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YOU WOULDN'T ADAM AND EVE IT, CHARLES; SPECIAL REPORT It's 150 years since Darwin rocked the world, but in his Midlands home town...(News)

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From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date: 20080217
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Byline: BY LORNE JACKSON

EVERY town has its bad boys.

Louts and lowlifes who should be dodged, or frog-marched to the nearest prison.

Beastly blokes who fester on the dole.

Or, worse still, transform themselves into rock gods with their own Celebrity Stars on Broad Street.

Brum has Ozzy Osbourne, of course.

While pretty Midland market town Shrewsbury also has a dangerous dude.

Charles Darwin is his name.

He might have died more than 120 years ago, but in the Victorian era he shook the world to its very foundations.

Not by lobbing bombs or ...

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