WEATHER

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CLOTHES
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SCHOOL FURNITURE
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Sufragerie-Living room
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Bucatarie-Kitchen
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COUNTRIES, CAPITALS, NATIONALITES

Countries Afghanistan Brazil China Denmark Egypt France Germany Hungary India Japan Kuwait Luxembourg Monaco Nigeria Oman Portugal Romania Spain Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Wales Zimbabwe

Capitals Kabul Brasilia Beijing Copenhagen Cairo Paris Berlin Budapest New Delhi Tokyo Kuwait City Luxembourg Monaco Abuja Muscat Lisbon Bucharest Madrid Ankara Kiev Hanoi Cardiff/Caerdydd Harare

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USA STATES

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Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY

Helena Lincoln Carson City Concord Trenton Santa Fe Albany Raleigh Bismarck Columbus Oklahoma City Salem Harrisburg Providence Columbia Pierre Nashville Austin Salt Lake City Montpelier Richmond Olympia Charleston Madison Cheyenne

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B
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C
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Irregural nouns
US -> I SINGULAR alumnus PLURAL alumni

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cacti foci/focuses fungi/funguses nuclei radii stimuli

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PLURAL beaux

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bureaus/bureaux tableaux/tableaus

PLURAL children men

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Regular verbs

Accept Add Admire Admit bake balance ban bang

calculate call camp care carry carve

earn educate embarrass employ

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an Englishpoet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".[2][nb 2] His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38plays,[nb 3] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[3] Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he marriedAnne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as theKing's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality,religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.[4] Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.[5][nb 4] His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence thatGeorge Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry".[6] In the 20th century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

Early life
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer.[7] He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual birthdate remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, St George's Day.[8] This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholar's mistake, has proved appealing to biographers, since Shakespeare died 23 April 1616.[9] He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son.[10] Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford,[11] a free school chartered in 1553,[12] about a quarter-mile from his home. Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but the grammar curriculum was standardised by royal decree throughout England,[13] and the school would have provided an intensive education in Latin grammar based upon Latin classical authors.[14] After the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592, and scholars refer to the years between 1585 and 1592 as Shakespeare's "lost years".[20] Biographers attempting to account for this period have reported many apocryphal stories. Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeares first biographer,

recounted a Stratford legend that Shakespeare fled the town for London to escape prosecution for deer poaching in the estate of local squire Thomas Lucy. Shakespeare is also supposed to have taken his revenge on Lucy by writing a scurrilous ballad about him.[21] Another 18th-century story has Shakespeare starting his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London.[22] John Aubrey reported that Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster.[23] Some 20th-century scholars have suggested that Shakespeare may have been employed as a schoolmaster by Alexander Hoghton of Lancashire, a Catholic landowner who named a certain "William Shakeshafte" in his will.[24] No evidence substantiates such stories other than hearsaycollected after his death, and Shakeshafte was a common name in the Lancashire area.[25]

London and theatrical career

It is not known exactly when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592.[27] He was well enough known in London by then to be attacked in print by the playwright Robert Greene in hisGroats-Worth of Wit: ...there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.[28] Scholars differ on the exact meaning of these words,[29] but most agree that Greene is accusing Shakespeare of reaching above his rank in trying to match university-educated writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe and Greene himself (the "university wits").[30] The italicised phrase parodying the line "Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, along with the pun "Shake-scene", identifies Shakespeare as Greene's target. Here Johannes Factotum"Jack of all trades" means a second-rate tinkerer with the work of others, rather than the more common "universal genius".[29][31] Greene's attack is the earliest surviving mention of Shakespeares career in the theatre. Biographers suggest that his career may have begun any time from the mid-1580s to just before Greene's remarks.[32] From 1594, Shakespeare's plays were performed only by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a company owned by a group of players, including Shakespeare, that soon became the leading playing company in London.[33] After the death of Queen

Elizabeth in 1603, the company was awarded a royal patent by the new king, James I, and changed its name to the King's Men.[34] In 1599, a partnership of company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the River Thames, which they called the Globe. In 1608, the partnership also took over the Blackfriars indoor theatre. Records of Shakespeare's property purchases and investments indicate that the company made him a wealthy man.[35] In 1597, he bought the second-largest house in Stratford, New Place, and in 1605, he invested in a share of the parish tithes in Stratford.[36]

Later years and death

Rowe was the first biographer to pass down the tradition that Shakespeare retired to Stratford some years before his death;[48] but retirement from all work was uncommon at that time,[49] and Shakespeare continued to visit London.[48] In 1612 he was called as a witness in a court case concerning the marriage settlement of Mountjoy's daughter, Mary.[50] In March 1613 he bought a gatehouse in the former Blackfriarspriory;[51] and from November 1614 he was in London for several weeks with his son-in-law, John Hall.[52] After 16061607, Shakespeare wrote fewer plays, and none are attributed to him after 1613.[53] His last three plays were collaborations, probably with John Fletcher,[54] who succeeded him as the house playwright for the Kings Men.[55] Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616[56] and was survived by his wife and two daughters. Susanna had married a physician, John Hall, in 1607,[57] and Judith had married Thomas Quiney, a vintner, two months before Shakespeares death.[58] In his will, Shakespeare left the bulk of his large estate to his elder daughter Susanna.[59] The terms instructed that she pass it down intact to "the first son of her body".[60] The Quineys had three children, all of whom died without marrying.[61] The Halls had one child, Elizabeth, who married twice but died without children in 1670, ending Shakespeares direct line.[62] Shakespeare's will scarcely mentions his wife, Anne, who was probably entitled to one third of his estate automatically.[63] He did make a point, however, of leaving her "my second best bed", a bequest that has led to much speculation.[64] Some scholars see the bequest as an insult to Anne, whereas others believe that the

second-best bed would have been the matrimonial bed and therefore rich in significance.[65] Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death.[66] The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a curse against moving his bones, which was carefully avoided during restoration of the church in 2008:[67] Sometime before 1623, a funerary monument was erected in his memory on the north wall, with a half-effigy of him in the act of writing. Its plaque compares him to Nestor, Socrates, and Virgil.[69]In 1623, in conjunction with the publication of the First Folio, the Droeshout engraving was published.[70] Shakespeare has been commemorated in many statues and memorials around the world, including funeral monuments in Southwark Cathedral and Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

