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READING: LONDON UNDERGROUND

 

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The London Underground is a public transport network, composed of electrified railways (that is, a metro system) that run underground in tunnels in central London and above ground in the city’s suburbs. The oldest metropolitan underground network in the world, first operating in 1863, the London Underground is usually referred to as either simply «the Underground» by Londoners, or (more familiarly) as «the Tube».

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Reading Comprehension: Tower of London

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Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.

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PRACTICE YOUR READING SKILLS: THE TUDOR ROSE

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The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty.
When Henry VII took the crown of England from Richard III in battle (1485), he brought about the end of the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster (which used the badge of a red rose) and the House of York (which used a white-rose badge).

Henry’s father was Edmund Tudor from the House of Richmond, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; in January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York to bring all factions together. (In battle, Richard III fought under the banner of the boar, and Henry under the banner of the dragon of his native Wales.) The white rose/red rose idea was a Tudor invention.

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MARK TWAIN

«Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today».

-Mark Twain-

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (1876) and its seuquel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called «the Great American Novel.»

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Stress-free full English breakfast

 

foto english breakfastA proper fry-up is a very personal thing, so feel free to swap in and out what you like best.

 

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Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

— Virginia Woolf

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John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 50 years ago

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.