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Post by Charity on Oct 29, 2004 11:04:10 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Oct 29, 2004 11:08:43 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Oct 29, 2004 11:10:18 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Oct 29, 2004 11:12:56 GMT -5
WEEKLY STUDY SHEET------ENGLAND-Use library and do research
NAME__________________________DATE_________
COUNTRY ______________________
1. THIS COUNTRY IS LOCATED IN THE CONTINENT OF______________________
2. THIS COUNTRY IS GOVERNED BY WHAT KIND OF POLITICAL SYSTEM________________________
3. WHO IS THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY______________________________
4. IS THIS COUNTRY A DICTATORSHIP, DEMOCRACY OR OTHER?__________________________________
5. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE SPOKEN HERE_______________________________
6. WHAT OTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN HERE?______________________________________
7. WHAT IS THE ECONOMY LIKE________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________
8. WHAT IS THEIR CURRENCY?_______________________________________
9. DO THE PEOPLE HAVE ANY STRANGE OR UNUSUAL CUSTOMS__________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________
10. WHAT ARE SOME OF THIER NATURAL RESOURCES_____________________________ _______________________________________
11. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY RELIGION PRACTICED HERE___________________________________
12. WOULD THIS BE A GOOD COUNTRY TO SEND IN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AND WHY? _______________________________________ _______________________________________
13. WHAT IS THE POPULATION_______________
14. WHAT KIND OF FOODS (AT LEAST 3) WOULD YOU EAT IF YOU WERE TO VISIT THIS COUNTRY________ _________________________________________
15. WHAT IS THE CAPITOL OF THIS COUNTRY_______________________________
16. NAME 2 OF THE LARGEST CITIES__________ _______________________________________
17. WHAT IS THE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE?_____________________________________
18. IS THIS COUNTRY A MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS?__________________________
19. WHAT DOES AMERICA IMPORT FROM THIS COUNTRY?_________________________________________
20. WHAT GOODS DOES AMERICA EXPORT TO THIS COUNTRY?________________________________________
21. WHAT TEMPERATE ZONES ARE IN THIS COUNTRY?_______________________________________
22. NAME A FAMOUS PERSON FROM THIS COUNTRY__________________________________
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Post by Charity on Nov 3, 2004 18:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 3, 2004 18:49:49 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 3, 2004 18:59:43 GMT -5
Each of these famous Britons lived in, or was associated with one of the Castles, Houses or Palaces, featured on AboutBritain.com. If you would like to look through their keyholes, simply click on the links. William the Conqueror (1028-1087) was the first Norman King of England. On the death of Edward the Confessor, he brought his army to Britain. A mighty battle ensued, in which the English King Harold was struck in the eye by an arrow. The wound proved fatal and William's army was victorious. William was crowned King of England, in Westminster Abbey on Christmas day in 1066. Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was the daughter of James V of Scotland and his French wife Mary of Guise, and grand-daughter of Henry VII of England. After Queen Elizabeth, she was next in line to the English throne, and regarded by Elizabeth as a serious rival. Because of the troubles between the English and Scots, Mary spent a great deal of her life in exile in France and later she was imprisoned. Her early childhood was spent in Stirling Castle, where she was crowned Queen of Scots on 9th September 1543. Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) the daughter of Henry VIII, became Queen aged twenty-five. At her coronation she said, "I will stand as your good Queen"; and thereafter was affectionately known as Good Queen Bess. She did much to strengthen England's position in the world; and to bring about harmony in Britain, which was divided at the time by religion. Elizabeth spent many of the years before she came to the throne at Hatfield. It was here in November 1558, that she held her first council of state, in the great hall. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) recently proclaimed in a vote by the public as Man of the Millennium, William Shakespeare is England's greatest poet and playwright. His works, performed all over the world, are as alive today as when they were first written. People come to England especially to see his plays performed by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, and to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Bess of Hardwick (1520-?) was an intelligent, ambitious woman, who had a strong personality and made four very advantageous marriages. In 1549 Bess persuaded her second husband, Sir William Cavendish, to buy the Chatsworth estates. Bess embarked on her first building enterprise, the first Chatsworth House. Acquiring even greater wealth on the death of her second husband, she undertook the restoration of her old family home at Hardwick. Bess's fourth husband the Earl of Shrewsbury died in 1590 and she inherited an immense fortune. Abandoning work on the old manor house, she instantly set about her most ambitious project, that of building the magnificent Hardwick Hall. