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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Henry VIII and his mistress Anne Boleyn were disappointed once again in their hopes of catching Thomas More with his fingers in the till.
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After spending years besieging the city of Troy, the Greek armies suddenly decamp, leaving behind only an enormous wooden sculpture of a horse.
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Victor Hugo berates the general public for crediting everything they do themselves to their supposedly wonderful Government.
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Sir Isaac Newton told William Stukeley about the day when an apple fell from a tree and set him thinking about the solar system.
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When a new mother found herself and her kittens on the wrong side of a nasty-looking stream, Twink was there to help.
By Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Sir Isaac’s secretary has left us an engaging portrait of a kindly genius, the absent-minded professor of our fancy.