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Ronny Biggs

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In her account of working at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the 1960s, Hazel Bigg notes that she had to tell people that she was nothing to do with Ronny Biggs.

Ancient Egytian Toys

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Valerie Wilson, a former student from UCL MA Egyptian Archaeology course popped on the bus.

Gender Archaeology

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In 'Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past' considers gender as 'the cultural interpretation of sexual difference: its qualities can be conflicting, mutable, and cumulative, contingent upon pe

Hey Toots- you wanna play?

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I am interested in the car being a ‘Tootsie toy’; named after the daughter of the founder already giving it a feminine origin. ‘Tootsie’ is American slang for a girl or a young woman.

Meaning of "Toots"

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Katy Beinart
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Noun

Singular: toot
Plural: toots
toot (plural toots)

1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.

Scale in Alice in Wonderland

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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a children's book by Lewis Carroll, Alice finds a key sitting on a glass table.

1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition

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The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was the last and the greatest of the nineteenth century's World's Fairs.

'Take Time to Play With Your Kids'

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Shannon Roszell - Toronto, Canada
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'Take time to play with your kids,’ the ad campaign encourages. A recently acquired 1963 Ford Sunliner Convertible model would be the object of their shared fascination today.

"On The Road" book covers

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"I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous

This little piggy.

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Tootsie Toys made the car, tootsie is another term for toes, nursery rhymes relating to toes include:

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