NEW YORK CITY

New York is the most populous city in the United States[10] and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world.[11][12][13] New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters,[14] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[15] and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.[16] The city is also referred to as New York City or The City of New York[17] to distinguish it from theState of New York, of which it is a part.[18] Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors,[19] New York City consists of fiveboroughs, each of which comprises a state county.[20] The five boroughs The Bronx,Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island were consolidated into a single city in 1898.[21][22] With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133[23] distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2),[24][25][26] New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.[27] As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[28] The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2),[29][30] and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.[31] New York traces its roots to its 1624 founding as a trading post by colonists of theDutch Republic, and was named New Amsterdam in 1626.[32] The city and its surrounds came under English control in 1664[33][34] and were renamed New York after KingCharles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York.[35][36] New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785

until 1790.[37] It has been the country's largest city since 1790.[38] The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries[39] and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States and itsdemocracy.[40] Many districts and landmarks in New York City have become well known to its approximately 50 million annual visitors.[41][42][43] Times Square, iconified as "The Crossroads of the World",[44][45][46][47][48] is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district,[49] one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections,[50][51] and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.[52] The city hosts many world renownedbridges, skyscrapers,[53] and parks. New York City's financial district, anchored by Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, functions as the financial capital of the world[54] and is home to the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization of its listed companies.[55] Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world.[56] Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.[57][58][59][60] Providing continuous 24/7 service,[61] the New York City Subway is one of the most extensiverapid transit systems in the world. Numerous colleges and universities are located in New York,[62] including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which are ranked among the top 50 in the world.[63]

Geography
New York City is located in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston.[98] The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of New York is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, making land scarce and encouraging a high population density. The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. Between New York City and Troy, New York, the river is an estuary.[99] The Hudson separates the city from New Jersey. The East Rivera tidal strait flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from

Long Island. TheHarlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. The Bronx River, which flows through the Bronx and Westchester County, is the only entirelyfresh water river in the city.[100] The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamationalong the waterfronts since Dutch colonial times. Reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s.[101] Some of the natural variations in topography have been evened out, especially in Manhattan.[102] The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214 km2). 164.1 square miles (425 km2) of this are water and 304.8 square miles (789 km2) is land.[25][26] The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which, at 409.8 feet (124.9 m) above sea level, is the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard south of Maine.[103] The summit of the ridge is mostly covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Island Greenbelt.[104]

Parks

The Statue of Liberty National Monument, in New York Harbor, with the former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the background.

New York City has over 28,000 acres (110 km2) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (23 km) of public beaches.[163] This parkland complements tens of thousands of acres of federal and state parkland.

National Park System

Gateway National Recreation Area is over 26,000 acres (10,521.83 ha) in total, most of it surrounded by New York City; the New York State portion includes the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Brooklyn and Queens, over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of salt marsh, islands and water that includes most of Jamaica

Bay. Also in Queens the park includes a significant portion of the western Rockaway Peninsula, most notably Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden. Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island with historic pre-Civil war era Battery Weed and Fort Tompkins, and Great Kills Park with beaches, trails and marina also on Staten Island. The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum are managed by the National Park Service and are located both in the states of New York and New Jersey. They are joined in the harbor by Governors Island National Monument, located in New York. Historic sites under federal management on Manhattan Island include Castle Clinton National Monument; Federal Hall National Memorial; Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site; General Grant National Memorial ("Grant's Tomb"); African Burial Ground National Monument; Hamilton Grange National Memorial; and the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village is a designated National Historic Landmark as the catalyst of the modern gay rights movement.[164]

New York State Parks

There are seven state parks within the confines of New York City, including Clay Pit Ponds State Park, a natural area which includes extensive riding trails, and Riverbank State Park, a 28-acre (110,000 m2) facility that rises 69 feet (21 m) over the Hudson River.[165]

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Central Park an 883-acre (3.57 km2) park in Manhattan, is the most visited city park in the United States, with 25 million visitors each year.[167] The park contains a myriad of attractions; there are several lakes and ponds, two ice-skating rinks, the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden, the 106-acre (0.43 km2) Jackie Onassis Reservoir.

Indoor attractions include Belvedere Castle with its nature center, the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, and the historic Carousel.

Prospect Park in Brooklyn has a 90-acre (360,000 m2) meadow, a lake and extensive woodlands. Located within the park is the historic Battle Pass, which figured prominently in the Battle of Long Island.[168] Flushing MeadowsCorona Park in Queens, the city's third largest park, was the setting for the1939 World's Fair and the 1964 World's Fair.[169] Over a fifth of the Bronx's area, 7,000 acres (28 km2), is given over to open space and parks, including Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx Zoo, and the New York Botanical Gardens.[170] In Staten Island, the Conference House Park contains the historic Conference House, site of the only attempt of a peaceful resolution to the American Revolution, attended by Benjamin Franklin representing the Americans and Lord Howe representing the British Crown. Located within the park is the historic Burial Ridge, the largest Native American burial ground within New York City