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Agatha Christie

Book Review: The Pale Horse - by Agatha Christie

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The Pale Horse, written by Agatha Christie, author of 82 novels, is a dark mystery story that deals with a great deal of death through the means of something quite different than Agatha Christie's usual way of going about murders. The main character, Mark Easterbrook, senses something slightly fishy about the coincidental mentions of "The Pale Horse" and decides...

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"The Cat Who Had 14 Tales" by Lilian Jackson Braun - Book Review

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commas

The Importance of Commas

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Let me show you guys a little something called commas, because  honestly, they make the world a more peaceful place. Example 1: "A woman without her man is nothing." Sounds pretty bad doesn't it. Let's fix this: "A woman, without her, man is nothing." Example 2: Before: "Let's eat Grandpa!" After: "Let's eat, Grandpa!" Example 3: Before:"I like cooking...

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english

How Bizarre Can the English Language Get?

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What you are about to read will do strange things to your mind. "Two students, James and John, were given a grammar test by their  teacher. The question was 'is it better to use had or had had in  this example sentence?'  The teacher collected the tests and looked over their answers.  James, while John had had "had", had...

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interesting words

Interesting Words Pt. 3

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Beeves: plural word for beef Defenestrate: To throw something (or someone for that matter) out of a window Deifnophobia: a fear of parties Erinaceous: resembling a hedgehog Finifugal: being too afraid to finish anything Foogle: wasting time by asking unnecessary questions Fudgel: pretending to work when, in reality you are not doing anything productive at all Groke: to...

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