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Bisley

National Rifle Association (United Kingdom)
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About Bisley

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is the national governing body for fullbore rifle and pistol shooting sports in the United Kingdom founded in 1859. Its main activities includes organising civilian target shooting and selecting British teams to contest the ICFRA World Championships. The National Shooting Centre (NSC) in Bisley, Surrey serves as its main training facility.

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When Queen Elizabeth was 10 years old, she was visiting Bisley, which is in Gloucestershire, and while she was there, the plague was very rife, and she got ill, and she passed away. The place Bisley thought that they were going to suffer the wrath of Henry, and so they quickly had to replace her.

from No Such Thing As Harry Potter And The Great Overreaction, 2018-03-09 at 00:19:16 ยท read transcript

Other times Bisley came up

  1. It is a theory. They did, because as in it was a theory that had existed since Queen Elizabeth, and he popularised it. There were people who genuinely thought that, and there are people who put together lots of evidence about it, like the fact that her writing style changed apparently as soon as she left Bisley. When she was seven years old? So everyone's developed a certain...

    No Such Thing As Harry Potter And The Great Overreaction, 2018-03-09 ยท listen

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