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Alice in Wonderland
Chapter 1 In this short, introductory chapter we are introduced to Alice, a young girl, who is sitting on the bank of a river with her older sister. Alice is bored and a bit sleepy, but she is startled awake by a talking White Rabbit who hops by with a pocket watch. Alice follows the rabbit down his rabbit hole, but...
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IRELAND
IRELAND GEOGRAPHY Ireland is an island on the western fringe of Europe between latitude 51 1/2 and 55 1/2 degrees north, and longitude 5 1/2 to 10 1/2 degrees west. Its greatest length, from Malin Head in the north to Mizen Head in the south, is 486 km and its greatest width from east to west is approximately 275 km....
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Grand Canyon
Immense gorge cut by the Colorado River into the high plateaus of northwestern Arizona, U.S., noted for its fantastic shapes and coloration. The broad, intricately sculptured chasm of the Grand Canyon contains between its outer walls a multitude of imposing peaks, buttes, canyons, and ravines. It ranges in width from about...
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Jerome David Salinger - The catcher in the rye
As a novelist, J.D. Salinger belongs to a distinct group of American writers who began their literary careers during or immediately after the Second World War, the so-called "young novelists" - James Baldwin, William Styron, etc. The Catcher in the Rye confirmed and sustained his reputation and gained him a position as...
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History - Henry VIII
Henry VIII , Tudor king of England ( 1509-1547 ), and founder of the Church of England . The son of Henry VII , he profoundly influenced the character of the English monarchy . Henry was born in London on June 28 , 1491 , and on the death of his father in 1509 succeeded to the throne...
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Colorado River - Grand Canyon
Immense gorge cut by the Colorado River into the high plateaus of northwestern Arizona, U.S., noted for its fantastic shapes and coloration.The broad, intricately sculptured chasm of the Grand Canyon contains between its outer walls a multitude of imposing peaks, buttes, canyons, and ravines. It ranges in width from about 0.1...
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Summary Gulliver
First Voyage (Liliput). Gulliver, ship's doctor on the Anteope in shipwreked near Van Diemend's Land (Tasmania) but mananges to make shore, where he falls unconcious. Upon awakening, he finds himself a captive of humans only six inches tall (possibly derived from Philostrautus's account of the pygmies capturing the sleeping...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is Hardy's tragic masterpiece. It is the story of innocence and evil, of man and nature, of history and its relations to the present, concentrated on the fate of a simple country girl. Reading Hardy's novels one can easily recognise the Greek writers view on man: a being born to endure that...
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Vangelis
Vangelis is a famous Greek composer and keyboardist. He composes and performs mainly instrumental music and filmscores. His music is often categorized under terms like "synthesizer", "sympho" and "new age". He was born as "Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou" at march 29th 1943 in Greece. He started playing the piano at the...
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Shakespeare
Although the amount of factual knowledge available about Shakespeare is surprisingly large for one of his station in life, many find it a little disappointing, for it is mostly gleaned from documents of an official character. Dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials; wills, conveyances, legal processes, and payments...
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songs - the beatles
The Beatles Songbook - All The Songs and Who Wrote What! A A Day In The Life (Lennon-McCartney) A Hard Day's Night (Lennon-McCartney) Across The Universe (Lennon-McCartney) All I Want Is You (Lennon-McCartney) All I've Got To Do (Lennon-McCartney) All My Loving (Lennon-McCartney) All Things Must Pass (Harrison)...
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (queen) (1819-1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). Her reign was the longest of any monarch in British history and came to be known as the Victorian era. Queen Victoria was the official head of state not only of the United Kingdom but also of...
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A forest is a community of trees
A forest is a community of trees, shrubs, herbs, microorganisms, and animals, the trees being the most obvious living structures. Trees can survive under a wide range of climatic conditions, but forests generally occupy the moister, less frigid parts of the terrestrial biosphere. To different human cultures at different...
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Dinner with a famous person
What famous person would you like to have dinner with? This is probably a question everyone, at least once, ran through they're heads. This is, of course, only theoretical since the majority of us don't have the necessary social standard or that person is probably already deceased, but imagination has no boundaries and, if...
