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- From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
- Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
- References: <Jan22.050258.32415@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan22.140524.19358@cs.cornell.edu> <C19nCy.MAJ@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:29:43 GMT
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- In article <C19nCy.MAJ@news.iastate.edu> pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander) writes:
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- >Wasn't there a 19th or early 20th century British prime minister or foreign
- >secretary named Wilberforce?
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- Bishop Wilberforce was a late 19th century church figure who is especially
- remembered for his attacks on Charles Darwin. See Darwin's wonderful
- autobiography, available from Dover books, for some contemporary
- observations.
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- -P.
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