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module 9

2010-02-19T20:09:00.003+02:00

1.Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria to Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf was the fourth of six children born to Alois and Klara, but only one of two to survive childhood. Adolf's father, Alois, was nearing his 52nd birthday when Adolf was born, but was only celebrating his 13th year as a Hitler. Alois (Adolf's father) was actually born as Alois Schicklgruber on June 7, 1837 to Maria Anna Schicklgruber. At the time of Alois' birth, Maria was not yet married. Five years later (May 10, 1842), Maria Anna Schicklgruber married Johann Georg Hiedler.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/hitleradolf/a/hitlerancestry.htm

2.John Stith Pemberton (January 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran and an American druggist, and perhaps was best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola, which in his lifetime was used only for medical purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stith_Pemberton

3.Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 near Pisa, the son of a musician. He began to study medicine at the University of Pisa but changed to philosophy and mathematics. In 1609, Galileo heard about the invention of the telescope in Holland. In 1614, Galileo was accused of heresy for his support of the Copernican theory that the sun was at the centre of the solar system. In 1632, he was again condemned for heresy after his book 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems' was published. Galileo died in Arcetri on 8 January 1642.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml

4.William Henry Gates III, KBE, (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine in 2004, Gates is the wealthiest person in the world, a position he has held steadily for many years.
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates, Sr., a corporate lawyer, and Mary Maxwell Gates, board member of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and the national board of United Way.
http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/b/billgates.html

5.James Watt (January 19, 1736 - August 19, 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were a key stage in the Industrial Revolution.
He was born in Greenock, Scotland, and lived and worked in Birmingham, England. He was a key member of the Lunar Society. Many of his papers are in Birmingham Central Library. Invented double-acting engine.

http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/j/jameswatt.html

6.Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Warhola

7.Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer, and model. Monroe was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Jeane_Mortenson#In_popular_culture

8.Caesar continued to consolidate his power and in February 44 BC, he declared himself dictator for life. This act, along with his continual effort to adorn himself with the trappings of power, turned many in the Senate against him. Sixty members of the Senate concluded that the only resolution to the problem was to assassinate Caesar.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar2.htm

9.Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon

10.Diana, Princess of Wales, (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Her sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the throne of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms. A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana remained the focus of near-constant media scrutiny in the United Kingdom and around the world before, during and after her marriage, even in the years following her sudden death in a car crash, which was followed by a spontaneous and prolonged show of public mourning. Contemporary responses to Diana's life and legacy were mixed but a popular fascination with the Princess endures. The long-awaited Coroner's Inquest reported its conclusion on 7 April 2008 that Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by the negligent driving of the following vehicles and also the driver Henri Paul of the vehicle in which she was travelling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Diana_Spencer

module 7

2010-02-19T16:34:00.003+02:00

1.Vogue, founded in the US in 1892, has been the longest-lasting and most successful of the hundreds of fashion magazines that have come and gone. Increasing affluence after World War II and, most importantly, the advent of cheap colour printing in the 1960s led to a huge boost in its sales, and heavy coverage of fashion in mainstream women's magazines - followed by men's magazines from the 1990s. Haute couture designers followed the trend by starting the ready-to-wear and perfume lines, heavily advertised in the magazines, that now dwarf their original couture businesses. Television coverage began in the 1950s with small fashion features. In the 1960s and 1970s, fashion segments on various entertainment shows became more frequent, and by the 1980s, dedicated fashion shows like FashionTelevision started to appear. Despite television and increasing internet coverage, including fashion blogs, press coverage remains the most important form of publicity in the eyes of the industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion#Media

2.Mary Quant,born 11 February 1934 in Blackheath, Kent, England is a British fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born to Welsh parents, Quant went to Blackheath High School then studied illustration at Goldsmiths College before taking a career with a couture milliner. She is also famed for her work on pop art in fashion. In the late 1960s, Quant popularised hot pants. Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up, rather than just her clothing lines. At a talk at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2007 she claimed to have invented duvet covers. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quant#Later_career

3. Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking") refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Couture is a common abbreviation of Haute Couture, which refers to the same thing in spirit^.It originally referred to Englishman Charles Frederick Worth's work, produced in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. In modern France, haute couture is a "protected name" that can be used only by firms that meet certain well-defined standards. However, the term is also used loosely to describe all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing, whether it is produced in Paris or in other fashion capitals such as Milan, London, Rome, Florence, New York and Tokyo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture

4.Buttons on the sleeves of men’s suit jackets serve practical and decorative needs. Jackets sleeve buttons that open and close mainly evoke status. This custom came from the reign of Prussia’s Frederick the Great 225 years ago. The buttons would “encourage (soldiers) to use their shirt cuffs instead of jackets sleeves as handkerchiefs,” wrote menswear historian Alan Flusser. Many modern menswear dictates are rooted in military decorum and convenience.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5184288_do-men_s-suits-buttons-sleeves_.html

5.In eighteenth-century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with Stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships. Sometimes the wigs were so elaborate they were worn continuously for several months. They were matted with lard to keep them from coming apart, which made mice and insects a constant hazard. Special pillows had to be constructed to hold these giant creations, and rat-resistant caps made of gilt wire were common items. Mercifully, the wig craze died out quite suddenly in England in 1795, when a hair-powder tax made their upkeep too expensive.

http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/fashion.shtml

6.Passion is necessary to hunt down clothes from second hand vintage and thrift shops, flea markets, charity shops, yard sales, jumble sales, fetes, car boot and garage sales. That's only the start of the process. Then comes the work of maybe repairing a seam, removing stains, laundering and pressing items using products you have to purchase.

http://www.fashion-era.com/Vintage_fashion/2_what_is_internet_vintage.htm#Making%20a%20Living%20from%20Selling%20Vintage

7.The history of the brassieres is inextricably intertwined with the social history of the status of women, including the evolution of fashion and changing views of the body.

The negligee is a form of womenswear intended for wear at night and in the bedroom. It is a form of nightgown; first introduced in France in the 18th-century, where it mimicked the heavy head-to-toe style of women's day dresses of the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_brassieres

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligee

8.The history of perfume began in antiquity. The word perfume used today to describe scented mixtures, derives from the Latin "per fumus", meaning through smoke. Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans and the Arabs. Although perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia, much of its fragrances are incense based. The basic ingredients and methods of making perfumes are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_perfume

9.Carmen Kass grew up in the Estonian city of Paide. At the age of fourteen, she was discovered in a Tallinn supermarket by an Italian modeling scout. Four years later, she moved to Milan and later Paris to pursue modeling quickly appearing in fashion shows for many top designer. She has appeared on a variety of magazine covers and in advertisements for brands as diverse as Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Givenchy, Fendi, Michael Kors, the Gap, Sephora. She has a noted interest in business, as part owner of her mother agency Baltic Models. As an actress, she appeared in the Estonian film Set Point. She loves to play chess in her off time.

http://models.com/models/Carmen-Kass

10.Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO) is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, (Kingdom of Bavaria) to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss_&_Co.

Module 8

2010-02-19T14:41:00.002+02:00

1. Vatican City – 0.2 square miles – The world’s smallest state, the Vatican has a population of 770, none of whom are permanent residents.
The largest country is russia. 17,075,400 km² large.
http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/smallcountries.htm
http://wapedia.mobi/en/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area

2. The Dead Sea is a natural wonder which is situated in the center of the great Syrian-African rift valley fault between Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan. The Dead Sea is actually a big inland lake 76 KM long, up to 18 KM wide and it is 400 meters deep at the deepest point. It is the lowest point on dry land in the world (417 under sea level).
http://www.trekker.co.il/english/the_dead_sea/

