He ended with a challenge to the TED audience of technologists and high net-worth world beaters, can you match what Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others achieved in the 19th and 20th century.

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Thomas took a pass off Chris Bell to race 20 metres to the posts and give Hodgson the easiest of conversions.

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The bell was cast in 1768 by Thomas Bilbie of Chew Stoke.

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After all, no one considers Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the smartphone or Thomas Edison of the podcast.

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She found rodent bones and a bell from another animal's collar. (Not that unusual, says Thomas Carroll, the crematory operator she'd used, who says dogs eat the darnedest things.) Dornan, outraged, hooked up with Remkus, and they petitioned lawmakers to take action.

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Thomas Needham personally assured the National League of Families of the high regard in which he held Bill Bell and the integral role Bell would be playing in future investigations.

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But Sir Stuart Bell, who sits on the estimate committee, told the BBC on Sunday that Sir Thomas had been asked to carry out a review "in accordance with the rules at the time and the standards that applied at the time".

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