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 My favourite singer is Michael
Jackson. I like his songs very much
because they are full of energy and very melodic. I also like the way he
dances.
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I'm fond of reading. My favourite
writer is William Somerset
Maugham and i would like to tell about his biography. |
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on
August 15, 1769 in Corsica Island. He was
the greatest hero of France. His family had moved there from Italy in
the 16th century. His original name was Napoleone and his original
nationality was Corsican-Italian.
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O’Henry’s real
name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in
Greensboro, a little town in North Carolina in 1862. O’Henry is one of
the most widely published American authors. His works have been
translated into nearly every language. |
P. Kapitsa, an
outstanding Soviet physicist, was born in
Kronstadt in the family of a general in 1894. He graduated from the
Petrograd Polytechnic Institute in 1919. Kapitsa took a great interest
in physics while still at the institute.
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Victoria
(Alexandrina Victoria) was born on the 24 May 1819. Queen
Victoria was a strong queen. You can see her monument in front of the
Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 and
reigned until her death in 1901. |
One of my favourite artists is
Rembrant. He is the greatest Dutch
master,
a supreme genius in the history of art. To this day the art
of Rembrant remains one of the most profound witnesses of the progress
of
the soul in it's earthly pilgrimage towards higher destiny. |
Rudyard Kipling is one of the
outstanding British writers. He was born
in 1865 in the family of an Englishman in India. He got his education in
England but returned to India in 1882. There he spent 6 years working
in colonial English press. There he published his first literary works. |
He was a
philosopher. He was 70 years old, baldheaded, with an absurd
pug nose and an unkempt beard. He wore nothing but a cloak — no shoes,
no shirt; no underwear. He had the merriest of dispositions, no one had
ever seen him angry or unkind. He was very brave: he had served as a
foot soldier in four battles. |
He seems to be
the all-power wizard and a cinematic magician for us. His
films make us scream with laughter or shiver with horror.
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The English rock music band The
Beatles gave the 1960s its
characteristic
musical flavor and had a profound influence on the course of popular
music, equaled by
few performers. The guitarists John Winston Lennon, Oct. 9, 1940; James
Paul
McCartney, June 18, 1942; and George Harrison, Feb. 25, 1943; and the
drummer
Ringo Starr, Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940, were all born and raised in
Liverpool. |
Nina Karlovna Bari is a great
example of a woman who contributed to
mathematics. Nina Bari provided the advancement of the theory of
trigonometry. She dedicated her life to solving theory functions.
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Almost everybody dreams about being
famous sport star or a great
actor. But does everybody know how hard it is to have such kind of job?
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Theodore
Dreiser is a famous American writer and publicist. He was born
in 1871 in the state of Indiana. He was the 12th child in the family.
His mother came from the family of Czech immigrants and his father came
to America from Germany and was a factory worker. Since his early
childhood the boy knew what poverty was. |
Most people
know that Thomas Edison invented the first working light
bulb, but they don't know anything else about him. Edison had almost no
formal schooling, yet he invented over 1000 different things. Among
Edison's inventions are: the phonograph (record player), the movie
camera and the movie projector. |
Thomas Edison
was born in 1847. He first went to school at the age of
eight and a half. But after only three months his teacher called him
"stupid" and he came home crying. |
Thomas Gainsborough was a master of
English school of painting. He was a
portraitist and a landscape painter. He was born in Sudbury in 1727 and
was the son of a merchant. His father sent him to London to study arts. |
Thomas Jefferson, one of the
American Presidents of the past, was
born in Virginia in 1743. When he was 14 years old, his father
died and the young boy was left to choose for himself what to do.
Jefferson studied literature and languages. |
Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland
in 1853. Before becoming a painter
he was a teacher. He started painting when he was twenty-seven. In 1886
he left Holland and joined his young brother Theo, who lived in Paris. |
William Blake, English poet, painter and printer, was born on November
28, 1757. You may have read his poems - about the lamb, the tiger, or his sad
song about the poor chimney sweep. |
William Shakespeare is the greatest
of all playwrights and poets of all
times. Not much is known of his life. He was probably the son of a
businessman and was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He probably
attended the local grammar school and got a classical education. |
William
Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the
20th century. He was not only a novelist, but also a one of the most
successful dramatist and short-story writers.
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Wolfgang Mozart is a famous Austrian
composer. Mozart was born in 1756
in Saltsburg, Austria. His father, a violinist and a composer, noticed
wonderful talent of his son and taught him how to play musical
instruments and to compose.
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April 12, 1961 will never be
forgotten. On that day Yuri Alexeyevich
Gagarin was launched into space. He circled the globe in the spaceship
"Vostok" for 108 minutes. Gagarin was taking an enormous risk, because
at that time nobody knew how a human being would stand up to space
flight.
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The Renaissance or the revival of
learning was the period then european
culture was at it's high. It lasted from the 14'th century till 17'th
century, and was coursed by complex economic situation and social
conditions. The feudal system was been shuttled by the bourgeoisie,
thich was getting stronger and stronger. |
Not very long ago when people mentioned
ballet, they thought of Russian
ballet. In fact ballet came to Russia relatively late. It brought
traditions from many other countries, mainly from France and Italy. |
One of the
world-wide known museums is the Hermitage. The word
"Hermitage" means "a place of solitude". This name was given in the
XVIII century by Catherine II to her private museum housed in a small
building adjacent to the Winter Palace and accessible only to the chosen
few.
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New Yorkers used to see the graffiti on the walls of poor
neighbourhoods
and subway trains as something menacing and an example of urban decay.
The scrawled names and slogans were seen as unsightly and aggressive,
the work of vandals seeking to express their identities or even make a
political point. |
It would be a platitude to say that A. S. Pushkin is the
greatest
Russian poet. But I hope no-one is challenging the view that he occupies
an outstanding place in Russian literature and culture.
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Painting is direct application of pigment
to a surface to produce by
tones of color or of light and dark some representation or decorative
arrangement of natural or imagined forms.
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It is
well-known that Oscars are awarded by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. It is a professional honorary organization
composed of over 6,000 motion picture artists and craftsmen and women.
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People cannot live without music. They
listen to music, dance to music
or learn to play musical instruments. There is music everywhere: at
home, in a concert hall, in the park, at the seaside, in the forest and
even in the street. |
Can you think of a day without music? We
can hear music everywhere: in the streets and at home, over the radio
and on TV, in the shops and in the parks. People all over the world are
fond of music. They listen to music, they dance to music, they learn to
play musical instruments.
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London is very rich in museums and art galleries. If you are fond of painting you'll go to the Tate Gallery. A
rich
sugar manufacturer Henry Tate founded it in 1897. |
Movies are popular because people are
great watchers. They like to watch
other peoples' lives. They like to live vicariously. By going to
movies, we can escape our own lives, share other people's emotions, and
imagine ourselves as someone else.
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