“Dear Dr. Clare, So pleased to hear that Tim Brooke-Taylor is back - without him the show was like Hamlet without the balcony scene.”
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Mungo Park
Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorised the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfu…
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science · Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent (1771–1806) · physician · explorer · physician writer · surgeon · naturalist · geographer · writer · botanist · traveler · also Mungo Park, Mungo Park (explorer), Park, Mungo, Park
Born 11 September 1771 · Died 1 January 1806 · Q219086
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Dear David Dickinson, I can sum up why the BBC have your programme on TV every night in three words: Cheap As Chips. Yours etc., Mrs. Trellis. P.S. I can tell by your face that stuff really does do exactly what it says on the tin.
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“Dear David Dickinson, I can sum up why the BBC have your programme on TV every night in three words: Cheap As Chips. Yours etc., Mrs. Trellis. P.S. I can tell by your face that stuff really does do exactly what it says on the tin.”
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“Incidentally, pianist Colin Sell was once mistaken for a member of the Partridge Family... it took him nearly three weeks to pick the lead shot out of his backside.”
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“Now listeners will be surprised to hear that pop legend Cliff Richard once insisted that Colin played in The Shadows... but then, he's not a pretty sight in broad daylight.”
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“The round is called Karaoke Cokey, and it'll be led by Colin Sell at the piano. In fact, we heard from him earlier, singing 'You put your left leg in, You put your right leg in', and then realised he was reading from the instructions that came with his trousers.”
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“We've asked Colin Sell to provide piano accompaniment. Colin was telling us that he recently wrote a Horn Concerto for two Cornets. The client was so impressed, he threw in a mivvi and a choc ice as well.”
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“... the man who put the C into rap music ... Colin Sell!”
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“Musical accompaniment at the piano will be provided by Colin Sell. These days, we only really know Colin for his work at the piano, but as a young lad he cut his teeth on the harmonica... until his teacher explained that he wasn't supposed to chew it.”
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“Piano accompaniment will be provided by Colin Sell. Actually, listeners will be impressed to learn that back in the 60's, Colin asked Mick Jagger and Keith Richard if he could take the place of Brian Jones. They said yes, and threw him in the swimming pool.”
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“Actually, it's been said that one has more chance of being struck by lightning than meeting a piano player like Colin Sell... which is why we all spent most of last week standing out in the rain holding metal rods.”
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“Musical accompaniment will be provided in this round at the piano by Colin Sell. Actually, listeners may be fascinated to learn that before Christmas, Colin was employed to play the piano for The Stranglers. You can imagine how things were livened up in that turkey abbatoir.”
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“Piano accompaniment will be provided by Colin Sell, who, we were interested to learn, was spotted back in 1969 playing with The Stones in Hyde Park. The keeper said if he caught Colin throwing them at the ducks again, he'd call the police.”
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“Actually, we were all very impressed to learn that Colin once played alongside Roy Orbison. Orbison, of course, was nicknamed 'The Big O', and in turn, he affectionately referred to Colin as 'That Little C'...”
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“Piano accompaniment will be provided by Colin Sell, who tells me that his musical influences are Middle-Eastern in origin... mostly Shi'ite!”
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“Piano accompaniment will be provided by Co...[chokes] ... see, I even choke on the name!”
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“Dear Mr. Rees, I understand you're looking for suggestions for your 'Quote, Unquote' programme. Can you tell me where the expression 'Dull as Ditch Water' comes from? Yours sincerely, Mrs. Trellis”
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“Dear Mr. Duggleby, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why, Why does my typewriter always stick on the letter 'Y'? Yours sincerely, Mrs. Trellis, North Wales”
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“Dear Rolf, Here's a handy hint: When you put the cat out, always use a high-quality fire extinguisher.”
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“Actually, listeners may be interested to hear that Colin doesn't only play the piano... oh no. He's recently become a bit of an expert with the pan pipes... so if anyone has a blocked toilet they want cleared...”