3. Name: Puncak Jaya
Height: 16,023 feet (4,884 meters)
Location: Irian Jaya (Or Papua since 2000), Indonesia, Australia/Oceania
Lat/Lon: 4.08°S, 137.18°E
http://peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=11360

4. Longest river in the world is Nile. It's 4,132 miles (6,650 km) long.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile

5. The Mariana Trench.The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum depth of about 11,033 metres (36,200 ft) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench

6. In 1592 Raleigh falls out of favour with Queen Elizabeth when she discovers that he has married one of her maids called Bessie Throckmorton.
The Queen ordered that Sir Walter Raleigh is placed in the Tower of London but he was released when one of his ships brought back a huge treasure on the captured Spanish ship “Madre De Dios”.
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/sir-walter-raleigh.htm

7. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world at 155,557,000 sq km. Its deepest point is the Mariana Trench (Challenger Deep) at 11,033 metres.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean

8. The Sahara is the largest hot desert. It is in northern Africa and occupies over a quarter of Africa, covering 9.1 million square kilometres, or 3.5 million square miles. It is generally more recognised as a desert because its rate of evaporation exceeds the rate of precipitation, whereas the Antarctic has a very low evaporation rate.

The area receives rainfall of between 0 and 150 mm per year and the temperatures oscillate between -2 and 45 degrees Centigrade.
Water holes are rare..
Sedentary populations live in desert oases and make their living by hunting, fruit picking and growing crops.
Nomads, well-adapted to the harsh environment and risks of nature, wander through the desert. Touaregs in the Air, the Kanouris of Kawar, the Toubous of Djado and the Peuls Bororo in Azawak practice nomadism, raise livestock and engage in caravan trading.
These traditional ways of life and the economic systems they support are complementary and reflect the delicate balance of the desert environment.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_world’s_largest_desert
http://www.agadez-tourisme.com/en/sahara_en.html

9. South America and North America were named after Amerigo Vespucci in 1507. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who was the first person to realize that the Americas were completely separate from Asia, when he mapped the eastern coast of South America in 1502.
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question45545.html

10. Francisco Pizarro in 1478 – 1541.

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-explorers.htm

Module 3

2010-02-19T14:20:00.002+02:00

1. Brazil has won the biggest number of titles in FIFA World Cup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_records

2. Diego Maradona made his full international debut at age 16, against Hungary on 27 February 1977. At age 18, he played the World Youth Championship for Argentina, and was the star of the tournament, shining in their 3–1 final win over the Soviet Union. On 2 June 1979, Maradona scored his first senior international goal in a 3–1 win against Scotland at Hampden Park.

Maradona was born in Lanús, but raised in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, to a poor family that had moved from Corrientes Province. He was the first son after three daughters. He has two younger brothers, Hugo (el Turco) and Eduardo (Lalo), both of whom were also professional football players.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Maradona

3. The world’s first black football player was Andrew Watson.
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/22179_andrew-watson-the-worlds-first-black-football-player

4. The first description of a football match in England was written by William FitzStephen in about 1170. He records that while visiting London he noticed that “after dinner all the youths of the city goes out into the fields for the very popular game of ball.” He points out that every trade had their own football team. “The elders, the fathers, and the men of wealth come on horseback to view the contests of their juniors, and in their fashion sport with the young men; and there seems to be aroused in these elders a stirring of natural heat by viewing so much activity and by participation in the joys of unrestrained youth.”
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Fhistory.htm

5. George Blanda. George retired after 26 years, playing in both the old AFL and the NFL, scoring a total of 2002 points.
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/NFL-178086.html

6. The team that Beckham was first in was Manchester United, as a trainee in July 1991. He had won all his matches, and kept getting more popular. His carreer spring boarded high with the 1996/97 season, when he scored from the halfway line against Wimbleton. However, the 1998 World Cup was the bottom of his carreer, because he was sent off for a foul on Diego Simeone. Luckly, he could still get his carreer going, and later got to be the captain of the national team. After the 2002/03 season, David Beckham was sold to the Real Madrid for £25 million. After more than 3 years at the Bernabeu, Beckham moved to the USA. Beckham agreed to a £128 milion ($250 million) five-year deal with the LA Galaxy.

