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David Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - David Jason - Early Career
Jason started his television career in 1967, at the same time as Michael Palin in Do Not Adjust Your Set and appeared in variety shows in...
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1940: Encyclopedia - 1940
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
1940 - Births.
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Buckinghamshire: Encyclopedia - Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury.
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band) were the brainchild of a British art-school set of the 1960s. Part jazz band, ...
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Ronnie Barker: Encyclopedia Ii - Ronnie Barker - Success
He then worked as an actor and assistant stage manager with the Manchester Repertory Company, but was soon spotted by Sir Peter Hall who ...
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Monty Python: Encyclopedia Ii - Monty Python - The Pythons
Monty Python - Michael Palin.
The youngest Python by a matter of weeks, Palin is often labelled 'the nice one'. He attended Oxford, whe...
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Only Fools And Horses: Encyclopedia Ii - Only Fools And Horses - Situation
Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (played by David Jason) and his younger brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) share a flat with their elderly Grand...
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British Comedy Awards 2001: Encyclopedia Ii - British Comedy Awards 2001 - Television Radio And Film
Winners first; nominees indented
British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best New TV Comedy.
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Edmonton London: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmonton London - Railway And Transport
The railway arrived in 1840 with the opening of the first section of the Lea Valley Line from Stratford to Broxbourne. A station was prov...
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London Borough Of Enfield: Encyclopedia Ii - London Borough Of Enfield - History
Enfield was once a small market town on the edge of the forest about a day's travel north of London. But as Greater London has grown, Enf...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - The Band's Foundation
Unusually for a band, the actual date of conception for the Bonzos is known to us: September 25th, 1962. It was on that day that Vivian S...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Agrajag
Agrajag is a piteous creature that is continuously reincarnated and subsequently killed unknowingly by Arthur Dent each time. Agrajag fir...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Primary And Secondary Phases: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Primary And Secondary Phases - The Primary Phase
The first radio series was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. It was split into episodes, known as "Fits" (an archaic term for a section o...
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Piña Colada: Encyclopedia Ii - Piña Colada - In Pop Culture
The drink was popularized by Rupert Holmes' hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)".
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Wisbech: Encyclopedia Ii - Wisbech - History
A Norman castle to fortify Wisbech was built by William I, and in later Tudor times became a notorious prison. The Castle was rebuilt in ...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - The Band's Foundation
Unusually for a band, the actual date of conception for the Bonzos is known to us: September 25th, 1962. It was on that day that Vivian S...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - The Band's Foundation
Unusually for a band, the actual date of conception for the Bonzos is known to us: September 25th, 1962. It was on that day that Vivian S...
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Buckinghamshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Buckinghamshire - History
The name Buckinghamshire is Anglo Saxon and means The district (scire) of Bucca's home. Bucca's home refers to Buckingham in the north of...
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1940: Encyclopedia Ii - 1940 - Births
See also Category:1940 births
1940 - January-February.
January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Porridge Tv: Encyclopedia Ii - Porridge Tv - Television
Porridge TV - Basic premise.
The central character of Porridge is Norman Stanley Fletcher, described by his sentencing judge (whose voi...
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Terry Wogan: Encyclopedia Ii - Terry Wogan - Career
Terry Wogan - Early radio presenting.
After completing his education he went to work in a bank for five years, before he joined Radio T...
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Monty Python: Encyclopedia Ii - Monty Python - Flying Circus And The Python Style
The Pythons had a very definite idea about what they wanted to do with the series, and were a little dismayed when they saw Spike Milliga...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Zem
Zem is an affable swampdwelling mattress (probably of very high quality) who flollops around Squornshellous Zeta and tries his best to ch...
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Monty Python: Encyclopedia Ii - Monty Python - History Pre-python
Michael Palin and Terry Jones first met at Oxford University, while John Cleese and Graham Chapman met at Cambridge University. Eric Idle...
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Monty Python: Encyclopedia Ii - Monty Python - Life After Python
Monty Python - Python Monty Pictures.
