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1807
The Sacrifice of Isaac from The Authorized Version

Abraham invites his son Isaac to accompany him to a nearby mountain to offer sacrifice, and the boy is naturally curious to know what gift his father proposes to offer.

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1808
The Sayers-Heenan Fight by Clay Lane

Victorian England was agog at the prospect of Tom Sayers meeting a confident but unproven challenger from the USA.

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1809
The School of Difficulty by Samuel Smiles

It is not educational institutions and methods that advance science or the arts, but people.

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1810
The Science of Salix by Clay Lane

Edward Stone wondered if the willow tree might have more in common with the Peruvian cinchona tree than just its damp habitat.

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1811
The Secret Treaty of Dover by Sir John Dalrymple

Months after promising England would help Holland escape the clutches of Catholic Europe, Charles II did a secret deal with France to sell out Holland and England together.

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1812
The Seikilos Epitaph by Clay Lane

Lost for seventeen centuries, caught up in a war, and used as a pedestal for a plant pot, this is the world’s oldest surviving song.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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