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Bagpuss
Children’s television series about a young Victorian girl called Emily, her shop, and her magical saggy old cloth cat, Bagpuss.
Boids
Computational model of flocking produced by the computer graphics expert Craig Reynolds in 1986.
Champagne Charlie (song)
Best-known of the songs sung by the music hall artist George Leybourne (1842–1884).
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Jackanory
BBC children’s television series originally broadcast from 1965 until 1996.
Municipal Borough of Leigh
Local government district in Lancashire, England, created in 1899 and abolished in 1974.
My Word, You Do Look Queer
Comic monologue by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston, first performed by Ernest Hastings in 1922 and revived by Stanley Holloway in 1938.
Peel Trident
The Peel Trident, designed by Cyril Cannell, was first produced by the Peel Engineering Co from 1965–1966, and reintroduced by Peel Engineering Ltd in 2011.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale popularly associated with Germany, one of those collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales. It tells of an imp able to spin straw into gold, and the price he demands for his service.
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