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303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Nelson Touch To

Nelson's mother died when he was either eight, nine or 10. He claimed to remember her well but then the only concrete thing he remembered about her was that she hated the French. So crowds thought he was rubbish and a German onlooker at the crowd called him 'a more miserable collection of bones and a whizzened frame I have never yet come across' Nelson had the crack kicked out of him at war - he lost an arm. But if he had a six pack and he also invented the phrase, the Nelson touch to. What does that mean? It's about having some kind of brilliant naval strategy.

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