Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Gaius Caesar is disappointed with the quality of the entertainment on offer in Rome’s Circus Maximus.
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William Stead conceived modern print journalism in the belief that newspapers could change the world.
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A man unjustly condemned to transportation finds that thieves thieve, but sometimes decency shines through too.
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Under a moonlit sky in October 1942, Allied and Axis forces met in battle on the sands of the Egyptian desert.
By Robert Pine (1730-1788), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A hen-pecked, ne’er-do-well farmer from New York took off into the Catskill Mountains, and fell in with some very odd company.
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James Tod brought order to Udaipur after years of turmoil, but not everyone appreciated him.