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★ Caesar Crosses the Rubicon When Julius Caesar defied the Senate’s explicit order to resign his military command, he knew there could be no turning back.
For Today • January 10 • Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Music Video Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 28 (Irish): II. Allegro molto vivace
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Dear Anne Elliot Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.
Posted January 4 • The Copy Book
The Three Bears The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.
Posted January 2 • The Copy Book
A Man Without a Price A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.
Posted January 1 • The Copy Book
Homonyms Show that each of these words might mean different things to different people.
Posted January 1 • Think and Speak
Hair by Hair Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.
Posted December 31 2024 • The Copy Book
Hearken to the Solemn Voice A hymn looking to the coming of Christ in judgement, sung at the Wesleys’ New Year’s Eve watch-nights.
Posted December 30 2024 • Comfortable Words
One Last Look Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.
Posted December 30 2024 • The Copy Book
The Illustrious Mourner In Russia, when a blind beggar is laid to rest even the Emperor knows for whom the bell tolls.
Posted December 29 2024 • The Copy Book
Direct Speech Reconstruct what the original speakers actually said.
Posted December 27 2024 • Think and Speak
Keep Room for Me in Your Heart Guiseppi Garibaldi treasured the memory of a visit to Tyneside.
Posted December 27 2024 • The Copy Book
Fire and Sword Fyodor Dostoevsky listened with growing bewilderment to the celebrity peace activists gathered in Geneva.
Posted December 26 2024 • The Copy Book