Love with Shakespeare

2009-05-21T07:03:00.001-07:00

American colonies independence:
The Thirteen Colonies were part of what became known as British America, a name that was used by Great Britain until the Treaty of Paris recognized the independence of the original thirteen United States of America in 1783. These British colonies in North America rebelled against British rule in 1775, this was due to the taxation that Great Britain was imposing on the colonies. A provisional government was formed which proclaimed their independence, which is now celebrated as having occurred on July 4, 1776, and subsequently became the original thirteen United States of America. The colonies were founded between 1607 (Virginia), and 1733 (Georgia), although Great Britain held several other colonies in North America and the West Indies which did not join the rebellion in 1775.

2009-05-21T07:02:00.001-07:00

THE BEATLES: a rock and pop band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music, selling over one billion records internationallyDuring their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and skiffle. the group worked with different musical genres. Their clothes, style and statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. After the band broke up in 1970, all four members embarked upon successful solo careeThe Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one, earning more number one albums. In 1985 they had sold over one billion records worldwide.
The Beatles define the 1960s, and their influence on pop culture is still evident today.

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WORLD WAR I : was a global military conflict which involved the majority of the world’s great powers organized into two opposing military alliances: the Entente Powers and the Central Powers Over 70 million military personnel were mobilized in the largest war in history.
Over 15 million people were killed, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. By the war's end, four major imperial powers - Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire - had been militarily and politically defeated, with the latter two ceasing to exist as autonomous countries. The revolutionized Soviet Union emerged from the Russian Empire, while the map of central Europe was completely redrawn into numerous smaller states. The League of Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict. The European nationalism spawned by the war, the repercussions of Germany's defeat, and the Treaty of Versailles would eventually lead to the beginning of World War II in 1939.

WORLD WAR II : was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilisation of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in history. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their complete economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Over seventy million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history. The war is generally held to be in September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Nazi Germany by the British Commonw. Amongst these main events are the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (fought between Nationalist China and Japan), the start of Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi invasion of Russia), and the attacks on Pearl Harbor and British and Dutch colonies in South East Asia.
The Soviet Union and the United States emerged from the war as the world's superpowers. This set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict. The self-determination spawned by the war accelerated decolonisation movements in Asia and Africa, while Western Europe itself began moving toward integration.Ealth and France.

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Technology: a broad concept that deals with an animal species usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to it’s environment. Is a term with origins in the Greek "technologia”. a strict definition is elusive; "technology" can refer to material objects of use to humanity, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. The human race's use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. The technology is not used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.

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The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth or the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-three independent member states. Most of them were formerly parts of the British Empire. They co-operate within a framework of common values and goals, as outlined in the Singapore Declaration.[1] These include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good governance, the rule of law, individual liberty, egalitarianism, free trade, multilateralism, and world peace.[2]
The Commonwealth is not a political union, but an intergovernmental organisation through which countries with diverse social, political, and economic backgrounds are regarded as equal in status. Its activities are carried out through the permanent Commonwealth Secretariat, headed by the Secretary-General; biennial Meetings between Commonwealth Heads of Government; and the Commonwealth Foundation, which facilitates activities of non-governmental organisations in the so-called 'Commonwealth Family'. The symbol of this free association is the Head of the Commonwealth, which is a ceremonial position currently held by Queen Elizabeth II.
Elizabeth II is also the monarch, separately, of sixteen members of the Commonwealth, collectively called the Commonwealth realms. As each realm is an independent kingdom, Elizabeth II, as monarch, holds a distinct title for each, though, by a Prime Ministers' Conference in 1952, all include the style Head of the Commonwealth at the end; for example: Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. Beyond the realms, the majority of the members of the Commonwealth have separate heads of state: thirty-two members are republics, and five members have distinct monarchs: the Sultan of Brunei; the King of Lesotho; the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (or King) of Malaysia; the King of Swaziland; and the King of Tonga.

