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Jan Needle, the Glossary

James Albert Needle (8 February 1943 – 9 October 2023), known as Jan Needle, was an English author.^[1]

23 relations: Bram Stoker, Brookside (TV series), Count Duckula, Daily Herald (United Kingdom), Didsbury, Falklands War, Grange Hill, Heald Green, Kenneth Grahame, Manchester, Moby-Dick, Oldham, Portsmouth, Rudolf Hess, Saddleworth, Sooty, The Bill, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Wind in the Willows, Thomas the Tank Engine, Tucker's Luck, University of Manchester, Uppermill.
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People from Saddleworth
Writers from Portsmouth

Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Brookside (TV series)

Brookside is a British television soap opera, set in Liverpool, England, which began on the launch night of Channel 4, 2 November 1982.

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Count Duckula is a British children's animated comedy horror television series created by British studio Cosgrove Hall Productions and produced by Thames Television as a spin-off of Danger Mouse, a series in which an early version of the Count Duckula character was a recurring villain.

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Daily Herald (United Kingdom)

The Daily Herald was a British daily newspaper, published daily in London from 1912 to 1964 (although it was weekly during the First World War).

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Didsbury

Didsbury is a suburb of Manchester, England, on the north bank of the River Mersey, south of Manchester city centre.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school.

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Heald Green

Heald Green is a suburb of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908).

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, it lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.

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Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

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Saddleworth

Saddleworth is a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.

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Sooty

Sooty is a British children's television media franchise created by Harry Corbett incorporating primarily television and stage shows.

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The Bill

The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (translation, originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a classic children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

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Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher, published from 1945.

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