London is the capital of the United Kingdom. It stands on the Thames River.Nearly 7 million people live here. That makes it one of the largest cities in Europe and it is one of the world’s most enjoyable cities.
Visited by tourists in the millions, the city offers them an astonishing variety of scenes. In this historic city one can meet the modern and the old; the great and the small live side by side; in every part of London’s busy and complex life one feels respect and affection for her traditions. Читать далее London→
Leonardo da Vinci was an amazing man of almost unlimited interests and talents. He was a scientist, an inventor and a musician. Leonardo was also one of the world’s most famous painters.
Leonardo was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci in Italy. His name means “Leonardo of Vinci”. As a boy, he studied reading, writing, mathematics, and Latin.
Leonardo lived during a period known as the Renaissance. This was a time of renewed interest in art, science, and learning. Leonardo’s father saw his son’s artistic talent and sent him to the nearby city of Florence to study art. Читать далее Leonardo da Vinci→
(1799-1852)The art of “the genius Karl”, as Bryullov was called by his contemporaries, was marked by virtuosity in brushwork, unusual mastery in drawing and a brilliant knowledge of the laws of composition.
Karl Bryullov was essentially an adherent of the Russian Romantic Movement. Like the French romantic painter Delacroix he often chose as his theme a dramatic historical event. Читать далее Karl Pavlovich Bryullov→
In the history of English literature Jerome K. Jerome occupies a modest place. He cannot be compared with such literary figures as Dickens, Thackeray or Bernard Shaw, but he is well known as a writer-humorist not only in his country but in other countries too.
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in England, on May 2, 1859 in the family of a ruined businessman. Читать далее Jerome K. Jerome→
Jack London’s (1876-1916) life was the life of hard work.
He began working at the age of eight. In the years that followed, he did a man’s work, though he was only a boy.
By the time he was twenty-two, he had lived more than most people do in fifty years. He had worked on ships and in factories; he had travelled across the ocean as a sailor, he had tramped from San Francisco to New York with an army of unemployed and back through Canada to Vancouver.
I.N. Kramskoi (1837-1887), the famous painter, was also a publicist, art critic and theorist, the ideologist of the progressive artists of the latter half of the 19th century in Russia.He was also one of the organizers of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions, to which the best of the realistic artists belonged.
Kramskoi was born in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh Gubernia. As he was the son of a scribe, he had to start working early, and found employment as a retouched in a photographer’s studio. In 1857 he was accepted in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Читать далее Kramskoi Ivan Nikolayevich→
If I had time to do all the things I want to, I would begin with reading. I would read a lot.
First of all, I would read detective stories. After that I would read books about travelling. Perhaps it would be better to travel and to see everything with my own eyes instead of reading about it in books. Читать далее If I Had Time→
In our country the most popular summer sports and games are football, volley-ball, tennis, swimming, badminton, cycling; the most popular winter sports and games are hockey, skating, skiing, figure-skating.
There are a lot of problems facing people on the planet Earth nowadays. The problems that demand world action are: the growth of world population, economic crises, ethnic conflicts.
But the most urgent problem concerning the people of the whole world is an ecological one.
What is ecology? Ecology is the science that studies the conditions of the habitat of man, animals and plants for the benefit of present and future generations. Читать далее Human Beings and Their Environment→
The first suggestion that the machine for mathematical computation could be built was made more than a hundred years ago by the mathematician Charles Babbage. We now realize that he understood clearly all the fundamental principles of modern computers.
Babbage was born in Devonshire, England, in 1792. He did not receive a good education, but he taught himself mathematics so well that when he went to Cambridge, he found that he knew more algebra than his tutor. Читать далее How the First Computer Was Developed→
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Nearly 7 million people live here. That makes it one of the largest cities in Europe and it is one of the world’s most enjoyable cities.
