1. Today, Britain
stands at a fork in its crossroads.
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2. And its people are asking
questions.
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3. Now we've got our country back
what actually is it?
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4. Who are we? And why?
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5. The best way to find out where
Britain's heading is to
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6. look behind us
into something called "history"
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7. a sort of "rear view mirror"
for time.
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8. So that's where I'm going.
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9. Back there.
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10. It's a journey that'll take me
the length
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11. and width of the country,
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12. from the white cliffs of Dovver
to the
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13. Scottish high lands
of the Scottish Highlands.
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14. On my odyssey, I'll be starting
sentences in one location,
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15. and finishing them in another.
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16. And looking at some of the biggest
faces in British history,
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17. and asking other people's
faces about them.
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18. Henry didn't get arrested after
he killed his first wife, did he?
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19. What sort of mistakes did the Tudor
police make that led him
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20. to kill again?
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21. All of it taking place in this
skepterred isle we call home.
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22. So join me, Philomena Cunk,
as I take you right up
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23. the history of The United Britain
of Great Kingdom.
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24. This... is Cunk On Britain.
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25. Last week we discovered how God
invented Britain,
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26. who the Romans were, and why
we went to war with the roses.
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27. But that was just the beginning.
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28. By the time the Wars of the Roses
ended, Britain was literally
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29. on the map, somewhere near the top,
showing how important it was.
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30. The British had a firm grasp
of the solid parts of the country,
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31. like this rock, but there was a load
of stuff round the edges that
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32. wouldn't do as it was told.
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33. It was wet.
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34. It was full of fish.
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35. And it wouldn't make up its mind how
close to the rock it wanted to be.
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36. In this episode, I'll discover how
Britain came to rule the waves
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37. and invent the Umpire.
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38. It's a story about events
beyond Britain's coastline.
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39. So I'll be using the C-word a lot.
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40. Sea.
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41. This is Hampton Court Palace,
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42. a building so impressive it has to
be accompanied by harpsichord music.
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43. These days Hampton Court is open
10.00 till 4.30 in the winter,
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44. 10.00 till 6.00 in the summer,
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45. with last entry to the maze
45 minutes before closing.
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46. Prices start at £18.40 per adult
and £9.20 per child.
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47. A family ticket will set you back at
least £32.30 - unless you're buying
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48. that ticket in the 15th century,
and your family name is Tudor.
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49. But what do we mean by the word
"Tudor"? Let's ask an expert.
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50. What do we mean by the word "Tudor"?
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51. Er... The word "Tudor"
is quite controversial
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52. because the Tudors, at the time,
didn't call themselves "Tudor".
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53. Tudor is the family name,
the Welsh family name,
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54. of the ancestors on the father's
side of King Henry VII
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55. but the only person who calls
Henry VII "Henry Tudor"
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56. is Richard III when he's trying to
stop him becoming king.
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57. And he uses the name "Tudor" just
to mean "this is some random Welsh
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58. "person, rather than an appropriate
person to replace me as king".
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59. So the Tudors don't use the name
Tudor very much at all.
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60. Some people refer to it as being
their family name later on.
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61. Sorry, I had that thing you know
where you just,
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62. your brain stops listening?
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63. If the Tudors were the Kardashians
of their time, this was their Kim -
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64. Henry of Eight, the kingiest
king who ever kinged over Britain.
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65. If you had to draw a king,
you'd definitely draw him.
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66. Although maybe not as well as this,
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67. unless you're a 16th century
portrait artist.
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68. But what was
so great about Henry of Eight?
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69. Why is he the king
we all still remember, unlike, say,
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70. Richard V.
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71. Well, for one thing he was fat, so
he takes up more room in the memory.
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72. But Henry's also memorable
for his chronic wife addiction.
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73. He had six wives -
all called Catherine.
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74. He was a Catherine-aholic.
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75. Or "Catholic" for short.
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76. He got through so many Catherines
he actually got bored of killing
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77. them, and had to invent a new way of
getting rid of them, called divorce.
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78. The Pope hated divorce,
so Henry decided to divorce him.
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79. He took back control, broke with
Europe, and made up a new religion,
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80. which it turns out is easier to do
than Popes like to pretend.
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81. Henry created the Church of England,
didn't he?
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82. And did he have to find
a British Pope?
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83. He didn't need to find
a British Pope.
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84. You could just have bishops.
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85. You can just use the bishops
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86. and people that you've
got in there already.
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87. If you had to find a British Pope
now, who would you go for?
