Allergies can make people extremely ill with asthma, eczema or bowel troubles. In rare cases, allergies can be life – threatening. But they are also a form of illness, which the patient can often avoid, once the allergy has been identified. Allergies take so many unusual forms, however, that the causes often go unrecognized by those who suffer.

Allergies occur because in some peopl

Alytus County

The City with an area of 3,350 hectares has 77,000 inhabitans, 96% of whom are Lithuanian, 2% Russian, 0.7%Polish, and 0.3%Byelorussian. The city overlaps both banks of the Nemunas River. It is also between two busy thoroughfares, the Kaunas-Grodno, and the Kaišiadorys- Grodno Highways.

Unquestionably, the economic and cultural center of Dzūkija, Alytus

The waves of the Baltic Sea used to throw amber ashore since olden times. Its articles can be found in archaeological treasures, and amber beads have become part of a national costume. The outlook on amber as a national symbol and the image of a Lithuanian girl wearing amber beads was formed in the period between the late 19th century and the early 20th century by the writers and poets of the n

„An expensive golden collar, nicely inlaid with pieces of amber, shining like the sun, was presented to Eurimach by the town-crier.“

Homer’s Odyssey

Nobody can tell when exactly people started using amber in the manufacture of adornments and amulets and started conferring magic powers. It is known that it was processed using flint knifes, cutters, scraping tools,

Ambitions

Tom Gregory is eleven. His ambition is to swim the English Channel before he is twelve. The Channel is almost 35 kilometres at its narrowest point. Fyona is just 24. In recent years she has been walking round the world. She left home at 16 and ended up walking the lenght of Britain. She was only 19 when she walked across America and at 22 she walked across Australia. Next month

Cultural differences among parts of the United States—north and south, east and west, island and mainland—are also disappearing. In the second half of the 20th century, Americans were more likely than ever before to travel or move to other parts of the country. The national media and large corporations promote the same fashions in dress, entertainment, and sometimes in behavior thro

Between 1880 and 1990, several problems have caused America to become the nation that it is today. One of our biggest problems was the battle between labor and capital, between 1880 and 1920 in particular. This long, drawn-out struggle led to several standoffs and skirmishes between workers and corporations. In the other half of this time period, between 1920 and 1990, I believe the defining co

After seeing such a topic, the first view that comes into my mind is fat, abdominous man with a hamburger or hot dog and a bottle of coca cola in his hand. But this view is not contrived. It is a widespread known fact that most Americans eat a diet that’s too high in fat, cholesterol, and calories, and too low in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and complex carbohydrates. According to the stat

In the early part of the seventeenth century English settlers began to bring their language to America, and another series of changes began to take place. The settlers borrowed words from Indian languages for such strange trees as the hickory and persimmon, such unfamiliar animals as raccoons and woodchucks. Later they borrowed other words from settlers from other countries – for instanc

Admited to the Union as the 33rd state on Feb. 14, 1859, Oregon comprises an area of startling physical diversity, from the moist rain forests, mountains, and fertile valleys of its western third to the naturally arid and climatically harsh eastern deserts. Mountains, plateus, plains, and valleys of different geologic ages and materials are arrayed in countless combinations, including such nat

The first American immigrants, beginning more than 20,000 years ago, were intercontinental wanderers: hunters and their families following animal herds from Asia to America, across a land bridge where the Bering Strait is today. When Spain’s Christopher Columbus „discovered“ the New World in 1492, about 1.5 million Native Americans lived in what is now the continental United S

“The American people”

American Friendliness

Christina Ruffini is a 23-year-old woman from Bologna, Italy , who spent a year in San Diego as a governess and taking flying lessons toward her pilot’s license. She remember the time she hitchhiked up the California coast and what this experience taught her about Americans:

Americans can be very generous. Once a gi

The story of Ernest Shackletons unsuccessful expedition to Antarctica in 1914 is one of the greatest in the history of exploration. On the expedition, Shackleton planned to cross Antarctica. But the ship, the Endurance became trapped in the ice when the sea froze just 100miles from the coast of Antarctica. He understood that the only thing they could do was to wait in hope that when the ice mel

‘‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth‘‘ – the biblical notion that for every wrong done there should be a compensating measure of justice, so-called mirror punishment. It is said that revenge is sweet, but many people argue whether it is worthy and fair. Why not try being strong and forgive? Revenge causes only bad consequences. As Gandhi said – ’&rs

About languages (apie kalbas)

My native language is Lithuania. So he must know its

fourth form I began to learn the English language. From

history, grammar, literature spelling. When I was on the

the very first days I understood that it is very difficult to

learn. English, as it has different pronunciation and

spelling. If you want to learn new words, gramma