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Confusions

 * W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh
 * Belinda Giblin, Rebecca Gibney, Rebecca Gilling
 * Neil Armfield, Nick Enright

Liszt and Wagner's love affair with late December

 * Marie d'Agoult, mistress and mother of Liszt's 3 children
 * Born 31 December 1805


 * Cosima Wagner, Liszt's daughter and second wife of Wagner
 * Born 24 December 1837, but celebrated it on Christmas Day


 * Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner's muse and possible lover
 * Born 23 December 1857

Ghastly British surnames

 * Abicare
 * Arbogast
 * Arbuthnot
 * Auchincloss
 * Auchinleck
 * Bagshaw
 * Bassingthwaite
 * Beckinsale
 * Begbie
 * Bickerstaff
 * Bickersteth
 * Birtwistle
 * Bledisloe
 * Blenkinsop
 * Blennerhassett
 * Bultitude
 * Callister
 * Carstairs
 * Clissold
 * Clitheroe
 * Clutterbuck
 * Cockburn
 * Crapp
 * Culpeper
 * Dalgliesh
 * Dawkins
 * Grimsdyke
 * Grimshaw
 * Grimwade
 * Grocock
 * Higginbottom
 * Hornibrook
 * Horsfall
 * Jimson
 * Lillicrap
 * McCluggage
 * McGillicuddy
 * McGurk
 * Ollerenshaw
 * Pennypacker
 * Pettigrew
 * Pickersgill
 * Polkinghorne
 * Ponsonby
 * Prendergast
 * Protheroe
 * Pruitt
 * Purvis
 * Scammell
 * Scrymgeour
 * Shrubsole
 * Smedley
 * Smethurst
 * Snodgrass
 * Spruance
 * Threlfall
 * Throckmorton
 * Throgmorton
 * Titmarsh
 * Tonks
 * Trengove
 * Trescothick
 * Trubshaw
 * Tunks
 * Tuttle
 * Twemlett
 * Walkinshaw
 * Wearne
 * Whitbread
 * Withers
 * Witherspoon
 * Wolstenholme
 * Wormald
 * Wotherspoon