Hamster

martes, 28 de mayo de 2013


HISTORIAN

Stonehenge: Stonehenge is a megalithic monument, cromlech type of late Neolithic, near Amesbury, in Wiltshire, England, about eight miles and a half north of Salisbury. Stonehenge consists of large stone blocks in four circles. Is supposed to be used as a religious temple, monument or astronomical observatory that was used to predict the seasons.

Hadrian’s Wall: Hadrian's Wall is a former defensive construction of the island of Britain, built between 122-132 by Emperor Hadrian to defend the territory Briton. Stretched over 117 km from the Gulf of Solway in the west to the estuary of the River Tyne in the east.

 William Wallace: Sir William Wallace (Elderslie, 12701 - London, 23 August 1305) It was a Scottish Soldier of Welsh descent, who were heading to their country occupancy española del Rey against Edward I of England in las war of independence in Scotland.

Merlin/ Kin Arthur Legend: King Arthur (in Welsh and English: Arthur) is a prominent character in European literature, especially English and French, which is represented as the ideal monarch, both in war and in peace. His story belongs primarily to the legend and literature, although it is discussed whether Arthur, or a similar character in which it had based the legend really existed. gentlemen in England trying out a sword from his prison. Legend has it that he who would liberate the king of England and in charge of unifying all the kingdoms of the island. In this sial was a sword is, that all the knights tried removing it, but Arthur, without even gentleman who manages release, and his true identity is revealed. Shortly after Arthur loses his sword during a battle. The Merlin accompanied him to a lake at the bottom there was a castle in which lived a witch named Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. This woman kept a wonderful sword, Excalibur.

Robin Hood: Robin Hood was a hero and outlaw archer medieval English. According to legend, Robin Hood was a man named Robin or Robin Longstride Locksley.Era big heart and lived outlaws hiding in Sherwood Forest and Barnsdale, near the city of Nottingham. He was skilled, defender of the poor and fighting against the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John Lackland, who used the police to illegally monopolize the wealth of the nobles who opposed them and give them to the poor people. In medieval England, anyone who opposed the royal edicts was considered an outlaw

Shakespeare: William Shakespeare was a dramatist, poet and English actor. Sometimes known as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare is considered the greatest writer in the English language and one of the most famous in world literature. Shakespeare's works have been translated into the major languages ​​and his plays are still performed worldwide.

Irish Rebellion: Irish Rebellion, an uprising which owed ​​its origin to the Society of United Irishmen, which was inspired by the American and French revolutions. Members of both societies were middle class. The main objectives of the companies were parliamentary reform (based on universal male suffrage and full Catholic emancipation) and the removal of British rule in Ireland.
During 1795 an alliance between radical predominantly Presbyterian and disaffected sections of the working class radicalized Society.

American Colonies Independence: The Thirteen Colonies were British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1733 (Georgia). They began collaborating on the Albany Congress of 1754 to demand their rights and establish a Continental Congress which declared independence in 1776 and formed the states of the United States of America.

Dickens: Oliver Twist: Charles John Huffam Dickens was a famous English novelist, one of the best known in world literature, and the principal of the Victorian era. He was a master of the narrative genre, which printed a certain dose of humor and irony, while practicing a sharp social criticism. In his work are the descriptions of people and places, both real and imagined. Sometimes used the pseudonym Boz. His best known work is "Oliver Twist".
 
Industrial Revolution: The Industrial Revolution was a historical period between the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain and the rest of continental Europe then suffer the largest set of socio-economic, technological and cultural history.
The economy based on manual labor was replaced by one dominated by industry and manufacturing. The Revolution began with the mechanization of the textile industries and the development of processes of iron. Trade expansion was favored by improved transport routes and later by the birth of the railway. The most important innovations were the steam engine and called Spinning Jenny, a powerful machine related to the textile industry. These new machines favored huge increases in production capacity.
So in the industrial revolution the amount of product increases and decreases the time in which these are carried out, giving way to mass production, because it simplifies complex tasks into several simple operations that can be performed without requiring any worker it is skilled labor, and thus lower production costs and increase the number of units produced under the same fixed cost.







Commonwealth colonies: The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of 54 independent member states. All members except Mozambique and Rwanda were part of the British Empire, of which the community develops.







