Alex (A Clockwork Orange) in the novel "A Clockwork Orange". The character is portrayed as a sociopath who robs, rapes, and assaults innocent people for his own amusement. Intellectually, he knows that such behaviour is morally wrong, saying that "you can't have a society with everybody behaving in my manner of the night". He nevertheless professes to be puzzled by the motivations of those who wish to reform him and others like him, saying that he would never interfere with their desire to be good; he simply "goes to the other shop". He speaks Nadsat, a teenage slang created by author Anthony Burgess. The
Blue plaque (Greater Manchester) marks the 1860s origin of the fish and chip shop and fast food industries. Bournemouth Borough Council has unveiled more than 30 blue plaques. Its first plaque was unveiled on 31 October 1937 to Lewis Tregonwell, who built the first house in what is now Bournemouth. Two further plaques followed in 1957 and 1975 to writer Robert Louis Stevenson and poet Rupert Brooke respectively. The first blue plaque was unveiled on 30 June 1985 dedicated to Percy Florence Shelley. The Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted unveiled a set of 32 blue plaques in 2000 on some of the town's