His real full name is David Robert Joseph Beckham. His nicknames are Big and Becks.
He was born in 05/02/1975, His place of birth is Leytonstone, United Kingdom ,His occupaction is Sport.
http://www.biggeststars.com/d/david-beckham-biography.html
http://www.beckhamwatch.com/beckham.html

7. PELE (born 1940). “Soccer in its purest form” was played by Pele, a South American superstar who was the world’s most famous and highest-paid athlete when he joined a North American team in 1975. He led the Brazilian national soccer team to three World Cup victories in 1958, 1962, and 1970 and to permanent possession of the Jules Rimet Trophy.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento was born to a poor family on Oct. 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil. He began playing for a local minor-league club when he was a teenager. He made his debut with the Santos Football Club in 1956. With Pele at inside left forward, the team won several South American clubs’ cups and the 1962 world club championship, in addition to the three World Cup championships.

Pele scored his 1,000th goal in 1969. The legendary athlete retired in 1974 but made a comeback in 1975 after accepting a reported 7-million-dollar contract for three years with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. He said he came out of retirement, not for the money, but to “make soccer truly popular in the United States.” His farewell appearance was against his old Santos club in1977.
Pele, whose nickname does not mean anything, became a Brazilian national hero and was also known as Perola Negra (Black Pearl).

http://www.360soccer.com/pele/pelebio.html

8. Gridiron football, also known as American Football, is an umbrella term used to refer to several similar codes of football played primarily in the United States and Canada. The game descends from rugby football, itself an umbrella term for various similar codes.

It’s played in America and in Canada.
The Most famous teams are, San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League_win-loss_records

9. Football was originally invented in China, between the 3rd century and 1st century BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_ball#Early_history

10. On December 2009 Estonia’s World Ranking in FIFA was 102/103. Estonia is sharing rank 102/103 with Rwanda.

Intresting facts : Estonia’s lowest ranking ever in FIFA is 137. (October 2008)
The highest ranking ever in FIFA is 60. (December 2002)
http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=est/ranking/gender=m/

Module 1

2010-02-19T13:48:00.003+02:00

1. One myth about how the ancient Olympic Games in Mt.Olympia involved Pelops, king of Olympia and eponymous hero of the Peloponnesus, to whom offerings were made during the Games. Another myth tells of King Iphitos of Elis, who consulted Pythia, the Oracle (Temple) at Delphi, to find a way to save his people from war in the 9th century BC. More legends: Some Greece people also belived that Zeus created the ancient Olympic Games after the defeat of his predecessor, Titan Cronus. Some of them also thought that the gods enjoyed watching the sporting events.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games

2. The Olympic symbols are the icons, flags and symbols used by the International Olympic Committee to promote the Olympic Games. Some—such as the flame, fanfare, and theme—are more common during Olympic competition, but others, such as the flag, can be seen throughout the year.

The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for “Swifter, Higher, Stronger”. The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for “Swifter, Higher, Stronger”.

The Olympics flag is a flag witch rings/symbols are representing five continents of the world: America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols

3. It was in the 1900 Olympic Games that women first participated as contestants. Some important occasions for women at the Summer Games were:
– the first appearance of women swimmers at the 1912 Games in Stockholm
– the first female athletics competitions, at the Amsterdam Games in 1928. Note that the
800m race was considered too difficult for women and was discontinued after 1928, not
to be reintroduced until 1960.
From volleyball (1964), to rowing (1976), from cycling (1984) to football (1996).
http://history1900s.about.com/od/fadsfashion/a/olympics1900.htm

4. In 1986, the IOC decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games on separate years. Instead of holding both Games in the same calendar year, it was decided to alternate them every two years. Both Games would still be held on four-year cycles. The rationale given by the IOC for this change was in order to give more prominence to the Winter Olympic Games. It was decided that 1992 would be the last year to have both a Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

The first international multi-sport event specifically for winter sports were the Nordic Games, held in 1901 in Sweden. The Nordic Games were organized by General Viktor Gustaf Balck. They were held again in 1903, again in 1905, and then every four years there after until 1926.