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Britain's longest reigning monarch, became Queen when only eighteen years old. She married Prince Albert, who became known as Albert the good because of his work for the poor. He also contributed to the nation by his part in organizing the Great Exhibition of 1851. They had a happy marriage and enjoyed holidays away from affairs of state in London. Albert bought Balmoral Castle for Victoria as a holiday home and they enjoyed time there together. After Albert's early death, Queen Victoria spent increasing amounts of time there and at the house Albert designed for her, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, where she died. The Queen was buried at Windsor Castle. John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). The famous General and National Hero won many battles for England. As a reward for his many victories, Queen Anne had Blenheim Palace built for the Duke and his Duchess Sarah. The palace was named after one of his great battles. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) The leading figure in British politics during the first half of the 20th century. A Member of Parliament since 1900 he held many different posts in the cabinet. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was made 1st Lord of the Admiralty; then in 1940 became Prime Minister of the all-party government. He was acclaimed for his part in leading the nation to victory. A man of many talents, he was highly regarded as a painter and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953, for his account of the second world war. Chartwell, his home from 1924 until his death, evokes his career and interests. The rooms have been left as they were in his lifetime and many of his personal momentos are on view. Queen Elizabeth-The Queen Mother (1900-2002) Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother married the Duke of York in 1923. When Edward VIII, the Duke's elder brother abdicated in 1936, she became the Queen of George VI. As if born for the role so unexpectedly thrust upon her, Queen Elizabeth proved to the King and the nation to be a matchless blessing. Often called Elizabeth of Glamis, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore; Elizabeth had a very happy childhood with her much loved brothers, in the family home Glamis Castle. One of the most loved members of the Royal Family, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 101. Arthur Wellesley-Duke of Wellington (1769-1842). One of Britain's best known military commanders, whose name is still remembered today for his outstanding achievements. He won his first honors in India and was knighted for his efforts. As commander of the Peninsular war, he expelled the French from Portugal and was titled Viscount of Wellington in 1809. Britain's greatest soldier in the Napoleonic wars, he led the combined British, Dutch and Prussian armies in the battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon was finally defeated. "The Iron Duke" as he became known, was the most honored man in Europe at the time; he retired from the army and became Prime Minister in 1828. It was the Dukes custom, to wear long black boots and his name became associated with the familiar Wellington boots of today. You can see a pair of the original boots, in the Duke of Wellington's Regimental museum, which forms part of Bankfield Museum. The Duke died in 1852 and was buried next to Lord Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral. John Keats (1795-1821) In his early years, Keats set out to enter the medical profession and became a student at Guy's Hospital. In the long term, generations have been enriched by his becoming instead, one of the great romantic poets. His works are still in print and appreciated today: Poems such as La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to Autumn and Ode to a Nightingale. John Keats lived next door to his fiancée Fanny Browne, in Hampstead, London between 1818-1820,inspired by his garden and the peaceful surroundings he wrote some of his most famous works here. Both houses are now open to the public as Keats House Museum. Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). At the age of twenty, Nelson was awarded his master's certificate and took command of his first ship; which took part in the American war of independence. He became distinguished, for his successful battles in the wars against France. In 1803 he took command of the fleet that for two years blockaded Tolon. In the great battle off the cape of Trafalgar, in which the French were defeated, Nelson lost his life on the deck of his flagship Victory, in 1805. The famous monument, Nelson's Column, was erected in his honor in 1840-1843 in Trafalgar Square. Today some of his papers can be seen in the Graphology Room in the British Museum. Henry VIII (1491-1547) Henry Tudor was king of England from 1509-1547. Perhaps best known for being the husband of six wives; Henry was the founder of the Anglican Church. As his first wife Catherine of Aragon failed to produce an heir to the throne, Henry wished to divorce her and re-marry. When the Pope refused permission, Henry broke with the Church of Rome and declared himself head of the English Church. Henry's court was at Hampton Court Palace which you can still visit today and see his State Apartments. www.aboutbritain.com/articles/famous-britons.asp
