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In 1910, Constantine Zervakos, a young monk from the Greek island of Paros, found himself charged with espionage.
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John Heathcoat’s lace-making machine created thousands of jobs, and gave ordinary people clothes they could never have dreamt of.
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South African settlers of Dutch descent could not escape the march of the British Empire.
Shortly after Askold and Dir founded Kiev in 862, they launched a brazen but ill-fated assault on the capital of the Roman Empire.
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Sir Mulberry Hawk’s coarse conduct towards Kate Nickleby has awoken a spark of decency in Lord Frederick Verisopht.
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Heracles shows his capacity for thinking outside the box, but spoils it by trying to be just a little bit too clever.
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