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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there - George Orwell
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On this day:
William of Orange Takes Exeter - 1688, Jack the Ripper claims last victim - 1888, Brian Epstein Meets The Beatles - 1961, Lennon Meets Yoko - 1966, Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989
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