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v. t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [ 1][ 2] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military ...
List of narrative techniques. A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging.
The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi. Nishizumi senshacho-den (西住戦車長伝) Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Japanese tank commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the Battle of Nanking. United Kingdom. Ten Days in Paris. Jeremy Brown. Comedy mystery. United States.
The cover of the 1888 edition of Goody Two-Shoes. The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase " goody two-shoes " as a descriptor for an excessively virtuous person or do-gooder. [ 1 ] Historian V.M. Braganza refers to it as one of the first works of ...
The three products shared the same Microsoft Word name, the same version numbers but were very different products built on different code bases. Three product lines co-existed: Word 1.0 to Word 5.1a [7] for Macintosh, Word 1.0 to Word 2.0 for Windows and Word 1.0 to Word 5.5 for DOS.
W. (TV series) W ( Korean : 더블유) is a 2016 South Korean television series, starring Lee Jong-suk and Han Hyo-joo. [ 1][ 2] Consisting of 16 episodes, it aired on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 ( KST) on MBC from July 20 to September 14, 2016. [ 3] W centers on the clash between "two worlds": the real world and an alternate universe ...
The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. [9] Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.