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The 39 Clues. The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel.
Broken windows theory. In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes. [ 1] The theory suggests that policing methods that target minor crimes, such as vandalism, loitering ...
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris entangles them in a dispute between the Priory ...
At Teocali, thieves shattered the glass on the front door, broke the door of owner Enrique Gutierrez’s office, and made off with a safe full of cash. “They got me really good,” Gutierrez said.
The Gold-Bug. " The Gold-Bug " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843. The plot follows William Legrand, who becomes fixated on an unusual gold-colored bug he has discovered. His servant Jupiter fears that Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend, an unnamed narrator, who agrees to visit his old friend ...
The riddle's solution has to do with double letters. Look at the words "green," "glass" and "door." They all have double letters. If a word has a double letter, it can go through the green glass ...
Charles Glass (born November 18, 1951) is an American - British author, journalist, broadcaster and publisher specializing in the Middle East and the Second World War. [1] He was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993, and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer. Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags ...
The Glass Menagerie[ 1] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as ...