Every now and then there was, he sang ruefully, a little lesson "yn Welsh chware teg".

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King learned a little lesson about the music business.

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Here's a little history lesson to put today's numbers in perspective.

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Way back in 1956 -- this is a little history lesson, students -- Dwight Eisenhower was worried that the lack of exercise was causing young people in America to fall behind their peers in Europe and around the world.

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And as a little bit of a history lesson, the custom of selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created a nutcracker-themed Christmas for her daughter Caroline.

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Talk about learning a lesson a little too well.

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Yet, as interesting as all this may be, it would equal little more than a lesson in mass delusions if it weren't for the fact that history seems to be repeating itself.

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What that lesson might be is a little hard to decipher.

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Nike, though, does not consider footwear to be an incidental part of its business and may be inclined to teach the upstart a lesson by pushing its performance athletic wear a little harder.

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It then showed the last images of the little girl as she left the town's leisure centre after a swimming lesson.

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The lesson is that a few people can bring forth enormous good in very little time with the right idea.

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