What is the theme of The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt

What do mcmahon’s references to thomas carlyle and john stuart mill do for his own image and credibility?

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.