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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1051

Mr Ivery Gets Away

Richard Hannay tracks a German spy down to a French château, but Hannay’s sense of fair play gives his enemy a chance.

1052

Russia’s First Railway

Sixteen-year-old John Wesley Hackworth brought a locomotive over to St Petersburg, and Russia’s railway revolution was ready for the off.

1053

John Dalton

At fifteen John Dalton was a village schoolmaster in Kendal; at forty he had published the first scientific theory of atoms.

1054

The Ladies’ Diary

A long-lived annual of riddles, rhymes and really hard maths aimed specifically at Georgian Britain’s hidden public of clever women.

1055

Undoubting Thomas

Abbot Elfric praised St Thomas for demanding hard evidence for the resurrection.

1056

Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes

Eurystheus pits his cousin against a son of Ares and some man-eating horses.