Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
By Alonzo Chappel (1828–1887), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 1607, settler Captain John Smith was captured by the Algonquin near the English colony at Jamestown, and watched his captors’ ceremonies with rising anxiety.
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© Richard Rice, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
After the Lion cracks down on horns right across his kingdom, a nervous Hare gets to wondering exactly what counts as a horn.
Photo by Jabez Hughes, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
At the Berlin Congress of Powers in 1878, the draft of the Prime Minister’s keynote speech had his anxious aides scuttling about like ants.
Terje Sørgjerd, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
© Allan Warren, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
When Joseph Paxton, then just twenty-three, came to Chatsworth as Head Gardener he wasted no time getting settled in.
© Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Bede examines the connection between Passover and Easter, and shows how the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ complete a pattern.