The Gore team was led by Supreme Court war-horse Laurence Tribe, the Harvard law professor who last week received his 30th souvenir quill from the court, which gives the pens to attorneys who argue before it.

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Williams is also nominated for composer of the year for his work on two recent soundtracks - War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin, against Morricone and Mealor.

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Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

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The monument, which depicts an axe-wielding Bruce on his war horse, was originally cast in bronze but it has been weathered over the decades and is slowly turning green.

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"We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.

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Her family lived as horse-traders, travelling through Austria before World War II, when they were deported to Nazi concentration camps, along with other Roma, Jews, Poles, homosexuals and political opponents of the Nazis.

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As well as film roles in Thor and The Avengers, the 32-year-old played Captain Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse in 2011.

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NATO, which has spent half a century preparing for war, how much more true of the European Union, whose culture of horse-trading (my fish quota for your opt-out on social policy) is poorly suited to the sober, decisive thinking needed to run a military campaign.

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The 80-year-old was also awarded a best composer prize recognising his scores for the Steven Spielberg films War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin.

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