsman, The
    251
  • Scott, C.P.
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  • Scott, George C.
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  • Scott, Walter
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  • Sea Hawk, The
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  • Second World War
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  • Selous, F.C.
    284
  • Selznick, David O.
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  • Separate Tables
    162
  • Service, Robert
    317
  • Shakespeare, William
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    , 274 & fn.
  • Sharif, Omar
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  • Shaw, George Bernard
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  • Shaw, Robert
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  • Sheridan, Ann
    245
  • Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet, The
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  • Siam Railway
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  • Sierra Leone
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  • Sim, Alastair
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  • Sinatra, Frank
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  • 633
    Squadron
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  • Slaughter, Tod
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  • slave trade
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  • Slim, William
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    , 181fn.
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  • Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
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  • Somers, Will
    31
  • Soo, Frank
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  • Sopron
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  • Soylent Green
    27
  • Spain
    18
  • Spector, Maud
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  • Spengler, Pierre
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  • Spielberg, Steven
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  • Springer, Jerry
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  • sport
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  • Squire Western
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  • Stalin, Josef
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  • Stamp, Terence
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  • Star Wars
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  • Stewart, James
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  • Stilwell, Joseph
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  • Sting, The
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  • Sting II
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  • Suez campaign
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  • Sullivan, John L. 57fn.
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    , newspaper
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    films
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  • Surtees, R.S.
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  • Swaffer, Hannen
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  • Sweet Smell of Success
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  • Sword of Honour
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  • Synthetic Men of Mars
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  • Tahiti
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  • Taipan
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  • Tale of Two Cities, A
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  • Taliban
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  • Tashkent
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  • Taylor, Robert
    283
  • Tchaikowsky, Piotr
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  • Teal, Ray
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  • television
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  • Rillington Place
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  • And All That
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  • Thalberg, Irving
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  • Thatcher, Margaret
    45
  • Thief of Bagdad, The
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  • Third Man, The
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  • Thirty Years War
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  • Thomson, D.C.
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  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
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  • Toronto
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  • To Sir, With Love
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  • Tourist Trophy (T.T.)
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  • Tracy, Spencer
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  • Train, The
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  • Trajan
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  • Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
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  • Trinity College, Dublin
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  • Trollope, Anthony
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  • Twain, Mark
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    Leagues Under the Sea
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  • Twenty Years After
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  • Tynan, Kenneth
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  •  Unknown Soldier, The
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  • United States
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  • unproduced screenplays
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  • Unquiet Grave, The
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  • Updike, John
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    Valdez is Coming
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  • Veidt, Conrad
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  • Verne, Jules
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  • Venice
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  • Venice Boulevard
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  • Vera Cruz
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  • Vikings, The
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  • Wakibi
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  • Walcott, Jersey Joe 57fn.
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  • Walker, Tommy
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  • Washington, George
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  • Waterloo Cup
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  • Waugh, Evelyn 261fn.
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  • West, Mae
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  • West, Timothy
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  • Western Mail
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  • West Point
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    (see also Parliament)
  • Wheatley, Dennis
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  • Wilder, Billy
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  • Williams, Charlie
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  • Wilson, Angus
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  • Wilson, A.N.
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  • Wilson, Michael G.
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  • Windward Passage
    308
  • Wizard of Oz, The
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  • Wodehouse, P.G.
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  • Wolf of Kabul 97 & fn.,
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  • Women in Love
    83
  • Wood, Natalie 182fn.
  • Wooll, Nigel
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  • World Cup
    69
  • Worm Ouroboros, The
    54
  • Wounded Knee
    118
  • World Trade Centre
    17
  • Worsthorne, Peregrine
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  • Worth, B.J.
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  • Wyndham, Dennis
    28

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