In 1942, the diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

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Samuel Pepys, the diarist who told the story of the Great Fire of London set up one of the first pension schemes.

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But soon the diarist moves into the darker corners of his personality.

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Disappointed, the diarist and his friends started to ride back to town.

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And, ten years after the death of Alan Clark, Ion Trewin, who edited his diaries, and political commentator Anthony Howard, discussed how much of Clark the politician survives, as well as the diarist .

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He may have been a cad, a bounder and a terrible snob, but that is the essential armoury of a diarist.

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Cox started the popular political blog Wonkette ("politics for people with dirty minds") where she helped catapult Washington online sex diarist Jessica Cutler from the obscurity of work as a congressional assistant to the, er, exposure of a Playboy, er, spread and a fictionalized account of her capitol crimes in a trashy little novel called The Washingtonienne.

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That flag would fly over the island for 156 years, until a ceremonial hand-off that saw the final British governor, Chris Patten, in tears, and reduced Prince Charles to angry diarist mode.

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