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King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.
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A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.
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In a translation from the Authorized Version of the Bible, published in 1611, St Mark recounts the discovery of Christ’s empty tomb.
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A 9th century Irish monk scribbled some verses about a beloved cat into his copy book.
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The Nazi-collaborating Vichy government in France paid Rugby League the supreme compliment: they banned it.
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The less glamorous code of Rugby football, but the best for sheer speed and strength.
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