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1729
The Most Perfect State of Civil Liberty Oliver Goldsmith

Chinese merchant Lien Chi tells a colleague that English liberties have little to do with elections, taxes and regulations.

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1730
The Most Unkindest Cut of All Clay Lane

Greek revolutionary Nikitarás gives his ungrateful men a sharp reminder of what really matters.

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1731
The Moth Versus the Fire Harsukh Rai

After its prime minister signed the Maratha Confederacy over to the East India Company, the member states rose up in a body.

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1732
The Murder of Edmund Ironside Henry of Huntingdon

Edric’s treason handed the crown of England to Cnut the Great, but Cnut was not so poor a judge of character as to believe that a traitor could be trusted.

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1733
The Music of Silence Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Coleridge’s epic poem, the Ancient Mariner, amid the horrors of a ship of dead men, sees a sight both beautiful and surreal.

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1734
The Music of the Spheres Clay Lane

Sir William Herschel not only discovered Uranus and infrared radiation, but composed two dozen symphonies as well.

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