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  1. MAJR

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    54 - The age of Queen Elizabeth I when she addressed the troops during the events of the Spanish Armarda:

    "My loving people

    We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.

    I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.

    I know already, for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and We do assure you on a word of a prince, they shall be duly paid. In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over these enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people."
     
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    55 Days in Peking was a film starring Charlton Heston and David Niven.
     
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    56 - the child star Shirley Temple's mother set her curls ensuring she always had of the exact number of 56 curls in her hair.
     
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    57 Varieties HEINZ :)
     
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    (19) 58 = The Munich Air Crash :(
     
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    60 = number of seconds in a minute.
     
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    Highway 61 was the inspiration for the Dylan classic "Highway 61 Revisited"
     
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    62 - The year of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
     
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    (19)63 = year that Christine Keeler discredited the Government with her "naughty" goings on.....
     
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    64 - Beatles song - will you still love me when I'm 64?
     
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    65 = Official State Pension age for men
     
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    66 - The order given by Darth Sidious to eradicate the Jedi Order
     
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    The apostles Peter and Paul were both executed in AD67
     
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    (19)68 was the year Martin Luther king was assassinated
     
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    Summer of 69 - An epic tune by Bryan Adams
     
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    70 platinum wedding anniversary
     
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    71 is ihe number of different characters that can be used with a standard English Keyboard, excluding uppercase letters.
     
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    (19)73 the Sydney opera house opened
     
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    1974 - The Rubiks cube puzzle was invented by Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik.
     
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    75 = The age when Pensioners receive a free TV Licence
     
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