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LONDON, NEW YORK AND OTHER BRITISH AND AMERICAN CITIES

LONDON
London is the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the seat of Government, Parliament, political, cultural and economic center of the country. It spreads out on both banks of the river Thames in the south-east of the country. The whole city consists of own City of London and 32 boroughs.

Central London is where most of the famous sight are. There are chic chops, theatres, beautiful residental areas, great parks and the famous Trafalgar Square which many Londoners thing of as the center

London, the Capital of Great Britain

London, the Capital of Great Britain

London is the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the seat of the Monarch, Government, Parliament and the Supreme Court and the political, cultural and economic center of the country. It spreads out on both banks of the river Thames in the south-east of the country. It occupies an area of almost 1.6 thousand square kilometers and has 12 million inhabitants. The whole city consists of own City of London and 32 boroughs.

The Celts settled the territo

Looking Through the Mirror

Looking through
THE Mirror

It is Friday afternoon. I am going along the street. I am thinking about the essay on the theme, “Looking through the Mirror“. “It would be great, to win the competition and visit England for a month“ I rejoice when I am opening the door of our flat.

We have a dark hall in our flat. When I was young I was worried of this hall. I am taking off my jacket, when I suddenly see an peculiar shadow. “ Is it a burglar? Should I shouted or should I run away?“I think fast. I am loo

Lost generation

LOST GENERATION  ERNEST HEMINGWAY

LOST GENERATION

- is dated from the begining of the 20. cent. till the WW2
- the most productive period in the american fiction
- records the feelings of disillusionment caused by WW1.
- describes life, which they enjoyed the full
- the authors were influenced by the ideas of Europe, because the WW1. took a place especially on the Old continent, not in America
- occures the ideas of sexual librety, we can find not-discussed ideas


Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain is a famous American writer. His name was Samuel Clemens. Young Samuel lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on the Mississippi River. He loved the river and he liked watching the big boats on it.

Samuel loved adventures. He worked on boats on the Mississippi River for two years. Then he went to Nevada. He looked for treasure, but he didn´t find it. He worked for a newspaper there. His stories were in the name of Mark Twain, and people loved them.

Later, Samuel lived in New Yo

Mark Twain

Mark Twain is one of the most famous authors in the time of Realisms in USA. His name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida. Florida is a town in Missouri. He grew up in Hannibal, because when he was four years old his family moved to Hannibal in Missouri. Hannibal is a small sleepy town on the west bank of the Mississippi. He was enchanted by the romance of river life. In Hannibal he received a public school education. His father worked as a storekeeper. He died when Samuel was eleven years old. After this

Mars Pathfinder

For hundreds of years our observations of Mars were restricted by the vast distance separating Earth from the red planet. About once every two years, at its closest approach (called opposition), Mars passes within about 55 million km of Earth and it is then that we are able to capture pictures of maximum resolution with earth-based telescopes. The Hubble Space Telescope now provides us with excellent views from earth-orbit, but until the launching of probes to Mars to collect and relay data back to Earth, much of what was "known" abou

Martin Luther King

Birth and Family
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Charles Johnson was the attending physician. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. Other children born to the Kings were Christine King Farris and the late Reverend Alfred Daniel Williams King. Martin Luther King's maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, second pastor

Martin Luther King - I HAVE A DREAM

This speech was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King before the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963 at the famous March on Washington, D.C., for Civil Rights.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Mary , Queen of Scots

I am going to tell you a story about the last Queen of Scotland. Her name was Mary Stuart,but she was called Mary,Queen of Scots.It is a very sad story.

In the 1542 James V.,the King of Scotland died.His daughter,Mary,who was only a one week old,became Queen.While she was still only a child,Mary Stuart married Francis,the son of the French King. In 1559 Francis became a King of France.So at the age of 17,Mary,who was a beautiful woman with lovely red hair, was Queen of two countries.


MASS MEDIA

John Logie Baird produced the first television pictures just eight years after the First World War. They were in black and white and were not very clear.
Early sets made in the years after Baird´s breakthrough (velký objev), because it is very expensive.
Soon, his original systém was improved (zlepšit) and in 1936 Britain´s first regular TV programme went on the air. „Here´s Looking At You“ was broadcas by the BBC from north London´s Alexandra Palace studios twice a day for a weekly budget of one thousand pounds.