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“Actually, we're all very excited for Colin, as he's been invited to play at a U-2 gig...what great reunion dances those German submarine crews have.”
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“Incidentally, Colin's first TV appearance was when he played the mouth organ in Black Lace. Opportunity Knocks said it was the worst novelty drag act they'd ever had on the show.”
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“Musical accompaniment will be provided by Colin Sell, who tells me he's thinking of branching out into artist management. Apparently he has this dream of handling The Spice Girls. Mrs. Sell says it's the only thing that gets him up in the morning.”
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“Accompaniment here will be provided by Colin Sell at the piano. Incidentally, we were all surprised to hear that Colin has recently been standing in for Oasis. He spent 4 days holding up a dried arrangement at the Chelsea Flower Show.”
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“Backing will be provided, as ever, by Colin Sell at the piano. Actually, we were interested to hear that Colin has recently been enjoying himself in the brass section. The manageress at Dorothy Perkin's says if she catches him in there again, she'll call the police.”
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“Actually, Colin was telling us before the show that he once toured Britain with The Monkees... then Mr. Chipperfield promoted him to the elephants and gave him a bigger shovel.”
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“Samantha has to nip out now as she's got a new job working in the sound archive as the manager. It's her first day, so apparently she's going to give a speech in the back room and hand jobs out in the office.”
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“The sound effects were acquired for us from the BBC archives by the lovely Samantha. She visits the old men down there every so often to get new material for the show, but it's a trifle unorganised down there. She says that she doesn't mind if they want to dicker about three times a week.”
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“Samantha has to nip out now as she has a new gentleman friend. Apparently, he's a vacuum cleaner salesman, and he's managed to get her the latest model. She says she can't wait to get home and handle her new Phillips upright.”
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“Samantha has to nip out now as she is meeting her new zookeeper gentleman friend. She's going to meet him at the monkey house, where he's often found swinging about with his charges. She says she doesn't mind looking up and seeing him hung like a baboon.”
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“You'll be accompanied by Colin Sell on the piano. Incidentally, new listeners to the programme may be interested to know that Colin Sell was a member of several pop groups in the 60's and 70's, some of which became quite well known after he'd left them. There was Colin & Garfunkel, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick Titch & Colin, The Electric Light Piano, & perhaps most interestingly, The Jackson Six.”
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“Teams, to accompany you, I'm sure you'd all like to welcome our brand new pianist...but until he's provided, we'll just have to make do with our old one... Colin Sell.”
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“You'll be accompanied on the piano by Colin Sell, one of the finest musicians of the day...of course, when night comes, something seems to desert him.”
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“This musical lament will be accompanied by Colin Sell...and music doesn't come more lamentable than that.”
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“Accompaniment will be provided by Colin Sell at the piano. Incidentally, we've just heard some great news - I'm very pleased to announce that the BBC have arranged a special collection of Colin's entire work... they've bagged it up, & the council are sending some men round for it on Tuesday.”
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“I am assured that piano accompaniment is required for this round, and it appears that Colin Sell is unexpectedly available to provide it. You know that whenever musicians hear that Colin's working with us, they're always very keen for news of the old maestro... well, sadly, it's failed it's M.O.T. again, so he's had to come on his bike.”
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“Colin Sell is at the piano, and with exciting career news - he tells me that he's recently started to work with pop sensation Bjork, so now he's making regular trips to Iceland... or if they're shut, he goes to Bejams.”
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“You know, I was interested to learn recently that Colin doesn't just play the piano, in fact I have a letter here that says he's recently become very handy on the sax... and that's signed by the Haringey Council Waste Disposal Department.”
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“Actually, Colin was telling us that he recently started on backing material with his new singer... so if anyone needs some curtains run up...”
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“Samantha has to nip out now to spend time with her new gentleman friend. They're going on a driving tour of Wales. She says he's looking forward to showing her Cardiff and Cardigan Bay, before going on to Bangor in the back of his van.”
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“We ride straight through, don't give a shite!”
