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Engraving by William Nutter, based on a miniature by Samuel Shelley. From the National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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At fifteen John Dalton was a village schoolmaster in Kendal; at forty he had published the first scientific theory of atoms.
Abbot Elfric praised St Thomas for demanding hard evidence for the resurrection.
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Eurystheus pits his cousin against a son of Ares and some man-eating horses.
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King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.
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A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.