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The Dancing Girl

The Dancing Girl!

They both were the attraction of the entertainment at the beach.  No sooner the couple appeared on the beach than the boy started playing on his mandolin, the spectators started gathering around them in the circle and when the girl started to dance the crowd got thicker and thicker.  All the crowd tried to get closer to the circle except those who were late to join.  The boy played a tune on his mandolin to which rhythm the girl’s feet moved, so moved her entire body and the han

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''100 Days'' Challenge

Typography

The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs. In contemporary use, the practice and study of typography is very broad. It covers all aspects of letter design in either typesetting or handwriting.

This is an example of mechanical typography:

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The Blind and the Braille Bricks

There are three levels of pain; pain, excruciating pain and stepping on a LEGO. Seriously, I'm not being a drama queen. Those who have experienced this unfathomable and torture-like pain know what I mean. Now, the good news: The Braille Bricks project, co-founded by the Dorina Nowill Foundation For The Blind, helps blind children learn to read in a less tedious way. These bricks are completely similar to regular LEGOSs, however, for the benefit of the blind children, each block features one Brai

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LOST TWIN SERIES (III)

FROM PART II

It was a horrible nightmare again, Angel had a very bad night sleeping. It was a dreamed that her mother was shaking her on her arms. After awhile, she saw again a horrible chinese man putting her at the blue crib with 2-3 other kids.

One is like sleeping dead, she sleeps on it while the baby boy was sleeping and the 3 other young kids were about to stand up. It's like a throwback. She saw that chinito guy that put her on a crib. She doesn't know why, all she knows she feels better be

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At first thank you all for reading me, Well as every night I am at work, wasting my time I think, eventhough some of my friends think work is a work, mine isnt as easy as it looks. Here is my history, I started this job since 7 years ago, at that time I was 29, I was almost 4 months without a job, so I thaught, I´m gonna take this one, just for a while, something better or something that i want will come. Surprise, since that time, nothing better, I am still doing the same shit, almost all of my

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        My sweet friends, are you bored with my stories?…if NO… please read more my blogs, if you say YES…then you must  continue to read…hahaha….I won’t allow you to stop reading …Got it?

        Today, my mood is good because  …I’m wearing a very nice dress. Maybe you don’t believe, because of this dress then I must pass a hard diet lol… but the result is great. I can “hold my head up when I walk” hahaha…

        Here are some funny stories. One, I copied from the Newspaper and one is my true st

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Sometimes just agree to disagree

First off, this is just a skit, so no disrespect to any specific profession, ethnicity, etc. Second, let's face it, how many times have you encountered these kinda people? What kinda people? Those who are either too boneheaded or too stiff-necked to accept the truth? Hmm? That was rhetorical. I know. Tons!

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Moral of the story:  

 “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

― Mark Twain

There was only one student who didn't ''argue'' with

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EAT before you THINK

It's 2:30 a.m. and you're wide awake. You go to the kitchen and instinctively open the fridge. There's like, everything in there and the sky is your limit. Now the real question is: Cola or kale? Screw that! Chocolate cake and pizza or salad and tofu? Mindless eating can cause calories to add up like crazy. So before you binge on your favorite food, know how much exercise you’d have to do to work off each food you just wolfed down.

Here. Maybe this'll help.

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Photos from My Trip to Taif

Taif is a mountainous city located in the western region of Saudi Arabia. The elevation of Taif is at more than 1800 mts. above sea surface. Taif is famous for producing some kind of fruits, honey, and rose's fragrance. It is also famous for its moderate weather in the summer and so cool weather in the winter that it's nominated as a cool destination for the internal tourism here in Saudi Arabia. 

Two months ago, I had a business trip to Taif that I spent the whole day there. It was really awesom

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1 2 3 Open Sesame... Street

Sesame Street residents are a bunch of ''adorable'' characters that are responsible for some of my childhood nightmares. For some people they are reminiscent of cute nursery rhymes that they like so much, but now that they're not a little kid anymore, they are a little self-conscious to sing them out loud. To me, these guys seem a little off, you know? A lot, actually. You see, they um, you know what? Let's have a psychiatric analysis of their mental disorders, shall we?