The Second World War interrupted the celebration of the Winter Olympics. The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Sapporo, Japan, but was rescinded in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War. Garmisch-Partenkirchen stepped in to host the Winter Games again, but both Summer and Winter Olympics were cancelled in their entirety in November 1939 following Germany’s invasion of Poland. The 1944 Winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, were cancelled in the Summer of 1941, due to the continuing World War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Olympic_Games

5. The Olympic Movement is a philosophy created and promoted by the International Olympic Committee. This philosophy advocates using sport not just as a physical activity but also as a means of educating people.

According to this philosophy, the good sportsmanship, sense of fair play, and respect for fellow athletes that is developed through participation in sports teaches men and women of different races, religions, and nationalities to work peacefully together in competition toward common goals. The Olympic Movement works to expand such lessons beyond the sports arena in the hope of promoting peace and a sense of brotherhood throughout the world.

The most prominent way the IOC promotes the Olympic Movement is through the Olympic Games. But the Movement’s ideals are practiced in other ways, including the promotion of environmental issues, fighting drug use among athletes, and providing financial and educational aid.http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2263

6. Despite what Coubertin had hoped for the Olympics, it did not bring total peace to the world. In fact, three Olympiads had to pass without a celebration of the Games because of war: the 1916 Games were cancelled because of World War I, and the summer and winter games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II. The South Ossetia War between Georgia and Russia erupted on the opening day of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Both President Bush and Prime Minister Putin were attending the Olympics at that time and spoke together about the conflict at a luncheon hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao. When Nino Salukvadze of Georgia won the bronze medal in the 10 meter air pistol competition, she stood on the medal podium with Natalia Paderina, a Russian shooter who had won the silver. In what became a much-publicized event from the Beijing Games, Salukvadze and Paderina embraced on the podium after the ceremony had ended.

Terrorism has also threatened the Olympic Games. In 1972, when the Summer Games were held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the terrorist group Black September in what is now known as the Munich massacre. A bungled liberation attempt led to the deaths of the nine abducted athletes who had not been killed prior to the rescue. Also killed were five of the terrorists and a German policeman. During the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta, a bomb was detonated at the Centennial Olympic Park, which killed 2 and injured 111 others. The bomb was set by Eric Robert Rudolph, an American domestic terrorist, who is currently serving a life sentence for the bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Controversies

7. 43 different sports, spanning 56 different disciplines, have been part of the Olympic program at one point or another. 28 sports have comprised the schedule for the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics, though baseball and softball have been removed to give a list of 26 for the 2012

Like the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, the Special Olympics World Games include summer and winter versions, and are held every four years. The first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1968. The first International Special Olympics Winter Games were held in February 1977 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Olympics_World_Games

8. The next winter Olympic Games will take place in Vancouver.

Vancouver is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, Vancouver ranks third largest in the country and the city proper ranks eighth. According to the 2006 census Vancouver had a population of just over 578,000 and its Census Metropolitan Area exceeded 2.1 million people. Its residents are ethnically diverse, with 52% having a first language other than English.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver

9. The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games had been handed to Berlin before the Nazis came to power but now it was the perfect opportunity for Hitler to demonstrate to the world, how efficient the Nazi Germany was. It was also the perfect opportunity for the Nazis to prove to the world the reality of the Master Race.
The Nazi Germany team had been allowed to train fulltime thus pushing to the limit the idea of amateur competition. Germany’s athletic superstar of the time was Lutz Lang – a brilliant long jumper who easily fitted into the image of blond hair, blue eyed Aryan racial superiority. By far the most famous athlete in the world was Jesse Owens of America – an African American and therefore, under Nazi ideology, inferior to the athletes in the German team.
But Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals, broke 11 Olympic records and defeated Lutz Lang in a very close long jump final.
There were a total of 10 African American members in the American athletics team. Between them they won 7 gold medals, 3 silvers and 3 bronze.

