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Women boxers Nic. Adams and 'Tasha'

1. Natasha Jonas Lightweight (60 kg) English; Born 18 June 1984 (age 30), Liverpool, England Initially intending to be a footballer, 'Tasha' spent eighteen months in the United States on a football scholarship, before returning to the U.K.. She currently...

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COLORADO

Colorado is a Western American state, the only American state entirely above 1,000 m (Mt Elbert culminates at 4,400 m, and Aspen is the most visited ski-ing resort [Fr.:station de ski]) in the U.S.; it is the eighth in surface (270,000 km2), the 22nd...

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Who were the Rosenbergs ?

Who were the Rosenbergs ?

(Based on:) http://www.historyaccess.com/juliusandethelro.html In 1951, the Rosenbergs were found guilty in a federal courtroom of conspiring to commit espionage. Judge Irving R. Kaufman sentenced them to die, saying they had stolen America’s most precious...

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-EN SUFFIX FOR SOME VERBS

WHY "PROVEN" AND NOT "PROVED" ? "GOTTEN" instead of "GOT"? The use of an -en suffix often varies with the function of the word and the dialect. Thus, there is a difference between "proved" and "proven" : - proved is the preferred past participle with...

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(LANGUAGE 2) : IDIOMS

(LANGUAGE 2) : IDIOMS

A abso lue (avoir l'oreille a-...) : to be pitch-perfect être en accord total avec qqn to see eye to eye with somebody. pour l'amour de l'art : as a labour of love B C reprendre la balle au bond make hay while the sun shines. Je tombe sur la boîte vocale...

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Carlos Santana

A famous American Hispanic : Carlos Santana [Devadip] Carlos Santana was born on July 20, 1947 in Mexico. He became world-famous when he performed in Woodstock in 1969. He grew up in a typical Mexican family (his parents had six children). They settled...

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PINZON'S SUPERHEROES

PINZON'S SUPERHEROES

You may not have recognized Spiderman in this photograph, but I doubt it. If such be the case, you wouldn't be totally wrong, as the model for this photo is a real life hero, a Mexican immigrant who risks his life everyday so as to earn enough money to...

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Mods & rockers (Who were the -?)

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about 1960s British youth subcultures.) The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a "moral panic"...

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Harold Pinter (Death of the greatest)

BBC-News page last updated at 22:11 GMT, Thursday, 25 December 2008 Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had cancer, died on Christmas Eve aged 78. He wrote more than 30 plays including The Caretaker and The Birthday Party. His film scripts...

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U.S. First Transcontinental railroad (2)

U.S. First Transcontinental railroad (2)

Needing rapid communication, the companies built telegraph lines along the railroad. The linkage made these lines easier to protect and maintain than the original First Transcontinental Telegraph lines. In addition to track laying (which typically employed...

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