A Comparison between Beowulf & Redcrosse Knight
Additionally both heroes have an encounter with a character from hell. Beowulf dives into the lake (personification of hell) where Grendel’s mother is waiting to attack. He cannot cut her with his sword, so he tosses it away and finds a larger sword killing Grendel’s mother by cutting her head off. He sees Grendel dead body nearby and cuts off his head as a trophy and return to Denmark (pg. 61…
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Wales
Wales is an not independent nation. In 1292, the English king, Edward, invaded Wales and built fourteen huge castles to control the Welsh people. His son, Edward, became the first prince of Wales, since then all the kings and queens of England have given their eldest sons the title, Prince of Wales. Prince Charles became the twenty-first Prince of Wales. Although the English have ruled Wales for…
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Museums and picture galleries
The British Museum was founded in 1753. One doctor Ganse Sloan had a big collection of paintings. He bequeathed it to the state. Now the British Museum is one of the biggest museums in the world. One can see many subjects of primitive art and antique culture. It is interesting to notice that there are a lot of old money, medals, manuscripts, coins, engravings. This gallery and collections…
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Europe in the Middle Ages
Little of Europe «p.s coming dynamism was apparent in the year 1000, although there were signs that the Continent was getting richer. Wider use of plows had made farming more efficient. The planting of new crops, notably beans and peas, added variety to Europe «p.s diet Windmills and watermills provided fresh sources of power. Villages that were to become towns and eventually cities grew…
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Ernst Thalmann
Die Nazis lachten ihn aus. So etwas hatten sie noch nicht erlebt. Die deutschen Armeen standen vor Moskau und Leningrad, Hitler hatte öffentlich erklärt, dab die Sowjetunion geschlagen ist. Und dieser Gefangene, der seit 8 Jahren von aller Welt abgeschnitten war, erlaubte sich, so etwas zu sagen. Ein anderes Mal kam er in Thälmanns Zelle und wollte beweisen, dab in der Sowjetunion alles drunter…
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The library of our institute
Soon I had to visit our library the first time as I needed a text book on economics. I went downstairs (as library is situated in the ground floor) and found a room I was searching for. But I didn’t get the immediately as it was many students. So I waited for my turn. I asked to a librarian if I could get the book on economical theory. She answered affirmatively and soon brought me a book which…
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Christmas
Giving presents goes back to Roman Saturnalia when good luck gifts of fruit, pastry or gold were given to friends on New Year «p.s Day. In Britain the traditional day to give presents until relatively recently was December 26th and not as it is today, Christmas Day. December 26th is now known as Boxing Day, for it was then that the priests of the Middle Ages opened alms boxes to give to the poor…
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Acoustic Emission
The appearance of new technologies as well as the perfection of traditional ones is mostly based on the results of research in the fields of solid physics, quantum mechanics, physical chemistry and other fundamental disciplines. That is why perspective methods of technological diagnostic must have an advanced trend of development comparing to the development of new structure and shape forming…
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Veronese, Paolo
Nevertheless, his status and achievement are clear. He was one of the greatest of all decorative artists, delighting in painting enormous pageant-like scenes that bear witness to the material splendor of Venice in its Golden Age. Marble columns and costumes of velvet and satin abound in his work, and he used a sumptuous but delicate palette in which pale blue, orange, silvery white, and lemon…
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Rousseau, Henri
Such total confidence in himself as an artist enabled Rousseau to take ordinary book and catalogue illustrations and turn each one into a piece of genuine art: his jungle paintings, for instance, were not the product of any first-hand experience and his major source for the exotic plant life that filled these strange canvases was actually the tropical plant house in Paris. His other work ranges…
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Romanticism
Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general…
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Holbein, Hans the Younger
Hans Holbein the Elder (1465?-1524). Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the elder Holbein, like his brother Sigmund, painted richly colored religious works in the late Gothic style. In addition to the altar paintings that are his principal works, he designed church windows and also made a number of portrait drawings that foreshadow the work of his famous son. His later paintings show the transition from…
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Bellini, Giovanni
Giovanni Bellini was born in Venice, Italy, in about 1430. Little is known about his family. His father, a painter, was a pupil of one of the leading 15th-century Gothic revival artists. Giovanni and his brother probably began their careers as assistants in their father «p.s workshop. In his later work Bellini achieved a unique religious and emotional unity of expression. His method of using оіл…
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Mathematical Formulas for Calculation of Newtonian Constant of Gravitation G
Failures in creation of (G, h, c)-theories and a big number of other fundamental physical constants, among which it is difficult to prefer one of them, bring forward p. s task of search of ontological base of physical constants. Contemporary physics accumulated already about 300 fundamental constants. 300 constants and all are fundamental! Why such a big number of constants are considered…
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Modern Tourism Narrows the Mind
So, everything I think of the problem has been said. There are many choices and it is up to travellers to weigh up everything of the issue, to estimate it and come to their own conclusions. Until recently, we all believed that travel broadened the mind, but now many believe the exact opposite: «Modern tourism narrows the mind». Moreover, the fact is that modern tourism is considered to ruin…
