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With just two bad jokes at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991, Gerald Ratner destroyed his Read more
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“Divine task! Immortal mission!” enthused one excited American politician in 1846. William Gilpin was promoting a Read more
Employers looking to hire software developers have noticed something very strange filling up their inboxes recently. Read more
In the early 1980s the radical German musician Blixa Bargeld was being interviewed for TV in Read more
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