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On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
Certificate – X, U, PG, R, G (from the film certificates) Charged – ION. Charlie – C ( NATO phonetic alphabet) Chartered accountant – CA. Chief – CH. Chlorine – CL (chemical symbol) Chromosome – X or Y. Church – CH or CE ( Church of England) or RC ( Roman Catholic) Circa – C.
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [26] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ) [3] is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.It is noted for having educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, having been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
Rex Parker. Michael David Sharp (born November 26, 1969), known by the pseudonym Rex Parker, is an American college instructor and blogger known for his blog, Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle, about the New York Times crossword puzzle. Outside of crosswords, Sharp teaches English at Binghamton University in New York.
Public school (United Kingdom) The playing fields of Rugby School, 1567, reestablished 1828. The rules of rugby football were codified here in 1845. In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school [ 1] originally for older boys.
It was found that 7.1% of Black students received higher actual grades compared to 6.6% of White students, 6.5% of Asian students and 6.1% of Mixed students. [33] In 2018, of all teachers in state-funded schools in England, 14.1% were from BAME groups. [34] 33.5% of primary school and 31.3% of secondary school pupils in England were from BAME ...
The British School Manila was founded in 1976, where it has grown from 2 classrooms and 32 students to over 950 students, representing 52 nationalities. [4] The school first operated in the old Union Church, then in 1980 moved to Merville, Parañaque. In September 2001, BSM relocated to purpose-built premises in Bonifacio Global City, in Metro ...