After the death of Pepin of Geristalsky, his sons began a rivalry for power. Defeated by his illegitimate son Karl, the Mayor of 715. He had to face a serious external danger. From the south, the territory of the Frankish Kingdom was invaded by the Arabs and conquered almost the entire Iberian Peninsula. In 732, … Read more
Don Shula – American football coach, was born in the city of Grand River, Ohio. At birth in the biography of Don Shula, the name Donald Francis Shula was obtained. At first Don played for John Carroll University. From 1951 to 1957, the athlete was part of the teams Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts, Washington Redskins … Read more
Mikhail Nikolozovich Saakashvili is a politician, the president of Georgia. Mikhail was born on December 21, 1967 in the city of Tbilisi. After graduating from the school in 1984 with a gold medal, in the biography of Mikhail Nikolozovich Saakashvili began training in various institutions. First he graduated from the Institute of International Relations of … Read more
Homeless vagrant Soapy merz on the bench in the park. Winter came, it was necessary to think about housing. He wanted to go to a hospitable prison, where he had enough food and a roof over his head for three months. For several years he spent the winter there. There were charitable institutions, but Sopi … Read more
The Great Patriotic War left an indelible imprint on the souls of all those people whom it affected. She brought so much misery and suffering that will forever remain in the memory of mankind. And it’s hard to understand the pain of losing your loved one and your loved one until it touches you. Vladimir … Read more
Richard Aldington is an English poet and writer. While Richard was studying at the University of London, he managed to get acquainted with Ezra Pound, as well as H. D., on which he married in 1913. He was one of the leading imagists and helped to make adjustments to “Egosit” – the main periodical imagist. … Read more
In French, this novel is called “Great Families,” and it deals mainly with the ancient aristocratic family of La Monnery and the family of immigrants from Austria, the major financiers of the Schudlers. Representatives of these two families came to one of the Parisian maternity hospitals on the occasion of the birth of Jean-Noel Schudler, … Read more
The great Russian landscape painter Isaak Levitan depicted in spring, on one of his most famous paintings “Spring: Great Water,” a spring flood, when the river came out of the banks and flooded a small grove, field and village. Most of the canvas is occupied by water, its even and clean surface, in which one … Read more
Action 1 Public garden on the banks of the Volga. Phenomenon 1 Kuligin sits on a bench, Kudryash and Shapkin stroll. Kuligin admires the Volga. They hear how in the distance, Dikoi scolds his nephew. Discuss this. Kudryash says that Boris Grigorievich “went to the victim of the Wild”, complains about the humility of the … Read more
What do I know about proteins? Squirrel – fidget. This is one of the most mobile animals of our forests. She, like a kitty, washes herself, then attentively looks around her eyes with black beads, clinks discontentedly, if she sees an outsider in the forest, and makes a rapid leap, spreading her fluffy tail, to … Read more
The work of Handke is written in the first person. We still do not recognize the name of the narrator. There are not many external events in the story. It represents a free chronicle of several days, which are marked for the hero by a severe spiritual crisis. A young writer from Austria, he came … Read more
Roger Clemens is an American baseball player, was born in the city of Dayton, Ohio. His fights are famous for competitive fire. Clemens is one of the greatest pitchers in baseball. Roger Clemens, after graduating from the University of Texas, in 1984, joined the Red Sox baseball team as a novice pitcher. In 1986, he … Read more
“Wind by the windows, Quiet as dreaming, And behind the gardens in the twilight of the fields Screams quail, early stars shimmer, neighing of the strangled young horses…”; These lines of Nikolai Rubtsov seem to speak of my homeland – a small village, lost in the boundless Kulunda steppe on the border of two regions. … Read more
It is a tragic fare, a grotesque tale, consisting of dozens of oral novels. The author himself tells it this way: “Three friends, who have met at the institute, are living, gradually they are divorced, and two of them will find out that the third has collapsed under the ice near Leningrad, in January, and … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov In the reign of Catherine II, in the town of Soligalich, Kostroma province, the son of a small office clerk Ryzhov was born Alex’s son. Having lost his father at a young age, he was brought up by his mother, who sold pies of his own making on the … Read more
The war demanded rapid and dramatic changes in the whole way of life of the country. Overcoming the confusion, the party organs began sending out directives on the need to restructure the industry to a military way and evacuation of enterprises from the front zone. Fascists managed to seize the territory, which was home to … Read more
Do memories from childhood really stay in our soul for a long time? This question is answered by the prose writer Yuri Dmitrievich Nechiporenko, posing the problem of the role of childhood in the worldview, the formation of the character of man. Arguing on this occasion, the author turns to the recollections of the hero-narrator, … Read more
