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In 1698, Peter the Great and William Penn had met in London, and in 1763 a Boston merchant had anchored

Bennett Island, Jeannette Island, and Henrietta Island in 1881.

Earlier contacts had occurred

to the United States.

In 1867, Alaska was sold

between Americans and Russians.

The United States claimed Wrangel Island, Herald Island,

his ship at the port of Kronstadt after a direct transatlantic voyage.

The creation of the Thames River Police was one

an offense within the workplace, he may not wish to call in the police.

He may believe that, if he deals with it in his own way, production and

profit may suffer less; the public interest, however, may not be served thereby.

If an employer catches a group of employees committing

of the most significant police reform experiments of the time.

Although there are black bears in the park, the Roosevelt elk

was measured at 112.1 metres tall (although its top broke off later) and had a diameter of 4 metres.

Other wildlife includes coyotes,

(living an average of 600 years); it is also the tallest of the world's trees.

The coast redwood, which is found in the park, is fast-growing and among the longest-lived species on earth

bobcats, blacktail deer, chipmunks, and squirrels.

In 1963 a redwood called “Tall Tree,” located on Redwood Creek in Tall Trees Grove in the southern section of the park,

is the most commonly seen wild mammal.

honorary degree

степень магистра

doctoral degree

докторская степень

master's degree

почетная ученая степень

Australia's oldest city is built around a series of natural inlets and beaches culminating in Sydney Cove, which

the one people would most like to go to!

Attractions include SeaWorld San Diego and

driving distance including Knott's Berry Farm, Knott's Soak City Orange County and LEGOLAND California.

There are other equally thrilling rides within

the world-famous San Diego Zoo.

It's no wonder that this city is consistently voted the world's best by visitors, as well as

is dominated by the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

The preventive tactics of the early metropolitan police were successful,

that shaped modern English policing.

Their pitched battles with (and ultimate street victory over) the Chartists in Birmingham and London

proved the ability of the police to deal with major disorders and street riots.

The Metropolitan Police Act established the principles

and crime and disorder declined.

The United States viewed the Soviet Union as a pariah state during its nascent years and did not extend full diplomatic relations

established late due to U.S. hostility towards communism.

At the end of this war, the first signs of post-war mistrust and hostility began to appear, escalating into the Cold War,

were for a brief period, allies.

During World War II the two countries

a period of tense and hostile relations between the two countries, with periods of detente.

Full diplomatic relations between the two countries were

until November 16, 1933 during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration — the last Western power to do so.

Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives,

distinguishes terrorism from both conventional and guerrilla warfare.

Major targets sometimes also include buildings or other locations that are

important economic or political symbols, such as embassies or military installations.

The degree to which it relies on fear

by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police.

to dart

головастик

pounce

пресмыкающееся, рептилия

reptile

коготь (ястреба и т. п.)

tadpole

рвануться, кинуться, мчаться стрелой

People who before, also in Parliament, stated that capital punishment was not a deterrent to murder — for there have always been murders in all countries

public opinion in Britain has changed.

Capital punishment, they think, may not be the ideal answer, but it is better than nothing, especially when,

as in England, a sentence of "lifelong" imprisonment (a life sentence, as it is called) only lasts eight or nine years.

Today, therefore,

with or without the law of execution — now feel that killing the assassin is the lesser of two evils.

degree

степень бакалавра (первая учёная степень)

to take a degree in history

получить степень по историческим наукам

bachelor's degree

звание, ученая степень

to put on (gain) weight

худеть

to be run down

сократить, уменьшить

to cut down

переутомляться

to lose weight

полнеть

The UK remains one of the leading providers of technological innovations today, providing inventions as diverse as

this tradition of technical creativity.

Other famous scientists, engineers and inventors from the UK include: John Logie Baird, William Caxton,

and Alexander Fleming (discoverer of penicillin) were all British.

Alan Turing, Frank Whittle (inventor of the jet engine), Charles Babbage (who devised the idea of the computer)

Richard Trevithick, Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, Henry Bessemer and others.

Since then, the United Kingdom has continued

the World Wide Web and Viagra (created by Tim Berners-Lee and Pfizer respectively).

The deadliest terrorist strikes to date were the September, 11 attacks (2001), in which suicide terrorists associated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes,

and the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (1998).

In 2000 an explosion triggered by suicide bombers caused the deaths of

17 sailors aboard a U.S. naval ship, the USS Cole, in the Yemeni port of Aden.

In addition, there were several major terrorist attacks on U.S. government targets overseas, including military bases in Saudi Arabia (1996)

crashing two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City and one into the Pentagon building near Washington, D.C.; the fourth plane crashed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The moods of British weather are

would lose much of their charm.

On the whole the warm moist winds off the warm waters of the North Atlantic Drift are

belongs more to fiction than to fact.

It is true there is a lot of rain in London but the constant dense pea-soup fog

so common that the general climate is very mild.

Without it novels of Victorian London, of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes

really surprising.