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I watched the snow storm begin . The trees yield in their fight against the wind . The silence that had reigned upon that landscape had disappeared . Big black birds screamed while flying through the hattered clouds ...

The Devil’s Disciple George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in a family belonging to the Irish Protestant gentry . Apart from the musical education he received from his mother, he was practically self-educated ...

Discrimination The Lakota, also called Sioux, are a Native American people whose members live mainly in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States . 1 Young Woman from Central Africa Most peoples of sub-Saharan Africa have dark ...

English was the language of the rulers; literature in Irish survived largely in oral tradition . Anglo-Irish literary movements of the 19th century sought to revive Gaelic culture and the Irish language . These movements linked literature with the cau ...

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 The functional elements of a dry cell battery are the negative terminal (a zinc can which encloses the battery materials), the positive terminal (the carbon rod and carbon and manganese dioxide mixture that surrounds the rod), a ...

In the west of the city is Phoenix Park, which contains the Zoological Gardens and the president’s residence . Dublin is Ireland’s principal commercial city and its most important seaport . Industries include aviation engineering, electronics and sof ...

In May 1994 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued the Romanian government a $700 million loan, which helped to lower the country’s inflation rate by 1995 . Although Romania’s private sector grew considerably, especially in the area of services ...

Every local temple in Egypt possessed its own ennead and triad . The greatest ennead, however, was that of Ra and his children and grandchildren . This group was worshiped at Heliopolis, the center of sun worship ...

She was the last of the Tudor monarchs, never marrying or producing an heir, and was succeeded by her cousin, James VI of Scotland . II BACKGROUND AND EARLY LIFE   Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace in London on September 7, 1533 ...

All grammar schools taught Latin and sometimes Greek . Although education was more widely available by Elizabeth’s reign , it was still limited to boys and men ; nonetheless , only two out of every ten men were to sig ...

One of the most fascinating things in Dickinson’s poetry is her overwhelming attention to detail, especially her insights to death . “ I’ve seen a dying eye “ is a poem about the nature of death, illustrating the sense of uncertainty and unco ...

The poet made a journey on the root Cernauti-Blaj-Sibiu-Giurgiu-Bucuresti since 1866 until 1869 ,wich helped him to learn more about the romanian people . In this period he worked at the National Theatre where he met I ...

For this reason some critics claim that American drama was not born until the end of World War I (1914-1918) . By the end of the 19th century American drama was moving steadily toward realism, illuminating the rough or seamy side of life and creating ...

In addition to these government-funded public schools, the United States has many schools that are privately financed and maintained . More than 10 percent of all elementary and secondary students in the United States attend private schools ...

Almost all this poetry is composed without rhyme, in a characteristic line, or verse, of four stressed syllables alternating with an indeterminate number of unstressed ones . This line strikes strangely on ears habituated to the usual modern pattern, ...

These ideals form the basis of the democratic system in the United States, which seeks to create a union of diverse peoples, places, and interests . To implement its essential democratic ideals, the United States has built its government on four ele ...

Through direct, informal education, parents, elders, and priests taught children the skills and roles they would need as adults . These lessons eventually formed the moral codes that governed behavior . Since they lived before the invention of writin ...

They develop within low-pressure areas of high winds; the speed of the funnel winds themselves is often placed at more than 480 km/h (more than 300 mph), although speeds of more than 800 km/h (500 mph) have been estimated for extremely strong storms ...

Tower Bridge Experience welcomes you inside the Gothic towers to discover the fascinating history of the bridge . You can visit the original engine rooms . And from the high-level walkways you can look out across the modern city skyline and downriver ...

His canvas is language and history, in two facets: the history of language, and the effect of language on history . Early chapters cover prehistory; the grouping of languages into families; the invention of writing; the growth and influence of Greek ...