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Input (English): Context: Sussex (abbreviated Sx), from the Old English "Sþsaxe" (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, north-east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for local government into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove. Brighton and Hove was created as a unitary authority in 1997, and granted City status in 2000. Until then, Chichester was Sussex's only city., Arthur Russell Thorndike ( 6 February 1885 , Rochester , Kent -- 7 November 1972 ) was a British actor and novelist , best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels . Less well - known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile , Russell Thorndike 's first love was writing and , after serving in World War I , he devoted himself to it . He was born in Rochester , Kent , where his father had recently become a canon at the cathedral . He was a student at St George 's School , Windsor Castle and a chorister of St George 's Chapel , an experience he later recounted in his book Children of the Garter ( 1937 ) . At his suggestion , both he and Sybil ( who once aspired to be a concert pianist ) tried acting as a career in 1903 . They became students at Ben Greet 's Academy and two years later accompanied fellow members of the company on a North American tour , which included New York . He remained three - and - a - half years with the company , once giving three performances as Hamlet in three different versions of the text on the same day . He also toured in South Africa and Asia . Around this time he completed his first novel of romantic adventure on Romney Marsh entitled Doctor Syn : A Tale of the Romney Marsh . In 1914 he enlisted . His brother Frank , who once performed on stage , was killed in action . Russell was severely wounded at Gallipoli and discharged . He rejoined Ben Greet 's theatre company and his sister at the Old Vic in 1916 , where he played in Shakespeare 's King John , Richard II , and King Lear . Thorndike also acted with Sybil and her husband , Lewis Casson , in their touring repertory performing melodramas . In 1922 he was applauded for his performance in the first professional production of Henrik Ibsen 's Peer Gynt at the Old Vic . Thorndike married Rosemary Dowson , a daughter of the well - known actress Rosina Filippi , in 1918 . In film , Thorndike 's appearances were infrequent . He played Macbeth ( 1922 ) in a silent version of the play opposite Sybil 's Lady and also played leads in silent versions of other classic plays , including Scrooge ( 1923 ) as Old Ebenezer , and The School for Scandal ( 1923 ) as Sir Peter Teazle . He ended his film career in minor priest roles for Laurence Olivier in Hamlet ( 1948 ) and Richard III ( 1955 ) . Although Thorndike appeared on the stage over four decades ( including playing his own Dr. Syn character and entertaining audiences as Smee in ten revivals of Peter Pan , including the famous Scala Theatre version where Donald Sinden doubled the roles of Mr Darling and Captain Hook ) , he felt a deeper fulfilment in writing , which would include the later work The House of Jeffreys ., Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. It has become a byword for stalemate, attrition, sieges and futility in conflict., The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain., Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about ., The home counties are the counties of England that surround London (although several of them do not border it). The counties generally included in the list are Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. Other counties more distant from Londonsuch as Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshireare also sometimes regarded as home counties due to their proximity to London and their connection to the London regional economy., World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved., In general, a civilian is "a person who is not a member of the military or of a police or firefighting force", as defined by Merriam Webster's Dictionary. From the perspective of the U.S. Department of Defense, Chapter 18 of Title 10 United States Code refers to non-military law enforcement officers as civilians since they are employees rather than enlisted personnel, and also in order to distinguish itself from military police. In military and law enforcement slang, the term "Civies" or "Civvies" are often used to refer civilian population or civilian clothing., South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. As with the other regions of England, apart from Greater London, the south east has no elected government., Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north west, Surrey to the west, East Sussex to the south west, and Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north. The county town is Maidstone. , East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent to the north and east, Surrey to the north west and West Sussex to the west, and to the south by the English Channel., A County town is usually the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county, or it has been established over time as the "de facto" main town of a county. The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration or county hall is based. In fact, many county towns are no longer part of the administrative county. For example, Nottingham is administered by a unitary authority entirely separate from the rest of Nottinghamshire. Many county towns are classified as cities, but all are referred to as county towns regardless of whether city status is held or not., Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it with Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river was a source and route for much of the town's trade as the centre of the agricultural county of Kent, known as the Garden of England. There is evidence of a settlement in the area dating back to before the Stone Age., A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem. The primary factor that distinguishes wetlands from other land forms or water bodies is the characteristic vegetation of aquatic plants, adapted to the unique hydric soil. Wetlands play a number of roles in the environment, principally water purification, flood control, carbon sink and shoreline stability. Wetlands are also considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as home to a wide range of plant and animal life., Surrey is a county in the south east of England and also one of the home counties bordering Greater London. Surrey shares borders with Kent to the east, East Sussex to the south-east, West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west and south-west and Berkshire to the north-west. The county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames, administered as part of Greater London since 1965. With a resident population of 1.1 million, Surrey is the most densely populated and third most populated county in the South East region, after Kent and Hampshire., Subject: russell thorndike, Relation: place_of_death, Options: (A) buckinghamshire (B) cambridgeshire (C) east sussex (D) england (E) english channel (F) front (G) greater london (H) home (I) hove (J) kent (K) london (L) maidstone (M) most (N) north sea (O) nottingham (P) nottinghamshire (Q) rochester (R) romney (S) romney marsh (T) shoreline (U) surrey (V) sussex (W) thames (X) thames estuary (Y) webster
Output (English): london