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The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, mining, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain. The changes subsequently spread throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human society; almost every aspect of daily life was eventually influenced in some way.
Starting in the latter part of the 18th century there began a transition in parts of Great Britain's previously manual labour–based economy towards machine-based manufacturing. It started with the mechanisation of the textile industries, the development of iron-making techniques and the increased use of refined coal. Trade expansion was enabled by the introduction of canals, improved roads and railways. The introduction of steam power fuelled primarily by coal, wider utilization of water wheels and powered machinery (mainly in textile manufacturing) underpinned the dramatic increases in production capacity. The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the 19th century facilitated the manufacture of more production machines for manufacturing in other industries. The effects spread throughout Western Europe and North America during the 19th century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this change on society was enormous. The First Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships, railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electrical power generation. The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians. Eric Hobsbawm held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s,[4] while T. S. Ashton held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830.[5] Some twentieth century historians such as John Clapham and Nicholas Crafts have argued that the process of economic and social change took place gradually and the term revolution is not a true description of what took place. This is still a subject of debate amongst historians. GDP per capita was broadly stable before the Industrial Revolution in and the emergence of the modern capitalist economy. The Industrial Revolution began an era of per-capita economic growth in capitalist economies. Historians agree that the Industrial Revolution was one of the most important events in history. The most significant inventions had their origins in the Western world, primarily Europe and the United States.

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Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dickens' second novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial, in monthly installments that began appearing in the month of February 1837 and continued through April 1839, originally intended to form part of Dickens' serial The Mudfog Papers. George Cruikshank provided one steel etching per month to illustrate each installment.
Oliver Twist is the first novel in the English language to centre throughout on a child protagonist and is also notable for Dickens' unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives. The book's subtitle, The Parish Boy's Progress alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and also to a pair of popular 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, "A Rake's Progress" and "A Harlot's Progress".
An early example of the social novel, the book calls the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the Poor Law that states that poor people should work in workhouses, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of the time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humour. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of his hardships as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s.
Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations, and is the basis for a highly successful musical, Oliver!. This novel is loved by people around the world, while the book itself is now translated into more than 25 languages .

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Irish rebellion:
the Irish Rebellion of 1798, as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the Kingdom of Britain and its subject Kingdom of Ireland. The latter had a degree of autonomy but bore allegiance to George III of Great Britain. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French Revolutions, were the main organising force behind the rebellion.

2009-05-21T06:53:00.001-07:00

Shakespeare:
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. 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.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry".In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

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Robin Hood:
Is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times, but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for "robbing the rich to give to the poor" and fighting against injustice and tyranny.
In popular culture, Robin Hood and his band are usually portrayed as living in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire
The oldest references to Robin Hood are not historical records, or even ballads recounting his exploits, but hints and allusions found in various works
A popular culture Robin Hood is typically seen as a contemporary and supporter of the late-12th century king Richard the Lionheart, Robin being driven to outlawry during the misrule of Richard's evil brother John while Richard was away at the Third Crusade. This view first gained currency in the 16th century and has very little scholarly support.[10] It is certainly not supported by the earliest ballads. The early compilation A Gest of Robyn Hode names the king as "Edward", and while it does show Robin Hood as accepting the king's pardon he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood. The oldest surviving ballad, Robin Hood and the Monk gives even less support to the picture of Robin Hood as a partisan of the true king. The setting of the early ballads is usually attributed by scholars to either the 13th century or the 14th, although it is recognised they are not necessarily historically consistent.
The early ballads are also quite clear on Robin Hood's social status, he is a yeoman. While the precise meaning of this term changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders, it always referred to commoners. The essence of it in the present context was "neither a knight nor a peasant or 'husbonde' but something in between". We know that artisans (such as millers) were among those regarded as "yeomen" in the 14th century. From the 16th century on there were attempts to elevate Robin Hood to the nobility and in two extremely influential plays Anthony Munday presented him at the very end of the 16th century as the Earl of Huntingdon, as he is still commonly presented in modern times.
As well as ballads, the legend was also transmitted by "Robin Hood games" or plays that were an important part of the late medieval and early modern May Day festivities. The first record of a Robin Hood game was in 1426 in Exeter but the reference does not indicate how old or widespread this custom was at the time. The Robin Hood games are known to have flourished in the later 15th and the 16th centuries. It is commonly stated as fact that Maid Marian and a jolly friar (at least partly identifiable with Friar Tuck) entered the legend through the May Games.

