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1705
The Making of Tommy Atkins Sir George John Younghusband

In all his years of soldiering at home and abroad, Major-General George Younghusband had never heard British soldiers talk like those in Kipling’s tales.

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1706
The Man Born Blind Clay Lane

A man born blind is healed by Jesus, but finds himself a social outcast as a result.

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1707
The Man Who Couldn’t Abide Greed Geoffrey Chaucer

On a money-spinning pilgrimage to Canterbury, a Pardoner says the quiet part out loud.

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1708
The Man Who Left No Footprints Clay Lane

A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.

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1709
The Man who Made the Headlines Clay Lane

William Stead conceived modern print journalism in the belief that newspapers could change the world.

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1710
The Man Who Mapped the Moon Science (Journal)

In 1609, Englishman Thomas Harriot turned his new-fangled telescope on the moon, and sketched for the first time the face of another world.

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