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Quiz of the week

1) The 2010 film The King’s Speech follows the stutter struggles of which member of the Royal Family?
2) If you are entomophobic, what are you afraid of?
3) What are female dolphins called?
4) Who wrote Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded?
5) The Scotch Argus is what type of insect?

Word of the week

Espièglerie (noun)

Frolicsomeness, roguishness

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE August 25, 1923

FOR some time after the declaration of peace, much concern was expressed at the parlous condition into which Great Danes had fallen… The [breed] is not singular in having lost ground, which is now slowly being regained,

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