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Articles from Wikipedia's "
Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that it was the British geologist
Joseph Prestwich (bust pictured) who confirmed the findings of
Boucher de Perthes?
- ... that a
Regius Professor of Civil Law was elected to parliament, gaoled,
exiled, re-elected,
kidnapped, put in the
Tower, tortured,
hanged, drawn and quartered, then
beatified?
- ... that
Mike Woodin was the
Principal Speaker of the
Green Party of England and Wales for six years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
- ... that
A.W. Lawrence, the former
Professor of Classical Archaeology at
Cambridge University, was the brother of "
Lawrence of Arabia"?
- ... that the winners of the university's
Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in
Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel
Zuleika Dobson?
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