The five surviving members of the main Monty Python team are directors of Python (Monty) Pictures...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Zarquon
Zarquon is a legendary prophet. He is apparently worshipped or held in some religious significance by one or more of the Galaxy's major r...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged
Wowbagger is an alien who became immortal due to a strange accident involving an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch and a pa...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Veet Voojagig
A quiet young talented student at the University of Maximegalon who, after drinking some Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with Zaphod Beebleb...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Varntvar The Priest
He has only four lines in the programme, accompanying Poodoo and the Allitnils in the conspiracy to destroy Lintilla's clones.
Varntvar i...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Thor
Thor is a figure in Norse mythology. He first appears at Milliways, and is mentioned in Fit the Fifth of the radio series, Episode Five o...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast is a Magrathean, and a designer of planets. His favorite part of the job was creating coastlines. The most notable of his ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Wise Old Bird The
The Wise Old Bird is the leader of the Bird People of Brontitall. He does not like saying the word "shoe", as he and the bird people cons...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Wonko The Sane
John Watson aka Wonko the Sane lives in California with his wife Arcane Jill Watson in a house called The Outside of the Asylum. When Won...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Zaphod Beeblebrox The Fourth
The great-grandfather of Zaphod Beeblebrox, Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth is one of two active characters in books that also happens to be...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Yooden Vranx
Yooden Vranx is the late former President of the Galaxy, the one before Zaphod Beeblebrox. Just before his death, Yooden came to see Zaph...
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Monty Python: Encyclopedia Ii - Monty Python - Python Media
For a more comprehensive list of Python media, including books, live shows, records, and video games, see: Monty Python mediagraphy
Mont...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Zarniwoop
Zarniwoop works in the offices of the Guide, on Ursa Minor Beta. When Zaphod travels to Ursa Minor Beta to meet Zarniwoop, he is informed...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - The Band's Line-up
The line-up varied, sometimes on a weekly basis and a list (although incomplete) of members would include: Vivian Stanshall on trumpet, "...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Colin
Colin is a small melon-sized flying security robot which Ford Prefect enslaves to aid in his escape from the newly re-organized Guide off...
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Only Fools And Horses: Encyclopedia Ii - Only Fools And Horses - Cultural Impact
Only Fools and Horses — and consequently John Sullivan — is credited with the popularisation in Britain of at least two words/phrases...
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Only Fools And Horses: Encyclopedia Ii - Only Fools And Horses - Theme Music
The theme music has been the source of many misconceptions down the years. First of all, the famous theme songs (different ones at the be...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Gargravarr
Gargravarr is a disembodied mind who is the Custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex. Gargravarr is currently undergoing a period of leg...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Hig Hurtenflurst
Hig Hurtenflurst is a rising young executive in the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation. During Fit the Eleventh, he is on Brontitall. What he ...
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Terry Wogan: Encyclopedia Ii - Terry Wogan - Honours
In the Queen's Birthday Honours list of 2005, Wogan was made an honorary Knight of the Order of the British Empire. As an Irish citizen h...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Zaphod Beeblebrox The Fourth
The great-grandfather of Zaphod Beeblebrox, Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth is one of two active characters in books who are dead (see also:...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Shooty And Bang Bang
Shooty and Bang Bang are Galactic policemen. They pursue Zaphod Beeblebrox to the planet of Magrathea, whereupon they proceed to shoot at...
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Only Fools And Horses: Encyclopedia Ii - Only Fools And Horses - About The Programme
Only Fools and Horses was relatively unpopular when it began, but the BBC persevered, audiences grew steadily and episodes like A Touch o...
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Edmonton London: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmonton London - History
Pymmes Park with its historic walled garden is Upper Edmonton's park. Pymmes Park originated as a private estate. In the late 16th centur...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - A Move From Jazz To Rock
Although the Bonzos had started out playing jazz, they decided to embrace rock in order to counter claims that they were beginning to sou...
