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Our School Hall I read in a very big school. Likewise, it has a big hall. It is also known as the auditorium. It has a sound-proof system in it such that any voice or sound in it does not echo awfully. It is situated in the main building in the centre of the school. It has five doors and a number of windows. It is air-conditioned but has electric fans...
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Myself Essay No. 01 It is very easy to say something about others and even to pass one’s comments on their activities, good or bad. But it is very difficult to say anything about oneself. It is because if one talks highly of oneself, one will be dubbed as an egoist. If one talks lowly of oneself, one may be disparaged as one suffering from an inferiority complex. This, however, does...
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World Cup Cricket 2007 In this age of competitive cricket, the One Day Internationals (ODIs) are the game of pride. From children to septuagenarians all take full interest in cricket. The unstained support for the game from all corners of the society has catapulted the players into stars. Cricket has now turned into commercial game where lots of money is pumped in for the sake of the game and not for...
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Sunita Williams Indian-American astronaut Sunita Lyn Williams (41) returned to earth from International Space Station after six months (a record 195-day) stay in space on June 23, 2007 at 0119 hrs 1st. She surpassed the 188-, day, 4 hours mark set by US astronaut Shannon Lucid in 1996 on a mission to the Russian Mir space station. The Atlantis-the 118th shuttle mission and 21st mission to visit the space station landed...
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J.K. Rowling (1965) J.K. Rowling is a well – known British author of children’s books. Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, and educated a Whedean Comporehensive School and Exeter University. After she graduated from Exeter University , she found work as a secretary, and later spent time teaching English in Portugal before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland, with her daughter. She currently resides in Scotland with her husband and two...
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F. Cooper (1789 – 1851) F. Cooper was born at Burlington, New jersey, September 15, 1789. His father was a person of ability, who served the public as judge and as member of Congress. Cooper made a few voyages to perfect himself in seamanship. Having obtained a commission as lieutenant, he married, and resigning his commission in 1811, entered upon a life of literary labour. He settled at Westchester, where, in...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular American poet of the 19th century, whose works are still cited – or parodied. Among his most remembered works are Evangeline (1847), The Song Of Hiawatha (1855) and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a Portland lawyer and congressman, and mother...
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Henry Vaughan (1622 – 1695) Henry Vaughan, was one of the English metaphysical poets. He was born into a middle-class Welsh family in Breconshire. In 1638, he went to Jesus College, Oxford, with his brother Thomas, who later achieved fame as an alchemist. Henry left Oxford in 1640 without taking a degree, and spent two years in London studying law He was recalled home when the Civil War broke out,...
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