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Kanguru!

By Captain James Cook

James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.

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Arthur MacPherson

By Clay Lane

MacPherson’s tireless efforts to promote Russian sport earned him a unique Imperial honour, and the enmity of the Communists.

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The Aspden Cup

By Clay Lane

British factory workers started a historic three-cornered league in the Russian city of St Petersburg.

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The Lion of Piraeus

By Clay Lane

A marble statue in Venice bears witness to Europe’s long history of brave defeats and fruitless victories.

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Bede and the Paschal Controversy

By Clay Lane

The earliest Christians longed to celebrate the resurrection together at Passover, but that was not as easy as it sounds.

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The Price of Treachery

Based on an account by Charlotte Yonge

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

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