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Fiddling While Rome Burns Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

In 64, Nero watched on with fascination as Rome was consumed by fire — the Emperor’s idea of performance art.

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Fight the Good Fight St Bede of Jarrow

Eighth-century Northumbrian monk St Bede urged Christians to think of heaven, and then fight our way there for all we are worth.

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Filioque Clay Lane

It started as an honest mistake, became a diplomatic standoff, and brought down an Empire.

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Fire and Ice The Old English Genesis

When the angels rebelled against their Maker, they demanded a kingdom of their own in a land without him — and he gave them what they wanted.

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Fire and Sword Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky listened with growing bewilderment to the celebrity peace activists gathered in Geneva.

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First Contact Clay Lane

Julius Caesar came over from France expecting to silence the noisy neighbours, but things did not go according to plan.

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