Patient #1          Elmo

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Aloha lovely EC people! ^_^

How cool is to find lately lot of EC people suggesting interesting games for us? I come to EC and feel like playing board games with family (the only difference is that here is not my granny trying to cheat in every game hahaha)

Okay, I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon suggesting a very special 'quiz'. It’s a quiz about you!! Yes, you!! An active EC member who is reading this! :)

Do you like to know about your neighbors? How much do you know about other EC members? We’ll se

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While you're reading a history article, the only thing that can help you to picture a certain historic scenario is your imagination. But if there's a photo in there, your situation is totally different. It shows you how something actually looked, it helps you understand that specific moment more intimately. Be it a historical landmark, a famous person or random photo of the past - they all have amazing stories behind them. And some of 'em haunt you forever.

I'm pretty sure most of you've seen Alf

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What is time?

A simple and complicated answer for this question is "time is the indefinite events that occur sequentially in irreversible order". Also there is another question that "our perception about time how much differ from its reality". Some scientists believe that time does not exist and it is an illusion. These scientists see the world as indefinite simultaneous snapshots. Passing of time in different parts of the world vary from each other. It depends on the gravity forces and velocity. If you go to

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If there's food in your fridge, you have a wardrobe full of decent clothes, a place to sleep and you know, a roof over your head, you're richer than 75% of the world. If you have a saving account, a balanced checkbook and there's some money in your wallet right now, you're among the 8% of the world's wealthy. If you woke up this morning feeling more healthy as a horse and less sick as a dog, you're more blessed than the million people who won't survive this week. If you've never experienced the

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The More Things Change…

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I had never been to another continent besides my own until I came to Ukraine for the first time. I

had visited Canada, which borders the United States to the north, but that had been the extent of

my international travel. Since that first plane ride across the Atlantic Ocean, I have had the

opportunity to visit Greece, Germany, Spain and Poland. While I cannot be referred to as a

seasoned world traveler by any means, my experiences, which include coming to know people

from other countries through my

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Take care

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My kids, please take care your brother, he is sleeping. Sometimes my wife and I often ask them to take care the youngest while the parents do the other activities. it really help. thanks to be good  kids. we love you so much

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Learning as a natural way.

I aspire to be fluent in English but have a very strange allergy to learning English Grammar. Besides learning grammar, I afraid spent most of my time making acquaintance with the grammar rules, which was boring, besides this I feel long time of studying grammar only killed my talent and made my brain frozen. Besides such sensation, I have a tendency to get careless with taking challenge where grammar is involved except taking Expector's challenge. It is an amazing feel

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The village was getting ready to welcome Justina who won the gold medal in women's 200M freestyle swimming and in 100m backstroke in the Olympics. Justina's father was overwhelmed by her success. Justina is a 17 year old high School student. Besides swimming, Justina likes windsurfing and skiing. Everyone in Justina's family went to the airport to welcome Justina, except her disabled mum. At the airport the reporters surrounded and interviewed her. Justina said, ''except for my father, no one el

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There were so many friends, who came and went in my life without being noticed, but Ahmed left long lasting impression on me. He used to sit beside me at the same desk during the class. He always encouraged me whenever I hesitated to do anything new. When I performed bad, all the classmates laughed at me except him. Besides this, he always told me very confidential matters without fear of being betrayed.

I used to make fun of him whenever he talked to me about his fiancee. Hearing the name of h

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Yes, you're quite right, the two words (besides and except) are often confused - 'besides' means 'in addition to' or 'as well as', while 'except' means 'not including'. 

Be careful, don't confuse 'besides' with 'beside' - the latter means 'next to' or 'at the side of'.

Right, I should have mentioned 'apart from', which can be used with either meaning (including or excluding). I'd add 'other than', which means 'not including' or 'without' (= 'except'). 

Sometimes you use 'except for' instead of 'exc

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