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88. You couldn't use
the Archbishop of Canterbury?
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89. No. You have to have someone else.
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90. Someone from without the church.
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91. Yeah, like Matt Baker,
off The One Show.
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92. Erm... so that... So you...
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93. Matt Baker off the One Show...
He's not an obvious choice, you see.
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94. That's why I think he'd be good.
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95. But the more you think about it,
the more it makes sense.
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96. Henry of Eight kept having
a go on new wives
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97. because he wanted a boy to pop
out of one of them.
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98. And eventually one did -
called Edward.
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99. When Henry died, Edward became king,
aged just nine years old.
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100. Edward died aged 15 - the youngest
anyone had ever died of old age.
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101. He was followed as king
by Lady Jane Grey.
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102. She ruled for nine glorious days -
almost a week.
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103. These were among the fastest
royals we've ever had.
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104. After Jane came this woman -
Queen Mary.
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105. And there really was
"something about Mary" - but not
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with all dried spunk in her hair.
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107. Mary's something was religious
intolerance.
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108. She had so many Protestants
burned at the stake
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110. Because, like the drink,
she was horrible.
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111. The next Queen was Queen Elizabeth,
who, in the first of many
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112. such coincidences, appeared just
in time for the Elizabethan era.
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113. Queen Elizabeth One got her crown
screwed on here,
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114. in West Minister Abbey.
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115. Elizabeth One was a new sort
of king, in that she was a queen,
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116. which meant she got paid less
and sat on horses sideways.
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117. To stop persecution,
Elizabeth allowed her subjects to
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they liked, as long as
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of England when asked, like middle
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120. class people do when they want
their kids to go to a posh school.
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121. During Elizabeth's reign British
culture flourished, especially
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sadly still with us to this day.
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123. It's often said
if Shakespeare were alive today,
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124. he'd be sending his scripts to
television and film companies,
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125. who wouldn't make them because
they were so long and boring.
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126. But while audiences thrilled to the
tedious drama of Shakespeare's
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127. terrible plays, some pioneering
Britons were experiencing
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128. real drama - by going out exploring.
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129. It was now the British got really
into boats -
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131. Sailors of the time were
like spacemen,
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132. but on water, exploring the unknown
armed only with an engineless
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134. and a sort of basic paper sat nav
called a map,
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135. which had hardly anything on it
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136. because hardly anything had
been found yet.
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137. On maps of the sea,
do they show the hills?
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138. You know, the little moving hills
with the white bit on top?
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140. Is that what they call the moving
hills with the white bits on top?
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141. I think, I think that's
what you mean.
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sail into the sky?
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sort of going up and...
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144. No.
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King Queen Elizabeth sent
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nick treasure off the Spanish,
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147. and then to nick whole countries
off whichever brown people were
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149. The first British explorer to do
this was Sir Walter Raleigh.
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150. Sir Walter Raleigh was a great
sailor, wasn't he?
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151. So why is it today
we only remember him for his bikes?
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152. Well, there might have been
a connection between that
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and the later bike manufacturer,
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kind in Sir Walter Raleigh's days.
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156. Oh, really?
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that Sir Walter Raleigh was
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invent the potato?
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160. Well, he didn't invent
the potato, in that
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ever invented a root vegetable.
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being cultivated
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Americas when he arrived there.
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164. When Sir Walter Raleigh first saw
potatoes, was he scared of them?
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165. I think that when Sir Walter Raleigh
first saw potatoes, not that
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on the moment when he first beheld
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I don't think he was scared of them.
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to take on and
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with potatoes at first sight.
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171. We still celebrate potatoes to this
day - by buying and eating them.
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172. It's amazing to think that
Queen Elizabeth was the first
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impressed by a baked potato.
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174. And the last.
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176. but he wasn't quite as big
news as Sir Francis Drake.
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The Golden Hind, which is
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179. It was in this ship Drake became
the first person to circumcise the
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180. globe, which is probably why this
sort of ship is called a "clipper".
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181. Imagine being on deck in that
perilous age.
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182. You're in the middle of the ocean.
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183. A mighty thunderstorm's brewing.
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184. There's a sailor over there.
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186. The king sailor turning
the... the steering wheel thing.
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187. Potatoes and spare wooden legs
rolling around the deck.
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188. A seagull up that, er... pole thing.
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189. Someone reading a treasure map
through a telescope.
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190. A bloke with a white beard carrying
a tray of fish fingers.
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191. Pirates all laughing in that sort of
horrible throaty way that they do.
