british island map

british island map:

• british island has an area of 229,850 km2


• is the largest island in Europe


• 200,000 years ago was a big peninsula of Europe


• United Kingdom has a temperate maritime climate


• temperature is 0 º C in the winter and do not exceed 32 º C in summer


• The Thames is a river in southern England. It's length is 340 km. Today is the most important river in England.


• The highest mountain in the United Kingdom, Ben Nevis (1,343 m), is located in the highlands of Scotland


• Lake District or the Lake District National Park is located northwest of Inglaterra. Lake Ness is a large and deep freshwater lake that is in Scotland, the United Kingdom.

shakespeare

Shakespeare's biography:

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and he was died in 1616.

He was an English poet and playwright.

He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").

His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.

His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

---Wiki---

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic movement. Best known for his tales of mistery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; his parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe parted ways with the Allans. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS(12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) wasEnglish naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancerstors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolucion occurs became accepted by the scietific community and much of the general public int his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionaty theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for thediversity of life.

google maps

http://maps.google.es/maps?saddr=Passeig+de+Sant+Joan+16,+08010+Barcelona+(Arc+de+Triomf)&geocode=CSUg-uw7zlPhFWiYdwIdi0AhACFEIrAfYYxz4Q&dirflg=&daddr=&f=d&hl=ca&gl=es&dq=arc+de+triomf+barcelona+mapa&sll=41.391958,2.179462&sspn=0.006295,359.992803&cid=16245482629626864196&ie=UTF8&ll=41.392512,2.178816&spn=0.002946,0.006695&z=17


this is a link for google maps

Shakespeare

BIOGRAPHY

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small country town, the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman from Snitterfield, and ofMary Arden, a daughter of the gentry. They lived on Henley Street, having married around 1557.On 29 November 1582, at Temple Grafton, near Stratford, the 18 year old Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway who was 26. Two neighbours of Hathaway, Fulk Sandalls and John Richardson, posted bond that there were no impediments to the marriage. There appears to have been some haste in arranging the ceremony: Hathaway was three months pregnant.
On 26 May 1583, Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, was baptised at Stratford. Twin children, a son, Hamnet, and a daughter, Judith, were baptised on 2 February 1585. Hamnet died in 1596, Susanna in 1649 and Judith in 1662.
The theory that Shakespeare acted as a schoolmaster in Lancashire was proposed by E. A. J. Honigmann in 1985, founded on evidence in the will of a member of the Hoghton family, referring to plays and play-clothes and asking his kinsman to take care of "...William Shakeshaft, now dwelling with me...". The asserted nexus was John Cottom, Shakespeare's reputed last schoolmaster, who was purported to have recommended the Bard. Michael Wood points out that Thomas Savage, Shakespeare's trustee at the Globe some twenty years later, was related by marriage to a neighbour to whom the will was also addressed. He allows, however, that Shakeshaft was a common name in Lancashire at the time. Ackoyd adds that study of the marginal notes in the Hoghton family copy of Edward Hall's Chronicles, an important source for Shakespeare's early histories, shows that they were in "probability" in Shakespeare's writing.

Shakespeare’s plays:

Comedy:· All's Well That Ends Well·

As You Like It·

The Comedy of Errors·

Cymbeline· Love's Labours Lost·

Measure for Measure·

The Merry Wives of Windsor·

The Merchant of Venice·

A Midsummer Night's Dream· Much Ado About Nothing·

Pericles, Prince of Tyre·

Taming of the Shrew·

The Tempest·

Troilus and Cressida·

Twelfth Night·

Two Gentlemen of Verona·

Winter's Tale

WORD PUZZLE

1 = H a t h a w a y
2 = T i t u s
3 = E l i z a b e t h
4 = J u l i u s c a e s a r
5 = F i r s t f o l i o
6 = H a m n e t
7 = M a r y a r d e n
8 = S t r a t f o r d
9 = C h r i s t o p h e r
10= B u r b a g e
11= K i n g l le a r
12 = R o s e
13 =S u s a n n a
14 =O P h e l i a
15 = G l o b E
16 =M A c b e t h
17= R i c h a r d
18 =O t h E l l o


1. Surname of William Shakespeare's wife
2. The most cruel and bloody of Will's tragedies
3. Queen of England during most of Will's life
4. Tragedy set in the Roman Empire
5. Name of the book which collected Will's plays
6. Will's only son
7. Will's mother
8. Will's hometown
9. Name of Will's rival poet.
10.Founder of the Theatre
11.One of Will's most famous tragedies, in which a king has three daughters.
12.A famous theatre close to the Globe
13.Will's first daughter
14.Hamlet's unfortunate girlfriend
15.Will's theatre
16.One of Will's famous tragedy . " Out damn spot. Out, I say !"
17.Tragedy and name of the king who said " A horse. My kingdom for a horse !".
18.Tragedy and name of a man who killed his wife Desdemona for jealousy.

Tudor london

TUDOR LONDON

Tudor London can be described as a prosperous, bustling city during the Tudor dynasty. In fact, the population increased from 75,000 inhabitants with Henry VII to 200,000 at the end of the 16th century.The Tudor monarchs had a royal residence in London called Whitehall Palace and another in the countryside,called Hampton court , after Cardinal Wolsey gave it to Henry VIII.These Tudor kings and queens used what are now famous parks , such as Hyde Park or St. James's Park , as Royal Hunting forests.Not many Tudor buildings survive today, mostly because of The Great Fire , which happened in 1666. Besides, , the 13 religious houses in London were converted for private use or pulled down for building materials after the Dissolution of the monasteries, which was Henry VIII's most decisive step against the power of the church in 1538. First the small, less powerful houses had their property confiscated and their buildings blighted (made unsuitable for use). They were followed the next year by the large houses.Philosophical concepts of the power of the king over church may have played a part in Henry's decision to suppress the monasteries, but so did greed. The monasteries were rich, and a lot of that wealth found its way directly or indirectly to the royal treasury. Some of the monastery buildings were sold to wealthy gentry for use as country estates. Many others became sources of cheap building materials for local inhabitants. One of the results of the Dissolution of the Monasteries is that those who bought the old monastic lands were inclined to support Henry in his break with Rome, purely from self interest.Apart from that, the theatres were banned from the city by the city authorities or guilds because plays wasted workmen's time ( so it wasn't for religious objection to the play's contents ). Then, they were built in the Southwark, where now a reconstruction of the Globe can be visited to learn about Tudor theatre.At that time, London's financial rival was the city of Amsterdam, and to be able to compete with it , an international exchange was created in 1566.(It was founded by the mercer Thomas Gresham in 1566 to enable London to compete for financial power with Amsterdam. This became the Royal Exchange in 1560, and is now housed in a massive Victorian building beside the Bank of England Museum in Mansion House Square.)So, all in all, and because of many other events and facts, we can say that both London and England were powerful.

poem

Juliet Juliet

that you're beautiful the your eyes, your hair are part of your beauty

Juliet Juliet

I love you

Do you love me?

Romeo Romeo

i love you

your eyes are blue like the sea

I give my heart as a part of my wealth.