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BUTTOCKS
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DOYLE
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FATHER CHRISTMAS
After a debate at the 53rd annual Santa Claus Convention held in Copenhagen in July... MORE

MADAGASCAR
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MANDELA
On Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday on 18 July 1988, Margaret Thatcher was the only Western... MORE

NEW GUINEA
New Guinea is the world's second largest island after Greenland.... MORE

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