Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Samuel Smiles shows us two great achievements inspired by two tiny creatures.
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Irish monk St Columba is credited with being among the first witnesses to the ‘Loch Ness monster’.
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Joseph Skipsey’s short poem evokes the last goodbye a Northumberland miner made each morning.
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Joseph Skipsey taught himself to read and write by candlelight, hundreds of feet below ground in a Northumberland pit.
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Zeus employs a little psychology to effect a reunion with his offended wife.
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The little County Durham line built by George Stephenson and his son Robert was the place where the world’s railway infrastructure really began.