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“Samantha tell us she has to nip off now to see her gentleman beautician friend now, who has a leg hair treatment for her. He lays ribbons of sticky wax paper on her thighs and then lets them dry. Then, Samantha says, she likes to watch as he rips the paper strips and wax off for her...”
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“Before I nip out with Samantha for a time honoured blow on the seafront...”
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“While Samantha and I nip out with my flexible friend to make a large withdrawal...”
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“As Samantha tells me it's time to let her whippet out...”
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“Samantha tells me she's expecting a visit from a film producer in her dressing room after the show. With news of a part he's been holding for her. He seems sure she's gonna make it big.”
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“While Samantha nips out to enjoy a mouthful of Jacob's...”
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“Samantha has just returned from congratulating a local builder friend who successfully bid for a contract this week. He said she was delighted to see his little firm won.”
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“Samantha was telling us before the show she's been visiting a nice gentleman racehorse owner in his stables recently. She doesn't know much about racing, but she's already seen something to admire in his jockeys.”
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“Samantha tells me she has to nip out to help an old man next door who has trouble using his stairlift. She goes in every night to put him on downstairs, and then pulls him off on the landing.”
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“While Samantha nips out to enjoy a portion of local winkles in cider...”
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“So as Samantha heads off to the Highland games to admire the contestants in the caber competition, and perhaps have a go at tossing one or two herself...”
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“So while Samantha nips out to nibble on her favourite bit of Leicester...”
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“Samantha has just started keeping bees, and already has three dozen or so. She says she's got an expert handler coming round to give a demonstration. He'll carefully take out her 38 bees... and soon have them flying round his head.”
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“Samantha has to nip out now, as she is off to see a Scots trawlerman friend, whose vessel needs to go in for repairs. Samantha says he's keen to lay her up in the Orkneys...”
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“Samantha has to nip out now with her new gentleman friend. Apparently, they've been working on the restoration of an old chest of drawers. Samantha is in charge of polishing, while he scrapes the varnish and wax off next to her.”
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo! Sports: Meet Mungo Park, named for the 1874 British Open champ and the great-grandson of Willie Park, the first winner of the British Open in 1860
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2021· 1 entry
Vanguard: Saving Mungo Park
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2020· 4 entries
BBC: Lee ihe nọ n'ụlọ Mungo Park n'Asaba
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,054 times.
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Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,315 times.
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Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,225 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 14,540 times.
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2018· 4 entries
Daily Post Nigeria: Mungo Park did not discover River Niger – Osinbajo
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,690 times.
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Published “CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science — cited 18,356 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks” in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) — cited 17,032 times.
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Published “Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness” in Scientific Reports — cited 12,386 times.
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2015· 1 entry
BBC: Trunk of explorer Mungo Park to return to Selkirk
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2013· 1 entry
Published “The Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery: A Perspective” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 9,621 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society — cited 20,718 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “The chemistry of graphene oxide” in Chem. Soc. Rev. — cited 10,813 times.
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2006· 1 entry
“In her spare time, Samantha likes nothing more than to peruse old record shops. She particularly enjoys a rewarding poke in the country section.”
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2004· 1 entry
Independent.ie: The African travels of Mungo Park
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1981· 3 entries
“It just occurred to me that Samantha hasn't given us the scores...since 1981.”
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“While Samantha nips out to warm up her little Morris...”
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“While Samantha nips over to Prague for a quick check-up...”
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1905· 1 entry
The monument had bronze figures added on the corners and two bas-relief panels, all by Thomas J
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1827· 1 entry
His second son, Thomas, landed on the Guinea coast, intending to make his way to Bussa, where he thought his father might be detained a prisoner; but after penetrating a little distance inland he died of fever
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1821· 1 entry
James McQueen published a book, the result of 25 years of research, in which he correctly (it would later be seen) laid out the entire course of the Niger; however, like Reichard, his theories did not receive much notice
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1806· 2 entries
Died 1806-01-01.
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“Dear Ned, I'm on the train! Yours sincerely, Mrs. Trellis”
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1771· 1 entry
Born 1771-09-11.
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