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SALLY ANNE sat on the rock and combed out her yellow hair.There was no one on the seashore. Sally Anne was glad. She was not supposed to sit on the rock when people were about.This was because Sally Anne was a mermaid.Sally Anne liked being a mermaid. She loved living on the bottom of the blue sea....

IntroductionAll countries are beautiful to their inhabitants. Each has something unique to offer to visitors and has a history which its people recall with pride and warmth. What, then, is so special about Britain?Nowhere in Britain is there the kind of breathtaking scenery such as you find in...

1 The Development of Flower ArrangingThe ancient Egyptian lone of flowers and formalized arrangement of them is well illustrated by the wall paintings in their tombs. In this scene, painted on the plaster ofMenna's tomb at Thebes, a stylised clump of papyrus provides an interesting centrepiece...