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Unfolding the Universe

By William Stukeley

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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Picture: © DS Pugh, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.. Source.

Posted April 14 2021

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The Character of Sir Isaac Newton

By Humphrey Newton

Sir Isaac’s secretary has left us an engaging portrait of a kindly genius, the absent-minded professor of our fancy.

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Picture: By Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.

Posted April 13 2021

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Table Steaks

By Pierre-Jean Grosley

French travel writer Pierre-Jean Grosley toured Georgian London just in time to witness a culinary revolution: the sandwich.

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Picture: © Marathon, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.. Source.

Posted April 11 2021

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The Battle of Trafalgar

By Jawaharlal Nehru

A year into his reign as Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte had much of Europe under his government but the United Kingdom still eluded him.

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Picture: By Louis-Philippe Crépin (1772–1851), via wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.

Posted April 4 2021

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Two Lions

By Sir Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh had many grievances against James VI and I, but for peace with Scotland he was willing to forget them all.

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Picture: © Adam D. Hope, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.. Source.

Posted April 1 2021

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The Battle of the Nile

By Jawaharlal Nehru

As Napoleon Bonaparte swept from victory to victory in Europe, he began to think he might add the East to the possessions of the French Republic.

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Picture: By George Arnald (1763–1841), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.

Posted March 31 2021

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How I Met Nastenka The story-teller recalls his first meeting with Nastenka, and the man who brought them together.

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Scansion Turn these lines into well-punctuated lines of verse.

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Columbus Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.

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Loan Words Match each word to the language we have borrowed it from.

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Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’

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A Full Day’s Play It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?

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Grammar Examine these sentences, and say whether the word ‘up’ should be removed.

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Sunday in London Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.

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Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.

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Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

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Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.

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Music Video Henry Purcell: Miserere Mei

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Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

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The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

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