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Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, was kind to children and animals but Kings merited firmer handling.
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English explorer Major Edmund Lockyer tries to buy a puppy in Queensland, but ends up paying the owner to keep him.
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Charles Dickens explains to the young men of Boston MA what it is that motivates him to write.
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St Gregory Palamas struggled all his life to stand up for the principle that the Bible means what it says.
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Heathen prince Boris I of Bulgaria (r. 852–889) commissioned St Methodius to paint an impressive scene for his palace walls.
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At the Battle of Crécy in 1346, the English army was trying out a new military tactic under the command of a sixteen-year-old boy.