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Animals

Whale
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Do whales sleep?
Whale oil
Whale song
List of whales
Dolphins
Dolphin's social behavior
How do dolphins sleep?
How to draw a dolphin?
Elephants
Difference between African and Asian elephants
Elephants Ivory Trade
Snakes
Kangaroo

Art

What is art?
Surrealism
Cubism
Films
Filmmaking
Charlie Chaplin
Alfred Hitchcock
Academy Awards
Academy Awards List
Mickey Mouse
Disney popular characters
Disney's best quotes
Films about Atlantis
Films adapted from Conrad's work
Joker (2019 movie)
Apocalypse Now
The Green Mile: Film Review
Mr Bean
Rap Music
The Cellist of Sarajevo

Biographies

Ernest Hemingway
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens
Walt Disney
Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
The Beatles
Thomas Alva Edison
Mary Shelley
Joseph Conrad
Nelson Mandela
Steve Jobs
Rowan Atkinson
Mother Teresa
Bob Marley
John Kennedy
Stephen Hawking
Seneca
Herman Melville
Aldous Huxley
Marcus Aurelius

Countries

The Great Wall of China
New York City
New York Points of Interest
List of English Speaking Countries
American political parties and presidential election

Culture and history

Youth
Education
The Educational System in England
Tips to start the new school year
Brain drain
Citizenship
Stereotypes
Culture shock
Culture shock experiences
Seven women who made history
Women's rights
Jokes about fathers
Love and marriage quotes
Ten romantic ideas
Humor
Ramadan
The five pillars of Islam
Coffee
The history of coffee
Couscous
History of pizza
Ingredients and cooking of pizza
Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba
Ancient Egypt civilization
List of famous pharaohs
The Maya civilization
The lost city of Atlantis
Atlantis: Plato's Story
Trade Unions
Why do employees change careers?
Tips for career success
Apple Inc.
List of Nobel Laureates
Types of occupation
What is stoicism?
A brief history of the Vikings
The Vikings (series)
History of Slavery
What is cancel culture?
What is friendship in simple words?
History of Chocolate

The environment

Sustainable development
Recycling
Renewable energy
7 ways to protect the environment.
Pollution and its effect on the environment.
Climate Change
Droughts
The ozone layer depletion
Rainforests
Greta Thunberg - Climate crisis

Health

Obesity
Anorexia
Factors of good Health
Health tips
The common cold
Causes and treatment of hypertension
Coronavirus
The Spanish Flu
Smoking and health problems
Benefits of fasting
Mesotheliomas
Addiction
Drug addiction
Computer addiction
What is meditation?

Holidays

World Water Day
Earth Day
Eid al Fitr (Muslim holiday)
Eid al Adha
Halloween
Halloween Quiz
Easter Day
8 Easter Symbols Explained
Easter Bunny
Christmas
Seven Interesting Facts about Christmas
Christmas shopping
Santa Claus
New year's Eve
Independence Day
Columbus Day
New Year's Resolutions
St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day History
Saint Valentine's Day
Saint Valentine's jokes
Australia Day
Mardi Gras
International Women's Day
International Workers' Day
Mother's Day
Mother's Day Jokes
Father's Day
Sonora Smart Dodd
April Fool's Day
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving poem
Black Friday
Summer
What you can do during summer holiday
Spring
National Chocolate Cake Day
Black History Month
Famous Religious Celebrations

Literature

Hemingway's style of writing
Hemingway's bibliography
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway (photo gallery)
George Orwell Bibliography
A Very Short Summary of Animal Farm
Virginia Woolf Bibliography
Edgar Allan Poe Bibliography
Romeo and Juliet
Summary of Romeo and Juliet
Themes of Romeo and Juliet
Short Summary of Othello
Joseph Conrad Bibliography
Spring Poems - Sonnet 98 by Shakespeare
Spring poems: To Spring by William Blake
Spring poems: L ines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth (1798)
Spring poems - These I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman
Spring poems: A Light exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson
Famous Spring Poems
Love poems
Victorian Era
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Scarlet Lettre: A Romance by Nataniel Hawthorne

Organizations

Organizations
The League of Nations
United Nations
UNICEF
World Health Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization
World Food Programme
Amnesty International

Politics

Arab uprisings
Democracy
Quotes about democracy
Public debt
Recession
The Great Depression
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream
Civil Rights Movement
Timeline of Civil Rights Movement
Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Apartheid
The Pearl Harbor Attack
World War 1
World news sources links

Sport

Football (soccer) - Reading
The 2010 world cup (South Africa)
The 2014 world cup (Brazil)
The ancient Olympic Games
A list of the Olympic Games host cities
The modern Olympic Games
Winter Olympic Games
Previous world cup tournaments
Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo

Science and Technology

Technology
Information technology
The World Wide Web
Robots
The digital divide
Computers
Computer addiction
The Internet
What does cloud computing mean?
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking