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How great tea race from China whipped up a frenzy 150 years ago

Five of the fastest, most beautiful ships of the day – along with their rock-star skippers – made the nail-biting journey from Fuzhou to London, eagerly followed by the world’s press and more than a few gamblers

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Oxford's new dictionary of UK, Irish family names

A team of researchers has spent four years studying the meanings and origins of almost 50,000 surnames, from the most common to the highly obscure. Some names have been around for many centuries while other more recent arrivals are explained for the first time in the work, the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, which was published this week.

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Ivanka Trump talks family, branding and China

In a 2012 interview, the businesswoman and daughter of America's next president talks about working in real estate, what's good and bad about being a Trump, and her daughter's Chinese lessons