Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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The opening of the Bombay to Thane line was the real beginning of British India.
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A young Jewish woman in ancient Babylon falls victim to a heartless conspiracy.
© Paul Allison, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-A 2.0.
When captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy surrendered to American revolutionary John Paul Jones, Jones naturally assumed that meant he had won.
Photo by Lt John Warwick Brooke, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
However obscure a man may apparently be, his example to others inevitably shapes the future of his country.
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‘Be careful what you wish for’, they say, and there could be no more endearing example.
© Claudia Yang, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Railway enthusiast, music lover, and the man who gave us stereo sound.