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Narrator: C. Spell correctly the names of the following persons associated with Manchester and Liverpool:
i. King John - (gave Liverpool a Royal Charter in 1207; chief port for trade with Ireland)
ii. John Kay - (inventor of the flying shuttle in 1733 which began the revolution in spinning)
iii. Richard Arkwright - (patented a machine for spinning cotton thread in 1769)
iv. George Stephenson - (his locomotive was the first to be used on the Liverpool-Manchester Railway)
v. William Lever - (English soap maker1 and industrialist2 who built a Sunlight soap factory)
vi. Friedrich Engels - (manager of textile factory in Manchester, and co-founder of Communism)
vii. Alfred Waterhouse - (designed the imposing3 Victorian neo-Gothic Town Hall in Manchester)
viii. Ford4 Madox Brown - (painter, whose series of frescoes5 depict6 historical events in Manchester)
ix. Keir Hardie- (politician who urged workers to strike leading to riots in Liverpool in 1911)
x. John Lennon - (Liverpudlian singer, whose songwriting career helped create worldwide acceptance of working-class ethics; murdered in New York in 1980)
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