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 The heartfelt
goodbye to the people's princess sums up how everyone felt about
her tragic death. Astonished tourists fighting back their tears
watched Englishmen weep unashamedly on the streets of London.
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George Washington
(1732—1799) won a lasting place in American History as the
"Father of our Country". For nearly twenty years he guided his
country much as a father cares for a growing child. |
Dostoyevsky is
considered one of the greatest writers in world literature.
Best-known for his novels "Crime and Punishment" (1866) and "The
Brothers Karamazov" (1880), he attained profound philosophical
and psychological insights which anticipated important
developments in 20th century thought, including psychoanalysis
and existentialism. |
In the sixteenth
century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration,
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the
world. |
Ernest Hemingway
is one of the greatest 20th-century American writers. The legend
which developed around his impressive personality was that of a
man of action, a devil-may-care adventurer, a brave war
correspondent, an amateur boxer, a big-game hunter and deep-sea
fisherman, the victim of three car accidents and two plane
crashes, a man of four wives and many loves, but above all a
brilliant writer of stories and novels. |
In 1869 the great
Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev announced the discovery of
the Periodic Law of elements. So science received the key to the
secrets of matter. |
Diana Spencer was
born on the first of July 1961 in Sandringham in England. She
had two older sisters and a younger brother. In childhood she
liked games, swimming, running and dancing. She wanted to become
a dancer. Besides she loved children very much and at the age of
sixteen she worked in schools for very young children. |
William Henry
Gates, also known as «Bill», has established himself as the
richest man in the world. He is the
youngest self made billionaire, and perhaps the best businessman
in the world. Bill Gates is important because he did not only
change the computer technology in America, but also created the
biggest, strongest, richest and the most powerful company in the
world. |
Andrei
Dmitrievich Sakharov, an outstanding scientist and public
figure, was born in 1921. The biography
of
A. Sakharov as one of the "secret" authorities in thermonuclear
physics mainly falls on the times of the "thaw" In 1948 he began
serious work on hydrogen bomb and while working on the problem
he came to the conclusion that any atomic and nuclear should be
banned. |
Alfred Bernhard
Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish inventor and philanthropist, was a
man of many contrasts. He was a son of a bankrupt, but became a
millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature. He made a
large fortune but lived a simple life. He was cheerful in
company, and often sad in private. |
This German
physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in
history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,
space, matter, energy, and gravity but he also was a supporter
of Zionism and peaceful living. |
Among all
presidents in the history of the United States, Abraham Lincoln
is probably the one that Americans remember best. He brought
honesty and integrity to the White House. |
UNESCO is the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO). It was founded on 16 November 1945. Education, Social
and Natural Science, Culture and Communication are the means to
a far more ambitious goal: to build peace in the minds of men. |
The North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North
Atlantic Alliance, is an international organisation for defence
collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North
Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949.
Nowadays NATO headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium. |
The term «United
Nations» was coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War
II, to refer to the Allies. Its first formal use was in the
January 1, 1942 Declaration by the United Nations, which
committed the Allies to the principles of the Atlantic Charter
and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the Axis
powers. Thereafter, the Allies used the term «United Nations
Fighting Forces » to refer to their alliance. |
The
Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an
international organization for security. In its region
it is concerned with early warning, conflict
prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.
It has 55 participating states from Europe, the Mediterranean,
the Caucasus, Central Asia and North America. |
Interpol, more
correctly the International Criminal Police Organization, was
created in 1923 to assist international criminal police
co-operation. The organization's new name was adopted in 1956,
prior to which it was known as the International Criminal Police
Commission. |
In 1971,
motivated by their vision of a green and peaceful world, a small
team of activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada, in an old
fishing boat. These activists, the founders of Greenpeace,
believed a few individuals could make a difference. |
The European
Union or the EU is an intergovernmental and supranational union
of 25 European countries, known as member states. The European
Union was established under that name
in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union, the Maastricht Treaty.
However, many aspects of the Union existed before that date
through a series of predecessor relationships, dating back to
1951. |
The
Commonwealth
of Independent States (CIS) is a confederation, or alliance,
created by Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia. Up to 2005 it
consisted of 11 former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. |
Weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) generally include nuclear, biological,
chemical weapons. The term first arose in 1937 in reference to
the mass destruction of Guernica, Spain, by aerial bombardment
that was made by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil
War. |
Water pollution
occurs mostly, when people overload the water environment such
as streams, lakes, underground water, bays or seas with wastes
or substances harmful to living beings. |
Smoking is
the
best way to bad health. Today half the men and a quarter of the
women in the world smoke on the average. Some people
think
that there is not much sense in refraining from smoking, since
the inhabitants of many cities and even villages breathe air
contaminated with industrial and automobile wastes. They are
very wrong. |
Discovery of the
hole in the ozone layer showed that human activity has a major
impact on the Earth. The damage of ozone in the stratosphere
high above the planet's surface has been brought about as the
result of the widespread use of chemicals, which under normal
conditions are chemically inert and harmless. |
The first nuclear
weapons were created by the United States, with assistance from
the United Kingdom and Canada, during World War II as part of
the top-secret Manhattan Project. While the first nuclear
weapons were developed primarily out of fear that Nazi Germany
would first develop them, they eventually used against the
Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. |
The Chernobyl
station is situated at the settlement of Pripyat, Ukraine, 18 km
northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 km from the border
of Ukraine
and Belarus,
and about
110 km north
of Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine. |
September 11,
2001 is the most tragic hour in the history of the United
States, this terror kamikaze attack was called a second Pearl
Harbour. |
The world's
population is an important issue. For hundreds of thousands of
years, the human population grew at a low but steadily
increasing rate. Then, in less than last 200 years, the world
population went from several hundreds of millions to more than 6
billion people. |
Chemical
warfare
is a military operation using the toxic properties of chemical
substances to kill, injure or incapacitate the enemy. Chemical
warfare
is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear
weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are
not primarily due to any explosive force.
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Nuclear war, or
atomic war, is war in which nuclear weapons are used in a wide
attack aimed at an entire country, both military and civilian
targets. The United States is the only nation to have actually
used nuclear weapons in war, having in 1945 dropped two of them
on cities in Japan — one on Hiroshima and another on Nagasaki.
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At present
nuclear detonations are the most devastating of the weapons of
mass destruction. Depending upon the environment in which the
nuclear device is detonated, blast effects are manifested as
ground shock, water shock, cratering, and large amounts of dust
and radioactive fallout. |
Evolution is the
complexity of processes by which living organisms established on
the earth and have been expanded and modified through changes in
form and function. Human evolution is the biological and
cultural development of the species Homo sapiens or human
beings. Humans evolved from apes, because of their similarities. |
All food is made
up of nutrients which our bodies use. There are different kinds
of nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats» vitamins and
minerals. Different foods contain different nutrients. |
Global warming is
sometimes referred to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse
effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth's
surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere,
causing the atmosphere to become warmer. |
In the 17th
century rich women normally were taught at home by a tutor, they
were taught subjects like Latin, French, Needlework and they
were also taught how to look pretty and to play the piano and
other instruments. |
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