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Odysseus's encounter with the lotus-eaters is one of the lesser-known, but interesting parts of the epic 'The Odyssey' written by the Greek poet

The ancient Romans built an amazing network of roads everywhere they went, such that roads from every city eventually led back to Rome. This gave rise

Whether you say in a downright demeaning tone that someone is a mule to act annoyingly willful or put it in a less ostentatious, indirect way by

A descriptive essay is one of the easiest forms of writing. It doesn't need much research and can be based on your own life and experiences. An

'O Captain My Captain' is one of the famous poems by American poet Walt Whitman. This poem is a memoir depicting his deep admiration for Abraham

'Hold your horses' is an idiom that has different meanings, but in the end, it all comes to down to what we use in our everyday lives - 'to wait' or

The idiom 'the devil is in the details' has a number of meanings, but they all boil down to one fact, that the smallest detail of anything is very

Dangling prepositions have a bad reputation. Even Winston Churchill was reportedly criticized for using them. Penlighten explains what a dangling

There are times when your suppressed feelings express themselves with incorrect words and these occasional verbal somersaults may cause 'Tinglish