I'm sure there's a baboon in there somewhere, but no monkeys or apes. (And Aberdeen, although Edinburgh is missing)
Is there some cheese but no stilton?
The meaning of Life - Monty Python....?
None of this could possibly apply to American history, at all, could it? Mmmm... Just substitute palaces for mansions and 'civilisation' for fast...
We English are VERY proud of our history - just as the Scots and Welsh are of theirs. Together we have helped form the world in which we live today...
Don't forget 'the time machine' - Wells wrote that as well! (a good yarn, even if the recent film was pants). Has anyone out there read Clarke's...
Personally I think you can beat the ABC of science fiction: Asimov, Brin and Clarke. Series like Foundation, Uplift and the 2001 set contain books...
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