Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Passengers sharing Bishop Nicholas’s Moscow-bound flight found his blessings faintly silly — but that was when the engines were still running.
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Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.
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Nineteenth-century Britain had busy industrial cities and a prosperous middle class, but no MPs to represent them.
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Athelstan confirmed himself as King of the English, and also reawakened a feeling that all Britain should be a united people.
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Chad, the seventh-century Bishop of Mercia, seemed to be making a lot of music for one man.
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Nicodemus did not allow intellectual doubts to get in the way of what he knew in his heart.