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Brutus tells Cassius to act while everything is going his way, or be left with nothing but regrets.
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Persian star-gazers hasten to Israel for the birth of a royal heir, but find that King Herod has had his fill of them.
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Young Montague Bertie, Lord Willougby, tended his dying father behind enemy lines.
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Stephen was the first person to lose his life because he was a follower of Jesus Christ.
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The Greek hero thinks he has paid off more of his debt to the gods, but an unpleasant surprise awaits him.
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A Cornish professor of chemistry with a poetic turn who helped make science a popular fashion.