Meals

Daily meals usually start with breakfast. An English breakfast is different from ours. Traditional British breakfast consists of a glass of fruit juice, cornflakes with sugar and milk and toast with marmalade or jam or honey. Quite a lot of British people eat müsli for their breakfast or some other ready-made cereals or porridge. In the morning they usually drink tea or coffee.
The second meal is lunch taken between 12 and 1 o‘clock. People usually have their lunch in the factory or school canteen or in a restaurant. It consists of so

Meals

MEALS
In our country daily meals usually start with breakfast, which consist of something to drink – tea (with milk or with lemon) or cocoa, warm or hot milk, black coffee – and something to eat, e.g. one or two slices of bread and butter and cheese or eggs, ham, salami, jam etc. Instead of bread we can eat rolls or buns or we can have something sweet – cakes (or Christmas cake), doughnuts or gingerbread. Quite a lot of people eat cereal for their breakfast – either cornflakes or porridge or muesli – they also sometimes add var

Means of transport

People have a lot of ways in which they can travel. We can travel by land, by water and by air. We can travel by own means of transport or by public means of transport. Each way has advantages and disadvantages, so it is up to us which way we will choose. Here are the forms of travelling:
Water transport ( it means ferries, ocean liners, steamboats ) has relatively small costs, so it is not very expensive and place for our luggage is quite big, so we can have as many bags as we want. But the disadvantage is that somebody could become sea

Menu

Menu
Breakfast: Flaky cheese fingers
Oatmeal cookies
Currant biscuits
Drink: Coffe, tea, milk, jiuce

Lunch: Salmon roast
Steamet fish
Meatballs and spaghetti
Pork ragout
Baked pork and apple chops
Supplement: Rice, potatoes, Savoury fritters, potato chips, pastries, bred,

Dinner: Mutton cutes
Chicken and celery salad
Spinach rarebit
Puffy potato balls

Sweet course: Dessert pears
Orange delight
Strawberry su

MOBY - životopis v angličtině + volný český překlad.

MOBY
Moby is a versatile musician who gained recognition in the early 1990s for his contributions to dance & techno music. The excellence and originality of his remixes made him a much-sought-after remixer.
His musicial nickname is Moby, because he is a distant descendent of Herman Melville writer of Moby Dick.
Moby´s real name is Richard Melville Hall. He was born on September 11th 1965 in New York City. Than he lived in Connecticut. Since 1989 he lives in New York City with his girlfriend and his dog. In 1974 he bega

Money in our lives

Money is very important in life each of us. But in todayś world is very difficult to say, who is rich and who is poor, because in different parts of world can this word has absolutely another importance. In Africa is rich that, who has every day food for itself and for his children. Conversely in Europe is rich that, who has 5 cars, big house and he can go for the holliday where he wants. And many a time the poor man in Europe is richer then the rich man in Africa. But I think that, more important is not be rich, but be content. Often the rich

Mother Night - Kurt Vonnengut, Jr

MOTHER NIGHT
Kurt Vonnengut, Jr.

Whole story is about writer Howard W. Campbell. During World war two secret agent bring him offer to fall in with plans. Howard ges away to Germany and marry german – Helga. So he becomes German. He transmits in radio and promotes Nazism. Not a soul knows that he is an American anooper and that he has a secret signature and transmits apher message.
It is written by retrospective, because in 1961 they arrest him and he is in prison in Jerusalem. So he writes a book about his life. He

Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge

Director of this film is Baz Lubrman.
He directed for example Romeo a Julie.
In the leads roles we can see Nicol Kidman and Ewen McGregor.

Her name is Satin. She is the club’s highest paid star and courtisan in Moulin Rouge.

Moulin Rouge is a name of one of the brothels in Paris.
He is Christian, a young poet, who came into the heady world of Paris and Monlin Rouge.

He drafted to write a nightclub spactacular (spektekjúlr).
In this bohemian life,

My attitude to other people

I try to get along with all people around me. But sometimes it is very difficult because everyone is different and has his own mistakes. It is quite easy to be friend with people who are friendly and nice to others. However I can´t get along with someone there are more people who are my friends. And although I have many friends, only one can be my best friend. There is one proverb about friends and I think it is true. "Friend in need is a friend ideed." I have already discovered many times how truthful it is.

My best fr

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