• Lenin of the Rovers was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series from 1988 written by Marcus Berkmann, produced by Harry Thompson and starring comedian Alexei Sayle...
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  • Harry Thompson (category Comedians from the London Borough of Camden)
    Whitehouse Experience. Rising to the level of producer, he produced the BBC radio shows The News Quiz and Lenin of the Rovers. Hat Trick Productions subsequently...
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  • Marcus Berkmann (category The Spectator people)
    he scripted the BBC Radio comedy Lenin of the Rovers. He came to prominence with his book, Rain Men (1995), which humorously chronicles the formation and...
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    Alexei Sayle (category The Comic Strip)
    being a reference to John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman. He also starred in two series of Lenin of the Rovers, a 1988 comedy about Britain's first...
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  • of Letters Lenin of the Rovers Little Britain Living with the Enemy The Mark Steel Revolution The Mark Steel Solution The Masterson Inheritance The Men...
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  • Estrella Polar – The Longest Penalty Shot in the World F.C. De Kampioenen – FC De Kampioenen Felchester Rovers - Lenin of the Rovers Fulchester United...
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  • Kenneth Wolstenholme (category Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom))
    appearing in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Lenin of the Rovers in 1988 as football commentator Frank Lee Brian. In 1990, he was a guest star on the first episode...
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  • advertising satire starring Martin Jarvis Lenin of the Rovers Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting The Little Big Woman Show, sitcom about a wannabe...
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  • 1988 in British radio (category 1988 in the United Kingdom)
    and The Gold AM January – The Big Fun Show on BBC Radio 4 (1988) 2 January – Whose Line Is It Anyway? on BBC Radio 4 (1988) 13 February – Lenin of the Rovers...
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    year following the February Revolution that had dissolved the Russian Empire. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian Soviet...
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  • Vasilevsky and Vladimir Kirillovikh, the chief designer; the company invented the hydrofoil in the late 1950s, winning the Lenin Prize in 1957; hydroaerodynamics...
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  • "Disney Delays 'Doctor Strange,' 'Thor 4,' 'Black Panther' Sequel and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Variety. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved...
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  • Osagyefo Lenin Ernesto Burton-Godwin (born 25 November 1977), known commonly as Sagi Burton, is an English-born former Kittitian international football...
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    Luna 21 (category 1973 in the Soviet Union)
    Serenitatis ("Sea of Serenity") and the Taurus Mountains. The lander carried a bas-relief of Vladimir Lenin and the Soviet coat-of-arms. Less than three...
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    Göran Kropp (category Swedish summiters of Mount Everest)
    major peak, Lenin Peak (7134 meters high), located on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Kropp and his companions ascended the peak in a record...
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    survived Lenin, all were purged by Stalin. Old Bolsheviks who had been loyal comrades of Lenin, high officers in the Red Army, and directors of industry...
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    Tomas Olsson (category Swedish summiters of Mount Everest)
    skiing down some of the world's highest and steepest mountains. He had gone from the top of Aconcagua in Argentina (6960 m), Lenin Peak in Kyrgyzstan...
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    Lunokhod 2 (category Lunar rovers)
    No. 204")) was the second of two uncrewed lunar rovers that landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod programme. The Luna 21 spacecraft...
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    aggravated the crisis in the country instead of resolving it, and eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional...
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    Werewolf in Paris, Good Bye, Lenin!, Anonymous). Zdzisław Antolski, 70, Polish poet. Suren Babayan, 73, Armenian film director (The 13th Apostle) and actor...
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    serving as secretary of the Italian workers' union in Lausanne. Angelica Balabanov reportedly introduced him to Vladimir Lenin, who later criticised...
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    recommended what Lenin and others earlier had explicitly condemned—carnivals, farces, and games to intimidate and purge the youth of religious belief...
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    Kremlin's depiction of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia as backwards and inept (relative to the purported utopia of Marxism–Leninism) contributed to the popular uprising...
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    Lenin uses this line of thinking to suggest that the 1905 Russian Revolution, which he called a "peasant bourgeois revolution," failed because of its...
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  • 1898: Blackburn Rovers v West Bromwich Albion, is the world's oldest extant soccer film, by Arthur Cheetham. 1907: Wales, England: Land of Castles and Waterfalls...
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    Rovers 4–1, meaning that just 114 seats (0.15% of the total capacity of 76,212) were left unoccupied. In 2009, a reorganisation of the seating in the...
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    and the original oath, law, educational content and methods were changed (mention of God was removed from the oath, Lenin introduced as a hero, the Bolshevik...
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    Adolf Hitler (redirect from The Führer)
    politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor...
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    are explicitly on display here. The Iron Heel meets the contemporary definition of soft science fiction. The Star Rover (1915) is also science fiction...
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    where it would be used as a simulator of future pressurized rovers for astronauts on the Moon and Mars. The HMP Okarian was eventually flown from Cambridge...
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