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independent country. Something different from the UK. NI is also known as Ulster composed from 6 counties they are part of the UK GB = Scotland, England and Wales To be English is different to be Scottish. Shetlands and Scillies Jersey and Guernsey depends on Britain but they are independent Islands - POPULATION of the UK : Roughly as in France 60 million people (63). There is a census in Britain. Every 10 years there is 2001 the last one , during the curse of this year there will be a census.

History The name Poland comes from the tribe Polanie who settled near Gniezno. In the 9th and 10th century Polanie managed to unite most other Slavic tribes living in the area. They established the state reigned by the Piast dynasty. The first prince of the Piast dynasty mentioned by historical sources was Mieszko I. He was baptized in the year 966, starting Christianization of Poland. The son of Mieszko, Boleslaw Chrobry, was the first king of Poland. The first capital of Poland was Gniezno. In

Objectives: discovers the americans musics What types of music were created in American ? And by who ?     Intro: The colonial period is between 1619 and 1776. About 1 million slaves were deported against their will in America. Slavery will have profound and irreversible consequences on the history of music. Throughout history, music and religious songs mainly allowed black Americans to preserve their unity and culture, to ensure against slavery and racial segregation, their autonomy of assert their

SPORTS TO THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN FORMS OF SPORTS 8 1. Physical recreation and sport before the Victorians 10 1.1 Traditional and festive village sports 10 1.2 The upper classes and the early development of sport 12 1.3 The decline of traditional sports 14 2. Evolutions during the 19th century 17 2.1 Public school and university education 17 2.2 The first clubs and associations 19 2.3 The beginnings of sport representation in mass media 22 3. The new conception

part of the Irish diaspora, even if a lot of them don't know they have Irish ancestors, a number which is no less than ten times the actual population of Ireland. Such a large number of people must have come from a long period of migrations. And so, the first Irish migrations date back at least to the early seventeenth century. On a first part, we will talk about the migrations from the early seventeenth century until 1717, and then we will move on to the next period which is from 1717 to the end

Alfred the Great of Wessex played a very significant role in the linguistic evolution of the English language. He organized a defence of Wessex : ⇨ Strategy of war (diplomacy) ⇨ Treaty of Wedmore (agreement with the Danes) Danelaw: Division of England ⇨ Recognised the Danish settlement in certain parts of England ⇨ In the Danelaw regions, the Danes coexisted with the Anglo-Saxons and there were very little problems & confrontations. ( The main effect of Alfred the Great was

text : « On the Threshold of a New World » To begin with, we are _____ here with a narrative whose focaliser is undefined: ____ it’s an autobiography and in that case, Mark Helprin is narrating his own story, __ it’s a piece of fiction in which the narrator’s name remains unknown to us. All we know about him is that he ___ speak several languages; the fact that he ___ speak Hebrew and Yiddish may suggest he is __ Jew = he is __ Jewish = he is of Hebraic extraction. His country of origin

LONDON Tower of London The Tower of London is the symbol of the British monarchy which dominated the world in the eighteenth century. The Tower of London is also called « the fortress » or « the palace of His Majesty ». It was built towards the year thousand, at the time when London was one of the most prosperous city of the Roman Empire. The Tower of London is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central of London. It is one of the country's most popular tourist attractions

A streetcar named desire Discuss the view that a Streetcar Named Desire is a play concerned with the conflict between the values of the old world, and the new, and that this conflict is expressed through the battle between Stanley and Blanche The play A streetcar named Desire was written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. It’s the story of a woman named Blanche who goes to New Orleans to live with her sister Stella and her brother in law Stanley. Unfortunately things get complicated and a conflict

Ireland was in the middle of the 19th century an agricultural nation and had 8 million inhabitants who were among the poorest in the western world; most of them were living in single-roomed windowless cabins (as in the picture in the document). Their lands were owned by affluent protestant landlords. The potato, was introduced in Ireland at the end of the 16th century, by the 19th, it became the staple crop for the Irish, because it was easy to grow and the yields were high enough to feed Ireland’s