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Cost of a big mac in london2/2/2023 ![]() Champagne was considered too extravagant during postwar Britain in 1961 Madame Guérin, “The Poppy Lady from France” who campaigned to establish the remembrance day poppy, died aged 83. She is buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey, and memorialised in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929): “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn” in 1947 the phrase Cold War was coined in a speech delivered by Bernard Baruch, a US statesman and millionaire financier in 1953 the Royal Yacht Britannia was launched by the Queen, who smashed a bottle of Empire wine against the hull during the ceremony at the John Brown & Co shipyards on the Clyde, Scotland. Among her works is Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688). ![]() In 1689 Aphra Behn, a former spy who became one of the first Englishwomen to earn a living by writing, died in London aged 48.
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