Science explosion:
For the Smithsonian Institute in the U.S., the most important are (Source: THE WORLD)
·         The human genome
·         'Ardi', our ancestor
·         The map of the Big Bang
·         Climate change hormones
·         Water on Mars
·         Not the intelligent design
·         The solution to the conjecture Poncairé
·         Gene Therapy
·         Predicting hurricanes
A change to known promoter Spanish Eduard Punset (Source: WEEKLY XL) are:

·         Gene Therapy
·         The age of the Universe
·         Water on Mars
·         The human genome
·         The LHC particle accelerator
·         Creating life in the laboratory
·         Evolution and DNA (we are not slaves to our genetic)
·         "Ardi" our ancestor
·         The solution to the world's most difficult math problem. (Poincaré conjecture)
·         The conquest of the earth by the society (widespread use of the Internet and social networks)


World War I: The causes of World War I, which began in central Europe in late July 1914 and ended in 1918. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played a major role in the conflict as well.
The crisis came after a long and difficult series of diplomatic clashes between the Great Powers (Italy, France, Germany, the British Empire, the Empire of Austria-Hungary and Russia) over European and colonial issues in the decade before 1914 I had left the high voltage. In turn these diplomatic clashes can be traced to changes in the balance of power in Europe since 1867. The immediate cause of the war was tensions over territory in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary competed with Serbia and Russia for territory and influence in the region and left the rest of the great powers into the conflict through their various alliances and treaties.












World War II: The main causes of World War II were nationalistic issues, unresolved issues, and resentments resulting from the First World War and the interwar period in Europe, plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The culmination of events that led to the outbreak of the war is generally understood as the 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany and Soviet Russia.
These military aggressions are the result of decisions made by authoritarian ruling Nazi elite in Germany and by the direction of Japan's Kwantung Army. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war and / or armed resistance.

















European Union: The European was created after de Second World War. It is compose by 27 different countries: These countries are:




martes, 19 de marzo de 2013


QUESTIONS
1. Where about in London were the Theatres located ? Why ?
2. Name the most important theatres during Elizabethan times.
3. Which was the first playhouse in London ? Who built it ?
4. When was it built ? When was it closed ?
5. Describe the particular shape of the theatres . Where did they take this shape from ?
6. Who controlled the performances on behalf of the government?
7. Why could the theatres be closed down ?
8. Who played the parts of women on stage ? Why ?
9. Did women attend the theatre?
10. How much did it cost to stand in the yard ? And to sit in a gallery ? And to have a cushion ?And to sit in the lords’ room ?
ANSWERS
1. The Theatres are located near the river Thames because is important to have water near for the fire.
2. Fortune, Globe, Hope, Red Bull, Rose, Swan, Theatre and the Whitefriars Theatre.
3. The teatre was the first public playhouse of London, located in the parish of St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch. It was designed and built by James Burbage.
4. The Theatre was constructed in 1576, it have been built as early as 1575. They dismantled the theatre on the night of 28 December 1598. 
5.The shape of the theatre becomes for the Greeks and Romans. Because the people can see and listen.
6. The person who controlled the performances of plays on behalf of the government was the Master of Revels.In the 1590s this was a man called Edmund Tilney.
7. Playhouses could be closed for many reasons, among them outbreaks of the plague, sedition and immorality, which would certainly have included women appearing on stage.
8. Young men, as it was thought immoral for women to act in plays, even to attend the playhouses.
9. Yes, women did attend the theatre although this was not formally approved of. In fact, every level of society went to the plays including apprentices, law students, craftsmen, pickpockets, ballad sellers, merchants and nobility.
Even legend says Queen Elizabeth attended the Globe secretly some times.
10. It cost one penny to stand in the yard of the playhouse and a further penny for a seat in one of the covered galleries. A cushion to make watching the play more comfortable cost a further penny and a seat in the Lords’ room cost approximately sixpence.



martes, 19 de febrero de 2013


The globe


1. What was the name of the company Shakespeare belonged to ?
Lord Chamberlain's Men ( Later The King's Men )

2. How many companies were licensed to perform in London ?
 Only 2.

3. Why did Shakespeare's company build the Globe ?
Shakespeare's company only built the Globe because they could not use the special playhouse that their chief actor Richard Burbage's father had built for them in 1596, a roofed theatre inside the city, in Blackfriars.

4. Who built the Globe ?
It was built by two brothers, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, who inherited its predecessor, The Theatre, from their father, James.

5. Who did the Globe belong to ?
Half the shares in the new theatre were kept by the Burbages. The rest were assigned equally to Shakespeare and other members of the Chamberlain's Men (the company of players who acted there), of which Richard Burbage was principal actor and of which Shakespeare had been a leading member since late 1594.

