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Perhaps European harmonisation would make life easier, but that would be only the beginning.
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By Friedrich Graetz, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
John Bright dismissed fears that digging a tunnel under the English Channel would encourage a French invasion.
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Odysseus recalls meeting Tantalus and Sisyphus, for whom relief was everlastingly beyond their grasp.
By Mary Beale (?-1699), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: ? Public domain.
Hours after running away to sea, Robinson Crusoe was sorry he ever left home.
By an anonymous artist, c. 1700-1753, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A foreign tourist writes home with an account of a day in the life of a typical London gentleman.
By Wilhelm Camphausen (1818–1885), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Such was the reputation of the Prussian army in the days of the Frederick the Great that even foreigners wanted to join.