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. To his wife, the devil sent a flying serpent to fornication. He appeared to him in his form, and to other people he seemed Prince Paul. Princess in all confessed to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask … Read more
In the morning at the house of Meropia Davydovna Murzavetskaya, “a girl of about sixty, who has great strength in the province”, assembled craftsmen – she owed them. Suitable Chugunov, a former member of the district court. Murzavets prudish and slanderous, Chugunov leads her affairs and manages the estate of the rich widow Kupavina, shamelessly … Read more
In 1359, John II, who was brought to London, Dobry signed a difficult peace treaty for France, according to which almost half of the country was transferred to Edward III, and for himself undertook to pay a considerable ransom. His son Dauphin Karl refused to accept the terms of the treaty. Then Edward III landed … Read more
The Atlantic Ocean people began to learn from time immemorial. Its waters, according to scientists, washed the legendary Atlantis. Within its limits sailors of ancient Greece sailed. Carthage, and later – Scandinavia. After Christopher Columbus in 1492 carried out his famous journey, the Atlantic Ocean began to actively develop. Since then – this is the … Read more
Epic poem, translating the legend of Nale and Damayanti from the “Mahabharata” In the middle of India in the mountains of Vindhya is the country of Nishadha, and its ruler was the noble and magnanimous king of Nala. Not far from Nishadha was another country, Vidarbha, and there the daughter of Damayanti, a beauty, was … Read more
At the beginning of the VIII century. almost the entire Iberian peninsula – the birthplace of the Spaniards and Portuguese – conquered the Arabs. Conquerors oppressed Christians, but at the same time acquainted them with the high achievements of Eastern culture. The population of the peninsula soon rebelled against the invaders. This liberation struggle, which … Read more
The incredible events of this novel, combining features and essays, and utopias, and philosophical satirical stories, occur at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His hero, Baron Cosimo di Rondo, at the age of twelve, protesting against the boiled snails served every day for dinner, climbs onto a tree and decides to spend … Read more
A person’s life, of course, depends on himself. There are those who are used to rely on chance, fate or other “higher powers”. But, basically, in our age of pragmatism and realism, people, above all, rely on their own strengths, preferring only responsibility for mistakes to shift to the shoulders of Mrs. Failure. But the … Read more
Narration – from a third party. Many dialogues. The plot is dynamic, eventful, largely melodramatic. Ended the last evening of Yegor Prokudin in the zone. In the morning, the chief is admonishing him. We learn that Yegor dreams about his farm, the cow. His future wife is Lyubov Fyodorovna Baikalova. He never saw her, they … Read more
Ted Williams is an American baseball player, was born in San Diego, California. In the biography of Ted Williams, a professional baseball game began at the age of 17. Then he played for the San Diego Padres of the Pacific League. In 1938, he tried to play for the Boston Red Sox team in the … Read more
“Pied Piper” – the first poem Tsvetaeva, written in exile, in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and began a deadly, bureaucratic, dictatorial one. It is the verdict of any utopia about the possibility of a people’s celebration, people’s power. This is a … Read more
Eliza Ozheshko Above the Neman The action takes place in the vicinity of the cities of Vilno and Grodno, in estates and villages located above the Neman. Recently, in 1863, the January uprising was suppressed. The tsarist government seeks to deprive the Poles of the possibility of considering these lands their own. The estates of … Read more
A creative approach to business can transform any profession. Everything depends on ourselves, on how we treat work. We hear a lot about people of different professions – modest and heroic, common and rare. Everyone understands the difference between a doctor and a geologist, an engineer and a teacher, an artist and a postman, an … Read more
How wonderful to have a rest on a hot afternoon in the summer garden! The sun gilds everything around, making its way through the dense green foliage of trees. The branches of the apple tree lean under the weight of red-cheeked fruit. Pour juicy pears. This garden was planted by my grandfather. He marked the … Read more
Music is always present in our life, without it it is difficult to imagine the existence of mankind. But very few people know how music affects a person. However, it is proved that she can change the mood, cheer up or put to sleep. The brain responds to sounds, so their influence is enormous. Often … Read more
The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the XX century, a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Milan University of Casobone, becomes, in his own … Read more
