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    Simon Winchester OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered...
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  • The Surgeon of Crowthorne (category Books by Simon Winchester)
    the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published in England in 1998. It was retitled The Professor...
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    Winchester (/ˈwɪntʃɪstər/, US also /-tʃɛs-/) is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local...
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  • Parliament constituency) Winchester Cathedral Diocese of Winchester Bishop of Winchester Winchester College City of Winchester, the local government district...
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  • the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World is a 2021 book by Simon Winchester. The book details different conceptions of land ownership and the history...
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  • The Meaning of Everything (category Books by Simon Winchester)
    Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester. It concerns the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary under the...
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  • (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester. It stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer...
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    November 1681, a pepper crop was being offered for sale by inhabitants.) Simon Winchester maintains, in his 2003 book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August...
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    Simon Winchester on His Book The Meaning of Everything. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2017. "Transcript: Simon Winchester...
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  • Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (category Books by Simon Winchester)
    Day the World Exploded is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester covering the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Winchester examines the annihilation in 1883 of the...
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    천연보호구역 (漢拏山 天然保護區域)". Simon Winchester. Korea: a walk through the land of miracles (London, Penguin, 2004). Page 39. Simon Winchester (21 February 1988)...
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    occasionally use the words travail, which means struggle. According to Simon Winchester in his book The Best Travelers' Tales (2004), the words travel and...
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    Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman), by Simon Winchester, was published in 1998 and chronicles both Minor's later life and his...
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  • part of a complicated disinformation campaign). Needham's biographer Simon Winchester claimed that "Needham was intellectually in love with communism; and...
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  • Winchester (also known as Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built) is a 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, and written...
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    Der Spiegel magazine, in the late 1980s journalist and travel writer Simon Winchester reported that some hotel employees on the island performed as "professional...
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  • The Map that Changed the World (category Books by Simon Winchester)
    The Map that Changed the World is a 2001 book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological...
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    the bridge, which Simon Winchester described as "bent" and having cracked and patched pavement, has been replaced since Winchester's book was published...
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  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. September 23, 2019. Simon Winchester.The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.The Daily Telegraph.December...
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  • Korea. Harvard University Press. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-0-674-61576-2. Simon Winchester (27 October 2009). Korea. HarperCollins. pp. 225–. ISBN 978-0-06-075044-2...
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  • Sutcliffe p. 64 Barker p. 48 Sutcliffe pp. 53–58 Sutcliffe pp. 56–57 Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary...
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    a biography of Smith by Simon Winchester Geology of Great Britain William Maclure George Bellas Greenough Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed the...
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    1093/obo/9780199772810-0259, ISBN 978-0-19-977281-0, retrieved 2022-06-06 Simon Winchester, “Has 'run' run amok? It has 645 meanings… so far”. NPR, 30 May 2011...
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  • on every single first day of every single month that has passed." Simon Winchester, 2006. "...the more common version 'rabbit, rabbit, white rabbit' should...
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    The .30-30 Winchester (officially named the .30 Winchester Center Fire or .30 WCF) cartridge was first marketed for the Winchester Model 1894 lever-action...
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    (4): 39. doi:10.2307/1006294. JSTOR 1006294. (article pages: 1–113) Simon Winchester, 2002, The Map that Changed the World, Harper-Collins ISBN 0-06-093180-9...
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  • book did face some criticism. Writing for The Wall Street Journal, Simon Winchester said the book was "captivating" but faulted Grann's credulity, especially...
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  • learning, and he is supposed to have learned Russian in only 14 days. Simon Winchester records that some of Bradley's childhood notebooks, discovered by a...
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    Remnants of the British Empire (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997). Simon Winchester, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (London...
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  • (band), a Japanese rock band Land (book), a 2021 non-fiction book by Simon Winchester Land (magazine), a Swedish weekly magazine The Land (weekly newspaper)...
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