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    The Exeter Exchange (signed and popularly known as Exeter Change) was a building on the north side of the Strand in London, with an arcade extending partway...
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    The Corn Exchange is a market hall and events venue in the Market Street, Exeter, Devon, England. It was designed by the city architect, Harold Rowe and...
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    Exeter (/ˈɛksɪtər/ EK-sih-tər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 36 mi...
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    was bought by circus owner Stephani Polito to join his menagerie at Exeter Exchange on the Strand in London. The menagerie was bought by Edward Cross in...
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  • It was converted in 1676 into Exeter Exchange, famous for its menagerie of wild animals, and demolished in 1829. Exeter Hall, built to be the largest...
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    of an existing Tudor house. Exeter House was demolished in 1676 and Exeter Exchange built on the site. A menagerie was built on the upper floors in 1773...
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  • Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is a coeducational university preparatory private school for boarding and day students in grades...
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    The Exeter Book, also known as the Codex Exoniensis or Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, is a large codex of Old English poetry, believed to have been...
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    circuses. In early 19th century, the species was exhibited at the Exeter Exchange in London, as well as menageries in Vienna and Paris. The first zoo...
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    captivity. In 1817, an orangutan joined several other animals in London's Exeter Exchange. The ape was recorded to have rejected the company of other animals...
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    in the summer, and exhibited his animals at Exeter Exchange in the winter. The menagerie at Exeter Exchange was very popular during Polito's short period...
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    Paris during the siege in 1870. Chunee, elephant in the menagerie at Exeter Exchange; executed by soldiers from Somerset House in March 1826. The Dundee...
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    that was brought alive from Guangdong in China to the menagerie at Exeter Exchange in London.Felis macrosceloides proposed by Brian Houghton Hodgson in...
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    hall was built on the site of Exeter Exchange, which had been famous for its menagerie of wild animals; prior to the Exeter 'Change, as it was known, the...
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    that was brought alive from Guangdong in China to the menagerie at Exeter Exchange in London. Leopardus brachyurus was proposed by Robert Swinhoe in 1862...
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    giraffe known today as Zarafa was one among a series of diplomatic gifts exchanged between Charles X of France and the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali...
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    obscure. Cross worked for Stephen Polito, the owner of the menagerie at Exeter Exchange in the Strand. Cross's daughter married Polito's brother, and Cross...
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    new Surrey Zoological Gardens, using animals from his menagerie at Exeter Exchange, in competition with the new London Zoo in Regent's Park. A large circular...
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  • alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781. John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; president of...
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  • 1811, is killed at Edward Cross's Royal Grand National Menagerie at Exeter Exchange on The Strand after running amok the week before in The Strand, killing...
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    Jamrach's nearest rival was Edward Cross, who ran a menagerie at Exeter Exchange on the Strand. Jamrach was born in Germany (either in Hamburg or Memel)...
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    Sold by M. Sheepey, under the Royal Exchange; J. Wren, near Great Turn Style. Holborn; and T. Lownds, Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1750. Emoff, R. (2002)...
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    Exeter Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located near the city of Exeter, Devon, England. Locally it is known as Haldon racecourse because...
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    His body was returned to London, lying in state at the Great Room of Exeter Exchange, Strand, and was interred in his family's vault at St. Martin's "with...
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    Exeter Book Riddle 26 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century...
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    an Exeter's Farmer Exchange, a market, and a post office. The post office has been in operation at Exeter since 1880. Notable people born in Exeter include...
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    Bell, (successor to Mr. Bathoe) at his Circulating-Library, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; S. Bladon, Pater-Noster-Row; and C. Etherington, at...
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    Driffield Corn Exchange, Exeter Corn Exchange, Fakenham Corn Exchange, Faringdon Corn Exchange, Grantham Corn Exchange, Guildford Corn Exchange, Hadleigh Corn...
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    at these auctions – for example lot 150 at a sale of paintings at Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 3 April 1690. Karen Hearn, Honorary Professor at UCL...
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    The Exeter Book riddles are a fragmentary collection of verse riddles in Old English found in the later tenth-century anthology of Old English poetry known...
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