But we leave the last word with Fergal Keane - the man from RTE who gave his on-air celebrations that stylish touch of history.

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Google CEO Larry Page was among the many others to offer a word on the man who is seen as the most forward-thinking CEO of the last few decades.

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Think of fiction's best drawn, most entertaining characters - Chaucer's Pardoner, Shakespeare's Iago, every third man and woman in Jane Austen, every other man and woman in Dickens - and the H-word is there, satisfyingly to be unmasked.

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On average, audiences gave "Iron Man 3" an A grade, according to market research firm CinemaScore, meaning word-of-mouth for the film should be strong.

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The 185-word article by Lawrence was responding to another article in the journal called The Ugliness of Women by a man called JHR.

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The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden, " which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.

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He was at his core a fearful, law-abiding, overly cautious man, yet he let her walk past him into his apartment without a word.

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