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Russia’s First Railway
By Clay Lane
Sixteen-year-old John Wesley Hackworth brought a locomotive over to St Petersburg, and Russia’s railway revolution was ready for the off.
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John Dalton
At fifteen John Dalton was a village schoolmaster in Kendal; at forty he had published the first scientific theory of atoms.
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The Ladies’ Diary
A long-lived annual of riddles, rhymes and really hard maths aimed specifically at Georgian Britain’s hidden public of clever women.
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Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes
Eurystheus pits his cousin against a son of Ares and some man-eating horses.
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Perilous Waters
King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.
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The Price of Treachery
Based on an account by Charlotte Yonge
A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.
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