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95Castles for Sale in Ireland
For centuries, castles have held a peculiar sort of power over imaginative people. They seem to forget that these castles were originally built as fortresses, not necessarily as things of beauty. However, to our modern utilitarian minds, these...
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87Limericks - From Funny Famous Ditties To Rude Little Witty's!
Limericks to make you laugh from famous poets to everyday people
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85Old Grocery Store Ads Prices from 1957 in Corpus Christi, Texas
My grandmother had saved this old 1957 newspaper clipping with recipes and it also had some grocery store ads and prices which caught my attention. Oh to be able to pay prices like that in this day and age! Cute videos from the 1950's showing ads (mostly in black and white) are also shown in this hub along with the prices of canned goods, fresh produce and other things one could purchase in a grocery store. Enjoy!
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84Fish Kills: A Lamentable Limerick
The limerick is a poem of known structure and possible origins in Limerick, Ireland. It offers much sense, no sense or obscene sense. My poem presents the ecological sense of healthy fish numbers in the limerick context of lamentable fish kills.
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83How to write a Limerick - pulse, rhythm & rhyme
The trouble with wearing the tartan /is everyone thinks you're a Spartan /who relishes cold /in the goolies. (I'm told /the best way to heat 'em is fartan!) A limerick is a short verse in a well-defined form which...
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8310 Limericks For Edward Lear
Edward Lear published limericks and other nonsense verse in his life time.Here are 10 limerick poems to celebrate.
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81Dirty Jokes from the Old Man
I've been collecting jokes for very many years. here are some of my favorite "Off Color" ones. If you enjoy these I have many more published here; http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005H7Q00U
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78Limericks and me
I would never have thought that I would write poetry. Indeed, I thought that I hated poetry because of its ability to expose some weaknesses in me: intolerance and impatience, stubbornness and a bit of stupidity. Intolerance of a form of...
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81Funny Words! English Doesn't Always Make Sense
A humorous look at English words, their idiomatic and colorful nature. Daniel Carter tells his comical stories about his native tongue.
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84Poetry Project for Kids
Teaching elementary students poetry can be fun and rewarding. If you are trying to decide what types of poetry to teach and how to assess them, here are some ideas. There is even a rubric included.
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