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Twenty-five-year-old Robert Clive’s extraordinary daring helped to prevent India falling into the hands of the French King.
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His alpaca-wool mills near Bradford proved the social benefits of private enterprise in the right hands.
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After James Somerset was loaded onto a British slave-ship bound for Jamaica, Granville Sharp and other committed Christians turned to the courts for justice.
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John Goodricke’s observations of Algol won him the Copley Medal while still in his teens, despite his disability.
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Handel’s German boss fired the composer for spending all his time in London. When they met again, it was... rather awkward.
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The first thing George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ‘Messiah’ did was to set a hundred and forty-two prisoners free.
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