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Crowthorne è una cittadina di 24 082 abitanti della contea del Berkshire, in Inghilterra. A Crowthorne si trova il Wellington College, uno dei più prestigiosi istituti superiori inglesi. Altri progetti
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Crowthorne is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest district of south-eastern Berkshire, England. It had a population of 7,806 at the 2021 census . [1]
- 7,806 (2021 Census)
- South East
- Bracknell Forest and Wokingham
- Berkshire
L'assassino più colto del mondo (The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words, poi ripubblicato col titolo The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary) è un saggio di Simon Winchester del 1998.
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- Simon Winchester
Plot. The book tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and one of its most prolific early contributors, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon. Minor was, at the time, imprisoned in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, near the village of Crowthorne, in Berkshire, England.
- Simon Winchester, Michael Dean
- 1998
Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932 – July 1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who disappeared while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968–69. Soon after starting the race his boat, the Teignmouth Electron, began taking on water.
- July 1969 (aged 36-37)
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester.
