Plus fours are a type of short trousers that extend four inches below the knee (hence the name). While short pants have been worn in Europe for centuries, plus fours came into fashion amongst the athletes of England in the early 1920s, who needed leggings that wouldn't get caught on protrusions or catch in bicycle gears, but that would still look spiffy. The plus fours were most likely a compromise between long shorts, which were typically worn by children, and full-length trousers, worn by…

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It doesn't take much to make me smile

I found this today- mostly by accident.
This is from a site called:

http://www.howtoteachkids.info/

It is a short lesson on teaching kids to write their own sentences.

Pick one idea that is not a complete sentence such as "pretty and red."
Explain that a sentence is about someone or something. Ask, "What is it that is 'pretty and red?' Our sentence has to tell us."

Borders (UK) Ltd was a United Kingdom bookshop chain that was in established in 1998, went into administration in 2009, and is very likely to disappear altogether in 2010.

Borders Inc is a US bookshop chain which began life in 1971 when Tom and Louis Borders opened their first bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From that beginning Borders Inc gradually expanded across the United States as it developed a successful superstore model as it built large bookstores that averaged 40,000 sq ft…

This winter's afternoon, I sit
here in my third-floor, lacquer-washed
little glass box.

The boss is away, and there is
just enough work, if I forget
the filing, to fill
half
the time until five.

(I find, somehow, that I can
always forget the filing.)

And so, I write.

When I'm done, I will take
these shaped-and-crafted,
thoughtful words,
and print them…