• He thought that there was probably a "core of truth" to the hundreds of sightings of big cats in the UK - the most famous of which is the Beast of Bodmin Moor - but said even the police could be unreliable witnesses.

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  • More commonly now you just have regular folk going on cultural tourism vacations, and they really discovered the African cultural center of cities like Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, which is famous as being one of the most rich cities in African cultural heritage in the Americas.

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  • But all rooms have the jaw dropping view of jagged Skaros rock straight ahead and due to the curve of the island, of the famous sunset, which guests can see without leaving their decks.

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  • La Venencia is exactly how sherry bars should be: old world, drinks poured straight from the dusty wooden barrels, and none of the frenetic activity for which the barrio of Huertas is famous.

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  • It starts with the name, which of course is a play on the great Isaac Asimov novels, from which came the famous Three Laws of Robotics.

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  • In a zany new competition, your wildest howl could get you a free trip to the home of Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter of the famous masterpiece, The Scream, which shows a figure howling in agony against a dramatic backdrop of swirling waters and a fiery orange sky.

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  • Behind the elite runners over 37, 000 started the 32nd staging of the famous race which finishes on The Mall in front of Buckingham Palace.

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  • The young Fabregas continued to live at home and go to school, but spent the rest of his time at La Masia, training, eating and studying at the famous institution which produced seven of the Barcelona side that won the treble of La Liga, Spanish Cup and Champions League in 2009.

    BBC: The one that got away

  • By the 1840s the old detective-style units formerly run by magistrates, the most famous of which was the Bow Street Runners, had been absorbed, as had the marine unit, although the City of London retains its own police force today.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Met celebrates 175 years on the beat

  • As well as being the world's 10th-richest person, Chairman David Thomson is also the third Baron Thomson of Fleet Street, that being the famous road in London on which many of the U.K.'s biggest newspapers, along with Reuters, used to be based.

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  • The willow bark contained salicin, the pharmacological ancestor of a family of drugs called salicylates, of which aspirin is the most famous.

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  • Van Gogh found his muse in the city of Arles, which set the scene for many of his most famous works.

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  • This tale is worthy of one of the soap operas for which Brazil is famous.

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  • He found himself in the basement of one of the city's most famous theatres, the Comedie Francaise, which had been turned into an emergency operating room.

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  • Both of those wins came in 2003, the most famous and most recent of which was achieved thanks to the wonder strike from Jonny Wilkinson's right boot in extra time of the World Cup final.

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  • Comparing it with adult specimens (the most famous of which is known as Lucy) should show the way that A. afarensis grew from childhood to adulthood, particularly the way the brain grew.

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  • The stage adaptation of Donaldson's most famous character the Gruffalo, which I saw a couple of years ago in Felixstowe, was based on the comparatively simple premise of actors playing the scary monster, the even scarier mouse and other characters along the way.

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  • She was also a woman of many houses (eight, to be exact), the most famous of which are Rough Point, her family seat in Newport, R.

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  • It was a bitter blow for the home fans, whose side had been on the verge of earning a famous victory ahead of the 2010 World Cup, which the country will also host.

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  • Subscribers can embark on a journey of discovery of great British talent and writers, as well as learning the story of Doctor Who's famous Daleks in Daleks Forever which is just one of the curated collections available in the extensive archive.

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  • The New York-New York Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas which has a model of the famous statue that is half the size of the real one positioned in its fake New York Harbor.

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  • The latest reorganisation looks like a prelude to the gradual sale of some of the biggest holdings, which include some of Germany's most famous companies.

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  • Here is a look at some of the homes of the ultra-famous currently on the market, as listed by TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, which posts famous and unique homes weekly.

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  • But the slum, which was made famous after parts of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" were filmed there, may not exist for much longer.

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  • The author of Dracula was also the author of the non-fiction book, Famous Imposters, which exposed hoaxes such as witchcraft and magic.

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  • They also looked at a range of cultural trends, such as how long it takes innovations to impinge on the popular consciousness (which is happening ever more quickly), the age at which celebrities become famous (which is dropping, albeit at the expense of ultimately shorter spells in the limelight), as well as many other more or less frivolous trends.

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  • The entire West Side of Berlin - in which I whiled away hours at the famous Literaturhaus restaurant in Charlottenburg - belongs to another era.

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  • There's the inevitable slow motion run before the Baywatch theme music and a rendition of Freedom for the World, which shows Hasselhoff playing his famous Berlin wall gig ("a million people, " he points out with pride).

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  • The most famous example of this is the drug Herceptin, which is used in breast cancers with a certain genetic abnormality.

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  • The House of the Seven Gables was also made famous in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel, which brings to life the gloomy Puritan atmosphere of early New England.

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