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 Lugansk is one
of the regional centres of Ukraine. It is situated on
the bank of the rivers Lugan and Olkhovaya. The city is a large
industrial centre. It is called the cradle of southern metallurgy. |
On April 12,
1961, Yury Gagarin made history by being the first human to
orbit the earth. As a
precaution,
engineers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences had an onboard
computer, as well as mission control steer the craft, "Vostok
1". They did this because the feared that being in the
weightlessness of space, you might be disabled or not be able to
move very much. |
Vladimir the
Great, born about 956, died on July, 15, 1015, in Vyshhorod,
near Kiev. Grand Prince of Kiev from 980; son of Sviatoslav I
Ihorevych and Malusha and father of 11 princes by five wives,
including Sviatopolk I, Yaroslav the Wise, Mstislav
Vladimirovich, and Saints Boris and Hleb Vladimirovich. |
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. |
Almost everybody
knows "The Nutcracker Suite" with its "Dance of the Sugar Plum
Fairy" and "Waltz of the Flowers" "The Nutcracker Suite" was
written as a ballet, but many more people have heard the music
than have seen the ballet. Some of Tchaikovsky's other
compositions are well-known too. |
O'Henry is a
famous American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings
of the stories. He wrote about the life of ordinary people in
New York City. Typical for O'Henry's stories is a twist of plot
which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance. |
Nikolai Gogol was
born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine, and grew up on his parent's
country estate. His real surname was Ianovskii, but the writer's
grandfather had taken the name "Gogol" to claim a nobel Cossack
ancestry. Gogol's father was an educated and gifted man, who
wrote plays, poems, and sketches. |
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. |
Mikhail Lomonosov
was born in 1711 in Archangelsk province. His father was a
fisher and young Mikhail liked to help him. He always strove for
knowledge and liked reading books. |
Everyone agrees
that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the greatest of
all painters. His painting "The Last Supper" is probably the.
most famous painting in the world. But Leonardo would be famous
if he had never painted a stroke. For he was also a great
inventor. He invented the wheelbarrow, the military tank, and
roller bearings. |
John Winston Ono
Lennon was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and
guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. His creative
career also included the roles of solo musician, political
activist, artist, actor and author. |
John Fitzgerald
Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States. The
youngest ever elected to the presidency and the first of the
Roman Catholic faith, John F. Kennedy won the election of
November 1960, but later, he received the support of most
Americans.
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I have to admit
that I'm fond of reading. I like to read books about the history
of our country, about famous people and adventures. Literature
means much in my life. It helps to form the character and the
world outlook, to understand life better. Books teach us to be
honest, modest, and courageous. They help us to feel compassion
for weak people. |
Newton, one of
the greatest scientists of all times was born in 1642 in the
little village in Lincolnshire, England. His father was a farmer
and died before Newton was born. His mother was a clever woman
whom he always loved. |
Ilia Efimovich
Repin was born in 1844 in a small Ukrainian town of Tchuguev in
the family of a military settler. As a boy he was trained as an
icon painter. At the age of 19 he entered the St. Petersburg
Academy of Arts. His arrival to the capital coincided with an
important event in artistic life of the 60s, the so-called "Riot
of the Fourteen" when 14 young artists left the Academy having
refused to use mythological subjects for their diploma works. |
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. |
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