The story is about the conflict between the ancient Athenians and the Atlantians 9000 years before Plato's time. Knowledge of the distant past apparently forgotten to the Athenians of Plato's day, the story of Atlantis was conveyed to Solon by Egyptian priests. Solon passed the tale to Dropides, the great-grandfather of Critias. Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides.
Cast of Characters
All of the men, except for Timaeus, who take part in or are mentioned in Ti
From a modest pueblo in the 18th Century, to a dominant economic and cultural force at the turn of the 21st Century, Los Angeles has traveled an accelerated road of expansion. Following is a brief look at how the Department of Recreation and Parks helped shape the City of Los Angeles. The history of the Department of Recreation and Parks is rich and diverse-stemming from the early days of Los Angeles. Colonel Felipe de Neve, Governor of the Spanish province of Alta California, officially founded Los
We know that do well in the adult world you must work hard-but you must also be pleasure to work hard with. Academic intelligence alone is not going to get you very far. Character matters, too. But until recently most experts studying intelligence believed that it was impossible to measure, and so ignored it. Now, however, psychologists have identyfied several types of emotional intelligence. One is ´emotional management´, or being in charge your own emotions. This includes the ability to cheer yourself up after a big setback, pull you
Formwork Formwork is the key to successful an economic concrete construction. It has a dominant influence on the appearance and accuracy of finished concrete which in turn affects the ease with which the following trades can complete their work.
The types of formwork: - Wall- system-column- High quality column formwork forms concrete Columns in next to no time: quickly folded for Forming, and simply unfolded to strike, the Formwork results in ultra-short cycle times. This Formwork can be moved in
He was Irish – born writer and Nobel laureate, considered the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare. In addition to being a prolific playwright (he wrote more than 50 stage plays), the most readable music critic and best theatre critic of his generation. Although in some ways he was both visionary and mystic , naturally shy and quietly generous, he was a big stranger in this time and place. He was under influence of the writings of Karl Marx perhaps because of his unhappy childhood (his father was an alcoholic). He admired Norw
Slovakia ranks among countries with well-developed school educational system. In general, education is under the control of state, church or private bodies. State and religious schools are free of charge, they are financed by the state, while private schools charge high tuition fees. Pre-school education includes crèches, nursery schools and kindergartens. They are attended by the children at the age 2 to 6. Compulsory education is for children between the ages 6 to 16. There is no selection
Leonardo da Vinci A painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies - particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics - anticipated many of the developments
The problem of nuclear waste started in the year 1945 when the first atom bomb was used, at this time nobody was interesed in the question where should be stored the nuclear waste. But now the disposal of radioactive nuclear waste is a major problem of inustrialized contries today. With hundreds of nuclear power plants, nuclear reactors and nuclear laboratories in America, Europe, and Japan, thousands of tons of radioactive waste needs to be safely disposed almost everyday. The United States of America has 113 nuclear power reactors and is plan
For 99% of human history, people took their food from the world around them. They ate that they could find and then moved on.Then 10 000 years ago or for 1% of human history people learned to farm the land and control their environment. What do we eat ?
