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To 2223: Clerihew

issue 29 August 2015

Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote: The art of Biography/

Is different from Geography/ Geography is about maps/
But Biography is about chaps.

First prize Val Urquhart, Butcombe, Somerset

Runners-up A. Mulholland, Nottingham; Phillip Wickens, Horsham, West Sussex

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