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1465
The Blessings of Nicholas Mogilevsky Clay Lane

Passengers sharing Bishop Nicholas’s Moscow-bound flight found his blessings faintly silly — but that was when the engines were still running.

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1466
The Bluebell Line Clay Lane

The Bluebell line in Sussex was the first failing British Railways line to be taken over by volunteers.

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1467
The Blues, the Greens, and Belisarius Samuel Goodrich

The Nika Rebellion drew a rising Roman general against some rioting sports fans, and it was a tense game.

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1468
The Boer Wars Clay Lane

South African settlers of Dutch descent could not escape the march of the British Empire.

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1469
The Boldness of Junius Mauricus Pliny the Younger

Pliny admired Julius Mauricus because he spoke his mind, and Emperor Nerva because he let him.

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1470
The Bombardment of Algiers Clay Lane

For two centuries, human traffickers had stolen English men, women and children for the slave-markets of the Arab world.

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