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, in what was then West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972.
The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin. The Munich Olympics were intended to present a new, democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by its official motto, “the Happy Games.” The emblem of the Games was a blue solar logo (the “Bright Sun”). The Olympic mascot, the dachshund “Waldi”, was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Games also saw the introduction of the now-universal sports pictograms designed by Otl Aicher. Soon, however, the killings of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists in an event known as the Munich massacre took center stage.

The games played in the 1936 Olympic games were : Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Modern pentathlon, Polo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Water polo, Weightlifting, Wrestling

The games played in the 1972 Olympic games were : Archery, Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Judo, Modern pentathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Volleyball, Water polo, Weightlifting, Wrestling

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1936_berlin_olympics.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics

10. When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece. The idea of organizing a marathon race came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. This idea was heavily supported by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, as well as the Greeks. The Greeks staged a selection race for the Olympic marathon on March 10, 1896 that was won by Charilaos Vasilakos in 3 hours and 18 minutes (with the future winner of the introductory Olympic Games marathon coming in fifth). The

3 Men running the 1896 Olympic marathon.

winner of the first Olympic Marathon, on April 10, 1896 (a male-only race), was Spiridon “Spiros” Louis, a Greek water-carrier. He won at the Olympics in 2 hours 58 minutes and 50 seconds.

The women’s marathon was introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles, USA) and was won by Joan Benoit of the United States with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 52 seconds.

Since the modern games were founded, it has become a tradition for the men’s Olympic marathon to be the last event of the athletics calendar, with a finish inside the Olympic stadium, often within hours of, or even incorporated into, the closing ceremonies. The marathon of the 2004 Summer Olympics revived the traditional route from Marathon to Athens, ending at Panathinaiko Stadium, the venue for the 1896 Summer Olympics.

The Olympic men’s record is 2:06:32, set at the 2008 Summer Olympics by Samuel Kamau Wanjiru of Kenya.
The Olympic women’s record is 2:23:14, set at the 2000 Summer Olympics by Naoko Takahashi of Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon

Module 10

2010-02-18T20:38:00.003+02:00

1. During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

2. John F. Kennedy. Assassination took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_22,_1963

3. September 11 attacks. The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda members hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11

4. Titanic sank. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic

5. The Mayflower has a famous place in American history as a symbol of early European colonization of the future US. Mayflower went off course as the winter approached, and remained in Cape Cod Bay. On March 21/31, 1621, all surviving passengers, who had inhabited the ship during the winter, moved ashore at Plymouth, and on April 5/15, the Mayflower, a privately commissioned vessel, returned to England.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

6. The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

7. Barack Obama became the forty-fourth, and current, president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

8. ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense, was the world’s first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the contemporary global Internet. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by Lawrence Roberts, of the Lincoln Laboratory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

9.On 1 september, 1939 started World War 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

10. Pearl Harbor – At 7:02 a.m., two Army operators at Oahu’s northern shore radar station detect the Japanese air attack approaching and contact a junior officer who disregards their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes which are expected in from the U.S. west coast.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm

Module 5

2010-02-18T16:18:00.006+02:00

1. He was Charlie Chaplin. His most famous films were The Tramp, The Immigrant and Modern Times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin

2. Nicolas Kim Coppola is Nicolas Cage. He changed his name in order to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. His first film was Brubaker. After that he has appeared in a wide range of films. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage

3. Alfred Hitchcock. A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy and Tippi Hedren.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/

4. Forrest Gump. Movie was Released in 1994. Director was Robert Zemeckis. Forrest Gump won 6 Oscars. Actors were Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise and Mykelti Williamson.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

