Ms Suu Kyi had two sons with late husband, British scholar Michael Aris.

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Arthur Waley, a British scholar also known for his translations of Chinese literature, published his version from 1925 to 1933.

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In 1852, the inspiration for the character in "Alice in Wonderland, " Alice Liddell, was born, the daughter of British scholar Henry Liddell.

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As it happens, some experts -- notably, a distinguished British scholar, Dr. Mark Almond -- anticipate that, despite his poor showing in the polls at the moment, President Yeltsin will be re-elected.

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Some were brilliant, including his biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, an unscrupulous British oriental scholar, and his satirical essays on life at Oxford published under the pseudonym Mercurius Oxoniensis.

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The British literary critic and scholar was joined on the judging panel by authors Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks.

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The Bells were very rich: but it was not money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford, or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her a spy or a major in the British army, or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, cartographer, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state.

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And one rebel, a stunningly handsome, 21-year-old scholar from Connecticut, died in that struggle after the British Army caught him spying on it.

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