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How appropriate that the comic opera ‘Patience’ should introduce the world to the results of thirty years of labour.
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A political rival sends Jason on a hopeless errand, to fetch the golden fleece.
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Long before Jason came to claim it, the golden fleece had already saved a boy’s life.
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When Polydectes, King of Seriphos, sent Perseus to get the Gorgon’s head, he hoped the boy would never come back.
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Armistice Day is the anniversary of the end of the First World War on the 11th of November, 1918.
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Robert Clive helped to establish a lasting bond between India and Britain, laying the foundations of modern India.