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83Greek Austerity Measures and What They Mean for the Greeks -and The Rest of Us
Greek Austerity Measures and What They Mean for the Greeks -and The Rest of Us June 29, 2011. With the slow and continual collapse of economies around the world, all eyes have been on Greece over the...
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82Visit to an Ancient Greek Tomb
In December 2007, while visiting Ptolemaida, a town where I’d once lived in northern Greece, my friend Nikos invited me to go for a couple of hours to see an archeological site. I could hardly refuse. ...
3 comments81A Troll Story
The following is a true story, as told me by a friend of one of the people involved. This story does not endorse the use of illegal substances; they are merely part of the tale. We've all heard tales of...
5 comments68Delta's Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test by Nancy Gallagher Book Review
The TOEFL Test is being taken more and more throughout the world. This has created the need for practice and preparation, whether in a TOEFL Test preparation class or in self study. To this end, Delta Publishing and Nancy Gallagher have produced...
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78Hypatia of Alexandria
A scientist. Think about this bare description for a moment, and picture the scientist in your mind. Now describe the scientist, and all of the scientist’s characteristics; what was the gender of this...
0 comments92Why Americans Don't Speak Other Languages
There’s an old joke that runs something like the following: A: “What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages?” B: “Uh, trilingual?” A: “Yes. What do you call someone that speaks 2 languages?” B: “Bilingual.” ...
17 comments78Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Book Review
I'd read Of Mice and Men long before and remembered it to be brilliant -not because others say it is so, but from the visceral resonance I experienced -and the fine memories of admiration for the prose encountered between its covers. Of Mice and Men...
2 comments67Lion and the Mouse Children's Book Review
book by Jerry Pinkney This is a lovely, "silent" adaptation of Aesop's famous fable of the lion and the mouse in which a lion catches a fleeing mouse. Rather than kill and eat the mouse, as lions are...
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69Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Speckled Band Book Review
Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Speckled Band This is a tale in which a woman's twin is killed in an incomprehensible manner and it becomes likely that she too will follow the same, strange fate. Not only must Holmes determine the...
3 comments68Learning or Teaching a New Language
If you are about to start learning a new language, or if you are a teacher of a language foreign to your students, you’ll naturally want to do it in the fastest, most effective way possible. This method is...
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