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Marie Curie /Франц./
Apres le mort de Pierre Curie, en 1906, Marie continua seule leur travail commun sur la radio-activite. Elle ne cessa ce travail jusqu’a ses derniers jours. Grace a sa volonte de fer, a son talent, a sa perseverance, elle recut son diplome de physique et, l’annee suivante, son diplome de mathematiques. Ala Sorbonne, Marie ne participait pas a-ля vie joyeuse des etudiants. Elle travaillait…
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Malevich, Kasimir
He began working in an unexceptional Post-Impressionist manner, but by 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive `tubular «style similar to that of Lйger as well as pictures combining the fragmentation of form of Cubism with the multiplication of the image of Futurism (The Knife Grinder, Yale Univ. Art Gallery, 1912). Malevich, however, was fired with the desire `to free art from the…
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Goya (y Lucientes) , Francisco (Jos?) de
In 1816 he published his etchings on bullfighting, called the Tauromaquia. From 1819 to 1824 Goya lived in seclusion in a house outside Madrid. Free from court restrictions, he adopted an increasingly personal style. In the Black Paintings, executed on the walls of his house, Goya gave expression to his darkest visions. A similar nightmarish quality haunts the satirical Disparates, a series…
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Спорт у житті /english/
My family mostly doesn «t go in for sports. The only popular outdoor activity in our family is travelling. Every summer we make voyages around the country, and of course driving to the Black sea which is one of our most beloved places. But that «p.s the only kind of sport which is popular in our family. Millions of people all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport help people to stay…
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Air contamination caused by human activity
Insertion into atmosphere or the creation of the chemical agents and substances caused by natural, and anthropogenous factors forms an air contamination. The natural sources of contamination of an atmosphere are volcanos, wood fires, dusty storms, a weathering etc. These factors do not threaten with negative consequences to natural ecosystems, except some catastrophic natural phenomena. For…
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Choosing a career (англійською языке)
When you leave school you understand that the time to choose your future profession has come. It «p.s not an easy task to make the right choice of a job. I have known for a long time that leaving school is the beginning of my independent life, the beginning of a far more serious examination of my abilities and character. There are many worthy professions, but not of them are in demand now…
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Cinematograph
CINEMA Cinematograph is one of the wonders of the modern world. We can not imagine our everyday life without TV. Every day, every single evening most of people watching TV. You can watch whatever you’d like: news, show, films or anything else. There are so many different channels: news, discovery, sport, music, fashion and others. We know a lot of different films and shows, but not everyone knows…
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Creative Activity
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Paris
Au centre de l’ile se trouve la cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Ce batiment est une de merveilles de l’architecture gotique. Sa construction a ete commence au 12 siecle, est dure plus que 2 cent ans. La cathedrale possede 4 portes et est decore des compositions sculptes et des vitraux, le plus remarcable desquels est la rose. Les deux toures de la cathedrale ne sont pas complete, et aujourd’hui…
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Visit to a doctor
I must say, that I seldom fall ill. I go in for sports, try to spend a couple of hours in the open air every day and do all that kinds of things in order to keep fit. I followed all the doctor «p.s instructions and in a week I was cured. It was a real pleasure to fell strong and healthy again. Really, all is well, that ends well. In the 16 century smallpox came to American continent with Spanish…
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Demographic Changes — Overpopulation
The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Julius Caesar «p.s time, fewer than 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1,500…
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Newspapers
I think that they are very popular means of information. They are popular among young people in our country. We can know a lot of news watching TV or listening to the radio set. All members of our family watch TV very regularly. We like such programme as «My family «. I prefer to discuss some problems with my parents after it. I have many favourite TV programmes but I haven «t enough time…
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The Palermo Stone an Related Fragments
On the other hand, the way the stone has been carvedlightly incised signs on a black stoneis reminiscent of an artistic style that came into vogue during the 25th Dynasty, suggesting that the Palermo Stone and related fragments may perhaps not be dated earlier than this dynasty. The original to which the Palermo Stone belonged, is believed to have been approximately 2.2 meters long, 0.61 meters…
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Scanning tunneling microscopy: a natural for electrochemistry
Ag deposition on graphite was carried out in several steps, in attempt to see the initial phase of deposition. The relatively narrow field of view of the STM used didn’t allow to do so, and the backward consequence of operations was undertaken. The silver was removed from the surface of graphite electrochemically in a series of oxidizing voltage pulses, and finally the image of an isolated…
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Utopia
First book While on business in Flanders, the author makes the acquaintance of a certain Raphael Hythloday, a sailor who has travelled with the famous explorer Amerigo Vespucci. He has much to tell about his voyages, Thomas More, Raphael Hythloday and a cardinal meet together in a garden and discuss many problems. Raphael has been to England too and expresses his surprise at the cruelty…
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