The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.

There is a reference in the Birmingham Daily Gazette to a 'hooligan outrage' in Newton Row in January 1907 - which had formerly been a peaky blinder stronghold - when three men of the peaky blinder type savagely attacked and robbed a businessman late at night, but there appears to be no mention of assaults or fights by peaky blinders after that..

A general feature of cnidarians, as I noted above, is their stinging cells.

To her bequeath'd them with his parting breath, And sunk serene in unregretted death.