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1297
Scylla and Charybdis Homer

After safely negotiating the alluring Sirens, Odysseus and his crew must now decide which of Scylla and Charybdis would do the least damage.

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1298
Season of Goodwill Clay Lane

‘Goodwill’ was on everyone’s lips, but the Roman Emperor and the God of Israel had very different ideas about it.

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1299
Seeds of Empire Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

The British Empire may be said to have started when Elizabethan importers got into a fight with the Dutch over the price of pepper.

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1300
Selections from the Great Charter The Great Charter

By the Great Charter of 1215, King John promised that his ministers would not meddle in the Church or stuff his Treasury with taxes on trade.

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1301
Sentegrams

These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.

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1302
Serjeant Munday William Howitt

William Howitt had some advice for Victorian tourists hoping for an authentic experience at the battlefield of Waterloo.

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