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Monday, March 18, 2013
Questionaire: Saint Patrick's Day and Ireland
1. Where is Ireland?
2. Number and names of the provinces
3. Number of the counties
4.What are the colours in the Irish flag?
5.What is the Irish symbol for good luck?
6. What is the capital of Ireland?
7.Where was St. Patrick born?
8. What isa the typical colour in this day?
9.Ireland is also called:
a. The Diamaond Isle
b. The Emeral Isle
c. The Ruby Isle
10. The story of Saint Patrick's Day goes back a. to the 3rd century b. to the 4th century c. to the 5th century
11. His mission was to help
a. British people
b. French people
c. Irish people
12.He became a a. a druid b. a teacheer c. a priest
13. St Patrick is said to have eliminated what frrom Ireland: a. snails b. flies c. snakes
14. St. Patrick's Day is March 17th because:
a. it's the day he was born
b. the day he escaped
c. the day he died.
1. Where is Ireland?
2. Number and names of the provinces
3. Number of the counties
4.What are the colours in the Irish flag?
5.What is the Irish symbol for good luck?
6. What is the capital of Ireland?
7.Where was St. Patrick born?
8. What isa the typical colour in this day?
9.Ireland is also called:
a. The Diamaond Isle
b. The Emeral Isle
c. The Ruby Isle
10. The story of Saint Patrick's Day goes back a. to the 3rd century b. to the 4th century c. to the 5th century
11. His mission was to help
a. British people
b. French people
c. Irish people
12.He became a a. a druid b. a teacheer c. a priest
13. St Patrick is said to have eliminated what frrom Ireland: a. snails b. flies c. snakes
14. St. Patrick's Day is March 17th because:
a. it's the day he was born
b. the day he escaped
c. the day he died.
St Patrick's Day
Last 17th March St Patrick's Day was celebrated... I hope you enjoy this video about Ireland
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Bullet for my valentine
This music group is from Gales. His music follows a typical heavy metal style. His influences are Metallica,
Nirvana, Iron Maiden y Slayer. In 2002 they got a record deal with SonyBMG. The debut album from Bullet For My Valentine was released under the name of "The Poison". The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 128. The group made several world tours to publicize the album, most notably his appearance at the Download Festival and a U.S. tour with Rob Zombie. On January 29, 2008 the group leased their second studio album, titled Scream Aim Fire and began a tour that has taken him around the world. After two year wait since his last album, the band announced that finished recording his third album. And finally, on April 27, comes to light "Fever", receiving critical acclaim worldwide. The album reached # 3 on the Billboard 200 and # 1 on Billboard's Rock and was considered their most successful album to date. [5] The group has sold over two million albums worldwide and one million them only in the United States.
Nirvana, Iron Maiden y Slayer. In 2002 they got a record deal with SonyBMG. The debut album from Bullet For My Valentine was released under the name of "The Poison". The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 128. The group made several world tours to publicize the album, most notably his appearance at the Download Festival and a U.S. tour with Rob Zombie. On January 29, 2008 the group leased their second studio album, titled Scream Aim Fire and began a tour that has taken him around the world. After two year wait since his last album, the band announced that finished recording his third album. And finally, on April 27, comes to light "Fever", receiving critical acclaim worldwide. The album reached # 3 on the Billboard 200 and # 1 on Billboard's Rock and was considered their most successful album to date. [5] The group has sold over two million albums worldwide and one million them only in the United States.
avril lavigne
Avril Ramona Lavigne (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian pop rock singer, songwriter, actress and designer of a clothing line called Abbey Dawn. Avril stormed the charts with 17 in 2002 with his first successful album Let Go, which was awarded eight Grammy nominations and has now sold 19 million copies worldwide and over 7 million in the United States . The singles "Complicated" and "Girlfriend" were among the 100 biggest songs of the decade according to Billboard. His second album, Under My Skin, was the first to reach # 1 on the Billboard 200. The album sold 10 million copies. With The Best Damn Thing, her third album, reached the top positions around the globe, giving Lavigne recognition of the best-selling female artist in that year. Despite this, the album was the least sold 7 million copies. Avril has had five number one hits worldwide, including "Complicated" "Sk8er Boi", "I'm With You", "My Happy Ending" and "Girlfriend." The latter was the first single that reached # 1 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 and also was the most downloaded song in the world in 2007, and one of the most successful singles in history. Currently Lavigne ended his fourth album Goodbye Lullaby which is mid and the sale of which draws its simple What The Hell and Smile (song). Premiered in March 2010, the single Alice, for the soundtrack of the film Alice in Wonderland. To date, Lavigne has sold over 35 million albums, [4] making it one of the most successful singers of the last decade worldwide.
Avril made her first television role on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, playing herself. After this brief appearance, Avril made her debut on the big screen by dubbing in the movie "Over the Hedge (Over The Hedge)" in 2006 and making his debut in Fast Food Nation. In 2009 was launched as an entrepreneur with a clothing line called Abbey Dawn and her first perfume Black Star, followed by her second fragrance Forbidden Rose, in 2010.
