INTRODUCTION
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LADY GAGA
Lady GaGa (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is an American singer. She was born in 1986 at Yonkers, New York. Educated at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she started playing the piano when she was four years old and later became a stripper before achieving fame as a pop singer. Her stage name, Lady GaGa is a reference to the song "Radio Ga-Ga' by Queen. Among her notable hits may be mentioned 'Paparazzi' and 'Poker Face'.
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NEWS
May 2013
We recently acquired a large number of contemporary manuscripts from
the Boer War which included a number of maps of the battle fields
drawn at the time and photographs.
The maps and many of the photographs have been digitised and can now be found
in the appropriate sections of the Map Archive and Photo Library.
The manuscripts also included information about a large number of British
and Boer leaders, generals and heroes. Sadly, most of these individuals
have been all but forgotten through time, and we are experiencing great
difficulty in sourcing additional biographical information about what
happened to them following the end of the Boer War in 1902. Not withstanding
we are adding information as and when it comes to light.
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