Armitstead's performance was a welcome boost for home fans after the bitter disappointment of Mark Cavendish's failure to win the men's road race Saturday.
Cavendish's chances disappeared when he lost touch about 15km from the end.
Cavendish's hopes appeared to have been boosted when rival Swiss sprinter Fabian Cancellara crashed, but the peloton could not close on the leading group.
Monday's stage takes the riders from Vise to Tournai over 207.5km and is expected to favor sprinters such as Britain's Mark Cavendish, who has won 20 stages of the Tour de France.
Professor Todd, who is organising a conference at Cambridge University's Lucy Cavendish College in June to mark the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice, describes the novel as "much sunnier" than Austen's other works.
In the 2005 film, it is Chatsworth Keira Knightley that is referring to when she jokes that her love for Darcy dates from her "first seeing his grounds at Pemberley, " but Austen expert Janet Todd, of Cambridge University's Lucy Cavendish College, says this is a mistake.
The world's top sprinter, Mark Cavendish of HTC, will ride a Venge in this year's Tour de France.
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Meanwhile, Britain's other great cycling star, Mark Cavendish , claimed his fourth win of this year's Giro after Friday's 254km leg from Busseto to Cherasco.
Thursday's 184.5km stage 11 is one for the sprinters, so Cavendish - twice a winner on this year's Tour already - should be back in contention.
The fastest man on the planet, Cavendish could surpass Chris Boardman's British record for professional race wins during the Tour.
At one time in the 1930s eight Nobel prizewinners were working in the Cavendish, then the world's leading centre for experimental nuclear physics.
"We are concerned that children and their parents could be subject to unfair pressure to purchase when they are playing games they thought were free, but which can actually run up substantial costs, " said Cavendish Elithorn, the OFT's senior director for goods and consumer.
It was, by all accounts, a superior-tasting fruit to today's supermarket stocks of the Cavendish variety.
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CNN's Tom Watkins, Helena Cavendish deMoura, Shasta Darlington and Chelsea J.
Australian Matt Goss, a team-mate of Cavendish at HTC Highroad, reclaimed the leader's jersey after placing third on stage three.
It was shown by Maurice Wilkins of King's College to James Watson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, who said "my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race".
Stapleton has high hopes that his star rider Mark Cavendish of Britain will be in the race leader's pink jersey after the first three stages.
All bananas you find in U.S. grocery stores are of the same variety, the Cavendish.
And Cavendish showed all the class that saw him win four stages in last year's Tour de France to burst from the pack and take victory.
The patented plastic display technology in QUE has been 10 years in development, since Plastic Logic's founding by researchers from the renowned University of Cambridge (UK) Cavendish Labs.
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An experiment under way at the University of Washington, led by Eric Adelberger, tests this idea using the world's most sensitive torsion balance, a souped-up version of the kit Henry Cavendish, an English physicist, used to measure gravity directly for the first time in the late 18th century.
Mark Cavendish from the Isle of Man and Welsh rider Geraint Thomas both made waves in this year's Tour de France and will be looking to cap excellent seasons with the Commonwealth title.
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