C.S .Lewis
- A day with the Beavers
No one except Edmund felt any difficulty about trusting the beaver now, and everyone, including, Edmund, was very glad to hear the word "dinner." They therefore all hurried along behind their new friend who led them at a surprisingly quick pace, and always in the thickest parts of the forest, for over an hour. Everyone was feeling very tired and very hungry when suddenly the trees began to get thinner in front of them and the ground to fall steeply downhill.
History Channel
- The Great War
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire (The Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, Russia, Romania, Japan, France, Italy, and the United states (The allied Powers). Thanks to new military technologies, the carnage and destruction brought by World War I was unprecedented. More than 16 million people were killed - soldiers and civilians alike.
Lewis V. Cummings
- Alexander The Great
The record of the first two hundred years of the existence of the Macedonians as a nation is lost in the mists of antiquity, though we are told a pretty fable about it. Fables, however, need not concern us except to bear in mind that fables, in those days, were often accepted as fact, and it is axiomatic that fable is less important than truth, if the untruth is believed truth.
George Orwell (Animal Farm)
- The beginning
After the horses came Mureil, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make cynical remarks- for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
George Orwell (Animal Farm)
- The beginning
At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and a benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tusks had never been cut.
