NNDB is a good way to discover which people are important for Americans. You can improve your understanding of English by knowing who these people are, and learning about them.What is NNDB?NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.Direct Link :: http://www.nndb.com/Read more…
A good English speaker knows about other countries besides their own...Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.Direct Link :: http://www.nationmaster.com/index.phpEnjoy !
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Coconuts are grown in the tropics and the tree is versatile, to mankindFrom the fruit to its flower, leaves , trunk,and even to the humble;e husk never goes waste.It nurtures to a tree, from its dried fruit with the husk,and takes five to six years for it to bear fruit. Within a span of twenty to twenty five years brings it to full maturity, in height and bearing fruits.The king coconut is the tender fruit and is the ideal thirst quencher in the tropics, its colorless ,and the kernel is tasty to
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If you get up at right hand in the morning and smell beautiful scent and if you dance after got up with your favorite music you'll have fantastic daytrust me and do it
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Past continous form: I was doing......e.g.She was at the sports club and she was playing tennis.It was raining,so we didn't go outCompare with past simplepast simple:Jack read a book yesterday(from beginning to end)past continous:Jack was reading a book when the telephone rang
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At last 7 ears I worked in many newspapers: "Criminal time", "City news of Yaroslavl", "Russian newspaper". I worked even in such editions like "Your own Doctor" and "I am a general in the kitchen ":) Today I am working in "Agency of Social Information" in Moscow. I describe news in public health and ecology problems. Sometimes I duplicate information of my texts in graphic or photo. In that post I introduce you some of my works of Photoshop.The figure of hamster you can see in all photos – is a
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Did you Know?Since topography of our island,Taiwan, is more unique,which is narrow and long with the Central Mountain Range in the middle. The mountainous area with elevation higher than 1,000M occupies one-third of the island and hills. The rest of the island of elevation is only less than 100M so our government built many reservoirs to conserves water. The running water is from the reservoirs,which are set up in differernt parts of the island; it is clean but not quite clean enough,most of us
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Hello everybody.first of all I would like to introduce my self Am a new member from Sudan,My name is RababAm really glad and so excited to join EC hope to make a good addition to the site, make nice friends and of course improve my language :))This post to share our experiences in learning English, what are the ways or the tools that really helped u improve??I will share mine as well but I would like to hear from some of u first....'Don't make me wait :D
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The national day this year is so nice for me. I am from Northern of China, When i was a child, I always hope to have a journey in south of china. I like the feeling of stream flowing across the county, quiet and beauty . This year, I can achieve my dream and have a happy journey. If there is a second time, I still want to HangZhou.In this trip, We three people went to four city, they are Hangzhou, Suzhou, Xitang, Shanghai. They are famous in china and even the world. There is one old sentence “J
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Recently,I always can see this sentence in Chinese "“笑’全世界都陪着你笑;哭,只有你一人向隅而泣。"I like it. How to say it in English. I found there are two sentence, But the meaning is the same.One : Laugh , the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone;Two: Smile, the world smiles with you; Cry , and you cry alone;The life is so short, Why we always cry and sad? We should smile and be happy. Share you happiness with you friend, and let the world more laughing.
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Hallo for every body hereI'm very pleased to get in this site, and to know How can I improve my language step by step, and to contact with people from different countries, and to catch information about multi cultures. So please don't be late to give your hands to me.thank for every body.Daboob
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I think sometimes you know what you will do after school and sometimes you dont =). Because you orientate yourself on, what your parents have done. In germany we say"Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm.", "The apple does not fall far away from his stem"Here in germany are lots of people unemployed. They choose a job they think they really get a job. Its very natural. We all seek for security.
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The water supplies , originates from mountains gushing its way to rivers and streams. During the rain seasons with the abundance of water supply , the water are stored in reservoirs like for example, the Mahaweli reservoirThis scheme reaches out to far villages during the dry seasons to irrigate the lands and for drinking purposes, through dams. Yet there-is the problem of unclean water, and in dry zone in faraway villages people still do carry water for thei
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Before writing this post I tried to remember some funny facts, connecting with the topic. But unexpectedly, it turned to be rather hard! At last, one funny fact was ,however, found:the imported from other countries flush tanks are being broken down on account of hardness of water! To prevent this, the owner of them have often to wash filters. I hope you've already understood what kind of water is running from our taps? Besides, the running water can be turned off without notifying, and it's not
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