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quotes[0]='In Oxford Colleges the \'dons\' (professors) eat in the college dining halls at \'High Table\'.  This is a long table which is on a podium 6 inches (150mm) above the students.'

quotes[1]='The Great Tudor Hall of Christ Church College was the inspiration for the Great Hall at Hogwarts.'

quotes[2]='Alice Liddell, the real \'Alice in Wonderland\', lived at Christ Church where her father was Dean. Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym for Charles Dodgson, a Mathematics lecturer and keen amateur photographer. His camera is in the Museum of History of Science.'

quotes[3]='It\'s said that Magdalen College\'s deer were reclassified as \'vegetables\' (on the grounds they are herbivores) during WWII to avoid appropriation by the Ministry of Food. But there is no evidence for this. Well, there wouldn\'t be, would there?'

quotes[4]='King Richard the Lionheart and his brother, King John (of bad repute) were born in Beaumont Palace, where Beaumont Street now runs – there\’s a plaque to mark the spot.'

quotes[5]='Oxford\'s Ashmolean Museum is the world\'s first public museum (from the Greek \'museum\' = \'home of the Muses\').'

quotes[6]='The world\’s first sub-4-minute mile was run in 1954 by Sir Roger Bannister (then a 1st-year medical student), on the University\'s Iffley Road running track.'

quotes[7]='Oxford\’s city Charter (1191) was the first granted in England by the Crown. Now in the Museum of Oxford, its seal shows the emblem of an ox crossing a ford, this emblem for the city is still used today.'

quotes[8]='Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web while at CERN in Switzerland, is an alumnus of the Queen\'s College. He gained a First Class degree in Physics.'

quotes[9]='The Golden Cross is a former coaching inn (1193, restored 1988) and one of Oxford\'s oldest hostelries. It is said that Shakespeare\'s plays were performed in its courtyard.'

quotes[10]='The oldest building in Oxford remains a matter of debate.  It\’s either St George\'s Tower (part of Oxford Castle) or the tower of St Michael at the North Gate (formerly part of the city\'s fortifications). Both are part-Saxon and pre-date the University – <i>climb them and you decide!</i>'

quotes[11]='Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia, still holds the record for drinking a yard of ale at the Turf Tavern.'

quotes[12]='Graffiti allowed?  Well, on College walls anyway, but only if it is celebrating a College\’s victory over rival Colleges\' boat crews. Some must have required scaffolding for their execution. Look out for them.'

quotes[13]='May 1 is Oxford\'s big celebration of spring. The University choir sings in Latin inside Magdalen Tower at 6.00am, followed by madrigals and Morris dancing – with the pubs offering breakfast, both liquid and solid. It\'s all over by 8.00am.'

quotes[14]='The City\’s St Giles Fair dates back to 1624. The whole of St Giles (the street is owned by St John\'s College) is closed to traffic for 2 days in early September to allow the fairground to take over.'

quotes[15]='The boundaries of Oxford city parishes are marked, either with a plaque (you can see one in Marks and Spencer), or with a chalked cross on the wall or pavement. See how many you can spot.'

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