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The Northumbrian saint warned of an enemy who would stop at nothing to silence the good news.
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Jim Hawkins, on a remote desert island, has escaped pirates only to be caught by a shadowy figure among the trees.
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Samuel Smiles reminds us that until we brought the railways to India, we had little to boast about as an imperial power.
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The opening of the Bombay to Thane line was the real beginning of British India.
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A young Jewish woman in ancient Babylon falls victim to a heartless conspiracy.
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When captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy surrendered to American revolutionary John Paul Jones, Jones naturally assumed that meant he had won.
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