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 ...
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Hogmanay Celebrations
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Hogmanay Celebrations Hogmanay is a Scottish name for New Year's Eve (31 December) and the celebrations that happen on that day. Known, as Scotland's biggest and noisiest event, Hogmanay is celebrated ...
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The Night of Hogmanay
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The Night of Hogmanay Nowhere else in Britain is the arrival of the New Year celebrated so wholeheartedly as in Scotland. Throughout Scotland, the preparations for greeting the New Year start with a minor ...
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 ...
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First Foot
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First Foot The first visitor to enter a house on New Year's morning is commonly known in Great Britain as the First Foot. In Yorkshire he is sometimes called the Lucky Bird, in the Isle of Man, the Quaaltagh. ...
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 Fifth Avenue (Пятая авеню) Fifth Avenue is one of the major avenues in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York, USA. It can be compared with Oxford Street in London, the ...
Топик на английском William Caxton (Уильям Кэкстон) William Caxton is the first English printer. He was born in Kent in 1422. His father was a farmer. William did not want to become a farmer like his father. ...
Топик на английском My Summer Holidays (Мои летние каникулы) Most people like to leave their places on holidays. Some prefer a quite rest in the country or at their dachas. Others go to the seaside and ...
Топик на английском The British Museum (Британский музей) The British Museum is a museum in London, founded in 1753. It contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) one ...
Топик на английском Weather (Погода) The weather is a subject we can always talk about. It often changes arid brings cold and heat, sunshine and rain, frost and snow. One day is often unlike the next. ...
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 ...