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Woodstock
The last bedraggled fan sloshed out of Max Yasgur's muddy pasture more than 25 years ago. That's when the debate began about Woodstock's historical significance. True believers still call Woodstock the capstone of an era devoted to human advancement. Cynics say it was a fitting, ridiculous end to an era of naivete. Then there...
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A good time, but polluted
It was summer. And it was a hot day of July. I was at home and I was looking on the window when I said: "I want to do something! I was alone because my parents and my brother were at some friends. I didn't want to go because I considered that was a boring visit. But I...
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Symbol of Europe
The Council of Europe (COE) has developed a series of European symbols for the continent of Europe, and these have since been shared with the European Union (EU). They are intended both as symbols of the organizations themselves, and as a focus for a form of Pan-European identity. Flag The flag of...
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge, prehistoric ritual monument, situated on Salisbury Plain in south-western England and dating from the Neolithic (late Stone Age) and Bronze Age. It is the most celebrated of the megalithic monuments in England, and the most important prehistoric structure in Europe. Although its precise purpose is unknown, it is...
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The civil war
During his conquest of Gaul, Caesar had seen to it that his part of the Gallic loot was wisely spent in preserving and fortifying his position in Rome. His Populist acts as Praetor and Consul had severely alienated the middle group of senators and he needed to use Pompeius's connections with this group to legitimate his...
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The term ”Enlightenment” characterized the development of sciences and arts as well as the triumph of reason over ignorance and pseudoscience in the 17th and 18th centuries. The English Enlightenment was not uniform, there being 2 tendencies within it: • Its more moderate wing was represented by Pope, Defoe, Addison,...
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The Moon
Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun . As the Moon orbits around the Earth once per month, the angle between the Earth, the Moon and the...
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The English translation of The Bible
The first translation of an English Bible was initiated by The Venerable Bede toward the end of the 7th century. Bede also gave accounts of one of the first English poets, Caedmon, writing religious verse. Bede translated The Gospel according to John and, according to his follower Cuthbert, translated the last word of John...
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Northern Ireland
Ireland (all or part of it, at various times) was a colony of the English from the 12th century. From the late Middle Ages it was a kingdom, under the same monarch as England, but a separate country. In law and in practice, the Irish government was usually subordinate to the English government.Henry the VIII rejected Rome and...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The greatest representative of the late Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy, was among the novelists who marked the transition to XXth century English and American fiction. He wrote many novels such as: "Far from the Madding Crowd", "Jude the Obscure", The Mayor of Casterbridge", etc. Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is regarded...
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Where do they make Hondas?
Twenty years ago, if someone asked:'Where do they make Hondas?', the answer would be easy.'Hondas are made in Japan.'Nowadays, the question is not easy to answer. Making cars is a multinational business.Cars are not only manufactured in their original country, they are also produced in other countries. Japanese car giants...
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The Moon
Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun . As the Moon orbits around the Earth once per month, the angle between the Earth, the Moon and the...
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Washington Square
Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York. Coming from a rather well-off family, he enjoyed good education and travelled extensively to England, Switzerland, France and Germany. He graduated from Harvard Law School. He started his literary career with a volume of short-stories, "A Passionate Pilgrim" (1871). In 1876 he...
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in G.B. because social ,political and legal conditions were particularly favourable to change. Britain was in quite a unique position. At that time, it was the only country in the world that had all the right ingredients in place for industrial growth to take off. Firstly and most importantly,...
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Racial Discrimination and Related Intolerance
Racial Discrimination and Related Intolerance We are served refreshment only in separate cups at roadside tea stalls, turned away from public swimming pools, stopped on highways as presumptive criminals, trafficked as prostitutes, denied our mother's nationality, classed willy-nilly as "mentally disabled" in schools, and...
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Some of the most lastingly delightful children's books in English are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". Here are what Albert Baugh write about them in "A Literary History of England":"Written by an eccentric Oxford don to amuse his little girlfriends, these two world-famous books are the...
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