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Porridge Tv: Encyclopedia Ii - Porridge Tv - Essential Viewing For Prisoners
"Porridge" was immensely popular with British prisoners. Erwin James, a prisoner (now released) who writes a bi-weekly column for The Gua...
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Porridge Tv: Encyclopedia Ii - Porridge Tv - Film
The last "episode" of Porridge was made in 1979 as a feature film, shot entirely on location and without an audience. All the regular sit...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - Urban Spaceman Et Al.
They had a hit single in 1967 with I'm the Urban Spaceman which was produced by Paul McCartney under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth". ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Shooty And Bang Bang
Shooty and Bang Bang are Galactic policemen. They pursue Zaphod Beeblebrox to the planet of Magrathea, whereupon they proceed to shoot at...
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Edmonton London: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmonton London - Location
Edmonton is 8.6 miles (13.8 km) north-north-east of Charing Cross and stretches from just south of the North Circular Road in the south t...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - Discography
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Studio albums.
1967 Gorilla
1968 The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (chart #40)
1969 Tadpoles (chart #36)
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Porridge Tv: Encyclopedia Ii - Porridge Tv - History
Porridge originated from an idea used in a 1973 series Barker starred in called Seven of One. Each of the seven 30-minute episodes of thi...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Roosta
Roosta is a hitch-hiker and researcher for the Guide, whom Ford Prefect knows, at least in passing. He carries a special towel with nutri...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Fenchurch
Fenchurch is Arthur Dent's soulmate and a character found in the fourth book of the Hitchhiker "trilogy", So Long, and Thanks For All the...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Frankie And Benjy Mouse
Frankie and Benjy are the mice that Arthur (et al.) encounter on Magrathea. Frankie and Benjy wish to extract the final readout data from...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley is a real-life singer, who died in 1977. It has been popularly suggested that he has been abducted by aliens.
In the book M...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Eddie
Eddie is the shipboard computer on the starship Heart of Gold. He came from the factory equipped with an over-excitable, over-enthused, e...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Eccentrica Gallumbits
Known as "The Triple-Breasted Whore Of Eroticon Six", Eccentrica Gallumbits is first mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wh...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Gag Halfrunt
In the series, Gag Halfrunt is the private brain care specialist of Zaphod Beeblebrox, and is not a major character in terms of the amoun...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Gail Andrews
In Mostly Harmless, Gail Andrews is an astrologer who is interviewed by Tricia McMillan about the impact that the discovery of the planet...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Grunthos The Flatulent
Grunthos the Flatulent was the poetmaster of the Azgoths of Kria, writers of the second worst poetry in the universe, coming between the ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Golgafrinchans
The Golgafrinchams all appear in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. On radio they appear in Fit the Sixth, and in the television ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Garkbit
Garkbit is a waiter at Milliways, also known as "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". He has quite likely been employed there for ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Gargravarr
Gargravarr is a disembodied mind who is the Custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex. Gargravarr is currently undergoing a period of leg...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Dish Of The Day
The quadruped Dish of the Day is an Ameglian Major Cow, a species of dairy animal specifically bred to not only have the desire to be eat...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Deep Thought
Deep Thought is a computer that was created by a pandimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, to come up with the ultimate answer to...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - Discography
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Studio albums.
1967 Gorilla
1968 The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (chart #40)
1969 Tadpoles (chart #36)
19...
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Buckinghamshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Buckinghamshire - Administration
The modern county of Buckinghamshire is administered by Buckinghamshire County Council. The county council was founded in 1889 with its b...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - The Band's Line-up
The line-up varied, sometimes on a weekly basis and a list (although incomplete) of members would include: Vivian Stanshall on trumpet, "...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - Urban Spaceman Et Al.
They had a hit single in 1967 with I'm the Urban Spaceman which was produced by Paul McCartney under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth". ...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - A Move From Jazz To Rock
Although the Bonzos had started out playing jazz, they decided to embrace rock in order to counter claims that they were beginning to sou...
