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2024年7月1日 · When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, both 'pursuit' and 'happiness' had secondary definitions that change the meaning of the iconic quote.

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2022年8月26日 · Between writing "Frankenstein" and carrying around her dead husband's heart, Mary Shelley earned her title as the original goth girl.

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2012年6月13日 · ( )Parentheses (the single one is called a parenthesis), also known as curved brackets, have plenty of uses in everyday written language. Their most common use, as I’ve demonstrated already, is ...