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My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

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My favourite place: Antigua

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Q&A Has anyone ever died of laughter?

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Q&A Is the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

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Q&A Who won the first FIFA World Cup?

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10 amazing Punch magazine sketches from 1859 to 1981

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Q&A Why do we say ‘Break a leg’?

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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan: 10 facts about the 40th president of the USA