It was a week night, we were a half dozen guys in our late teens, hanging around 'the flat' - as usual. The flat was sparsely furnished, a few old chairs in the lounge, plenty of chrome and formica in the kitchen, a mattress on the floor of each bedroom.

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"It's a really good bargain," said the man in the showroom ; and as far as Shafi could tell, he was telling the truth.

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Her name was Elise Toussaint. And as I looked up at her face, I couldn't help but feel regret. This emotion isn't the kind that settles after long thought; it slams you in the gut and knocks the wind out of you.

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Life really is strange, Caroline decided, as a tear trickled down into the corner of her mouth.

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More than four centuries after he died, in 1616, William Shakespeare, the "bard (poet) from Stratford" is still one of the most influential forces in the world of theatre and cinema today .

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Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain was born in 1926, and came to the throne in 1952 as a young mother in her mid-twenties.

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The father of modern economics, Adam Smith, once described the British as a "nation of shopkeepers". He might just as easily have described them as a nation of tea-drinkers, since tea has long been a national favourite.

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Route 66 is a road for people with time to spare, and a taste for a long journey. In 2011, Scottish TV presenter Billy Connolly spent weeks travelling the route from end to end, for a four-part TV documentary;

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Music: the story of the Blues by Robert Springer

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like wildfire: very fast, slowly, in an excited manner behind bars : drinking, working in a pub, in prison release: liberation, imprisonment, record deed: action, death, plan paved the way: seriously opposed, prepared, did nothing about hence: next, this explains, here masterminded: analysed, planned, killed

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As well as building cars, Henry Ford was a militant pacifist, with a passion for education and history. Besides the Ford Motor Company, he founded the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, and "Greenfield Village", an outdoor living museum to which he brought some of the most important buildings in the history of American invention.

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Thanksgiving is perhaps the most American of America's festivals. While many countries have days when everyone eats a lot, only the Americans have a day on which they celebrate having enough to eat. Perhaps this may seem rather superfluous in a country whose inhabitants are today among the best-fed in the world; but to Americans, Thanksgiving is a reminder that this was not always the case.

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Mass migrations have marked the history of the human race ever since people began to dream of a better life

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The story of the Mississippi's paddleboats

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Fast food is one of those things that the USA has "given" to the world. But while hamburgers and fries are seen worldwide as being typically American, in actual fact Americans did not invent fast food - they just made it into a lifestyle.

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One of America's most unusual contests is the whimsical "Jumping Frog Jubilee" that takes place each year at Angels Camp, in Calaveras county, California. And it's all due to a popular short story by Mark Twain.

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