2009-05-21T06:50:00.002-07:00

EUROPEAN COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS
The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492, although there was at least one earlier colonization effort. The first known Europeans to reach the Americas were the Vikings ("Norse") during the 11th century, who established several colonies in Greenland and one short-lived settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in the area the Norse called Vinland, present day Newfoundland. Settlements in Greenland survived for several centuries, during which time the Greenland Norse and the Inuit people experienced mostly hostile contact. By the end of the 15th century, the Norse Greenland settlements had collapse.
In 1492, a Spanish expedition headed by Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, after which European exploration and colonization rapidly expanded, first through much of the Caribbean Sea region (including the islands of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba) and, early in the 16th century, parts of the mainlands of North and South America. Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to profound changes to its landscape, population, and plant and animal life. In the 19th century alone over 50 million people left Europe for the Americas.The post-1492 era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange.

2009-05-21T06:50:00.001-07:00

MERLIN AND KING ARTHUR LEGEND
Merlin is best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c.1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a North British madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of the Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius.
Geoffrey's rendering of the character was immediately popular; later writers expanded the account to produce a fuller image of the wizard. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as born of mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human wellspring from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. Later authors have Merlin serve as the king's adviser until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady o f the Lake.

2009-05-21T06:48:00.001-07:00

WILLIAM WALLACE (BRAVE HEART)
William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas; c. 1270 – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight and landowner who is known for leading a resistance during the Wars of Scottish Independence and regarded as a patriot and national hero.[1]
Along with Andrew Moray, he defeated an English army at Stirling, and became Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk. After several years in hiding, Wallace was eventually found and captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to Edward I of England ("Longshanks"), who had him executed for treason.
Wallace was the inspiration for the poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by the 15th-century minstrel, Blind Harry and this poem subsequently became the basis of Randall Wallace's screenplay for the 1995 film Braveheart.

2009-05-21T06:41:00.000-07:00

HADRIAN’S WALL
Hadrian's Wall (Latin: perhaps Vallum Aelium, "the Aelian wall") is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Agricola and the last the Antonine Wall. All were built to prevent military raids on Roman Britain by the Pictish tribes (ancient inhabitants of Scotland) to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in Britain, and to mark physically the frontier of the Empire. Hadrian's Wall is the best known of the three because its physical presence remains most evident today.
The wall marked the northern limes in Britain and also the most heavily fortified border in the Empire. In addition to its use as a military fortification, it is thought that the gates through the wall would also have served as customs posts to allow trade taxatio n.
A significant portion of the wall still exists, particularly the mid-section, and for much of its length the wall can be followed on foot. It is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern England, where it is often known simply as the Roman Wall. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. English Heritage, a government organization in charge of managing the historic environment of England, describes it as "the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain".

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STONEHENGE
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and sits at the centre of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. Archaeologists had believed that the iconic stone monument was erected around 2500 BC, as described in the chronology below. However one recent theory has suggested that the first stones were not erected until 2400-2200 BC, whilst another suggests that bluestones may have been erected at the site as early as 3000 BC (see phase 1 below). The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury henge monument, and it is also a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge itself is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
New archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project indicates that Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.The dating of cremated remains found that burials took place as early as 3000 B.C, when the first ditches were being built around the monument. Burials continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years when the giant stones which mark the landmark were put up. According to Professor Mike Parker Pearson, head of Stonehenge Riverside Project:

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Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead.
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2009-05-07T07:04:00.000-07:00

