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1597
The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat Eugene Field

In most contests the choices are win, lose or draw, but what happened here remains a mystery.

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1598
The Girl in the Barn Clay Lane

Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.

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1599
The Glorious First of June Clay Lane

Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.

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1600
The ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 Clay Lane

King James II was forced off the throne in favour of his daughter Mary, and a new English constitution was born.

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1601
The Glory of Athens Thomas Babington Macaulay

Classical Greece has been an inspiration to every generation because she stands for the triumph of liberty and reason over prejudice and power.

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1602
The Glow Worm and the Jackdaw P. V. Ramaswami Raju

In this fable from India, a sly little insect teaches a jackdaw that all that glisters is not necessarily edible.

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