Piltdowns

• Piltdown Man: alleged missing link in human evolution, now known to be a forgery; named after Piltdown Common in Sussex where the pieces of Piltdown Man's skull were found
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
  • Wikipedia

• pelting down → usually said of rain

• Chilterns: the Chiltern Hills, a chalk escarpment in southern England, most prominent in Buckinghamshire → the Chiltern Hundreds, a wooded district in Buckinghamshire, are used as a procedural device in the House of Commons; an MP who wishes to resign applies for tenureship of the Chiltern Hundreds in order to subvert an archaic rule which forbids Members from resigning
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
  • Wikipedia

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