Quotation from the novel of the Russian writer Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich (1828 – 1910) “War and Peace” (1863 – 1869 gg.), Volume 3, Part II, XXV. These words are spoken by Andrei Bolkonsky to Pierre Bezukhov on the eve of the battle of Borodino: “Do not take the prisoners,” continued Prince Andrew, “this one would … Read more
Fate… An incomprehensible power that governs life… Probably, it still exists if people from ancient times still believe in it and even try to predict it. What is fate? A series of coincidences, coincidences or something predetermined? Is it worth arguing with fate or better submitting to it submissively? These questions for millennia do not … Read more
If the Earth was always facing the Sun with one side, like the Moon to the Earth, there would not be a change of day and night, summer and winter. There would be two conditional hemispheres – “daylight” and “night”. Life on such a planet would stop. Owing to a sharp change in temperature, the … Read more
Childhood is the most beautiful time in our life. Now, when I’m already in the third grade, I think, but how I would like to return to the kindergarten, where there are no lessons, no homework. After all, we are in a hurry to our life, so that it goes faster, and in fact to … Read more
“A person can be destroyed, but it can not be defeated”. E. Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is a man of amazing destiny, the author of a number of excellent books, among which a special place belongs to the story “The Old Man and the Sea”, created in the middle of the 20th century, in 1952, a … Read more
The apology of the power and greatness of the Moscow kingdom and its head Ivan the Terrible is also characteristic of such a popular monument (more than 230 of its lists have been preserved), like “The History of the Kazan Empire”, or the “Kazan Chronicler”, which describes the fate of the Kazan kingdom since its … Read more
The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during Svyatok. Action first Day. A small steward’s room. In the depths of the door, to the left there is a window, near the window there is a table and a chair, in the corner there is a bed with a … Read more
(on the tale of Charles Perrault “Cinderella”) French writer Charles Perrault was born in 1628. And in 1697 the first collection of his fairy tales was published in France. It turned out that this state husband, poet and critic, academician of the French Academy, was fond of folk narratives and entertained them with the royal … Read more
Bob Marley is a singer, guitarist, famous in reggae style, an activist. Born Bob Marley in the Jamaican village of Nine Miles. He was interested in music since childhood, and after moving to Kingston began to develop his abilities. After graduating from school, I went to work as a mechanic. And in his spare time … Read more
Pushkin is the best symbol that beautifies us before the world, giving us one of the main rights to the name of the great people. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is a man who has rendered the greatest and incomparable services to our literature. His name to this day with reverence is pronounced by millions of people. … Read more
Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov The genus. in 1911 Zhiganov is a talented Soviet composer, the largest representative of the Tatar musical culture. His work is characterized by a close connection with the poetic and musical folklore of the Tatar people, the ideas of modernity, a deep interest in the spiritual order, the moral ideals of the … Read more
Turgenev’s story “Bezhin Meadow” was first published in 1851 in the journal Sovremennik. The work entered the author’s cycle of short stories “Notes of a Hunter”. The essay refers to the literary direction of realism, but it also contains features of romanticism. Main characters The narrator is a hunter, a narrative is narrated from his … Read more
V. F. Tendryakov Death Action takes place in the village Fires collective farm “The power of labor.” The people gather near the house of the dying chairman. Evlampiy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember those thirty years that … Read more
The process of origin and formation of medieval states was long and difficult. Its origins come from the period of the disintegration of the tribal system among the Germanic tribes. In those days, the attributes of power – the crown and the scepter – were not yet there, so the chosen among the other warriors … Read more
Moonstone – a huge yellow diamond – from time immemorial decorated the bosom of the moon god in one of the temples of the sacred Indian city of Somnaut. In the XI century, saving the statue from the Mohammedan conquerors, the three brahmins transported it to Benares. It was there that the gods of Vishnu … Read more
Eliza, the daughter of Harpagon, and the young Wahler fell in love for a long time, and it happened under very romantic circumstances – Valer rescued the girl from the tumultuous sea waves when the ship on which they both sailed crashed. Valer’s feeling was so strong that he settled in Paris and acted as … Read more
Determine the distance separating the European Center from Eastern Siberia, assess the transport conditions, locate the population and assess the physical, economic and geographical situation of Eastern Siberia. Moscow is 3375 km from Krasnoyarsk, the western borders of the East Siberian economic region from the eastern borders of Central Russia are -3100 km. By rail … Read more