History of London

Legendary foundations and prehistoric London Of Paul Lombardo and Kevin Fodor

The Mediæval mythology of Geoffrey of Monmouth tells that London was founded by Brutus the Trojan in the Bronze Age, and was known as Troia Nova, or New Troy, which was corrupted to Trinovantum. (The Trinovantes were the tribe who inhabited the area prior to the Romans). King Lud r

History of Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day has always been the day dedicated to lovers. There are many stories as to how Valentine’s day started. Here are a few of them.

Lupercalia

Valentine’s Day has its origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, observed on Feb. 15. Lupercalia celebrated the coming of Spring in the Roman calendar (February was obs

How many people have pets?

A survey conducted in this school shows that – contrary to internet survey results – most of our students don’t have pets.

We asked 100 students about their pets and here are our findings:

•3 girls just can’t stand animals.

•The most popular pets are dogs and cats.

•Parrots are more popular with

Holiday

Holiday is a wonderful time for meeting other cultures , improving relations with family , friends and having fun .

First of all , on holiday you can going abroad . E.g the Pyramids , Eifel tower and a lot of other . Do sightseeing . Besides you can meet new friends , to deal with people from another cultures . Moreover you improve your language skills .

Next , when

There are many national holidays in the world, when people all over the country has free time and have special celebrations. For example in Russia the major holidays

is: New Year’s Day, Victory Day. The first holiday of the year is New Year’s Day.

People can meet new year at midnight on the 31st of December. They greet the

new year with champagne and listen to t

In our days, people can travel in many ways. The mere oldest way to travel is on foot. Of course, you can’t travel far this way. You can travel further by a bike, but you can’t travel too far with it, too. People often choose to travel by car, but it’s not always comfortable. Travelling with a travel agency by bus, train, ship or plane is the most comfortable way. In this cent

When Lithuanians think of education, they almost automatically think of public education. Through the last years it is slowly changing. Some parents today are deciding to home school their children but most people think that a public education is better, anyway statistics and facts tend to show that home schooling is beneficial in more ways. Violence is one of the main factors effecting are sch

Horoscopes.

Taurus: This will be a hard week. You will become angry. You will get a good news!

Gemini:

This will be a funny week. You’ll get a special invitation. You’ll be promoted.

Cancer:

This will be a normal week. You will work much but you will get good results. You will have problems with your eyes

Leo:

This will be an awful week! Y

House-Warming Party

Recently we moved into big and gorgeous house. So I and my wife, we decided to mark this occasion and we organized a house-warming party.

We invited 35 people to have a good time. My wife started preparations a week before the party took part, as she was cooking food at her mother, because our owen wasn’t still brought to our new house, I was decorating dra

How can we make our City a better place to live in?

The living conditions in our city are getting worse and worse. We should do something before it is too late. Air pollution is a very important problem in our town. The biggest air polluters are cars. They emit very toxic fumes. To prevent pollution, governments should improve public transport, build bicycles tracks, offer to people to bu

Nowadays, developments in transport, energetics and industry have a significant impact on our city’s environment. Though it is hard to imagine our life without forests, fresh air and clean water, soon all of this can become things of the past. Toxic wastes pollute our river, the air is full of poisonous chemicals, trees are being cut down for paper. We must try to protect our town, otherw

How has the computer changed out lives (business, communication, entertainment, schools, ..) ? What, if any, disadvantages can a computer bring ? What opportunities are open for us thanks to the computer ?

Computer – it`s a machine for carrying out calculations and performing specified transformations on information, such as storing, sorting, correlating, retrieving and processing

There are a lot of computer uses. People use computers in many ways. These devices are multi-purpose tools and many of us can’t imagine live without them. I’m the one of them. Mostly I use my computer in my free time for entertainment and communication and sometimes in my study.

I’ve chosen to study informatics and that’s why computer is necessary for me. Although

Relations in family depends family social, financial status, certain upbringing traditions, on how old are the children and how strict are the parents. Usually family relation problems begin, when children reaches the age of adolescence. There are two types of parenting styles, but actually there is no boundary how strict or permissive parents should be.

Children, who are in authority of

The telephone operates on simple principles. A telephone mouthpiece contains a thin metallic coating separated from an electrode by a thin barrier (today we use plastic) which connects to a wire carrying an electric current. When a person speaks into the mouthpiece, the acoustic vibrations from her speech push the metallic coating slightly closer to the electrode, resulting in variations in vol