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Buckinghamshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Buckinghamshire - Coat Of Arms
The coat of arms for Buckinghamshire County Council features a white swan in chains. This dates back to the Anglo Saxon period, when swan...
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Buckinghamshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Buckinghamshire - Places In Buckinghamshire
This is a list of the towns in the county of Buckinghamshire. For the full list of towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire, see Li...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Colin
Colin is a small melon-sized flying security robot which Ford Prefect enslaves to aid in his escape from the newly re-organized Guide off...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Arcturan Megafreighter Crew
The captain and first officer were the only crew of an Arcturan Megafreighter carrying a larger number of copies of Playbeing magazine th...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Allitnils The
As their names were written to suggest, every Allitnil is an anti-clone of a Lintilla. They were created by the cloning company to "revok...
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1940: Encyclopedia Ii - 1940 - Deaths
1940 - Date unknown.
December - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Hactar
Hactar was the first computer in which its individual parts reflected the pattern of the whole, much like an organic brain, allowing it t...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Haggunenon Underfleet Commander
The Underfleet Commander reports directly to the Haggunenon Admiral. The admiral had gone off for a quick meal at Milliways, where Ford a...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Poodoo
Poodoo is a representative of the cloning company responsible for all the Lintilla clones. He arrives on Brontitall with Varntvar The Pri...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Prak
Prak was a witness in a trial on Argabuthon. What the case was is not known, but it is unimportant. The white robots of Krikkit broke int...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Oolon Colluphid
Oolon Colluphid is the author of several books on religious and other philosophical topics. Colluphid's works include:
Where God Went Wr...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Old Thrashbarg
Old Thrashbarg first appears in the book Mostly Harmless, as a sort of priest on Lamuella, the planet on which Arthur becomes Sandwich-Ma...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Murray Bost Henson
Murray Bost Henson is "a journalist from one of those papers with small pages and big print" as Arthur Dent aptly puts it. He is a friend...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Mr Prosser
Mr L. Prosser is a somewhat nervous but nevertheless perfectly reasonable motorways contractor who perfectly reasonably would like to do ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
The Vogon Captain in charge of overseeing the destruction of the Earth, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz is sadistic, even by Vogon standards. When...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Ruler Of The Universe The
The Ruler of the Universe is a man living in a small shack on a world that can only be reached with the use of an Infinite Improbability ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Rob Mckenna
Rob McKenna is a man who can never get away from rain and he has a diary to prove it. In fact he gets rained on so much that he has 231 t...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Random Dent
A disillusioned teenager and the in-vitro progeny of Arthur Dent and Tricia McMillan, Random Frequent Flyer Dent is left in her father's ...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Questular Rontok
Questular Rontok is the Vice President of the Galaxy. She is desperately in love/lust with Zaphod Beeblebrox, the fugitive President of t...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Max Quordlepleen
Max Quordlepleen is an entertainer. He hosts the entertainment at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe and the Big Bang Burger Bar (...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Majikthise And Vroomfondel
Majikthise and Vroomfondel are philosophers (though, since they insist on rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty, they may not be...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Hurling Frootmig
Hurling Frootmig is said to be the founder of the Hitchhiker's Guide, who established its fundamental principles of honesty and idealism,...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Judiciary Pag
His High Judgmental Supremacy, Judiciary Pag, L.I.V.R. (the Learned, Impartial, and Very Relaxed) was the Chairman of the Board of Judges...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Humma Kavula
Humma Kavula is a semi-insane missionary living amongst the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI, and a former space pirate. He seems to be...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Hotblack Desiato
Hotblack Desiato is the ajuitar keyboard player of the rock group Disaster Area, claimed to be the loudest band in the universe, and in f...
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Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Characters From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Hig Hurtenflurst
Hig Hurtenflurst is a rising young executive in the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation. During Fit the Eleventh, he is on Brontitall. What he ...
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