Beijing is a metropolis in northern China and the capital of the People's Republic of China.Beijing is second largest city,after Shanghai.It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and motorways passing through the city. It is also the focal point of many...
Legends like that of Count Dracula or the real history of Romania are testimonies of such an exciting past. Such a heritage is to be found in the high-roofed wooden churches of Transylvania. Admire the 16th century artistic treasures of the Bucovina monasteries, or listen spellbound to...
Existenta societatii in secolul XXI este determinata in permanenta de posibila prezenta a riscului. Pornind de la celebra afirmatie a lui Socrate, "Stiu ca nu stiu nimic", Ulrich Beck, profesor al London School of Economics si una dintre cele mai importante voci privind sociologia...
Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951, a refugee is more narrowly defined (in Article 1A) as a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or...
Introduction The Netherlands is often called Holland, because of the role the two western provinces North and South Holland played in its history. This region encompasses Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and other well-known Dutch cities such as Delft, Leiden and Haarlem. However,...
FIRST STEP: Preparing the subject The teacher is preparing the subject using the pictures from the page 154,and observing the connections between them, making references to the title of the lesson. The students are asking what they know about the special powers of any animal....
Gorgonzola is a veined Italian blue cheese, made from unskimmed cow's and/or goat's milk. It can be buttery or firm, crumbly and quite salty, with a 'bite' from its blue veining. It has been made since the early Middle Ages, but became marbled with greenish-blue mold only in the...
Roman London Though there were prehistoric settlements throughout the vast area that we now call London, no evidence has yet been found for any such community at the northern end of London Bridge where the present city grew up. The origins of London lie in Roman times. When the Romans...
The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta is situated in Romania (in Tulcea ), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine...
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso) was born on the 25th October, 1881 in Malaga in Spain. He was the first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez....
No single figure since the second world war has made so profound an impact on world events as Osama bin Laden. Had the world responded to his 9/11 attack on America with moderation he would probably have disappeared, expelled from Afghanistan or killed by his Tajik enemies. Even the...
Dinu Patriciu is the chairman of the board and CEO of The Rompetrol Group, NV. He is also a prominent member of the National Liberal Party of Romania. He was born in 1950, is married and has two daughters: Ana and Maria. According to Forbes, as of 2008, Dinu Patriciu is the richest...
I would prefer to have a job that I enjoy. I can do what I love endlessly, tirelessly and it is simply fun for me, as long as I have enough to have a normal life. Each minute I spend doing something I dislike is an eternity to me, and every million dollars I would get for that minute...
Germany has several representative personalities, as: Johann Sebastian Bach Albert Einstein Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Adolf Hitler Flexibility and spontaneity are not common traits in German business culture Football, recent holidays, work and beer are good conversation topics...
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400-2480 MHz) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security....