Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.
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By Vasily Vereshchagin, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.
© Anthony O’Neil, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Adam Smith warns that politicians are the last people who should lecture the public about how to run their affairs.
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Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.
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James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.
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Heracles must get the better of a three-bodied giant and steal his cattle.