STONEHENGE

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Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882) was an English naturalist who postulated that all species of living things have evolved over time from a common ancestor through a process called natural selection. The evolution was accepted as fact by the scientific community and much of the public life of Darwin, while his theory of evolution by natural selection was not considered the primary explanation of the evolution process until the 1930s, and now forms the basis of the modern evolutionary synthesis. As amended, the scientific discoveries of Darwin still the founding act of biology as a science, since they constitute a logical explanation that unifies observations about the diversity of life.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, January 19, 1809 - Baltimore, October 7, 1849) was a writer, poet, critic and journalist romantic U.S., widely recognized as one of the masters of the universal story short, which was one of the early practitioners in the country. It was renovated in the Gothic novel, remembered especially for his tales of terror. Considered the inventor of the detective story, also contributed with several works to the emerging genre of science fiction. On the other hand, was the first writer who attempted to write his modus vivendi, which had disastrous consequences for him. Edgar Poe was christened in Boston, Massachusetts, and his parents died when he was a child. He was picked up by a wealthy marriage of Richmond, Virginia, John and Frances Allan, but was never officially adopted. He spent one academic year at the University of Virginia and later enlisted, also briefly, in the army. Their relations with Allan broke at that time, due to constant disagreements with his stepfather, who often ignored his pleas for help and ended up destitute. His literary career began with a book of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). For economic reasons, soon directed its efforts to prose, writing short stories and literary criticism in some newspapers of the time, came to acquire a certain notoriety for his caustic style and elegance. Due to his work, lived in several cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In Baltimore, in 1835, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, which the then 13 years old. In January 1845, published a poem that would make him famous: "The Raven." His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. The true story of the writer, to edit their own newspaper (which was renamed The Stylus), never met. He died on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore City, when only 40 years old. The exact cause of his death were never clarified. Was attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart failure, anger, suicide, tuberculosis and other causes. The figure of the writer, as his work profoundly influenced the literature of his country and can say that around the world. Exerted great influence on the French symbolist literature, and through it, and surrealism, but his imprint comes much further: they are all his debtors ghost Victorian literature and, to a greater or lesser extent, authors as varied and important as Charles Baudelaire, Fedor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Mann, Jorge Luis Borges, Clemente Palma, Julio Cortázar, and so on. The Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío devoted an essay in his book The rare. Poe also made inroads in fields as diverse as cosmology, cryptography and mesmerism. His work has been assimilated by popular culture through literature, music, both modern and classic films (eg, the many adaptations of his stories made by U.S. director Roger Corman), comic books, painting ( several works of Gustave Doré, v. gr.) and television (hundreds of adjustments, such as Spanish for Series Histories for not sleeping). (See Impact of Edgar Allan Poe.) In one of his letters, he wrote: My life has been whim, impulse, passion, desire for solitude, a mockery of the things of this world, an honest desire for the future.

Romeo y Julieta

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, which describes the relationship of two young lovers whose deaths undoing get the rivalry between their families. Is set in one of the most popular scene from Shakespeare, to be considered one of the representations that have been staged since its emergence, like Hamlet. Their players are regarded as the classic archetype of the "forbidden love." The screenplay is based on an Italian tale from 1562 written by Arthur Brooke, which would be translated into verse, entitled The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet and then adapted to prose, Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Since both descriptions, Shakespeare created and developed their own characters in order to extend the original story. Some sources who conceived and began writing between 1591 and 1595, being first published in 1597. In principle, the text of Brooke had a poor quality fiction, although this would be improved in later editions to be comparable to the works of Shakespeare. The dramatic action used by Shakespeare is especially noticeable in the mix of comedy and tragedy before the moment of greatest narrative tension, his expansion of minor arguments and the use of derivatives to give a sense of complexity to the story. This can be determined as one of the perceptions of his abilities as a dramatic writer. It also has a structure that allows its assessment from various poetic forms through different characters, sometimes changing its development as the story. An example of this is Romeo, whom you can identify by their sonnets. Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for theater, movies, musicals and opera. During the English Restoration, he was again taken up the interest in it, being revised by William Davenant. Results highlight the version of David Garrick, the s. XVIII, which contained several scenes and some modified removals deemed as "indecent," the operatic adaptation of Georg Benda, who failed several action sequences, in addition to having a happy ending, the realistic representation of Charlotte Cushman, the work John Gielgud in the musical West Side Story, and the eponymous 1936 film and the title film Romeo + Juliet.

William Shakespeare

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Was a playwright, poet and English actor. Sometimes known as the Bard of Avon (or simply El Bardo), Shakespeare is considered the most important writer in English and one of the most famous of the literature [2]. The New Encyclopædia Britannica says that "many consider him the greatest dramatist of all time. [...] His pieces are represented more often and in more nations than those of any other writer." Shakespeare's plays have been translated into major languages and dramatic pieces remain worldwide. In addition, many quotations and neologisms of his works have become part of everyday use, both in English and other languages. Over time, it has been much speculation about her life, questioning his sexuality, religious affiliation, and even the authorship of their works.

2009-01-15T06:59:00.000-08:00

POEMS LOVE

I was born to love and live for loving I love you so much, and you're loving dream of mine ... and dreaming dreams die.

My hands are lost in your body, a slave of my mouth is yours, the fire of passion is pleasure, and my love for you is everything I dreamed.

Give me a kiss, a caress and a look, I return my world, my love and every piece of my life.

Globe In theatre

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Latest years

After writing the storm, in which the protagonist, in the calm that follows the temporary farewell to his art and his magiques public, Shakespeare will be retired to Stratford to live with his family. A few years earlier had purchased the larger house of the poor, with two gardens and two gardens. Candidate to move into the small local bourgeoisie, had invested the profits.

