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Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Football explores some of the most bizarre football events throughout history, from its birth during the Industrial Revolution, to the major tournaments of the Beautiful Game in the 21st century. From the player sold for ?10 and a box of kippers, to unusual injuries on the pitch, this book gathers some of the most curious moments of footballing history, a game that continues to be both an amazing entertainment spectacle and extraordinarily accessible to people everywhere. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.

В номере: РОССИЯ - ГЕРМАНИЯ: Полный расклад матча года БУНДЕСЛИГА: Обзор немецкого чемпионата ВЛАДИМИР БЫСТРОВ: Любовь и ненависть FIFA 10: Сергей Семак представляет ПОСТЕРЫ: Аршавин и сборная России

The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife, who Wade claimed was Portuguese.

The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy” of its host, whom it is supposed to “improve” but only tyrannizes with gusto while refusing to praise the host for anything.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Interesting facts relating to the fall and death of Joachim Murat, king of Naples; the capitulation of Paris in 1815; and the second restoration of the Bourbons : Original letters from king Joachim to the author, with some account of the author, and of his persecution by the French government / By Francis Macirone».

В текстах пособия, взятых из оригинальных источников, подробно описывается история Великобритании, рассказывается об ученых, писателях и политических деятелях страны. Задания после каждой главы направлены на проверку понимания текста и развитие навыков обсуждения прочитанного. Для студентов факультетов иностранных языков и гуманитарных факультетов университетов, а также для учащихся спецшкол, лицеев и для лиц, изучающих английский язык самостоятельно.