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sail off the edge of the world.
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195. Which they'd have needed
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196. because they were all
pissed to the bollocks on rum.
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197. The British's
mastery of the oceans made
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furious, in Spanish.
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199. So he sent his secret weapon to
attack England -
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201. The story goes that Drake was
playing a leisurely
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when the Spanish attacked.
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203. But Drake didn't let the Spanish
attack put him off his stroke.
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with his balls.
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205. According to records,
when he'd finished,
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shoes, and thrashed the Spaniards.
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208. England was victorious.
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209. Meanwhile in Scotland there was
another Mary on the scene -
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rivals for the throne.
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they go mad for anyone called Mary.
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which made it harder for Mary to
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no longer see where it was.
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to nil.
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marrying,
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as the Vegan Queen.
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the olden word for children,
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finale of the Tudors.
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King James, who luckily
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missing head,
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223. and so could become King of Scotland
and England at the same time.
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224. King James I of England was also
King James VI of Scotland,
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King James' in between?
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227. No, but he was rather conscious
of those other five James'.
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which James he was?
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229. No, I'm pretty sure that he knew
there'd been all five before him
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murdered by his subjects,
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cannon, the third was murdered
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a battle, the forth was killed in
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exhaustion after losing a battle.
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235. So was it just bad luck being
called James then, do you think?
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accident-prone family.
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237. King James brought England, Scotland
and Wales together, didn't he?
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238. King James brought
England, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall
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239. and Ireland together.
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240. So he brought all those together.
That's right.
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together...
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242. One Direction.
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243. Yes, except it lasted a bit longer.
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246. No, of One Direction.
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247. Er... I don't have one.
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248. Yeah, very wise.
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249. Thanks to King James,
Great Britain was born.
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250. And with it came a new flag,
the Onion Jack -
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251. a sort of megamix of the nations'
previous flags.
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252. The Onion Jack has it all -
the white and red of England,
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254. and from Wales, red again,
from the dragon,
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256. even though it's the best
bit of the flag.
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257. Basically, whoever was doing this
probably just had a ruler
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258. and couldn't face doing the dragon.
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259. King James was Protestant,
and knew that Catholics wanted to
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260. kill him, so he had all his clothes
padded in case he was stabbed.
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261. Unfortunately, he didn't have the
Houses of Parliament padded,
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262. and that's where the
Catholics chose to attack,
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263. using explosions.
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264. This photo from the time shows
the Gunpowder plotters,
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they used to hide their identities.
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266. What they didn't know is that
someone had written
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which is why they all got caught.
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268. But one man was about to cause even
more explosive changes to Britain -
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269. Oliver Cromwell.
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270. Some of Cromwell's fellow Puritans
had sailed away from Britain's
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271. shores, hoping to forge a new
life of Spartan misery in the
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273. But Cromwell stayed behind to fall
out with King Charles One.
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274. He wanted Parliament dissolved,
but nobody could find a glass big
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275. enough, so they decided to have a
civil war instead.
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276. They called it a Civil War
because there was a swear jar,
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277. and people apologised after
killing each other, like in tennis.
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278. The Civil War was a clash of styles.
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279. The King's Cavaliers had panache,
and weird outfits,
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280. while Cromwell's Roundheads were
basic, brutish little bulldog men.
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281. It was like a fight between
Wayne Rooney and Noel Fielding.
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282. But not as funny.
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283. Eventually, after many
re-enactments just like this,
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284. the Roundheads won, 1-0.
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285. Charles was caught in a big
king net,
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286. and executed here, in Whitehall.
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287. A proud man to the last, he wore two
shirts so no-one could see him
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to preserve his regal dignity.
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289. And according to witnesses
it worked.
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290. His severed head rolled
regally along the ground,
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291. pumping blood everywhere
and getting covered in hay and dirt
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flecks of dignified fox shit,
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293. and no-one mentioned the rest of him
shivering at all.
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294. Under Cromwell, Britain became
less fun than ever before,
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296. As a Puritan, Cromwell outlawed
popular entertainment -
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country into BBC FOUR.
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298. Little wonder that after
Cromwell died,
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having a king once more.
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300. Charles II came down from the tree
he'd been hiding in and everyone
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in 1665, the plague happened.
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plague twice?
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have just been boring.
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times than twice.
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European free movement of rats
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control our borders?
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308. It certainly looks as though the
epidemic came to England by ship.
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it's imported.
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except when they bit us.
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petered out in 1666 - just in time
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started here, in Pudding Lane.
