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PJ O’Rourke, writer, 64;

On This Day

Mon, 14 Nov, 2011 - 00:00

Feast day of St Laurence O’Toole, St Adeotus Aribert, St Nicholas Tavelic, St Dubricius or Dyfrig, St Stephen of Como, and St Peter of Narbonne.

1770: Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile in NE Ethiopia, then considered the main stream of the Nile. 1840: Impressionist painter Claude Monet was born in Paris.

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Courts Analysis Place: Adeotus Aribert Place: St Nicholas Tavelic Place: St Dubricius Place: Dyfrig Place: St Stephen of Como Place: St Peter of Narbonne Place: Blue Nile Place: NE Ethiopia Place: Nile Place: Paris Place: London Place: Brighton Place: Britain Place: Coventry Cathedral Place: Gibraltar Place: Iceland Place: Surtsey Place: Wembley Place: Cambodia Place: Phnom Penh Place: Somalia Person: PJ O’Rourke Person: James Bruce Person: Claude Monet Person: Arthur Burrows Person: Max Ernst Person: Man Ray Person: Joan Miro Person: Pablo Picasso Person: Al Martino Person: Bobby Moore Person: Prince Sihanouk Person: Paul Person: Rachel Chandler Person: Boutros Boutros-Ghali Person: Prince of Wales Person: Bernard Hinault Person: Letitia Dean Person: Adam Gilchrist Event: Feast day Event: Tour de France Organisation: British Broadcasting Company Organisation: Ark Royal Organisation: England Organisation: Italy Organisation: UN

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