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The Loch Ness monster, also known as Nessie, lives in a lake in Northern Scotland. "Loch" means "lake" in Scottish. Many people have seen the monster. Nessie looks like a plesiosaur dinosaur.

The first person who saw Nessie was Saint Columba, an Irish monk, in the year 545 A.D. In 1934 doctor Robert Kenneth Wilson, from London, took a picture of what looked like a plesiosaur. In this famous picture, you can see a long neck coming out of the water. The local people started going to the lake to look for the creature. At first they didn't think it was real, but since the picture has been taken other people have claimed they also have seen Nessie. There are at least five other pictures of the monster. Today, the Loch Ness monster has become a tourist attraction. Visitors from all aver the world go to Loch Ness and hope to see the monster.

Nessie has never been caught. Scientists have been to the lake with all different kinds of equipment to try and find the monster. They even used a mini submarine but they didn't find it. Nobody knows if Nessie really exists. Maybe one day we will know the truth.

A social gaming website where you can buy, play and discuss games. Teens love it. Not only can they play their favourite games with friends, they can chat with others, join forums, learn about new games and play demos.

It’s a social media app that lets users take, edit and share photos and 15-second videos. It is super popular especially with teens. It has a ton of cool filters, which makes posting images fun. Teens can get lots of likes and comments from followers.

It is a microblogging site which allows users to post tweets which can be 140 character messages, photos, videos or links. Teens are big users. So what are they doing on Twitter? Following friends and their favourite celebrities and of course tweeting.

It’s a messaging app that lets users send disappearing texts, pictures and videos. Teens love it because they can share silly moments and put colourful graphics in their pictures and set a timer for how many seconds these can be viewed.

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In London, you can see monuments, for example : Big Ben, Tower Bridge, the crown of the Queen in the Tower of London and the Houses of Parliament. You can visit the capital by black cab or double decker bus.
As a souvenir, you can buy a British tea set, a small phone box or a British Guard figure. Don’t forget to take your umbrella : it often rains in England !

Hi! My name is Riley Andersen. I'm 11. I'm American and I come from Minnesota, in the North of the USA. I love Minnesota!
My parents and I have moved, and now we live in San Francisco in California. I like it too, but it's very different from where I come from.
I don't have any brothers or sisters, and I don't have any pet neither. I sometimes fell lonely...

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble,

It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

I remembered seeing them on TV once. I couldn’t figure out if they were sheep or camels.

Most people were sad for the innocent cats.

The government said that they had no choice because they didn’t know where the cats were from, but they hope to come up with better solutions in the future.

Once, my brother-in-law Hank spent $6000 on a blue parrot. His mom was surprised when he brought it home, but accepted it. After a few days, I didn’t see it any more; he was so noisy that Hank had to return it to the pet store.