Lord of War

Exposé d’anglais : The city The City of London also called the ‘one square mile’ is the historical center of London. Until the 18th century, the City of London was all of London. Today, this area is the financial center of Europe. It has only about 6000 residents and is almost deserted during the weekend, but on weekdays it buzzes with activity. The City of London is a geographically small city within Greater London in England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster

that the following text is to be objective & will not be dyed of any particular political tendency. It must be noticed that this text is anonymous however it is said that the author has no connection with any party or anything that could influence its judgment over this important problem: should the US people join the loyalists (=those faithful to the King of Britain) or the Patriots (=those who favor the US independence) in the opposition of the two countries? This text is written at Philadelphia during

Anglais Le travail des enfants touchent en majorité les pays pauvres mais en réalité ce fléau [plague] touche tout les pays sans exceptions [whithout exception], cela est surement du[it is surement of] à la baisse du niveau[level] de vie. Dans la majorité des pays l’âge légal de travail est de 18 ans et 16 avec autorisation des parents. Les familles n’arrivent pas à subvenir à leurs besoins [do not manage to meet their needs] donc elles sont obligées de faire travailler leurs enfants. La pauvreté

The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states. All but two (Mozambique and Rwanda) of these countries were formerly part of the British Empire, out of which it developed. The member states co-operate within a framework of common values and goals as outlined in the Singapore Declaration.[1] These include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good

historiographique. LA RECOMPOSITION DU PAYSAGE POLITIQUE 1) HISTOIRES GENERALES DE LA PERIODE ***MARWICK (Arthur). The Deluge. British Society and the First World War. London, Bodley Head, 1965 (2nd ed. with a new preface by Joanna Bourke). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. **MARWICK (Arthur). Britain in the Century of Total War. War, Peace and Social Change, 1900- 1967. London, Bodley Head, 1968. ***MOWAT (Charles Loch). Britain between the Wars, 1918-40. London, Methuen, 1955, ix, 694p.

born in 1822, he was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under Gen. Zachary Taylor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's store. He was appointed by the Governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. He sought to win control of the Mississippi Valley. In February

in Huntingdon in 1599, into the ranks of the middle gentry ; his father was a farmer. He was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death in 1658. Cromwell has been a very controversial figure in the history of the British Isles – a regicidal dictator to some historians and a hero of liberty to others. Paragraph 1 I

SEMESTRE II PART I: THE ORIGINS OF PARLIAMENT A] The early years Like in all European countries, the British parliament has his origins in a group of advisers who helped the king to make his decisions. At the beginning, these people were connected with the church or the army and the first assembly of this kind was the witan or grand council which we find in Saxon England during the reign of king offal in the VIII century. By the 10th century, the Witan were much bigger and more formal

militaire de Sandhurst Profession Député, homme d'État, militaire, journaliste, historien, peintre Religion {{{religion}}} Résidence 10 Downing Street (officielle) Chartwell (privée) Signature Winston Churchill Signature 2.svg Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg Premiers ministres du Royaume-Uni Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, CP (Can), né le 30 novembre 1874 et mort le 24 janvier 1965 à Londres, est un homme politique britannique. Surtout

Lecture 1: The formation of the UK I. Glossary: ▪ To brush up: dépoussiérer ▪ Lay the emphasis on ▪ Course: series of lessons or lecture ▪ Lecture: talk given to a group of people ▪ Country, adjective, people ▪ GB, British, the British ▪ English, the English, English people ▪ Wales, welsh, the welsh or welsh people ▪ Scotland, Scottish, the Scots ▪ Ireland, Irish, the Irish ▪ A flag: un pavillon, un drapeau ▪ To result in: avoir pour conséquence ▪ To result