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Quiz of the week

1) Which is the smallest Historic Royal Palace?

2) Keats wrote an ode on which container?

3) How many teeth do adult dogs have?

4) Which Pre-Raphaelite artist painted Ophelia?

5) Which common garden bird is Erithacus rubecula?

Word of the week

Oscitancy (Noun) Yawning, drowsiness

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE February 24, 1923

IF [Wren’s] architecture represented the cold application of mathematical ideas, the scientific solution of constructional problems, it would all long ago have been forgotten. England would not this month be celebrating his bicentenary with an enthusiasm she has shown for no other artist. No, his scientific ability may have made it possible for him to organise the technical side of his

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