Ashbourne's Shrovetide Football / Футбол на масленицу в Ашборне Ashbourne is an attractive old market town situated at the southern end of the Peak District of Derbyshire. Normally Ashbourne is a peaceful ...
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Shrovetide Football / Футбол на Масленицу
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Shrovetide Football / Футбол на Масленицу Shrovetide football has been played in England since the 14th century. Rules are few and vary greatly from place to place. The goals may be as much as three miles ...
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Great Pancake Grease / Жирный блин
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Great Pancake Grease / Жирный блин The custom known as the Great Pancake Grease is annually observed on Shrove Tuesday at Westminster School where schoolboys would fight for pancakes to gain monetary ...
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Pancake Race / Бег с блинчиками
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Pancake Race / Бег с блинчиками One of the main events of Shrove Tuesday at Olney in Buckinghamshire is the pancake race. This race is said to have been first run there in 1445, and to have continued ...
Pancake Bell / Масленичный колокольный звон Ringing the Pancake Bell on Shrove Tuesday is an old and once widespread custom which still survives in a number of parishes. Originally, this bell had nothing ...
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Student Rags
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Student Rags Student rags is a well established practice associated particularly with older Universities of students mounting some sort of pageant and collecting money for charity. It is not known where ...
Pancake Day / Масленица. Вторник на масленой неделе Pancake Day is the popular name for Shrove Tuesday, the day preceding the first day of Lent. In medieval times the day was characterized by merry-making ...
Топик на английском The Electoral System of Great Britain (Избирательная система Великобритании) Elections to the House of Commons, known as parliamentary elections, form the basis of Britain's democratic ...
Топик на английском New Year in England (Новый Год в Англии) In England the New Year is not as widely or as enthusiastically observed as Christmas. Some people ignore it completely and go to bed at the ...
Топик на английском Adam Smith (Адам Смит) Late in the 16th and the first half of the 17th century Britain became the centre of the development of science and materialistic philosophy. It was an age ...
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Топик на английском About My Friend (Мой друг)
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Топик на английском About My Friend (Мой друг) People say that I'm a sociable person. It's true. I make friends easily and have a lot of acquaintances. But if I had to choose among all my friends I would ...
Топик на английском Meals (Еда) There are four meals a day in an English home: breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is at about 8 o'clock in the morning, and consists ...
Топик на английском Youth Problems (Проблемы молодежи) Today it is fashionable to speak about teenage problems. A few years ago alcohol, fights, killings and other kinds of violence were more problems ...
Топик на английском Washington, D.C. (Вашингтон) The city of Washington, the capital of the United States of America, is located in the District of Columbia (DC for short) Many people consider Washington ...
Топик на английском Xmas (Рождество) hjThe word "Christmas" is derived from the words "Christ's Mass" - the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. But although Christmas is undoubtedly a Christian celebration, ...
Топик на английском US Congress (Конгресс США) The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states. Each of which has its own government ("state government"). In some ways the United ...
Топик на английском Wales (Уэльс) Wales is a country situated in the West of Britain. St. David is the patron saint of Wales. On the 1-st of March, St. David’s Day, patriotic Welsh people wear a leek or ...
Топик на английском Thomas Jefferson (Томас Джефферсон) Thomas Jefferson one of the American President of the past was born in Virginia in 1743. When he was 14 years old, his father died and the young ...
Топик на английском The Ecological Crisis (Экологические проблемы) At the present time the Earth accommodates more then 5 billion people. Half of which are undernourished. A total of 4 million deaths occur ...
Топик на английском The British Parliament (Парламент Великобритании) The British Parliament is the oldest in the world. It originated in the 12th century as Witenagemot, the body of wise counsellors whom ...
