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Brierley (Pronounced as "bry"-"early") is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England), close to the border with West Yorkshire. It lies to the south-west of Hemsworth, off the A628 road, and is located at approximately 53° 35' 40" North, 1° 23' West, at an elevation of around 100 metres above sea level. At the 2001 census it had a population of 5,973.
The civil parish of Brierley contains the large pit village of Grimethorpe.
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Coordinates: 53°35′40″N 1°23′00″W / 53.59444°N 1.3833333°W / 53.59444; -1.3833333
Saroo Brierley (born in Khandwa, India, 1981) is an Australian of Indian origin who was separated from his birth mother and found her after a separation of 25 years. His story generated significant international media attention, especially in Australia and in India.
Saroo was from a poor family, and was 5 years old when he was separated from his family. He was travelling on a train with his elder brother when a tragedy occurred and his brother fell off the train and was killed. Saroo did not know what to do, and got off the train at Kolkata, 1400 km from his home-town.
After surviving on the streets and facing significant difficulties and risks, Saroo was sent to a children's adoption home in India, and was subsequently adopted by the Brierley family from Tasmania, Australia.
In the meantime, his mother, Fatima Munshi, searched for her two sons, and could only find out that her elder son had been killed in the train accident. She could not find any news of Saroo.
Growing up as a typical Australian boy, Saroo lost command of his mother tongue. As an adult, he conducted searches on Google Earth, using his vague childhood memories of his hometown, including cues such as a fountain near the train tracks where he used to play, and a snippet of the name of his town.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
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Plot: Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Keywords: gas-leak, market, merseyside, stall-holder