• "The Lowestoft Boat" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four...
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    Lowestoft (/ˈloʊ(ɪ)stɒft, ˈloʊstəf/ LOH-(ih)-stoft, LOH-stəf) is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. As...
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  • 1997 play of the same name for ITV. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John Kipling. The American television...
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  • Litany" "The Love Song of Har Dyal" "The Lowestoft Boat" "Lukannon" "Macdonough's Song" "The Man Who Could Write" "Mandalay" "Many Inventions" "The Mare's...
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    The Lowestoft Boat which starts with the words "In Lowestoft a boat was laid, / Mark well what I do say!", later given the title "The Lowestoft Boat" and...
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    The Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, often referred to as the Lowestoft Raid, was a naval battle fought during the First World War between the German...
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  • Boots (poem) (category Works about the Second Boer War)
    been said that if the first four words in each line are read at the rate of two words to the second, that gives the time to which the British foot soldier...
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  • actor David Haig. It tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in the First World War. The title comes from Kipling's...
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    MacDonald sisters (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    The Macdonald sisters were four English women of part-Scottish descent born during the 19th century, notable for their marriages to well-known men. Alice...
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    E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the Kriegsmarine...
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