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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose!
By Charles H. Ross
(That’s cat-tails, obviously.) And who ever said cats were unpredictable?
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St Hild at Whitby
By St Bede of Jarrow
Hild founded an abbey that poured out a stream of priests and bishops for the revitalised English Church.
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How Benedict Biscop brought Byzantium to Britain
The chapel of Bede’s monastery in Sunderland was full of the colours and sounds of the far-off Mediterranean world.
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Ignaz Moscheles
Music by Ignaz Moscheles
Moscheles taught his adopted country how to write enchanting music for decades to come.
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In the Nick of Time
By Clay Lane
Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.
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John Harrison’s Marine Chronometer
When Harrison won the Longitude Prize, fair and square, Parliament wouldn’t pay up.
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