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May 29, 2009
Author: Adam Maxwell’s Fiction Lounge – Stories Feed
If your car broke down you would hope some friendly policeman would stop and help you out wouldn’t you? Well? Wouldn’t you?
Source: Adam Maxwell’s Fiction Lounge – Stories Feed
May 27, 2009
Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com
The story begins some two millennia ago in the tropical rainforests of the Americas. Although the cacao tree had been around for some time, the natives had never used the beans inside the pods for food. Upon discovering that the seeds could be processed and used as a drink, it quickly caught on with…
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May 21, 2009
Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com
The biggest nut to adjust on any automobile is the one behind the wheel! You can tinker with the engine, adjust the suspension, tweak the shocks and fit a whole bunch of carbon fiber to the body but the single most important modification a person can make to his or her vehicle is their driving style…
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May 18, 2009
Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com
In ancient times, the sky was looked upon as something mystical and mythical, as if it had a message for the human race. The invention of the telescope revealed how vast and amazing the sky is. There is lot more to learn, and much of what lies beyond our atmosphere is still a mystery. In home school…
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Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com
Information about the life of William Shakespeare is often open to doubt. Some even doubt whether he wrote all plays ascribed to him. From the best available sources it seems William Shakespeare was born in Stratford on about April 23rd 1564. His father William was a successful local businessman and…
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Leonardo is one the world’s immortal thinkers, artists and philosophers. In several different fields he proved to be both innovative and several centuries ahead of his contemporaries. Born as illegitimate son of a Florentine noble and peasant woman Leonardo grew up in Vinci, Italy. In his formative …
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One of the main creators of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the phenomenal growth of the internet is also creating serious potential problems. In particular he warns of false information being easily spread around the internet. Rumour stories and false accusations can easily c…
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Early Life William Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. He was a famous playwright and an English poet. In the English language, William Shakespeare is regarded as one of the greatest writer and is also considered as one of the pre-eminent dramatist. According to recent r…
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Who was the real Shakespeare? Who wrote the 38 plays, two long poems, and 154 sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare. I will give you the details, but the conclusion is up to you. The Stratford merchant baptized Gulielmus Shakspere: In the 1780′s Rev. James Wilmot spent four years trying to link …
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Among the most powerful tragedies in the English language, Hamlet is a drama set in Denmark, where Prince Hamlet exacts blood revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering his father, the King, usurpation of the throne, and for marrying his mother, who readily consented, much to his disillusionment, t…
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