Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea Flower Show – one of the oldest and most visited exhibitions. It is popular not only among Englishmen, but also is esteemed by fans fine and experts of landscape art from all over the world. "The summer won't begin, untill the flower-show in Chelsea won't open"  - speak in England. The exhibition has more, than centenary history and is carried out within five days at the end of May.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

"Military Tattoo" means a military signal «vespers dawns» – a drumbeat which urges soldiers to come back to barracks. This festival, is a part of a global Edinburgh festival of arts which passes every August in the capital of Scotland.

Virgin London Marathon

the London marathon passes every year and is accompanied by passing of a street distance to 26,2 miles. this holiday is one of the most noisy holidays of the world.

Apple Day

Day of apple — this celebration and demonstration of variety and wealth of the nature, and also incentive and a sign to that ourselves are capable to influence the changes occurring around.

Do you know that:
Great Britain is the unique country in the world which still didn't get the hand-written Constitution, nevertheless, the rights and freedoms of citizens there are carried out strictly 

Do you know that:
the queen of England can't enter into some buildings. it is forbidden to queen to appear in the House of Commons of Parliament of Great Britain because the queen isn't the member of this Chamber. 

Big Ben — a bell tower in London, a part of an architectural complex of the Westminster palace. The official name of Big Ben — “An hour tower of the Westminster palace”, also it call “St. Stephane's Tower”

London is a place where a large number of locks is located. One of them the Bukengemsky palace who and now is the residence of the British monarchs.

Britannia is a national personification of the United Kingdom, originating from Roman Britain. Britannia is symbolised as a young woman with brown or golden hair wearing a Corinthian helmet and white robes. She holds Poseidon's three-pronged trident and a shield, bearing the Union Flag. Sometimes she is depicted as riding on the back of a lion. At and since the height of the British Empire, Britannia has often been associated with maritime dominance, as in the patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!".

The world's first Zoo was opened in England in the 1826

The official language of England was French until 1362.

A few facts for the study of life in England
1. Red cross of st. George on a white background and the national flag of the united kingdom, which consists of england, scotland and ireland. Typically used national flag of the united kingdom, but you can see the other flag in the event that all three countries will be presented separately, for example, in sports.
2. About 80 thousand people annually lose your umbrella during a trip to london underground. Be careful and hold on tight for the umbrella!
3. 3.5 million people paid in 2007 to see london from a bird flying with ferris wheel, located on the banks of the thames.

      Santa Claus was a person whose name was St. Nicolas, who always gave presents to poor children. After he died, the Germans brought this legend to America. Soon, St. Nicolas became Santa Claus.
      Carol singing is a traditional part of Christmas. In the evening children come to the door of a house and sing for a person who lives in this house. Then he or she gives children nuts and candies. If I live in Great Britain, I will sing that songs too.
      So, Christmas is a lovely holiday for all the people in Great Britain. I love this wonderful holiday. Christmas is my lovely holiday in the world. I think that people in our world love this fantasticholiday too.

Отредактировано Kate (2012-04-10 10:02:29)

Great Britain is the unique country in Europe with left foreign movement. There are some versions of the reason of emergence of this movement in Great Britain.The most of historians consider that such movement had appeared before appearance of cars,at the time of teams of horses.The driver right-handed person, driving horses, could inadvertently touch by a whip  people who go on the sidewalk .  For this reason for team of horses was more safely to go on the left side of the road.