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full of highly combustible flour
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317. and flaming ovens inexplicably
caught fire for some reason.
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of London?
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somewhere like Maidenhead
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on it like that?
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321. You couldn't warm your hands
but you probably could see it.
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The Great Fire of London burn down?
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it was The Great Fire of London.
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affected.
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cities burnt down
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them down?
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burnt, even though
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sorts of information about other
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place burnt down,
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not there cos it was burnt down.
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The Great Fire of London, would it?
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wouldn't it? Yes.
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that burnt down?
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any other fires at the same time.
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cos they burnt down.
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of looking at it.
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diaries of this man - Samuel Pepys.
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342. Samuel Pepys is probably the most
famous diarist in the world.
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knows what happened to her.
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because he put it in his diary.
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The Great Fire of London?
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really, didn't he?
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349. I don't think
he risked his life for us.
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do you think he'd be doing Snapchat?
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younger viewers.
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Yeah. Definitely, yeah.
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by the King, London was extensively
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history since Francis Drake.
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significance near the
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where they do First Dates.
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building in the world with a hat.
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364. It would get ten out of ten
in Cathedral Review Monthly,
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which it doesn't.
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366. Meanwhile, London wasn't the only
thing that was being burned -
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were amongst them,
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leaked photos like this.
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way of telling
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weren't wearing their pointy hat.
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and only Witchfinder General.
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man called Matthew Hopkins.
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He went to my school.
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Matthew Hopkins, I hope.
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He's an IT consultant now.
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talking about died 350 years ago.
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covered the whole of East Anglia
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of about 100 women.
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the same Matthew Hopkins.
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382. No. My Matthew Hopkins is going
through a divorce.
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pretty harrowing,
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aged women upon scaffolds
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it's probably fairly minor.
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386. Yeah, puts everything
in perspective, doesn't it?
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thing about history. Mmm.
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test if a woman was a witch.
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fool-proof.
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to be done by village idiots.
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lowered into water.
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and were killed.
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a normal life,
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three seconds.
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away by the rational
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and geniuses like Sir Isaac Newton.
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399. In 1665, Newton ran away from London
because the plague was after him.
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400. So he came here, to Woolsthorpe
Manor in Lincolnshire -
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was allowed to live in
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fell from this tree
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several of his brain cells to
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like that he invented gravity.
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Isaac Newton discovered gravity?
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409. Was everything just floating
up to the sky?
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410. Well, gravity was always there
so it just took...
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411. But he just took the credit for it.
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412. Because he had come up with
laws of motion and things like that,
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of his understanding of the world.
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as you seem to be claiming,
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416. In all things there's a balance
of forces, and so a kite stays
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are keeping the kite in the air.
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of gravity today is the game show
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wouldn't work, would it?
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example of gravity.
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examples than that.
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and... there's walking on the moon.
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best game show version of gravity".
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430. Well, I thought you said
everything uses gravity. Erm...
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431. Cos Noel Edmonds would be up
in the roof otherwise, wouldn't he?
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without realising it. Mmm.
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Mmm.
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thinking about why things fall,
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was about to tumble,
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of independence from the British.
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suffering a humiliating defeat
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of the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes.
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knee in the balls for Britain,
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was about to rise -
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Horrorshow Nelson.
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Horrorshow?
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it to be pronounced Horatio.
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and became Horrorshow?
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know him as Horatio Nelson.
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Nelson found time to
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doing his weird signature pose.
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hand up his jumper?
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so it wasn't really trying to
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he was actually missing an arm.
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that's true, though?
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an emu, didn't he?
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make his story more interesting.
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he would bother to do that.
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sort of feign, you know,
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like, deepen his growing legend.
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476. So I think we can probably say that,
unlike some things, this is true.
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477. Yeah, and the eye was true.
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478. The eye was true as well,
yes, he wore a patch.
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but like a boring one.
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the most annoying
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he had an arch-enemy -
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Napoleon Cumberbatch.
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conquered most of Europe
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a conquer at Britain.
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Battle of Trafalgar against Nelson.
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one of the most famous water
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here in Trafalgar Square.
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back then,
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under water.
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have been visible.
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Nelson's English ships.
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the French fleet.
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where he remains to this day.
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we banish him up that big pole?
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this was a national celebration.
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a symbol of British victory
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the man who had been
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And he's getting shat on by birds.
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was sadly spoiled for him
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by his Naval colleague Hardy,
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at the exact moment he was dying,
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hours to die, and this particular
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