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 Великобритания — это государство «Британия» или «Великобритания» означает определенное место на земном шаре (скорее несколько таких мест), но не государство. Словом «Британия» обозначаются Уэльс, Шотландия и Англия, а кроме этого есть Британские острова, где находится Северная Ирландия и Республика Ирландия (не знал, что их две!). Чаще всего Англией называют именно всю эту группу «субгосударств» без Ирландии. Англичане обычно добавляют к этому слову «Британская», то есть «Британская Англия» (British England). Северная Ирландия является частью образования под названием «United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland», которое устанавливает различие между частью Ирландии под управлением Англии (с 1972 года) и Республикой Ирландия, имеющей собственное правительство.

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 Papers focused on serious journalism
 

Broadsheet format:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ - The Daily Telegraph (est. 1855) / The Sunday Telegraph (est. 1961) – owned by David and Frederick Barclay – Very

conservative.
 
http://www.ft.com/home/europe - Financial Times (est. 1888) – owned by Pearson PLC. A business-oriented daily. Economically liberal.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ - The Sunday Times (est. 1822) – owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Centre-Right.

 

Berliner format:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ - The Guardian (est. 1821) / The Observer (est. 1791) — owned by the Scott Trust; The Guardian switched to Berliner size on 12 September 2005, followed by its sister Sunday paper The Observer on 8 January 2006. Left Wing.

 

Compact format:

http://www.independent.co.uk/ - The Independent (est. 1986) / Independent on Sunday (est. 1990) – Daily compact from May 2004, Sunday paper from October 2005. Centre-left, liberal views.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ - The Times (est. 1785) – Daily compact from November 2004. Owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Centre-Right Wing.

 

Middle-market papers:

http://www.express.co.uk/home - Daily Express (est. 1900) / Sunday Express (est. 1918) — owned by Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell plc; broadsheet until 1977, now published in the compact format. Conservative.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html - Daily Mail (est. 1896) / The Mail on Sunday (est. 1982) — owned by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and General Trust plc; broadsheet until 1971, now published in the tabloid format. Conservative.

http://www.metro.co.uk/ - Metro (est. 1999) — owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc; distributed free; working towards national status, wide availability in the major cities makes it the UK's 4th highest circulation paper. The Metro enjoys high circulation among users of public transport, with newspapers placed on trains and buses and distributors operating near stations.

 

Tabloids:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/home/ - Daily Star (est. 1978) / Daily Star Sunday.

http://www.people.co.uk/ - The People (est. 1881) — owned by Trinity Mirror.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/ - The Daily Mirror (est. 1903) / Sunday Mirror (est. 1915) — owned by Trinity Mirror. Pro-Labour.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/ - The Daily Sport / The Sunday Sport.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ - The Sun (est. 1964) / News of the World (est. 1843) — owned by News Corporation. Right-wing and populist.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php - The Morning Star (est. 1930) — a socialist newspaper owned by the People's Press Printing Society (an independent readers' co-operative).

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 LADY GODIVA

 

Some 900 years ago an extraordinary occurrence took place on Market Day in the English midlands town of Coventry.

 

 

Two monks at St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire first recorded this amazing story in Latin. Roger of Wendover wrote of it in the twelfth century and Mathew Paris in the early thirteenth century. As the Abbey stood at an important road junction, it would seem that the monks may have heard the story from travellers who were on their way from the Midlands to London.

The astonishing tale that has come down to us through the centuries, is that sometime in the eleventh-century a proud, pious lady rode through Coventry on Market Day completely naked, covered by nothing but her long hair!

Was this true? Apparently so!

Who was this pious medieval streaker?Earl Leofric was one of the all-powerful lords who ruled England under the Danish King Canute.

Leofric was a tyrant, he tyrannised the Church and did not hold the same religious convictions as his wife, nor her fondness for the Midlands and its populace.  

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 Hyde Park (together with Kensington Gardens, whose land was originally part of the park) was bought by King Henry VIII in 1536 and covers an area of 250 hectares. The park and gardens are popular with Londoners and tourists alike, who love the wide open spaces and atmosphere of the countryside very near some of the city's most famous shopping areas.
The park's recreation facilities include bowling greens, tennis courts, a children's playground and cycle paths. The Serpentine, an 11-hectare lake, offers rowing, canoeing, swimming and fishing. Rotten Row, a wide track still used for horse-riding, is over 500 years old and was the first road in Britain to have street lights at night. At Speakers' Corner, crowds gather to listen to people giving speeches about all sorts of (often eccentric) subjects.
Kensington Gardens, with its quiet gardens and two playgrounds, is a popular place to take children, who can also sail model boats on the Round Pond and watch puppet shows in the summer.

 

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American English	British English
appetizers	starters
baked potato	jacket potato
broil	grill
candy	sweets
candy store	confectioner, sweet shop
canned	tinned
cookie	biscuit
corn	sweetcorn, maize
cotton candy	candy floss
dessert	pudding, sweet, dessert
eggplant	aubergine
fish sticks	fish fingers
french fries	chips
ground meat	mince
jello	jelly
jelly	jam
oatmeal	porridge
potato chips	crisps
preserves	conserves
with or without (milk/cream in coffee)	black or white
zucchini	courgettes

 

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American English	British English
airplane	aeroplane
baggage claim	baggage reclaim
bus	coach
cab	taxi
kerosene	paraffin
one-way ( ticket )	single
railroad	railway
round trip ( ticket )	return ( ticket )
sidewalk	pavement
subway	underground, tube
underpass	subway

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American English	British English
antenna	aerial
circle, rotary	roundabout
defroster	window heater
detour	diversion
divided highway	dual carriageway
fender	wing
flat (tire)	flat tyre, puncture
gas, gasoline	petrol
gas station	petrol station, garage
gear shift	gear lever, stick
high beams	full lights
hood	bonnet
intersection	crossroads
interstate, highway, freeway	motorway
low beams	lights dipped
minibus	van/minibus
motorcycle	motorbike, motorcycle
overpass	flyover
parking lot	car park
pass (vehicle, etc)	overtake, pass
pedestrian crossing	zebra crossing, pedestrian crossing
rental car	hire car
transmission	gear box
truck	lorry, van
turn signals	indicators
windshield	wind screen