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For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Neil MacGregor
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Neil MacGregor
British
Historian
Born:
Jun 16
,
1946
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Adventure
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British Museum
Complete
Collection
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Feet
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Fit
Up
Burned
Century
Cut
Zeal
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Daniel Hannan
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Intelligence
Words
Hide
British Museum
Complete
William
Collection
Finest
Shakespeare
Within
Hindu
Contents
Island
Arrived
Cover
Pink
Human
Gold
Human Intelligence
Works
Thing
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Images
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams
Property
Church
First
British Museum
Our
Rather
Real
Than
Public
Monarch
British
Museum
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Neil MacGregor
British Museum
Administrative
Imperial
Adventure
Greek
Stone
Africa
Icon
Many
British
Museum
By-Product
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
Nicholas Lea
Family
Looking
British Museum
Books
Up
Pages
British
Museum
I remember sitting in front of the British Museum and having a moment - an epiphany, I guess - that I just had to live here. And now that I have grown to understand the British sense of humour here, I love the culture, too.
Sarah Goldberg
Love
Culture
Remember
Sense
Live
British Museum
Too
Guess
Humour
Having
Had
Understand
Sitting
Front
Just
Epiphany
Moment
Grown
Now
Here
British
Museum
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
Tony Bradman
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School
Made
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Studied
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Romans
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Dad
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