Cliffs Notes are the yellow and black study guide that helped us understand wondrous and complicated pieces of world literature. Want to know what the heck Shakespeare was talking about ...

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If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with the Energizer Bunny. It’s usually seen beating a drum with the tagline, “It keeps going, and going, and going.” ...

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Daytime dramas are known as soap operas, but where did the moniker come from, and when did it happen? The origin of the soap opera can be traced back to ...

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The Pacific island country of Tuvalu In 1995, the tiny Pacific island country of Tuvalu received news that it had been assigned “.tv” by the Internet Telecommunication Union as its ...

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Six degrees of separation is the theory that any person can be connected to any other person through other people, with there being no more than five intermediaries between the ...

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The song “Auld Lang Syne” is commonly sung by party revelers as the clock ticks over to a new year, but why is that, and what does it mean? “Auld ...

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Guitar player Jimi Hendrix was known for his lively shows, amazing skills, and amped-up sound, but Hendrix once opened for a band that was his opposite. In 1967, Hendrix became ...

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California’s weather was a major driving force for why the movie industry set up shop in sunny California in the early 1900s. What better place to make a movie without ...

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The phrase “shrimp on the barbie” is not something Australians say, though it certainly has been propagated as if it was. The saying originated from a 1984 television commercial starring ...

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Jelson25/Wikimedia There are 2,690 stars that line the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. The stars represent the contributions of people in the entertainment industry in five different areas; ...

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Spending an inordinate amount of money to see a movie at the movie theater happens to be a favorite activity for millions of people. The average price of a movie ...

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