5. His name is Jackie Chan and he has won mtv movie award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan

6. The Simpsons. The series is a satirical parody of a working class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons

7. Bruce Willis. He has performed mostly in fighting movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis

8. Angelina Jolie. Her husband now is Brad Pitt. Her most famous movies are Tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Alexander.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/bio

9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson played main roles in the film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/

10. She was born 9th April 1990. She has won MTV Movie Award, People's Choice Award and Teen Choice Award.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829576/

module 6

2010-02-17T19:44:00.010+02:00

1.The Dingo Fence that was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885. It is one of the longest structures in the world and is the world's longest fence. It stretches 5,614 km.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Fence)

2.The Saltwater Crocodile is the world's largest reptile.These amazing creatures are found on the northern coast of Australia and inland for up to 100 kms or more. The Saltwater Crocodile has been reported to grow to lengths of 7 metres!, but the average size of a Saltwater Crocodile is 4 metres long.

(http://www.australianfauna.com/saltwatercrocodile.php)

3.The Commonwealth of Australia is a federal constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Australia)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_minister)

4.The Deepest lake in Australia is Lake St Clair and the Murray River is the longest river in Australia at 2520km.

(http://www.australianexplorer.com/interesting_facts.htm)

5.‘Advance Australia Fair’ is the national anthem of Australia. Peter Dodds McCormick, a Scot, composed ‘Advance Australia Fair’ under the pen-name ‘Amicus’ (amicus is the Latin word for ‘friend’).The official anthem was ‘God Save the Queen’ (or ‘King’) from 1788 to 1974, although numerous commercial and official competitions were held over the years to find a substitute. The first was held in 1840.

(http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/nat_anthem.html)

6.The flag of Australia is the national flag of Australia. Its original design was chosen in 1901 from entries in a worldwide competition held following Federation. It was first flown in Melbourne on 3 September 1901. A slightly different design was approved by King Edward VII in 1902. Over the next few years, the exact specifications of the flag were changed several times both intentionally and as a result of confusion. The current specifications were formally gazetted in 1934, and in 1954 the flag became recognised by parliamentary statute as the "Australian National Flag". The Australian flag uses three prominent symbols: the Union Jack, the Commonwealth Star (also the Federation Star) and the Southern Cross.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia)

7.The name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning "southern". Legends of an "unknown land of the south" date back to Roman times and were commonplace in medieval geography but were not based on any documented knowledge of the continent. English is the national language. Australian English is a major variety of the language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

8.Sydney golden wattle, which is also known as Sallow, wattle, Long leaved wattle and Golden rods, is a tall, dense shrub or small spreading tree native to NSW, Vic. and Tas. It is fast growing and adaptable to a wide range of situations but requires good drainage.

http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&ibra=all&card=E46

9.His frog has a dark olive to bright green back, which can change over a period of an hour. The sides often have white spots as does the back. There is usually a white streak or a number of white spots that run from the corner of the mouth to the base of the arm. The belly is white and granular. There is a skin fold that runs from the eye to the arm. The skin on the back is smooth and the iris of the eye is golden. The finger and toe pads are large. The fingers are one-third webbed and the toes are three-quarters webbed.
http://www.frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=137

10.Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock

module 4

2010-02-16T19:11:00.012+02:00

1. His stage name was formed from the names of actress Marilyn Monroe and convicted murderer Charles Manson. Music he performes is heavy metal. He girlfriend name is Evan Rachel Wood.

2. EBBA means European Border Breakers Bwards. One Estonian singer is Kerli Kõiv.

(http://www.europeanborderbreakersawards.eu/home.html)

3. In 1980, Morocco - a North African country - participated in the contest.

(http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-country)

4. Louise Veronica Ciccone is Madonna.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer))

5. Queen formed in 1971 and in 1973 signed their first recording contract for EMI. That year they released their first album, QUEEN.

