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There are 3 separate sets of initials per statement and in each statement at least one of the missing words is the word Alexander, Alex, Alistair or Alastair.

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1.

1704: AS is MOJFI later becoming the inspiration for DDRC

Alexander Selkirk;

marooned on Juan Fernandez Islands;

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

2.

1876: AGB says “MWCHIWTSY” the first WSBT

Alexander Graham Bell;

“Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you”;

words spoken by telephone

3.

1911: IB has HFH with ARB

Irving Berlin;

his first hit;

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

4.

1968: WPIOC ends ‘PS’ and leads to ADBT

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia;

Prague Spring;

Alexander Dubcek being toppled

5.

1968: ACLFA includes his own EW account of TAORFK

Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America;

eye witness;

the assassination of Robert F Kennedy

6.

1982: A‘H’H beats RR to WTWSCATC

Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins;

Ray Reardon;

win the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible

7.

1999: ACF says “F,BH” as MUBBMTO

Alex Chapman Ferguson;

“Football, bloody hell”;

Manchester United beat Bayern Munich two one

8.

1999: AMS publishes first of TNOLDA series featuring PR

Alexander McCall Smith;

The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency;

Precious Ramotswe

9.

2002: ACTBDOCAS helps prepare T‘DD’ about WOMDII

Alastair Campbell Tony Blair’s Director of Communications and Strategy;

the ‘Dodgy Dossier’;

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq

10.

2013: SA stars as ADW in TVSJC

Sarah Alexander;

Alan Davies’ wife;

TV series Jonathan Creek