Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Greek revolutionary Nikitarás gives his ungrateful men a sharp reminder of what really matters.
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From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1907), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
After being outwitted once too often, Zeus decides to spite Prometheus by ruining the race of men.
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A man steals a mother sparrow from her chick, but St Cuthbert isn’t going to let him get away with it.
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A man who seems to have everything loses his good looks to a dreadful disease.
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A boy goes bird-nesting in Cuthbert’s church, and finds himself all in a heap.
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A cat belonging to a Carthusian monastery in Paris gets a free lunch, but who is exploiting whom?