Europe off the beaten track

It’s fine to visit the European capitals. They’re all big enough to sop up a glut of tourists. But smaller places that are both uniquely interesting and lightly travelled are getting more difficult to

Christopher Columbus

300-400 years ago a great deal of the world was undiscoveried. But now there seems little more to explore, the wild north was conquered, the jungle was conquered too. And it seems that all

Versace. Версаче

“Версаче” – это известный во всем мире итальянский бренд моды, который был основан в 1978 году Джани Версаче. Джани Версаче родился 2- го декабря 1946 года в Калабрии, в Италии. В 1972 году Версаче

A short history of film India

For the hypercommercial Indian film industries, the musical romance film still reigns supreme, yet alternative visions continue to challenge their dominance. Whereas the musicals were surefire box office propositions, more marginal Indian movies relied

INDUSTRY AND MINERAL WEALTH OF RUSSIA

Russia is rich in natural resources and treasures of the soil. The European part of the land is densely populated. In the east, however, behind the Urals mountains, there are less towns and gigantic

Russia

Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. The vast territory of the Russian Federation stretches from the Baltic Sea in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East, from the

Доктор Хаус – House, M. D

Everyone of us has their favorite sitcoms. And one of the most adorable and amusing sitcoms for me is “House, M. D.”. The protagonist of this medical drama is Dr. Gregory House who is

Lesia Ukrainka (1871-1913)

Larisa Kosach (pen name Lesia Ukrainka) was born in Novgorod-Volynsky on February 25, 1871 which is now in Zhytomir Region. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a Ukrainian writer (pen-name Olena

Плюсы и минусы школьной формы – Advantages and disadvantages of wearing school uniform

Approximately twenty years ago children wore strictly school uniform at school. But since the 1990s school uniform has been cancelled. Children chose themselves a school dress. Anyway, many schools nowadays have school uniform. Is

SHOPS AND SHOPPING

We go shopping practically every day. There are many different kinds of shops in every town or city: shop, department store, men’s and women’s clothing stores, grocer’s, baker’s, butcher’s, greengro confectioners’ dairy’s and so