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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

The Young Ones

British television series

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Elton

In Ben Elton: Early life and career in television and film
the popular slapstick sitcom The Young Ones (1982–84). Elton joined Richard Curtis to write the iconic BBC period sitcom series Blackadder (1983–89), starring Rowan Atkinson, for its second series (Blackadder II, 1986). He continued with the project for two more series after that and won a BAFTA award for…
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Mayall

In Rik Mayall: Career and personal life
Also in 1982, The Young Ones, a situation comedy about four mismatched housemates attending the fictional Scumbag College in London, made its debut on the channel BBC Two. It starred Mayall as Rick, a self-proclaimed anarchist and “people’s poet”; Edmondson as Vyvyan, a sociopathic punk rocker and medical…
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