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By Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (1840-1896), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Mary Wordsworth wasn’t pretty or bookish, but she was kind and vital, and William loved her.
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By Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
When Julius Caesar entered the Senate that day, a note warning him of treachery was clutched in his hand — unread.
© Brian Deegan, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.
A German soldier stopped the Great War so he could ask Captain Hulse to post a letter for him.
© Vladimir Kosov (2018), via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Malacca became a refuge from the overbearing empires of the Far East, thanks to a celebrated Chinese admiral.
From the Lindisfarne Gospels, ca. AD 700, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
St Mark wrote his Gospel as a summary of the preaching of St Peter.
By Yevgeny Khaldei (1916-1997), viua Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
In 1941, with much of the West subdued, Adolf Hitler bent the full force of his hatred on Moscow.