Halloween - ANICENT ORIGINS, MODERN TRADITIONS, EVOLUTION OF HOLIDAY
Halloween
ANICENT ORIGINS
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the b ... Continuare
HARVARD UNIVERSITY - Harvards Nine Faculties, Governance of the University, Students at Harvard University, Harvards Endowment Funds
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Harvard's Nine Faculties The expression "every tub on its own bottom" is often used to describe the decentralized ... Continuare
Help save the planet - REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Help save the planet!
Did you know that...
If you throw away 2 aluminum cans, you waste more energy than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) of the world's poorest people use a day. Making a new can from scratch uses the energy equal to half a can of gasoline.
About one third of what an average American throws out ... Continuare
Heroes - Everyday heroes
Everyday heroes
,, Everyone had seen the hit television series “Baywach” which has already entered its sixth saeson.There are many similarities between the TV series and the real lifeguarding.Yet,the main differience consists in preventing accidents and not in making several rescues per day.Moreover ,the everyday activity is less gla ... Continuare
Horatio Nelson - Years of war, Nelsons birth and early career
Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson had a passionate belief in his ability to become a hero. His famous naval career began in 1771 when he was only twelve years old, and ended with his death at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805. His victories and great courage caught the public imagination, and he was indeed considered a hero, both in ... Continuare
London - capital of the United Kingdom - Transport, Museums and Art Galleries, Performing Arts, Parks
REFERAT LA ENGLEZA
LONDON
London (England), city, capital of the United Kingdom. It is situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River Thames estuary. Settled by the Romans as an important shipping point for crops and minerals, it gradually developed into the wealthy capital of a thriving industrial and ... Continuare
McDonalds Corporation
McDonald's Corporation
McDonald's Corporation, fast-food restaurant company based in Oak Brook, Illinois. Since the 1950s, McDonald’s family-oriented restaurants have revolutionized the fast-food business and the company has become one of the best known in the world. Thousands of McDonald’s restaurants in countries around the w ... Continuare
Northern Ireland - Executive and Legislature
Northern Ireland
I. GOVERNMENT
Northern Ireland, an integral part of the United Kingdom, elects members (currently 18) to the lower house of the British parliament, the House of Commons. In recent years some of those elected—usually from Sinn Fein—have chos ... Continuare
Nuclear Energy - Fission and Fusion
The Energy Story
Nuclear Energy - Fission and Fusion
Another major form of energy is nuclear energy, the energy that is trapped inside each atom. One of the laws of the universe is that matter and energy can't be created nor destroyed. But they can be changed in form.
Matter can be changed into energy. The famous scien ... Continuare
Proiect engleza - Business Manners
Business Manners
At the University of South Florida, students recently attended a business etiquette seminar and a related rehearsal dinner. Kimberly Goddard, a graduate of the Protocol School of Washington, provided a number of excellent suggestions for updating your manners for the twenty-first century and "outclassing the competiti ... Continuare
