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===Oxford and Cambridge===
[[The Eagle and Child]] and the [[Lamb & Flag (Oxford)|Lamb and Flag]], Oxford, were regular meeting places of the [[Inklings]], a writers' group that included [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and [[C. S. Lewis]]. [[The Eagle (pub)|The Eagle]] in Cambridge is where [[Francis Crick]] interrupted patrons' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and [[James Watson]] had "discovered the secret of life" after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of [[DNA]].<ref>Regis, Ed (2009) ''What Is Life?: investigating the nature of life in the age of synthetic biology''. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]] {{ISBN|0-19-538341-9}}; p. 52</ref> The anecdote is related in Watson's book ''[[The Double Helix]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804545.stm|title='Secret of life' discovery turns 50|publisher=BBC|date=27 February 2003|first=Ivan|last=Noble|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909020559/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804545.stm|archive-date=9 September 2010}}</ref> and commemorated with a blue plaque on the outside wall.