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NUDE SCIENTIST IN BATHTUB SENSATION

KING PHIL’S MACEDONIAN MASH-UP

MARATHON MAN IN DROP-DEAD DASH

QUADRUPLE ROYAL MURDER SENSATION

IT’S CURTAINS FOR CORINTH

4. 
   Mysterious death of four members of the royal family.
   
5. 
   Philip of Macedonia wins battle against city' states of Athens and Thebes.
   
6. 
   Archimedes’ discovery of the laws governing the displacement of water.
   
7. 
   Burning of city of Corinth to ground by the Romans.
   
8. 
   Long-distance runner brings news of battle victory to Athens and then dies.
   

1.3 Match the headline to its story and explain the play on words in each case.

1. 
   Bad blood 4 False impressions 7 Flushed
   
2. 
   Happy days? 5 Happy haunting 8 Highly embarrassed
   
3. 
   Shell-shocked 6 Hopping mad 9 Round-up
   

1. 
   A grandfather’s breathing problems were solved when doctors found four false teeth at the entrance to his lungs. They had been forced down his windpipe in a car crash eight years ago.
   
2. 
   A 25-year-old terrapin is being treated for a fractured shell after surviving a 200ft drop.
   
3. 
   A Shetland teacher has suggested labradors or golden retrievers could be used to control pupils in playgrounds.
   
4. 
   A ghost society has been told not to scare off a friendly female apparition at a hotel.
   
5. 
   Adults who have never quite grown up are to be offered school theme nights including uniforms, register, assembly and primary school dinners by a Nottingham hotel.
   
6. 
   An ex-public loo in Hackney, East London, is to be sold for Ј76,000.
   
7. 
   A Whitby curate has attacked the resort’s attempts to profit on its connections with Dracula: ‘a pale-faced man with a bad sense of fashion, severe dental problems and an eating disorder.’
   
8. 
   A toad triggered a police alert when it set off a new hi-tech alarm system.
   
9. 
   Firemen had to scale a 30-foot tree in St Leonard’s, East Sussex, to rescue a man who was trying to capture his pet iguana.
   

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