Brazil

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SAMBA

Folk dance and musical form of African Brazilian has been done by the world famous Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.La samba folk, also called Batucada is syncopated rhythm and is accompanied by percussion instruments and singing in the choir which alternated solistas.Se and running in groups dancing in circles or double líneas.En his version of ballroom dancing in the bar h, the samba seems to be slightly to the rumba.Originariamente is danced in couples, sometimes drop to conducting a series of steps separately, the best known are the bullet, and the wind is going and the short jaca. The samba came to the cities in the late nineteenth century and gained popularity internationally from 1920 to 1930.En the 1960s, his melodies, harmonies and rhythms were greatly influenced by a new rhythm with dyes jazz, bossa-nova. Some of the most famous authors of the Brazilian sambas are Chicinha Gonzaga, Ernesto Nazareth; Tupinamba or Jose Barbosa da Silva.

CARNAVAL

The Brazilian Carnival is an annual celebration that takes place forty days before Easter (marking the beginning of Lent). It has some variations from its European counterpart and also to differences over the Brazilian territory. Despite the Catholic inspiration rather feast is celebrated as a profane than as a religious event. Its origins go back to Europe a kind of carnival called introital ( "entry" in Latin) and entrudo in Portuguese language, which is characterized by the interplay of water thrown from one person to another to purify the body. The entrudo was banned without much success in the mid-nineteenth century, because it was considered violent by the upper social classes (it is said that some people were dying from infections and other diseases because it is sometimes threw rotten fruit). In the late nineteenth century, the cordões ( "links", in Portuguese) were introduced in Rio de Janeiro and consisted of groups of people walked through the streets playing music and dancing. The cordões were the ancestors of modern samba schools. The blocks (blocks), another name for cordões are some of the current representations of the popular carnival in Brazil. Are formed by people who dress according to certain themes or celebrate carnival in a specific manner. The samba schools are real organizations that work throughout the year with the aim of preparing for the carnival parade. The main celebration takes place in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, where the samba schools, blocks and strips occupy entire neighborhoods. Some of them are: In Rio de Janeiro: Mangueira, Portela, Salgueiro, Beija-Flor, Imperatriz, Império Serrano, Mocidade Independente, União da Ilha, Estácio of Sat. In Sao Paulo: in Nené Vila Matilde, Vai - Vai, Mocidade Alegre, green shirt and Branco, Rosas de Ouro, United do Perucho, Leandro of Itaquera, X-9 in São Paulo, da Barroca Zona Sul. In some regions of the northwest of the country, especially in Salvador, Bahia, there is another way of Carnival: the Trio Electric, which is an adapted truck with large speakers and a platform where musicians play tunes from genres such as the local maracatu and music focus. In these trucks play famous musical groups, such as Chiclete com Banana, Ivete Sangalo, Daniela Mercury, Cláudia Leitte and Carlinhos Brown. Along with the trucks are about 500,000 people, singing and dancing.

THE FOOTBALL

The football team of Brazil is the country's representative team in official competitions. His organization is in charge of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation, belonging to the CONMEBOL. The Brazilian team football is the most successful team in World Cups since it holds the record for wins with 5 titles, and is leading the General Table. Brazil is the only team that has participated in all stages of this tournament.

HISTORY:

Brazil hoped to get his first star in the World 1950, held in his own country. However, Uruguay defeated Brazil in the decisive match of the final set, before the 200,000 people who packed the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. This event is known as El Maracanazo. In 1958, Brazil secured its first title at the world crown, a feat it repeated 4 years later in Chile. The third world title for the Brazilians arrived in 1970, when a team that is considered one of the best in history: Pelé (considered by many as the best player in history), Carlos Alberto, Rivelino, Jairzinho and Tostao . Being the first team to win the tournament three times, Brazil won the Jules Rimet Cup. They had to spend 24 years for this team to win its fourth championship, defeating Italy in a round of shots criminal in 1994, the first time that a final was decided in these instances. In 1998 reached subcampeonato to be defeated by the combined local. Brazil became "pentacampeón" in Korea Japan 2002 after defeating Germany by 2:0. In the World Cup 2006 was eliminated in the quarter-finals by France at the marker of 1:0. His most recent international trophy for the America's Cup 2007. He was twice silver medal in football in the Olympics, this being the only major tournament organized by FIFA - IOC that it lacks win. In 2002 received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports.