(http://www.queenonline.com/home/)

6. Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American musician and actor.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley)

7. Jim Hendrix - September 18, 1970 - had asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly red wine which had filled his airways, as the autopsy was to show.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix#Death)

Janis Joplin – October 4, 1970 - death was an overdose of heroin.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin#Death)

Jim Morrison - July 3, 1971 – death was an overdose.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison#Death)

Kurt Cobain - c. April 5, 1994 - He was not seen on April 4. On April 8 Cobain's body was discovered at his Lake Washington. Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain#Death)

8.This the composer was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart)

9.Reginald Kenneth Dwight real name is Elton John. Musical career:
1962–1969 - Pub pianist to staff songwriter.
1969-1976 - Empty Sky to Blue Moves
1979-1989 - 21 at 33 to Sleeping with the Past

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John)

10.Stefani Germanotta is Lady Gaga.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefani_Germanotta)

module 2

2010-02-10T10:25:00.006+02:00

1.The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document. It takes its name from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840. This day is now a public holiday in New Zealand.

(http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/treaty/waitangi-day)

2. The weta is native to New Zealand. It is a rather large insect. While harmless to humans, its bite can be painful. It is a protected species, and, despite its repellent aspect, may not be harmed.

(http://www.nz.com/new-zealand/guide-book/natural-history/weta.aspx)

3.The film name is “Avatar”. Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction epic film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Stephen Lang. The film is set in the year 2154, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on the lush moon Pandora in the Alpha Centauri star system.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)

4. The monarchy of New Zealand. In New Zealand is the head of the state – Queen Elizabeth II. Of the country official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_New_Zealand)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_New_Zealand#Official_languages)

5.The New Zealand Flag is the symbol of the realm government and people of New Zealand. As New Zealand's national symbol the New Zealand Flag should be treated in a manner worthy of its high status.

6.In New Zealand use Internet - 683,500 people (Jun.2007)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users)

7. Over 20 percent of New Zealand is covered in national parks, forest areas and reserves. Our 14 national parks contain an incredible variety of unspoiled landscape and vegetation.

(http://www.newzealand.com/travel/about-nz/nature/nature-flora.cfm)

8. The tuatara is native to New Zealand. It is the sole survivor of the beak-heads which is a group of very ancient reptiles. The tuatara is the most ancient of all living reptiles. It is even older than the dinosaurs. It has survived for almost 200 million years. Tuatara can live up to 100 years. The male is much bigger than the female. Young tuatara have a third eye. It is on top of the brain between it's other eyes. It becomes covered over when the tuatara is an adult.

The "kiwi" is a flightless bird native to New Zealand.

(http://xenon.stanford.edu/~rsf/kiwi.html)

(http://www.nz.com/new-zealand/guide-book/natural-history/tuatara.aspx)

9. In New Zealand are the most popular fields of sports:football, basketball, cricket, netball, softball, ice hockey, rugby union and rugby league. The best athletes:

Georgina Evers-Swindell and Caroline Evers-Swindell — Rowing, Women's Double Sculls

Sarah Ulmer — Cycling, Women's 3,000 Individual Pursuit

Hamish Carter — Triathlon, Men's Competition

Bevan Docherty — Triathlon, Men's Competition

Ben Fouhy — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000 m Flatwater

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_New_Zealand#New_Zealand_national_teams)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics#Medalists)

10. Largest Lake: Lake Taupo - 606 km.

Deepest lake: Lake Hauroko - 462 m.

Longest River: Waikato river - 452 km.

Largest glacier: Tasman Glacier - 28.5 km long.

Deepest cave: Nettlebed2, NW Nelson - 889 m.

Our Team

2010-02-05T13:36:00.007+02:00

The name of our team is Spark. There are two people in our team. Uku is the smartest and Grete is the most hard-working. We study in Class 8 in Juurikaru Basic School. Our school is 157 years old, it was founded in 1853. Good luck to everyone!