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With the Buzz Bee Surge foam dart gun you will be able to shoot up to 10 darts before you need to reload. This gun uses an easy pull back action to load the rounds & comes with a barrel that you manually rotate to get the next round ready.

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By Heart

What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring beautiful poems in the English language by heart"? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected 101 poems are both personal favourites and particularly well-suited to the method Hughes demonstrates."
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    What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring beautiful poems in the English language by heart"? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected 101 poems are both personal favourites & particularly well-suited to the method Hughes demonstrates."

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    Heart - An organ that pumps blood around the body. Usually related to love.
    Language - the method of communication used in different areas. Humans and computers have many different languages.
    Personal - Something that belongs more to an individual due to it affecting them more by relating to them.
    Memory - A way to describe the way in which the brain can remember things.
    Language - The way humans communicate either written and spoken.

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