*1A century occurs when a batsman scores 100 runs.
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*2St. John Ambulance is a health care organization with members in more than forty countries worldwide, but dates back over 900 years to Jerusalem. In World War II, St. John Ambulance worked to meet wartime medical and welfare needs on the home front and overseas.
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*3The Goons, the characters in the British radio hit “The Goon Show” that ran from 1951 to 1960 and launched the careers of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe, have been Prince Charles’s lifelong comedic passion. Their anarchic, Dada-tinged, verbally sophisticated comedy earned them not only the passionate allegiance of the young Prince but a fervent cult following that helped spawn such British cultural institutions as Private Eye, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and the Beatles. If a conversation with the Prince of Wales flags, one of the hazards is he will reach for one of his determined impersonations of a Goon.
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