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Woking is a large town and local government district with borough status in the west of Surrey in South East England. It functions as a dormitory town of the London commuter belt and is located 23 miles (37 km) south west of Charing Cross in central London. Woking town itself, excluding the district, has a population of 62,796.[1]
Woking also plays a role in literature: it is the town in which the Martians landed in H. G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. It also features in Douglas Adams's The Meaning of Liff, as the word for when you go to the kitchen but forget why.
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Humfrey Jonathon Malins (born 31 July 1945) is a British politician, and Conservative member of Parliament for Woking. He previously served as MP for Croydon North West from 1983 to 1992, then became MP for Woking in 1997. In 2003 he resigned from the opposition pay-roll in protest at the...
In Norse mythology, Gullinkambi ("golden comb") was a rooster who lived in Valhalla, where he woke up the Einherjar every morning. His crowing will also signify the beginning of Ragnarok...
hopelessly looking for an island to land. One dawn came and Mina woke up and found an island that is the Mindoro island. She woke up Ador and informed him of the island. The act of waking up and...
Carol Weihrer was undergoing eye surgery in 1998 when she woke up. From that point, although she could not move or speak, she could feel everything that was being done to her, and she remembered the entire experience afterwards. She has since become an activist for victims of Anesthesia awareness...
I Woke Up I Woke Up is an album by Jandek (1997). Corwood Industries release #0764. Track listing "First Awake Moment" "Alone on that Mountain" "I Can Not" "Get Back Inside" "Long Long" "Joab" "Equaled in Life" "Star of Zenith" "Take it Easy" "Just Die" "Pending Doom" "Sleepless Night" "Today...
house. A shortened version of A3's song Woke up this morning plays during the opening credits of the HBO...
Bruce Foxton is a British rock and roll musician from Woking, Surrey who was the bass player in pop-punk band The Jam, and currently plays in Stiff Little Fingers. He also sang lead vocals on The Jam's songs David Watts (a cover of a Kinks track) and News of the World (which was his own...
Brookwood near Woking , and by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world. The London Necropolis Company...
beat, with "-" representing the continuation of the previous chord: D - Woke up this morning with the G - D - D7 - blues down in my soul G - Woke up this morning with the G7 - D - - - blues down in my soul D - D7 - Woke up this morning with the blues in my soul G - Saying "My baby gone and left me, got...
Fairoaks Airport is a private airfield on the edge of the village of Chobham, near Woking, Surrey. The facility is mainly used as a helicopter maintenance base but also hosts light aircraft. Its business centre is substantially dedicated to aviation-related enterprises but is also headquarters for...
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