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The country we live in Britain is a country teeming with history. In almost every part of her islands, history stands like a sentinel of the past: the magnificent and ancient cathedral at Canterbury, or the Norman keep of the Tower of London, or the mysterioiK lonely blocks of Stonehenge on...

Naomi Mitchison Black Sparta That steep road went on and up, narrow and stony, going back to Sparta, Sparta again worse than ever it was, that freedom they'd promised him gone down the wind - oh, a Spartan promise! He was tied to the end of an ox-cart with a raw hide rope that had dried and...

cH^fiz !r /any years ago there lived an Emperor who was fat and ^„xrl-proud and very vain. All he cared for was new clothes. He did not trouble himself about his country, his army or his people - all he wanted to do was to show off his fine clothes. No one has ever had so many clothes, for...

Introduction Francisco de Paula José Goya y Lucientes was born on 30th March 1746 at the village of Fuendetodos near Saragossa in Aragon. His father was a master gilder and a citizen of Saragossa. His mother, Gracia Lucientes, came of an old Aragonese family, and her son was never allowed to...