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Alexander fulfilled the letter of a prophecy and he did become ruler of the world, but it wasn’t quite fair.
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An ancient Greek myth about the dangers of easy wealth.
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Alice experiences for herself the very definition of a pointless exercise.
© David Pickersgill, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
The cup of happiness is dashed from Jane Eyre’s lips.
© Ray Stanton, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
The people of Lilliput are strangely small, but their ideas are bizarre in a big way.
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The great-grandson of William the Conqueror, whose knights assassinated Thomas Becket and whose family harried him to an early grave.