THE FAMOUS LONDONERS

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THE FAMOUS LONDONERS

Art and Literature

ALFRED HITCHCOCK (13.08.1899-29.04.1980)

British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Worked in the UK and in the USA.Hitchcock was able to create skillfully in his films alarming atmosphere of uncertainty and expectation. In the last year of his life he received an honorable award of the American Film Institute and Queen Elizabeth II created him a knight.

 THE BEATLES – BRITISH ROCK GROUP FROM LIVERPOOL

It consists of celebrities such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, was born in Liverpool, 1960.The Beatles ‑ British rock-group made a huge contribution to the development, promotion and rock culture as a whole. The group became one of the bright phenomena of the world culture of 60‑s years of the XX century.This group got seven official awards of «Grammy» and one ‘’Oscar’’ for their outstanding successes on the musical Olympus. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

BERNARD SHAW (26.07.1856 - 02 .11.1950)

the well-known British (Irish and English) writer, novelist, playwright, winner of the Nobel prize in literature. The public figure (socialist«fabianist», a supporter of the reform of the English alphabet). The second (after Shakespeare) to the popularity of the playwright in the English theatre.The famous English playwright and writer Bernard Shaw was very fond of pointing to drive a car. Once he was driving along a winding mountain road, and near the neighboring seat sat his driver. Show how the thought of the script of a play. He was keen to tell the story to his chauffeur, who was a very clever man with a good sense of humor. Suddenly the driver asked to stop the car, after it got out of the car, opened the door of the driver and asked Show: ‘’Go out!’’ The surprised writer asked: «what's the matter?»

"Sir, you began to tell us such an interesting story, that I do not want us to die before the play will be over, " was the answer.

ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE  (18. 01.1882 - 31.01.1956)

He is an English writer, the author of novels about the «bear with sawdust in the head» - Winnie-the-Pooh. Took part in the First World War. Many years was a member of the English comic magazine «Penny» (Punch).

A book about the Teddy bear Winnie the Pooh Milne wrote for his only son, whose name was Christopher Robin. There were

only two written books - in fact, "Winnie the Pooh" and "the House on Down the Edge of the Woods". Soft toys, belonging to the son of Christopher Robin Milne were the

idea for the creation of Winnie the Pooh and all of his friends.

RUDYARD KIPLING (30.12. 1865 - 18.01.1936)the English writer, poet and novelist.His best works are considered to be «the jungle Book» (The Jungle Book), «Kim» (Kim), as well as numerous poems. In 1907 Kipling became the first Englishman, who received the Nobel prize for literature. In the same year he received awards from the universities of Paris, Strasbourg, Athens and Toronto; also awarded honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Durham universities.The name of Rudyard he received in honor of the English lake Rudyard, where his parents had met.

THE FAMOUS LONDONERS

Politics

ELIZABETH I (1533—1603)popularly known as the Queen Bess, Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558, the last of the Tudor dynasty.British Queen Elizabeth I loved the Chinese pearls. Every day several necklaces of pearls that reached thousands of pieces could be seen on her neck. English Queen Elizabeth I was bald. She lost her hair after undergoing smallpox at the age of 29, and after that had always to wear a wig. Thus, in Europe, there was the fashion for wigs, which was several hundred years . Lord Major of the city of London is elected every year, and every year on the second Saturday in November in the city begins "Lord Major-Show“. Specifically for this ceremony Lord Major wears a special sign, decorated with diamonds 254, presented by Elizabeth of England to Lord Mayor of that time. Five of those diamonds - Elizabeth presented by the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who was one of the contenders for the British monarch's hand.

HENRY VIII  (1491—1547)

the king of England from 22 April 1509, the son and heir of king Henry VII, the second British monarch of the Tudor dynasty.King Henry the Eighth was the most puzzling, the only thing he could pronounce intelligently was the word "monk". On the last day of life hallucinations tormented him. The heirs of Henry organized persecution of all available monasteries, suspecting that someone had poisoned the king of the priests.

WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965 )

The British statesman and the politician, the Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 years, the military, the journalist, the writer, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature (1953).

MARGARET HILDA THATCHER( 1925 Г.)

the Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979-1990).Thatcher has reached the pinnacle of power elite-oriented male supremacy, and reached it just spent all his life purpose and struggle. Its slow, small steps, to rise to the pinnacle of power began among the poor class of England, this is the beginning seemed impossible to achieve such a lofty goal. She had made the impossible daughter unassuming shop owner, was brought up in a house without domestic water supply, had the temerity to invade a secure fortress of male power and become prime minister of Great Britain.

THE FAMOUS LONDONERS

History

 RICHARD THE LIONHEART (1157 - 1199)

English King of the House of Plantagenet. The son of King Henry II Plantagenet and his wife, Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine.King of England and Normandy, the leader of the Third Crusade, famous for capturing the fortress Accra. Leader not only English but also of European chivalry of England and King Richard I of Normandy, known as the Lionheart was born in 1157 in Oxford, being the son of the English monarch Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. From an early age dreamed of chivalrous deeds and preparing

THE FAMOUS LONDONERS

Science

MICHAEL FARADAY (1791 – 1867)

English physicist, the founder of the doctrine of the electromagnetic field. One day, coming into the bookstore a member of the Royal Society Dance, Michael found a serious study of the scientific journal "Chemical Review" and was very surprised by this. He immediately offered the boy to listen to what has been a series of lectures throughout Europe H.Devi chemist. This sealed the fate of Faraday.He has been called the master of lightning, and the King of physicists. And all his life he remained humble, and has lectured for the children, and believed in the great mysteries of nature and God. Michael Faraday, a seeker of invisible transformations.

JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE   (1818 - 1889)

the famous English physicist.In Joel had no profession and no work, except for assistance in managing the factory of his father. Up until 1854, when the plant was finally sold, Joel worked on it in fits and starts and, at night, doing his experiments. After 1854 came from Joel and the time and resources to build their own home in the physics laboratory and devote himself to experimental physics.Joel possessed outstanding abilities as an experimental physicist. His passion for science was boundless. Even during the honeymoon, he found time to measure the temperature of water at the top and bottom of a picturesque waterfall, around which he and his young wife lived, to make sure that the difference of the temperature of the water conforms to the law of conservation of energy!

ISAAC NEWTON (1643-1727)

the great English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. The author of the fundamental work «Mathematical principles of natural philosophy», in which he described the law of universal gravitation and the so-called Newton's Laws that laid the foundations of classical mechanics. Developed the differential and integral calculus, the theory of color and many other mathematical and physical theory.Interestingly, in primary school Isaac Newton studied mediocre. Until exactly as long as it does not beat and insulted the best student in the class, causing Newton moral trauma. But after that, all the successes of Newton's studies were brilliant.Isaac Newton was a known member of the House of Lords. Meetings of the House of Lords Newton attended most regular manner. However, over the years, Newton did not say a word at the meetings. Everyone froze when, finally, the great man suddenly asked to speak. Everyone expected a grand and intelligent speech from a recognized. But Newton in sepulchral silence proclaimed his only speech in Parliament: "Lord, I pray close, otherwise I can not catch a cold!"

CHARLES DARWIN ROBERT (1809—1882)

English naturalist.The first monkey that saw Charles Darwin was an orangutan named Jenny. This happened in the London Zoo in 1838. Darwin immediately drew attention to the similarity in the behavior of apes and humans. After more than thirty years, a work "The Origin of Man and sexual selection", where Darwin openly expressed the idea that man evolved from apes.Charles Darwin was very inquisitive in all that concerned the animal world. A passion as he fed the animals to know the taste. When Darwin studied at Cambridge, the first thing to enter the club gourmet. Every week he was going along with the others that try unusual dishes. There he tasted the hawk, bittern and even the old owl. The gastronomic research Darwin went on board the "Beagle". His meals were agouti, armadillo, Galapagos tortoises, puma and a rare bird rhea.

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