The kind of food we eat depends on which part of the world we live in, or which part of our country we live in. For example, in the south of China they eat rice, but in the north they eat noodles. In Scandinavia, they eat a lot of herrings, and the Portuguese love sardines. But in
I do not have much free time. I often work till 6 or 7 p.m. I come home very tired and I am disinclined to do something. I have free time only at the weekends but my wife thinks that weekend is very good time for housework. I dislike such a weekend. Sometimes on Sunday I ride a bicycle or we all go for a walk to the city. I like the old part of Bratislava, we go there and visit some sightseeings and then we go to a restaurant and have some drink and meal. When it is a lovely day and sunny we go to the lake Zlate piesky. We can swim, play
I usually get up at 6.30 o‘clock on weekdays. I wash, have a shave, dress and have a quick breakfast. My breakfast is very plain – yogurt, 1 or 2 rolls and a glass of juice or mineral water. I usually go to work by bike. Only when it is raining or freezing I go by bus. My work is not far from my home I get to work in 12 minutes. It is a relaxation for me to go by cycle to work. Riding a bike is my best hobby. I often ride a bike with my friends at weekends. When I come to work I make some coffee and then I work hard. I am a programmer, I mu
The term computer crime denotes the criminal acts that are oriented against the computers and the criminal acts that are made by the computer. This criminal activity often becomes the international activity. The states of European union settled on the definition of the computer crime: illegal, unmoral and unauthorised act that involves improper use of the data acquired by the computers or changing of the data in them. The computers offer new technology and new methods of doing criminal acts like stealth, sabotage, espionage, abuse or rac
Cestovanie do všetkých kútov sveta je jednoduchšie a jednoduchšie. Travelling to all corners of tde world gets easier and easier. O koľkej by ste čakali, že vaši kolegovia prídu? What time would you expect your colleagues to come? Talianom by ste mali tolerovať neskorý príchod až do jednej hodiny. You should allow a late coming up to an hour for the Italien. Domnievam sa, že široké pochopenie aglického jazyka znamená pochopenie zodpo
In our country, children usually stop living with their parents when they are 20 or 25 years old or when they want have more independence. Here are many causes why they leave their home, but the most frequently are two causes. First cause is that a lot of young people, which finished collage, go study to university and usually it is faraway from their birthplace or faraway from place where they live. When they leave home, live on dormitory or they have their own flat. A little group of young people charter one or two-rooms flat and they live he
Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th February 1967 in Aberdeen, which is located about 120 kilometers southwest of Seattle in the state Washington. He grew up in a mid class society and was hyperactive as a child, as a result was prescibed a morphine based drug to help him concentrate in school. The drug often kept him awake until 4 am in the morning so he was given sedatives to be able to get some sleep. Kurt had a happy childhood, until he was 7 years old when his parents got divorced. It was an ordina
Probably my best friend is one of my schoolmates. Her name is Marcela and we have known each other since we were 8 years old. If I were to describe how she looks, I would say she is very pretty. She has short brown hair, brown almond-shaped eyes, a small nose and a small pointed chin. She is not very tall but not short either and she is quite slim. She doesn't like to dress up so I usually see her wearing jeans and a T-shirt or sweater. It seems like she and I are always talking or laughing about something. She
People and horses have been living together already since long past. The using of horse´s power fascilated people´s work, transport and raised the sphere of their activity. The horse also granted the stuff important for life: milk, meat, leather or dung for heating. Today the horses are raised and trained for work, breeding, exhibition or various sports like races, jumping, military, polo or hunting. In present olympic games three riding sports are substituted: showjumping, dressure and military.
The Pyramids of Egypt They are the oldest and latest from 7 wonders of the world that are today. They are in Gisa on the other side of the Nile than Cairo. The biggest of them is the Pyramid of Cheops - the Egypt pharaon. Two smaller pyramids were of his son and grandson. Their wives had other smaller pyramids. We thing that 100 000 slaves built one pyramid longer than 20 years. They needed more than 2 millions peaces of stones. White limestone was on surface, so pyramids looked like that they shined. Stones from surface we
Our School Our school is typical Czech, state grammar school, which offers to their students the general secondary education. There are taught all compulsory subject (humanities and science too) and also several optional subject, which students can choose. The aim of this school is to prepare students for study at university as much as it is possible. In our country there are several types of grammar schools assorting to the number of forms. In recent year our school has gone through several experiments. In 1990 there were two courses ru
PRESENT SIMPLE – Prítomný jednoduchý čas - opis deja, ktorý sa pravidelne opakuje - I wake up every mornning. Vstávam každé ráno. - zmyslové vnímanie, pocity duševné pochody - I think it is a good idea. Myslím, že je to dobrý nápad.
Príslovky: every + day, week, weekend, year, morning...
I do HE does koncovka s alebo es YOU don't SHE doesn't reads WE do we IT does it? cry – cries
Ak sa pred Y nachádza spoluhláska, mení sa na ie ( fly