The Moon
The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth :
orbit : 384,400 km from Earth
diameter : 3476 km
mass : 7.35e22 kg
Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies.
The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is t ... Continuare
Mark Antonys speech - A masterpiece of oratory
Mark Antony’s speech: A masterpiece of oratory
The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists.
“Julius Caesar” (1599) is one of his major tragedies. It is the tragic story of political rivalries in ancient Rome.
Fearing Julius Caesar will ... Continuare
Mysterious places - Bermuda Triangle, Gateway to Hell
Mysterious places
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle, region of the western Atlantic Ocean that has become associated in the popular imagination with mysterious maritime disasters. Also known as the Devil's Triangle, the triangle-shaped area covers about 1,140,000 sq km (about 440,000 sq mi) between the island of Bermuda, the coast o ... Continuare
Netherlands
Netherlands, also known unofficially as Holland, constitutional monarchy of northwestern Europe, bordered on the north and west by the North Sea, on the east by Germany, and on the south by Belgium. With Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands forms the Low, or Benelux, Countries. The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, islands in the Caribbean, are ... Continuare
North America
North America, 3rd largest of the seven continents, including Canada (the 2nd largest country in area in the world), the United States (4th largest), and Mexico (13th largest). The continent also includes Greenland, the largest island, as well as the small French overseas department of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and the British dependency of Ber ... Continuare
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean, largest and deepest of the world's four oceans, covering more than a third of the earth's surface and containing more than half of its free water. It is sometimes divided into two nominal sections: the part north of the equator is called the North Pacific; the part south of the equator, the South Pacific. The name Pacific, which me ... Continuare
PLOIESTI THE CITY OF BLACK GOLD - The municipality, A New Borough at the Feet of The Mountains, The Statue of Liberty, Honour their Memory, The National Oil Museum
PLOIESTI – THE CITY OF “BLACK GOLD”
Situated in the south – eastern Romania, having a population of over 250,000 inhabitants, Ploiesti is one of Romania’s most important cities, on the second place after Bucharest as for the industrial production.
At a 60 km distance from Bucharest, crosse ... Continuare
Queen Elizabeth - BACKGROUND AND EARLY LIFE, ELIZABETHAN ECONOMY, RELIGION, GOVERNMENT, FOREIGN POLICY, ASSESSMENT
Queen Elizabeth I
(1533-1603)
I Introduction
Elizabeth I, queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth was the longest-reigning English monarch in nearly two centuries and the first woman to successfully occupy the English throne. Called Glorianna ... Continuare
Referat engleza - Graffiti
Graffiti
GROUND WORK 1966-71
Graffiti was used primarily by political activists to make statements and street gangs to mark territory. It wasn't till the late 1960s that writing's current identity started to form.
The history of the undergr ... Continuare
Referat engleza - The history of 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
