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Victorian England was agog at the prospect of Tom Sayers meeting a confident but unproven challenger from the USA.
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Charles Villiers Stanford found it necessary to play dumb on a visit to snowy Leipzig.
By Francis Wheatley (?-1801), via the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Commons.
Having brought hundreds of convicts to New South Wales, Arthur Phillip then had to conjure order out of their chaos.
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Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, was so proud of her fourteen children that she brazenly claimed the privileges of a goddess.
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The Maharaja of Jodhpur called on his subjects to do their bit and stop the Nazis.
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Two British spies look out over war-torn Belgrade, and find the inspiration they need to go on with their dangerous mission.