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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Edinburgh Zoo
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Established by Thomas Gillespie and opened to the public in 1913 – four years after the founding of the Zoological Society of Scotland. It became famous in 1919 for its successful hatching of a king penguin chick. The penguins, the first seen outside the Antarctic, had been received in 1914 from a whaling expedition; and the resulting colony is still a special pride of the zoo.
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