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  2. Fame Is the Spur (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Fame Is the Spur is a novel by Howard Spring published in 1940. It covers the rise of the socialist labour movement in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. The title comes from John Milton 's poem " Lycidas ": "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise / (That last infirmity of noble mind) / To scorn delights, and live ...

  3. Howard Spring - Wikipedia

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    Howard Spring He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave , and later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman .

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  5. List of Austin Powers characters - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of fictional characters from the Austin Powers series of films.. Austin Powers is a series of American spy action comedy films: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).

  6. Hooke's law - Wikipedia

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    In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, F s = kx, where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and x is small compared to the total possible deformation of the spring.

  7. Spring (hydrology) - Wikipedia

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    On an average day nearly 303 million US gallons (1,150,000 m 3) of water flow from Big Spring in Missouri at a rate of 469 cubic feet per second (13.3 m 3 /s). Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from an aquifer and flows across the ground surface as surface ...

  8. List of Gaelic games competitions - Wikipedia

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    National Football League – Played in spring, contested by representative county teams. Teams are divided into four divisions based on their performances from the previous year. All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship – Knockout competition for players under the age of 20.

  9. List of The Magic School Bus episodes - Wikipedia

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    With Arnold chewing gum, trying to break the school record for the longest chewing time, he swallows the gum, much to Wanda’s dismay. To Arnold’s surprise, he finally gets his wish by staying at school with their class pet, Liz, while the Friz takes the rest of the class on another weird field trip...without realizing it is his own digestive system.