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1. Peter Fleming Peter Fleming was a highly successful professional tennis player. During the 1980s, Fleming teamed up with fellow American John McEnroe to dominate the men's doubles game. The duo won an astonishing 57 doubles titles together, including four at Wimbledon (1979, 1981, 1983 and 1984), and three at the US Open (1979, 1981 and 1983). This success triggered Fleming's famous, and modest, quote that "The best doubles pair in the world is John McEnroe and anyone", though arguably Fleming provided a perfect physical, technical and mental counterpart to McEnroe.
2. Concorde
3. Nicolae Ceausescu (and his wife Elena)
4. Jubilee line
5. Castlemaine
6. Super giant slalom
7. Emminence
8. Aberdeen Aberdeen (In Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dheathain) is Scotland's third largest city with an official population of 202,370. Nicknames include the Granite City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, whose Tourmaline deposits sparkle like silver. The city has a long, sandy coastline. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil Capital of Europe or the Energy Capital of Europe. The area around Aberdeen has been settled for at least 8,000 years, when small villages lay around the mouths of the River Dee and River Don.
9. Edward Heath
10. Cary Grant
11. 1994
12. Yuri Gagarin
13. The Steppes The Eurasian Steppe (sometimes referred to collectively as The Steppes or The Steppe) is the term often used to describe the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia stretching from the western borders of the steppes of Hungary to the eastern border of the steppes of Mongolia. Most of the Euro-Asian Steppe is included within the region of Central Asia while only a small part of it is included within Eastern Europe. The term Asian Steppe usually describes the Euro-Asian Steppe without its most western parts, i.e. the steppes of western Russia, Ukraine and Hungary. The Eurasian Steppe was the place from where nomadic horse archers, such as the Great Horde of Ghengis Khan, invaded the civilizations of China, the Middle East, South Asia and Europe.
14. Narcissus In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hero of the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. Pausanias locates the spring of Narcissus at Donacon 'Reed-bed' in the territory of the Thespians. Pausanias finds it incredible that someone could not distinguish a reflection from a real person, and cites a less known variant in which Narcissus had a twin sister. Both dressed similarly and hunted together. Narcissus fell in love with her. When she died, Narcissus pined after her and pretended that the reflection he saw in the water was his sister. As Pausanias also notes, yet another tale is that the narcissus flower was created to entice Demeter's daughter Persephone away from her companions to enable Hades to abduct her.
15. Pantomime
16. Audrey Hepburn
17. Bauhaus
18. Stupa
19. Any five of the following:Eire, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Iceland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City.
20. George Best
21. Inspector Clousseau and the Green Hornet
22. New Orleans
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