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Don's bequest decided by a sundial An Oxford college has been left a share of the £888,000 estate of a former fellow, but will not get a penny unless it agrees to put a sundial designed by Sir...
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A forest of lies behind a pin-up's murder
Comrade Pavlik
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Weapon of mass instruction
The Assassins' Gate
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Tigers growl at sons of the soil while a shared voice is lacking
Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka
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A hazy memory of a strange metallic taste
MRI from A to Z
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Stirring up the murky waters
A Companion to Mark Twain
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A dead goat does not a marvel make
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
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A vulgar word or two in your shell-like
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang
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Veiled might of the harem
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World - Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
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Count links to get a No 1 hit
Google's PageRank and Beyond
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At last - the source of the bile
The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; Or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a textbook of erotic love: "We bow to religion, power, and pleasure, because they are the subject of...
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How you can make a real killing in virtual universes
Synthetic Worlds
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'Industrial saturnalia' by the sea
The Playful Crowd
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From Aztec to high-tech
Mexican Modernity