Are there any this kind of examples in your country? are there any examples of celebrities or famous people about one got over his laziness or lack of ambition and finally succeeded?

Some grammatical questions from American national anthem.. 1.may the heaven rescued land. I've learnt to say it as "may the heaven rescue land". Why "v-ed"? 2.thus be it ever when freemen shall stand between…… What does "thus be it ever" mean?

How to read "xerxes"

A question from an article. ”……we should keep our body in good order, thus we may hope to grow up strong and healthy men and women." Is "grow up" here used correctly?

A question from an article. "How often you have seen ants running about the lawn, but have you ever stopped to watch them and to study their habits?" I am a little confused. Is "How often you have seen ants running about the lawn" a question sentence but not by saying "How often have you seen"?

Please help me with the e-mail my Brazilian client sent to me. Here is his e-mail: "It is very important that you write in the backpacks clearly visible with white indelible pen "sample is not Sell" and make some tears and mutilation parts, for not property to use. Please is very important, before shipping the ups, send-me a copy of your invoice…..os this sample with not commercial value." What's "make some tears and mutilation parts, for not property to use."? And what's ".os this sample with not commercial value"? There are lots of grammatical mistakes in my view.. So it's quite hard for me to understand something he wants to convey.. So can some native Brazilian help me .... Thank you so much in advance

How to understand this sentence? … He attended schools in Edinburgh, and studied with private tutors at places to which his parents had gone for the benefit of his health or of their own. What's the "places"?

Can somebody help me with my assignment about a presentation of a book <才物譜> has collected vocabularies in many different kinds of fields in Joseon Dynasty. Which is a characteristic vocabulary-collected dictionary. It is was the first anthology of vocabulary in Korea, and took what our forebears had left us and broke new ground for the future of Korean language learning history. The study in <才物譜> will help us analyze the style and content of the dictionaries existed in early Korea. It is of great reference value for the study in classification of dictionaries, and it provides evidence for the basic information in classification of Korean vocabulary. <才物譜> itself still has important research value today. The large coverage and amounts of vocabularies it includes, and the detailed explanations are all unprecedented in Korean language learning history, processing the characteristic of an encyclopedia. Through the study in this book, we can know more history and culture about Korean Peninsula. Not only does it play an important role in Korean language learning history, but it has reference effects on other subjects. Besides, its compatibility with cultures is of great documents value for the comparison with different cultures in Sinosphere.and it’s also beneficial for us to investigate the status of Chinese ancient books’ and Chinese traditional culture’s outer transmission. However, the study in this book is blanket yet in our country.