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Quiz of the week

1) Nanki-Poo is a character in which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta?

2) What was the world’s first postage stamp, issued in the UK in 1840?

3) Arborists specialise in the care and maintenance of what?

4) The ruins of which Welsh Abbey became Romantic symbols and inspired both Wordsworth and Turner?

5) What’s the name for a male duck?

Word of the week

Wastrife (adjective) Wasteful

100 years ago in June 23, 1923

IN what main way is American civic building better than our own, and in what way do we score in domestic work? The success of American town building lies chiefly in its impersonal character. It

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