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Post by Charity on Nov 3, 2004 19:06:45 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 3, 2004 19:10:08 GMT -5
GREAT BRITONS This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, - For Christian service and true chivalry, - As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, Blessed Mary's Son. Shakespeare, Richard II As befits a national institution, the BBC has recently organized an electronic survey and is showing a series of television programmes in order to discover whom the participating public considers to be the top 100 'Great Britons'. The criteria for selection are rather vague. For instance, although 'Briton' means someone either English, Scottish or Welsh, among the 100 selected 'Britons', there are several Irish candidates and three of French, South African and Arab descent. Again, no definition of the word 'great' has been given. As one journalist has put it, most of those considered by history to be 'great' are 'power-mad psychopaths' - examples like Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon spring to mind. Another perspicacious commentator has also made the point that we have to distinguish between 'the legacy and the personality' of 'great' people. Many 'great' people were, frankly, obnoxious. The results of the poll are fairly predictable. Included in the top 100 are more deserving personalities like the late Queen Mother and her daughter Queen Elizabeth II, the great war-leader Sir Winston Churchill; literary giants like Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bible translator Tyndale, the visionary William Blake, Austen and thingyens; great humanitarians like Jenner, Wilberforce, Nightingale, Fleming or the admirable repentant figure of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, who through the blinding flash of Nagasaki saw the light of Christ. There are also military heroes such as Drake, Nelson, Wellington, Montgomery and Bader; inventors like Stephenson, Watt, Brunel, Baird and Whittle; scientists like Newton and Darwin; explorers like Raleigh, Cook, Livingstone, Scott and Shackleton; recent celebrities like Lady Diana and Lady Thatcher. Then come the usual ephemeral pop musicians, actors, sportsmen and broadcasters, who will be utterly forgotten within a generation or two. Finally, there are those whose selection seems to us particularly shocking - as indeed does the choice of some of the above. These are those with innocent blood on their hands, such as many royal Anglo-Normans, together with Scottish and Welsh rebels, the wife-murderer and despoiler of monasteries Henry VIII and the bloodied regicide Cromwell, each responsible for acts of darkness in the slaughter of thousands of their fellow-islanders. Here there are ironic examples like Thomas More, responsible for the death of William Tyndale (see above). Such a national event as this cannot go without Orthodox comment. Although scarcely surprised, we are still shocked that among the 'top 100 Great Britons', there was not a single Orthodox Christian saint. If this poll had taken place in, say, Russia, we can be sure that figures like St Olga, St Vladimir, St Sergius of Radonezh and St Seraphim of Sarov would have been at the head of the list. It all proves how secular this country is. In any Orthodox list of the top 100 Britons, we would certainly include the following: St Alban the First Martyr, St Patrick (born in what is now England and then become the Apostle of Ireland), St David, Apostle of Wales, St Columba of Iona, St Oswald the Martyr, the Irish St Aidan of Northumbria, St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, St Audrey of Ely, St Hilda of Whitby, St Bede the Venerable, St Boniface of Crediton, St Swithin of Winchester, St Edmund the Martyr (the former Patron-Saint of England), St Dunstan of Canterbury and St Alphege the Martyr. However, even if we were to exclude the saints, our criteria would be rather different from the above; as Orthodox Christians, the ways of the world are not our ways. In the March 2003 edition of the journal 'Orthodox England', we shall be putting forward our candidate for the greatest Englishman www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/gbritons.htm
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Post by Charity on Nov 3, 2004 19:19:18 GMT -5
Some "infamous" people from England Charles Darwin Thomas Malthus
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Post by Charity on Nov 8, 2004 12:14:24 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 8, 2004 12:22:18 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 9, 2004 15:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 9, 2004 15:51:37 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Nov 10, 2004 20:07:19 GMT -5
To Good Seed HS Group Adventure Club. See you all Friday at 2:00. Don't forget to wear you "England" outfits and bring a food dish that would be served in England. We will have a video tour of the country and enjoy the food, music and culture of England. See you then. Don't forget to bring your reports-presentations.
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