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From the Walters Art Museum, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
The Israelites under Philistia’s rule might have blended with their heathen masters had not Samson kept stirring up trouble.
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© Ben Brooksbank, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
The Bluebell line in Sussex was the first failing British Railways line to be taken over by volunteers.
© Robert Graham, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Seventeenth-century German craftsmen came seeking a land of opportunity, and found it in County Durham.
By Torii Kiyomine (1787-1869). Photo: Brooklyn Museum. Licence: Public domain.
Hardworking Kichijiro wins Ima’s heart and Kanshichi’s hatred without noticing a thing.
National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons. ? Public domain.
The Founder of Singapore established his city on principles of free people and free trade.
By David Wilkie (1785-1841), Apsley House and via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain
The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.