Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish Inventor
1847 -1922
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone. Many inventors had been working on the idea of sending human speech by wire, but Bell was the first to succeed.
The invention of the telephone grew out of impr ... Continuare
Snow - transparent ice crystals formed around dust or other small particulates in the atmosphere
Snow
Snow, transparent ice crystals formed around dust or other small particulates in the atmosphere when water vapor condenses at temperatures below the freezing point. Partly melted crystals usually cling together to form snowflakes, which may in rare cases grow in size up to 7 to 10 cm (3 to 4 in) in diameter.
Structura ... Continuare
Stonehenge
Stonehenge
Already in the 18th century the British antiquarian William Stukeley had noticed that the horseshoe of great trilithons and the horseshoe of 19 bluestones at Stonehenge opened up in the direction of the midsummer sunrise. It was quickly surmised that the monument must have ... Continuare
THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER - ERNEST HEMINGWAY
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER
Like Joyce and Proust, Hemingway is a writer who uses the material of his own life to construct fiction. For example, “A Farewell to Arms” (1929) was inspired by his war experience in Italy, and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940) reflects part ... Continuare
THOMAS HARDY - TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES - Summary of the novel, The conflict of the novel, The scenery Stonehenge, The chromatic element
THOMAS HARDY
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&rdq ... Continuare
TOWARDS A PERFECT JUSTICE AGENCY
TOWARDS A PERFECT
JUSTICE AGENCY
they lived for
truth
and suffered
for their trust
in the power
... Continuare
United States of America
The history of United States of America
The territory now part of the United States has been inhabited for from 15,000 to 40,000 years, as attested by local evidence. The aboriginal peoples, ancestral to today's American Indians, left no firm monuments on the scale of contemporaneous cultures elsewhere, but both the pueblos of the ... Continuare
THE BERBER - Amazigh in Algeria, Amazigh in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla
THE BERBER
The Berber or Amazigh people live in northern Africa throughout the Mediterranian coast, the Sahara and Sahel. Before the arrival of Arabs, this was a Berber world. The Amazigh territory, this broad homeland, is also referred as Tamazgha. Nowadays, there are important communities in Mali, Niger and Lybia, and smaller groups in Tunis, ... Continuare
The British class system
The British class system
Who belongs to
Name of the class
The characteristic
Aristocrats (= nobility + landed gentry[= Baronets + knights]), landowners
The upper class
•Represented in the House of Lords
•enjoy prestige in social and cultural life
•access to exclusive clubs and special regiments
•country ho ... Continuare
THE CHOCOLATE WAR
"THE CHOCOLATE WAR"Summary:
Jerry Renault is a so called Freshman at Trinity, an american private school. He loves playing football and so he wants to join the team. He has no special friends or enemies, there is only one, whom we can call some kind of buddy, that's Roland Goobert, called the Goober. Jerry has lost his mother some year ... Continuare
