Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Joseph Skipsey taught himself to read and write by candlelight, hundreds of feet below ground in a Northumberland pit.
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Zeus employs a little psychology to effect a reunion with his offended wife.
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The little County Durham line built by George Stephenson and his son Robert was the place where the world’s railway infrastructure really began.
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The railway earned a special place in history as the first to be designed for steam locomotives only.
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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.