Big Ben (Engl. Big Ben — the name of the largest of the six bells of Westminster Palace in London, often the name refers to the clock and Clock tower as a whole.
At the time of casting big Ben was the largest and heaviest (13,7 tons) a bell United Kingdom. In 1881 yielded to the bell Big Paul (English).Russian. (17 tons).
It is believed that the bell was named big Ben (Big Ben) in honor of sir Benjamin Hall, the curator of the construction work. According to another version, he is named in honor of Benjamin count (eng.)Russian., popular boxer in the heavyweight division
The tower was built by English architect Augustus Pugin in the Gothic revival style, 1859, the tower clock started on 31 may 1859.
The height of the tower, including the spire — 96.3 meters. The lower part of the clock mechanism located at a height of 55 meters.
The official name until September 2012 was the "Clock tower of Westminster Palace", in the press it was often called St. Stephen's Tower. According to the decision of the British Parliament renamed the Elizabeth Tower in honor of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
The big clock of Westminster are the second largest in the world (next to the clock of the city Hall of Minneapolis) four-sided clock with fight.
The clock was designed by sir Edmund Beckett (English).Russian. and the astronomer Royal George airy. The creation of the watch was instructed in watchmaking master Edward John dent (English).Russian., after whose death in 1853 construction was headed by his stepson Frederick dent. Frederick completed the work in 1854.
The pendulum clock is installed inside the wind-proof box, located below the room with a clockwork mechanism. Its length is 4 meters, weight 300 kg. the pendulum is 2 seconds. The accuracy of the clock is regulated using coins, which are placed on the pendulum: the old (dodecahedra) coin 1 penny accelerates its motion by 0.4 seconds per day.
The total weight of the movement — 5 tons.
The dial diameter is 7 meters.
The length of the arrows is 2.7 and 4.2 meters.
At the base of each of the four dials is a Latin inscription "Domine Salvam fac Reginam nostram Victoriam primam" ("God save our Queen Victoria the First").
At the perimeter of the tower, to the right and to the left of the clock, is another phrase in Latin — "Laus Deo" ("Glory to God" or "praise the Lord")
July 27, 2012 from 8:12 to 8:15 the clock struck 30 times in honor of the opening of the XXX Olympic games. For the first time since 1952 chimes were working out the schedule.
A room in a building with doors which open into other rooms: bookcase
Для будущего: различия в этих временах составляют в том, что Present Continuous – ЛЮБОЙ ПРОЦЕСС, длящийся какое-то длительное время или происходящий right NOW. все, что делается в момент разговора – Pr. continuous.
Так же любые чувства, эмоции – love, hate and so on – однозначно Pr. Simple. туда же и слова-показатели (usually, sometimes, often, so on)
Simple – ФАКТ.
Continuous – ПРОЦЕСС.
1. am looking for
2. i'm going
3. do you work
4. i work
5. i am
6. are you doing
7. leave
8. i am staying
9. have.
10. needs.
Адрес,кэмера,компуте(р),нешеналити,коусткоуд,скейтбоорд,сёрнейм,вотч.
Аларм клок,кредит кард,дейт оф бёрз,драйвинг лисенс,фул нейм,хоум адрес,идэнтити кард.
There is no place in nature for extinction.”Licretius.
I am not argee with the statement above. That's why I want to retell article is named “Extinction as a natural process and a part of evolution ”. The article says that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ranks a species as extinct when there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. And that it isn’t always easy to pinpoint exactly when a species has become extinct. For example, Young takahē bird that thought to be extinct in the 1930s but then was redicovered in 1948.The article also says about history of extinctions, causes of extinction, the impacts of extinction and how scientins prevent the extintion. From this article I get that the present time extinsion is persumed to be mostly coused by people and civilization and sometimes the ecosystem cannot cope with it.And I also got that the scientistes are working now to solve this problem.
But I think that the people and even civilization cannot be separated from the nature and are the part of it. In addition I don't agree with the stereotype that there is a kind od a natural disaster we have today. I think that all we see around it is just the life process of the panet Earth and we cannot do anything, as, for example, volcano while erupting, discharges as much CO2 in the atmosphere per 1 hour, as all the human civilization per all their lifetimes.