J.F. Cooper (1789- 1851 ): he was born in Burlington, New Jersey in 1789. When he expelled from Yale bacause of prank, he joined the navy as a midshipman. In 1810 he took a furlough and never returned to active duty. He married with Susan De Lancy and got 5 children . They lived Europe , but returned to America because he was unpopular in Europe. In 1920 je published his first fiction "Precaution", in 1821 the second one "The Spy". His third book "The Pioneers" was the first of five novels. He died at Cooperstown in 1851. He was immensely popular writer and he considered to be the first major
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In the interim between his early published writing and the success of the Alice books, Dodgson began to move in the PreRaphaelite social circle. He first met John Ruskin in 1857 and became friendly with him. He developed a close relationship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his family, and also knew William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Arthur Hughes, among other artists. He also knew the fairytale author George MacDonald well it was the enthusiastic reception of Alice by the young MacDonald children that convinced him to submit the work for publication. Talent J From a young age, Dodgson wrote poetry and short stories, both contributing heavily to the family magazine Mischmasch and later sending them to various magazines, enjoying moderate success.
The Renaissance In the history the Middle Ages were followed by the Renassance period. During this period a new class called bourgeoeisie came into being. This is the period when monarchies based on nationality were estabilished. The Renaessance started in Italy In the 14th century. Then it spread all over Europe, reached England in 16th century. The struggle for power culminated in a war called The War of Roses. It was a civil war between two dynasties, families. They had different emblems on one side the Yorks (white rose) other Lancasters (red). They couldn't decide who gets the throne. War ended 1485. A new dynasty came to throne, Tudor, the first king in this dynasty was Henry Vll. When he came to throne a period of stability followed because he built a nation based state. He was good at diplomacy.He could avoid quarrels and wars with neigbouring countries. France, Spain - greatest enemies.So he could save much money and thus laid a good economi
.. buttonholes, setting the clocks back an hour and so on. In Great Britain and the United States today, April fool's jokes are played mostly by children, who enjoy the holiday immensely. On this day of national good humour, the television service joins in the fun. One famous commentator introduced a documentary about spaghetti. In these film Italian farm workers picking long strands of spaghetti off trees. Many people were fooled. 9) THE GREATEST POET OF SCOTLAND Robert burns is loved and admired by all Scotsmen as their greatest poet. He was born on January 25, 1759 in a clay-built cottage. He was fortunate in his mother. She had beautiful voice and she often sang the old songs and ballads. In the evenings she used to tell the children one of the popular folktales. He was fortunate in his father too, who was an understanding and friendly and fearless man. His father William was a gardener on a small estate. William's greatest wish was to give his
traveling across Britain by stagecoach to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronice. His journalism, in the form of sketches which appeared in periodicals from 1833, formed his first collection of pieces Sketches by Boz which were published in 1836 and led to the serialization of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in March 1836. On 2 April 1836, he married Catherine Thompson Hogarth (1816 1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronice. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk, Kent, they set up home in Bloomsbury, where they had ten children. On 9 June 1865, while returning from France with Ternan, Dickens was involved in the Staplehurst rail crash in which the first seven carriages of the train plunged off a cast iron bridge that was being repaired.Because of that he died.( 9 June1870) Oliver Twist (1837-39), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), The Old Curiosity Shop and, Barnaby
interregnum of 1892-96 and turned it down. At the beginning of World War I, like many other writers, Kipling wrote pamphlets which enthusiastically supported the UK's war aims. Death and legacy Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. He died of a perforated duodenal ulcer ( perforeeritud kaksteistsõrmiksoole haavand ) on 18 January 1936, two days before George V, at the age of 70. His death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers. Rudyard Kipling was cremated and his ashes were buried in Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey. In 2010, the International Astronomical Union approved that a crater on the planet Mercury would be
Britain prospered due to the productivity of its colonies in India and North America. Of course, many other countries also wanted those colonies and England waged wars with France, Spain and the Netherlands. Textile industry became the most important and developed industry in England. It was a time of domestic peace and prosperity. Queen Anne (1702 1714). Her successors were in fact German they didn't even speak English ans were the beginning of the Hannove dynasty. George I (1714 1727), George II ( 1727 1760), george III (1760 1820) in 1783 he lost the American colonies, except Canada. Reason and common sense pervaded the land. Isaac newton lived during that time. It was also the beginning of the industrial revolution, which was precipitated by the invention of the steam engine by James Watt in 1775. Trading developed quickly, especially importing.
From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in the town of Aston (now a district of Birmingham). While studying, he also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. Following his term at university, he served as a ship's doctor on a voyage to the West African coast. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885. In 1882, he joined former classmate George Budd as his partner at a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Conan Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice. Arriving in Portsmouth in June of that year with less than £10 to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful; while waiting for patients, he again began writing stories. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's
Test 12 1 Write the words 1 A person who works in the library librarian 2 To bring something back to somebody return 3 To continue to live after a dangerous event survive 4 To tell somebody that something is good recommend 5 Between 13 and 19 years old teenager 6 The name of a book title 2 Translate. 1 ulmekirjandus science fiction 2 lugemist katkestama put the book down 3 raamatuid raamatukogust laenutama borrow books from the library 4 ühe hooga läbi lugema in one go 5 samaaegselt at a time 6 humoristlik lugu humorous story 3 Translate. 1 Ema tahab, et ma kastaksin lilli. Mother wants me to water the flowers. 2 Ma tahan, et sa mind matemaatika kodutöös aitad. I want you to
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