Born and died in Stratford- upon – Avon, Warwickshire, England.
Shakespeare was an actor, a poet and a dramatist. He wrote 154 sonnets and 37 outstanding comedies, tragedies and historical plays. He is also the author of the romance The Two Noble Kinsmen but much of it was probably written by his collaborator, John Fletcher (1579 – 1625).
Shakespeare is one of the greatest dramatists the world has ever had. His works reflect an image of human unity and a love of people and nature. He l
-is the capital of both - England and the Unitied Kingdom. It lies on the river Thames and covers an area of l,580 square kilometres. Almost 7 million people live there and about l2 milion in its conurbations. It includes the city of the London and 32 boroughs. London is the seat of the Monarch, the Parliament, the Government and the Supreme Court. The Prime Meridian of the World runs across Greenwich in the east of London.
It's history dates back to the 800 B.C. when this place was inhabited
I was born on the 10th of November, 1978 here - in Liptovský Mikul š. I've been living with my parents since my birth. That's why I would like to speak a little bit about my parents. Well, mother is a lawyer. And father is a teacher. He teaches at Construkcion school in Liptovský Mikul š especially mechanical technologies. I have one younger brother. His name is Martin and he is 4 years old. Sometimes we don't like each other. Maybe there is a big difference in our ages but we
Greater London covers some 720 square miles. Twelve million people, nearly a quarter of the whole population of Great Britain live in this area, its boroughs, suburbs and satellite towns. But still London is not difficult place for a foreigner to find his way about in, as most of the places of interest, both historical and contemporary are concetrat in a comparatively small area.
Places of interest
London's skyline is dominated by the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, from which there is a wonderful view of the
London is the capital of the United Kingdom.Its population is about 10 million. London is situated on the river Thames in south-east England.
London is famous for his red double-deckers. For fast transport we can use the Underground. Now it operates 11 lines. There are also 3 airports in London. The most important are Heathrow and Gatwick.
The Houses of Parliament are in gothic style but were built only in 19th century after the old building had burnt down. The only part which escaped the fire was Westminster Hall. T
Director, screenwriter, actor. Born Manoj Night Shyamalan, on August 6, 1970, in Pondicherry, India. His family moved to the United States when Shyamalan was still a young boy, settling in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The son of two physicians, he dreamed of becoming a filmmaker; he was given a camera at age 10 and made no fewer than 45 short films by the time he was 15. Shyamalan, who was raised a Hindu, attended a Catholic private school and Philadelphia’s Episcopal Academy before becoming a film major at New York University’s Tisch Schoo
Madonna, longtime sex symbol, pop icon, chameleon, is flying in the face of fashion, and she's doing it in the very latest clothes. Now a mom just shy of 40, the Material Girl is reinventing herself yet again, venturing into electronica with the fervor of a newborn audiophile. As the genre hovers just above the underground, this move could be viewed as a calculated one -- an occasion to jump on the almost inevitable bandwagon-to-be. But henna tattoos aside, the truth is that this album presents a woman less about image than ever before.
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, 16 August 1958, Rochester Michigan, USA. Madonna excelled at dance and drama at high school and during brief periods at colleges in Michigan and North Carolina. In 1977 she went to New York, studying with noted choreographer Alvin Ailey and taking modelling jobs. Two years later, Madonna moved to France to join a show featuring disco singer Patrick Hernandez. There she met Dan Gilroy and, back in New York, the pair formed club band the Breakfast Club. Madonna played drums and sang with the band before setting up
A high number of readers supports development of newspaper industry. There are a lot of papers in the world. The most prestigious are The Times of London, The Guardian (in Great Britain), the largest daily newspapers published in the U.S.A. are The New York Times and The Washington Post. In our country are the most favourite The New Time, The Slovak Republic and many others. The main section of the paper contains the most important news. There are separate sections for home news and for in
Even if we are not concertgoers and experts, we live surrounded by music and we don't realize it. We come into contact with music all our lives. When we are little we listen to lullabies songs by our mother and soon we try to sing some songs our selves. At school we have music lessons and we also can visit a special music school. I was also visiting one. First I play violin…bla, bla, bla… Many children start playing the piano or a wind instrument, such as the recorder, the pipe, the flute, the clarinet, the oboe or the bassoon,
New York is the largest city in the United States. It is one of the most fascinating cities in the wolrd. It's situated on New York Bay, at the mouth of the Hudson river. The city is composed of five boroughs : Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Broklyn and Richmond. Manhattan Island was sold to the early Dutch settlers for $24 in bartered goods by the Manhattan Indians. It was probably one of the most famous real estate transactions in history. New York City or The Big Apple - as it is nicknamed - is the world's place to visit. It si the
Our family lives in Prague, in the block of flats. My father s name is Jiri and he is 55 years old. He works as a stock manager. He is rather stout and has a short black hair. He is keen of cars and is and excellent driver. He really likes nature a lot and he is watching almost all nature documents at TV. He likes travelling as well. He also likes crosswords.
