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Al Capone is Americas best-known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city. Capone was born on...
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He was born in Ulm, Germany, but he travelled all around the world and lived also in Munich, Milano, Berlin, Prague, Zurich, Bern and New Jersey. He is well-known all around the world because he proposed the theory of relativitity, a physical theory of gravity, space and time. He gave...
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Albrecht Durer was the most famous artist of Reformation Germany- widely known for his paintings, drawings, prints, and theoretical writings on art, all of which had a profound influence on 16th-century artists in his own country and in the Lowlands. Durer was born May 21, 1471, in...
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English essayist, critic, satirist, and one of the greatest poets of Enlightenment. Pope wrote his first verses at the age of 12. His breakthrough work, AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM (1711), appeared when he was twenty-three. It included the famous line a little learning is a dangerous thing....
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Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting rock. persons were...
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American Civil War, military conflict (1861-1865) between the United States of America (the Union) and 11 secessionist Southern states, organized as the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). In the South, the conflict is also known as the War Between the States. The Civil War...
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There are vast differences in culture between Americans and their British Commonwealth counterparts throughout the world. American English is spoken in the USA, Canada and many Pacific Rim countries where America has exerted an influence. Queens English is spoken throughout the British...
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New books by Ralph Ellison and Ernest Hemingway, two of the greatest figures of 20th-century American literature, were planned for release in June and July 1999, despite the fact that both writers have been dead for years. The two posthumous works are among the most highly anticipated...
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American English acquired international significance after World War II, when the United States assumed a more global role and political, economic and technological developments promoted American influence worldwide. American English currently asserts a dominant influence on world...
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Britain includes Great Britain (comprising England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland, and lies off the northwest coast of mainland Europe. It is 500 Km wide and nearly 1, 000 km long. Its closest continental neighbors France and Belgium. It lies between latitudes 50 North and 60...
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Schwarzenegger, Arnold Alois (1947-), Austrian-born bodybuilder, who became an American film star. Born in Graz, Schwarzenegger started out as a bodybuilder, winning the Mr Universe title three times and Mr Olympia seven times. Schwarzenegger showed considerable charm in a supporting...
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The American drama of the 20th century expresses strong feelings of hopelessness and disillusionment about the condition of man in the modern world. Miller s first distinguished work was Death of a Salesman. It relates the story of an unsuccessful travelling salesman whose unfortunate...
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Use too or very, whichever makes the meaning clearer. 1. This coffee is hot. 2. It is hot to drink. 3. The weather is hot. 4. It is hot to wear a coat. Circle the correct word in each sentence. 1. He doesn t drink (much, many) coffee. 2. She doesn t have (much, many) work to do. 3. Do...
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Prusso-German statesman, who was the architect and first chancellor (1871-1890) of the German Empire. Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815, at Schonhausen, north-west of Berlin, the son of a landowning nobleman (Junker) and a prosperous bourgeois mother: his multifaceted background...
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Deposit of spirit or blackened pages between thicker covers? Extra-ordinary substance of energy, or tedious words, ideas, images considerably lacking appeal? The restless, unreflective, mundane individual will have the stupendous liberty to esteem reading books as a waste of time. In...