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It turns out that the UK Parliament has a number of Vernians occupying those green and red benches

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:16:57 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

I have come across a website that lists every debate / speech in the Commons
and Lords from 1803 - 2005 and on a whim searched for Jules Verne and came
across a very interesting report indeed

First Reference: March 16th 1911 by Robert Harcourt (Liberal, Montrose
Burghs) in response to a statement by the First Lord of the Admirialty:
"The right hon. Gentleman once wrote a book concerning an imaginary island.
It did not meet with that entire favour which it deserved from the more
animated members of his own party, so he proceeded to get out a second
edition investing that imaginary island with a purely imaginary hostile
fleet. Since the days of Jules Verne there has been nothing like it"

Most recent reference: October 19th 2001 by Jane Griffiths (Labour, Reading
East) in a debate on Clean Fuels:
"In 1874, Jules Verne predicted the derivation of energy from water via
hydrogen..."

In total, Jules Verne was mentioned 48 times in all. You can read all the
references at
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/search/Jules%20Verne?sort=reverse_date
Received on Sat 04 Apr 2009 - 02:17:06 IDT

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