BEACH

Brazil is the country Cinque great month of the World, meets a large ethnic riquesa: indispensable, Africans, occidentals i orientals, which have originat a varietat rich cultural, culinary i religious, translated into a colorful crafts molt i uns rhythms càlids molt. Aquest vast territory, ENS DEIXA discover an unnatural one. Landscape curious com or the Pantanal them impressionants Cataract of Iguazu, 270 amb més d'aigua salts, a vegetation i amb wildlife faces is to maintain unchanged. Manaus is dubte sense, is on the lloc barregen els Paisatge verds Amazon, rain forests per impervious surades a multitude of Rius, hosting the Inside tribes segueixen amb seu the traditional mode of life. Les Seves conegudes i colorfully platges is a altre dels licients to the country, miles from kilometers i Coping solitary contrast amb les platges so conegudes com Ipanema, on podrem Gaudir de l'joy i l'amabilitat dels habitants of Brazil.

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Britain

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BRITAIN

THE BEATLES

The Beatles are a band from Liverpool, England, formed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star. They are a group of pop music with more success and sales records in the history of popular music and have been recognized by the critics. Their contributions were innovative for the music of the sixties.

SHAKESPEARE

With the reopening of the theathers in 1594, Shakespeare is associated with the
companion of Lord Chamberlain who was the cousin of the queen.
Thomas Lodge and John Lily joined the companion of Lord Admira. It is the great
opurtunity by Shakespeare: in just over two years will write Romeo and Juliet,
The dream of a summer night, Richard II, The merchant of Venice and the
amansiment of fury.The government only allows the children's performances, but
these end up taking an even more critical to corrosive than those of adults.
Shakespeare criticizes this atmosphere in one of the more extensive tragedies
that writes, Henry IV, a play starring the sarcastic and relaxing Falstaff (a character who Shakespare to recover from the cheerful married Windsord after that the queen will say that I wanted to see the enemorat bufo).
Three works are for young players decided that, in the absence of sensible men,
adopting the role of noirs; Much ado about nothing, to your taste and Twelfth
Night.
The 1597 forced the owner of the land to leave "The theater" (possibly because
they had just the rent they had hired to twenty years). On the night of Christmas 1598 takes away the wood of the theater and moved
to the other side of the river Thames, where he builds "The Globe".
The North translation that Thomas had just taken from Plutarch gives the historic
material to carry out the project, Julio Cesar. Positioning it to Rome.

LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB

If it wasn't for one man, Liverpool Football Club would never have been born. When Everton left Anfield in a dispute over rent in 1892, club chairman John Houlding stayed behind along with a handful of supporters and just three first-team players. But he was determined to see football continue at the ground. He formed a new club from scratch, chose the name Liverpool… and created a legend.
Even John Houlding couldn't have predicted how successful it would become. More than 100 years on, no English club can match the LiverpoolFC roll of honour; League Champions 18 times, FA Cup winners seven times, League Cup winners seven times, European Cup winners five times and UEFA Cup winners three times.
When it is completed, the History channel will chart the rise and rise of Liverpool FC to the very summit of the England game, from the struggles of the early years right up to Gerard Houllier's historic treble in 2001. This channel will recall glorious domestic victories and European triumphs and reflect on the tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough.
We've focused on 10 key dates in Liverpool Football Club's history to begin with but over time, we'll have over 100 chapters in this section alone as we present the ultimate history of England's greatest ever football club. This is a story of incredible passion and pride - a story that not only inspires Liverpool fans but football supporters the world over.
The last that we have won a FA CUP WINNERS 2006. The 2006 FA Cup Final will be remembered in Anfield folklore as the Gerrard final as captain fantastic Steven Gerrard rescued Liverpool with a stunning last minute equaliser to break West Ham's hearts and force extra-time...
One of the players in the Liverpool team is our land of Spain, Fernando Torres
bearing the number nine.

BIG BEN

The well is how big is called the Clock Tower of the Parliament, based in London. The name will be used to go to the principal of the bell tower. It is a symbol representative of London.
The big works well from the 7th of September 1859. The clock is very famous for its reliability, due to the skill of the designer, the lawyer Edmund Beckett Denison.

TEA

The tradition of London are seeing now, that is to feel a lady or gentleman. Everyone who now travel to London to make an afternoon tea.