Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Jesus’s apostles receive the gift of God’s Holy Spirit, and the startling effects quickly draw a crowd.
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Sir William Herschel not only discovered Uranus and infrared radiation, but composed two dozen symphonies as well.
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Hermia and her lover Lysander elope from Athens, only to become tangled with squabbling fairies in the woods.
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There was one form of power that self-taught engineering genius George Stephenson never harnessed.
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In encouraging women into music, Alice Mary Smith thought promises of ‘greatness’ counterproductive.
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Loyal subjects of King James II continued to fight his corner after he, and any real hope of success, had gone.