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...language module Continuing Classical Latin). The avid letter-writer Pliny (2nd century CE) relishes relating an episode about a haunted house and the discovery of a skeleton in chains waiting for a decent burial. In the racy novel Satyricon a werewolf story forms part of the banqueting fare. The Romans wined and dined on strange portents and stories of the supernatural....

...language of his time, Darwin records attempts to hunt using a traditional Spanish weapon...In 1832, Charles Darwin explored South America. He recorded his experiences in The Voyage of The Beagle, from which this is an extract. September 12th and 13th.—I stayed at this posta two days, waiting for a troop of soldiers, which General Rosas had the kindness to send to inform...

...Pontypridd as a romantic homage to the Welsh heritage: its poets, its musicians, and its language. A distinctive feature is its central pause for the poignant refrain ‘Gwlad! Gwlad!’ (literally ‘Country! Country!’). The report of the St David’s Day dinner in the Cardiff press was routine, but it prompted a letter in the South Wales Daily Post from Frederick Atkins, an Oxford-educated, English-born, Cardiff organist using the......