Not least, his assumption, for all the space he gives their squabbles, of the essential unity of the English-speaking peoples.

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Katherine Forsyth, an expert in the history and culture of early Celtic-speaking peoples, based at the University of Glasgow, described it as an "amazing find".

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Indeed, as financial historian Niall Ferguson observed in his book The Ascent Of Money, English speaking peoples already have an obsession with property, with or without tax breaks.

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Most of the Luhya (the country's second-biggest group, unrelated to the Luo), most of the ten or so Kalenjin-speaking peoples of the Rift Valley, most of Kenya's Muslims and most of Kenya's poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga.

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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, also a former negotiator with North Korea, told me this was a magic moment, with different peoples speaking the same language of music.

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And you know, they would use a rationale that, well, we're so close to one another, we're such brotherly peoples, we don't need embassies speaking for us.

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