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Joan Clarke: [to a convalescing Alan] Why don't we do a crossword puzzle? It'll only take us five minutes. Or in your case, six.
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Title Card: After a year of government-mandated hormonal therapy, Alan Turing committed suicide on June 7th 1954.
Title Card: He was 41 years old.
Title Card: Between 1885 and 1967, approximately 49,000 homosexual men were convicted of gross indecency under British law.
Title Card: In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a posthumous royal pardon, honouring his unprecedented achievements.
Title Card: Historians estimate that breaking Enigma shortened the war by more than two years, saving over 14 million lives.
Title Card: It remained a government-held secret for more than 50 years.
Title Card: Turing's work inspired generations of research into what scientists called "Turing Machines".
Title Card: Today, we call them computers.
Esther Eden
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