A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!

In all the countries of the world and in Britain and the United States as well, it is a tradition to make the last night of the year one of fun and gaiety. u4p6ph Whether the New Year’s Eve party is in a restaurant, a club or in a modest home it will be gay, noisy and glittering. The music will be loud and there will be bright colours, festive food and high spirits. Every
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A SYMBOL OF A NATION - OSAMA BIN LADEN

h6l11lp …What do we really know about this person, about his thoughts, his behaviour…very little. This man became a symbol, a point of reference for the Islamic world, not only for the extremists one… For the Hamas Palestinian group or Pakistan Harakat Unsar or many others, he is the right person to unify the Islamic world in a holy war against the USA and th
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Addicted to death

e6k16kg “Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of happiness” (Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness") I consider that the abuse in consuming alcohol is one of the biggest problems of the society we live in. Though it is a problem of our every day life and it spreads like a plague, environin
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Adolescence-a danger?

Many times, when we speak about adolescence, we call it “the dangerous age”. But, in the same time it is referred to as “the golden age”. These two syntagms are only apparently in contradiction with one another. v9f3fu Is adolescence a period of crisis or is it only a more difficult stage of our lives, which can be passed trough very easily if we are well-prepared.
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Was Arthur a king or just a battle commander?

Explorations in Arthurian History The figure of Arthur begins as a war hero, the praises of whom are sung in war poems by the Celts and the Welsh. Y Gododdin celebrates one particularly brave warrior, then says he "was no Arthur." The Triads are full of wonderful, courageous things Arthur did. e8q3qj The most important early source for Arthur's deeds is Historia Britto
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Ben Jonson

THE reputation of Jonson has been of the most deadly kind that can be compelled upon the memory of a great poet. To be universally accepted; to be damned by the praise that quenches all desire to read the book; to be afflicted by the imputation of the virtues which excite the least pleasure; and to be read only by historians and antiquaries—this is the most perfect conspi
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Bismarck, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-1898)

q4e11ec Bismarck, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-1898), Prusso-German statesman, who was the architect and first chancellor (1871-1890) of the German Empire. Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815, at Schönhausen, north-west of Berlin, the son of a landowning nobleman (Junker) and a prosperous bourgeois mother: his multifaceted background accounts for the blend of intellectual su
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Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 at Lamport, Portsmouth, being the second of the eight children of John Dickens, a clerk in the Naval Pay Office. t6m17mn John Dickens’ work took him from place to place, so that Charles spent his childhood in Portsmouth, London and Chatham. In 1823 the family moved to London, faced with financial disaster. To help his family, Char
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BOXING

I INTRODUCTION Boxing, fistfighting sport between two matched combatants wearing padded gloves. A boxer’s primary aim is to land as many blows as possible to the head and torso of the opponent, using strength and speed to dominate the contest. One of the oldest sports still practiced, boxing dates back thousands of years. Today the sport is popular in many parts
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Caerphilly Castle

In the town centre, Caerphilly, South Wales n5t20to Location map link for Caerphilly Castle Caerphilly Castle is one of the great medieval castles of western Europe. Several factors give it this pre-eminence - its immense size (1.2h), making it the largest in Britain after Windsor, its large-scale use of water for defence and the fact that it is the first truly concentric
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