Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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An Albanian shepherd plans to expand into arable farming, but he needs water and the search is close to ruining him.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle looks back on the reign of King William I.
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Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, was kind to children and animals but Kings merited firmer handling.
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English explorer Major Edmund Lockyer tries to buy a puppy in Queensland, but ends up paying the owner to keep him.
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Charles Dickens explains to the young men of Boston MA what it is that motivates him to write.
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St Gregory Palamas struggled all his life to stand up for the principle that the Bible means what it says.