My mother s name is Ivana and she is 52 years old. She works as a clerk. She has short curly brown hair. My mother likes travelling as well as my father and therefore we go e
Charakteristika Renesance, znamená v překladu znovuzrození či obrození - totiž, jak se myslelo, znovuzrození antické kultury, tedy i umění a v jeho rámci také architektury. Kolébkou renesance je Itálie. První generace renesančních architektů však vycházela ještě ze starokřesťanských staveb a z tzv. protorenesance, které myslně pokládala za starořímské. Teprve další umělci studují skutečné antické stavební památky a vyvozují z nich poučení pro vlastní tvorbu, která ovšem není kopírov
New York is the biggest city in the USA. It belongs to the largest in the world. The number of inhabitants is 7,000,000 or 17,000,000. It is sometimes called "The Big Apple". New York has five major parts: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn. The black quarter - Harlem is in northern part of Manhattan.
The original inhabitants were Indian. The Manhattan Island was bought from the Indians by the Dutch for goods worth 25 USD. The original name was New Amsterdam. In 1644 the British captured the
Every day we need information, which we could take from tv, radio, newspapers, internet, atc. The oldest type of masmedia are newspapers, which are known from the invention of printing machine. There were not so many papers and magazines before 1989 and freedom of press did not exist. There was only Pravda, Smena, Práca, Roľnícke noviny and some magazines: Slovenka, Život. After 1989 we could see a huge development in newspapers industry. In the last years in Slovakia many dailies, weekly journals and other magazines and periodicals started
My region lies in the south of Czech Republic. It is called Southern Moravia and is the largest region in our republic. It has about 2 million inhabitants, covers area about 15 thousand sq. km. It consists of 14 districts. The capital of this region is Brno, situated in the centre. It is the second largest town in the Czech Republic. It lies above the confluence of the rivers Svratka and Svitava. Southern Moravia borders with Austria in the south and with Slovakia in the east. There are lots of woods in our region and it also has the most ferti
TV, video, computer games are supposed to becoming more popular than books. Despite the increasing competition from technological entertainments like these many people still buy books. Adventage of watching TV is receiving of information without our own activity. But this is also reason that we spend our leasure time and we kill a development of ourselves. For this reason I've been prefering reading books for the last 5 or 6 month. Books can be divided into several groups. Acor
7. What are the laws of Supply and Demand , why are they so important in the study of economicsThe two sides of each market transaction are called supply and demand. We are supplying resources to the market when we look for a job – that is , when we offer our labor in exchange for income. But we are demanding goods when we shop in a supermarket - that is , when we are prepared to offer money in exchange for something to eat. Business firms may supply goods and services in product markets at the same time that they are demanding factors of pro
School system in US looks and works basically the same in all US states, but it’s possible to find some variations. All schools are divided into elementary schools ( grade 1 to 4 ), middle schools ( grade 5 to 8 ), high schools ( grade 9 to 12 - 9th graders are called freshmen, 10th graders are called sophomores, 11th graders - juniors , 12th graders - seniors) and there are Colleges or Universities. Something we know as kindergarten is known in US as pre-school class, but that is optional. Children start to attend elementary schools when the