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Quiz of the week

1) Who succeeded Edward III in 1377?

2) Which is the world’s heaviest flying bird?

3) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats is loosely based on which T. S. Eliot work?

4) Which is the UK’s largest forest?

5) Nicholas Hawksmoor was a notable practitioner of which architectural style?

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE November 18, 1922

MODERN furniture design has been recently discussed in these pages, and the forthcoming Arts and Crafts Exhibition at Burlington House will contain many specimens. This will be in connection with the Winter Exhibition and is held under the auspices of the Royal Academy... It is a great opportunity. But what happens?… A special stipulation has been made by the Academy that only the names of

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