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December 17 NS

December 4 OS

The Third Hand : John Mansur, working in Islamic Syria, thought he could safely criticise the Roman Emperor for meddling in Christian worship. But he was wrong.

The Spear of St Mercurius : Roman Emperor Julian was ready to destroy an entire Christian community over his wounded pride.

Observation, Analogy, Experiment : Sir Humphry Davy explains in simple terms what it is that leads to scientific progress.

Cuthbert’s Christmas : One Christmas Eve back in the twelfth century, a monk keeping midnight vigil in Lindisfarne priory watched spellbound as two great doors opened all by themselves.

The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.

Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.

England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.

Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

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