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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
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I'm a Stranger Here MyselfI'm a Stranger Here Myself

Ex-expatriate Bryson, who chronicled one effort at American reentry in his bestselling A Walk in the Woods, collects another: the whimsical columns on America he wrote weekly, while living in New Hampshire in the mid-to-late 1990s, for a British Sunday newspaper.

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A Passage to India - Bookworms 6
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A Passage to India - Bookworms 6A Passage to India - Bookworms 6 A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forsters great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting
 
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TTC Video - Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
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TTC Video - Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean

In the 1st century B.C., Rome's matchless armies consolidated control over the entire Mediterranean world, and Greece lay vanquished along with scores of other formerly independent lands—yet the Roman poet Horace saw something special in Greece when he wrote "Greece, the captive, made her savage victor captive."
 
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Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave
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Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked.
 
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Can You Sing "The Star-Spangled Banner"? (Cloverleaf Books Our American Symbols)
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Can You SingCan You Sing

Stand up, everyone! It's time to sing "The Star Spangled Banner"! But why is this song our national anthem? What do the words mean? A class of first-grade students learns the answers to these questions and finds about the dramatic circumstances Frances Scott Key faced when he wrote the poem that became our national anthem.
 
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