History quiz (27)
Who read a play by the ancient Greek writer Aeschylus while lying wounded on the Somme battlefield in 1916?
Adolf Hitler
Harold Macmillan
Siegfried Sassoon
Bernard Montgomery
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Three reformers (Barnes, Garrett and Jerome) were burned for heresy and three Catholics (Abel, Powell and Fetherston) were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Smithfield.
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