However, the Lord of the Rings is a great example of where male and female tastes can meet and overlap.

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Paul's Cathedral, died in 1391 and is buried in Luton, or his great nephew John, the first Lord Wenlock who lived near Luton and had associations with royalty.

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It is entirely appropriate to remember a great, no-nonsense Englishman, the Lord Protector Cromwell, instituted the Commonwealth of Great Britain long before the French or American revolutions, and he showed us a model without that Greco-Roman name of republic.

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But the unchecked power of its executive is a scandal of a different sort that no self-respecting sleazebuster, still less the great and good Lord Neill, can long ignore.

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