Avril made her first television role on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, playing herself. After this brief appearance, Avril made her debut on the big screen by dubbing in the movie "Over the Hedge (Over The Hedge)" in 2006 and making his debut in Fast Food Nation. In 2009 was launched as an entrepreneur with a clothing line called Abbey Dawn and her first perfume Black Star, followed by her second fragrance Forbidden Rose, in 2010.
CALL OF DUTY:BLACK OPS
Call of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released worldwide on November 9, 2010 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii consoles, with a separate version for Nintendo DS.
The game is the seventh installment of the Call of Duty series, and the first to be set in the Cold War and the fifth to be set in World War II.
Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game sold more than 7 million copies, 5.6 million in the U.S. and 1.4 million in the UK, breaking the record set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 by some 2.5 million copies.
Campaign
The player assumes the role of various characters during the single-player campaign, changing perspectives throughout the story. The playable characters are special forces operatives conducting black operations behind enemy lines. In this way, the player's characters have their own traits such as voices and shadows.
Multiplayer
Players can customize their weaponry in the game, as seen with this customized FAMAS.The online multiplayer mode of Black Ops usually revolves around two teams on a specific mission. For example in Team Deathmatch the team with the most kills wins, while in Capture the Flag, players take the other team's flags and return it to their own base.
Zombies
A zombie cooperation mode, titled "Zombies", is included in the game. Originally featured in World at War, it was revamped to be included into Black Ops. It is a four-player online and two-player split screen co-op mode (which can also be unlocked online). In the map "Five", players take the roles of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, and Fidel Castro as they fight zombies at The Pentagon.There is one map based on the original game called Kino der Toten ("Theater/Cinema of the Dead" in German). This map features the characters from World at War -- Edward Richtofen the German, Tank Dempsey the American, Takeo Masaki the Japapense , and Nikolai Belinski the Russian
Call of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released worldwide on November 9, 2010 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii consoles, with a separate version for Nintendo DS.
The game is the seventh installment of the Call of Duty series, and the first to be set in the Cold War and the fifth to be set in World War II.
Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game sold more than 7 million copies, 5.6 million in the U.S. and 1.4 million in the UK, breaking the record set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 by some 2.5 million copies.
Campaign
The player assumes the role of various characters during the single-player campaign, changing perspectives throughout the story. The playable characters are special forces operatives conducting black operations behind enemy lines. In this way, the player's characters have their own traits such as voices and shadows.
Multiplayer
Players can customize their weaponry in the game, as seen with this customized FAMAS.The online multiplayer mode of Black Ops usually revolves around two teams on a specific mission. For example in Team Deathmatch the team with the most kills wins, while in Capture the Flag, players take the other team's flags and return it to their own base.
Zombies
A zombie cooperation mode, titled "Zombies", is included in the game. Originally featured in World at War, it was revamped to be included into Black Ops. It is a four-player online and two-player split screen co-op mode (which can also be unlocked online). In the map "Five", players take the roles of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, and Fidel Castro as they fight zombies at The Pentagon.There is one map based on the original game called Kino der Toten ("Theater/Cinema of the Dead" in German). This map features the characters from World at War -- Edward Richtofen the German, Tank Dempsey the American, Takeo Masaki the Japapense , and Nikolai Belinski the Russian
Alex and Moi : P
MONGOLIA
This nation is the remnant of the ancient Mongol Empire ruled much of Asia during the thirteenth century, but subsequently lost its independence and was assimilated into Manchuria during the late seventeenth century until 1911, but its independence was brief, as in 1919 Chinese troops occupied the capital of Mongolia, and in 1921 it was possible to wean the Russian help. Later in 1924 he proclaimed the People's Republic of Mongolia, and adopt common policies and a rapprochement with the Soviet Union after its dissolution in 1990, Mongolia adopted a capitalist establishment in 1992 and marks the transition to representative democracy, with which the country it would rename as Mongolia.
It is the nineteenth largest country in the world, with 1,565,000 square kilometers, yet the country is dominated by steppes and mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Of the 2.8 million inhabitants, there is a high rate of nomadic and semi-nomadic, which is around 30%. 90% of the inhabitants are ethnic Mongolian, a Turkic ethnic minority as the Kazakh. Tibetan Buddhism is the majority religion of the country, along with Bhutan being the only independent nations where this religion is predominant
It is the nineteenth largest country in the world, with 1,565,000 square kilometers, yet the country is dominated by steppes and mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Of the 2.8 million inhabitants, there is a high rate of nomadic and semi-nomadic, which is around 30%. 90% of the inhabitants are ethnic Mongolian, a Turkic ethnic minority as the Kazakh. Tibetan Buddhism is the majority religion of the country, along with Bhutan being the only independent nations where this religion is predominant
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