5. What did Shakespeare's company use to build the Globe ?
The Theatre had closed, ostensibly for good, in 1597, and the owner of the land on which it stood threatened to pull the building down once the lease had expired. The Burbages and their associates anticipated the threat, however, and in late 1598 dismantled The Theatre and carried the materials to Bankside (a district of Southwark stretching for about half a mile west of London Bridge on the south bank of the River Thames).
Without The Theatre, the company had to rent a playhouse. Then at the end of 1598 they decided to build one for themselves. The shortage of cash made the consortium reluctant traditionalists, giving up the idea of an indoor theatre in the city and using the old Theatre's timbers and therefore the same basic auditorium shape for the new building. The old playhouse was one of their few remaining resources. They could not use it in situ because the lease had expired, so they dismantled it and took the timbers (illegally) to make the skeleton of their new amphitheatre. The Globe was a cut-price and fortuitous construction.
6. When the Globe was built , there were two other theatres in Southwark already. Which ones ?
The Swan and The Rose

7. When was the Globe built ?
It was probably completed by the autumn of 1599 .

8. How and when was it destroyed ?
In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the thatch of the Globe was accidentally set alight by a cannon, set off to mark the King's entrance onstage in a scene at Cardinal Wolsey's palace. The entire theatre was destroyed within the hour.

9. When was it rebuilt ?
By June 1614 it had been rebuilt, this time with a tiled gallery roof and a circular shape.

10. When was it finally pulled down ? Why ?
It was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for tenement dwellings.

11. Explain how acting at the Globe was like?
Acting at the Globe was radically different from viewing modern Shakespeare on screen.
The plays were staged in the afternoons, using the light of day. Therefore, all references to weather or time of the day had to be given to the audience through the text.
As you well know, Henry VIII was Elizabeth's father. Write a short profile of this amazing character. Use the next websites if necessary.
 
NAME: Henry Tudor
BORN:Greenwich Palace, on 28 June 1491
PARENTS:Henry VII & Queen Elizabeth of York
CROWNED:1502 - death of Arthur
Crowned on April 21 1509
RELIGION : although he created the Church of England, he remained Catholic.
MARITAL STATUS:Married 6 times
CHILDREN:Mary I, Elizabeth I & Edward VI.
HOBBIES :Jousting, archery, stag and dee hunting, hawking and music.
MOST FAMOUS PALACE:Hampton court
HIS LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND :
Cardinal Wolsey
DIED :28 January 1547
REIGNED :For 33 years ( 1509 - 1547 )
BURIED :16 February 1547 at St. George's chapel, Windsor Castle.
 

martes, 12 de febrero de 2013


NAME: Henry Tudor
BORN:Greenwich Palace, on 28 June 1491
PARENTS:Henry VII & Queen Elizabeth of York
CROWNED:1502 - death of Arthur
Crowned on April 21 1509
RELIGION : although he created the Church of England, he remained Catholic.
MARITAL STATUS:Married 6 times
CHILDREN:Mary I, Elizabeth I & Edward VI.
HOBBIES :Jousting, archery, stag and dee hunting, hawking and music.
MOST FAMOUS PALACE:Hampton court
HIS LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND :
Cardinal Wolsey
DIED :28 January 1547
REIGNED :For 33 years ( 1509 - 1547 )
BURIED :16 February 1547 at St. George's chapel, Windsor Castle.
  

martes, 11 de diciembre de 2012


TRENCHES CERDANYA
4 people / 1 hour

1)  ORIGEN:

Catalan Pyrenees. This dish of Cerdanya, Alt Urgell and Andorra. Made from boiled cabbage and potatoes and then mash them and mix them.

2) INGREDIENTS:

1 green cabbage winter
1 kilo of potatoes
 4 pieces of bacon
 2 cloves of garlic
 lard oil, salt

3) HOW TO COOK THEM:

1. Put a pot of water on the fire, when it begins to boil pour the salt and cabbage, cleaned and chopped.
2. Peel potatoes and add to the pot, let it boil for about twenty-five minutes finsque everything is cooked.
3. Drain well. Spend cabbage and potatoes in a saucepan and blend them with the help of the skimmer so that it is well mixed.
4. In a skillet with a little oil and a little butter, fry the peeled garlic, when well browned, remove it. Then add the bacon, fry well, be well finsque fact book.
5. Put a little oil in the pan where the cabbage and potatoes, stirring well.
6. In the pan you fried the bacon, and remaining fat, add all elque are in the pot, you are a trout, brown very well for the two bands. When ready, serve it immediately with chunks of bacon on top.