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The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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