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•→http://www.englishpage.com/readingroom.html⇐ World news for students of English in three levels ⇑ Dead easy!
¤ Special English A simple form of the English language, used by a public radio station called Voice of America, run by the United States government in Special English programs […] 
♦ American comedian Elon Gold ↓ …on English accents You know, the problem that here in America, when it comes to the English, we mistake accents with intellect; right? We think they’re smart, because no matter what they’re talking about, they sound quite intelligent. It doesn’t really matter; they […] 
¤ A slide_share presentation: ↓ History of Advertising History of Advertising from Tugce Esener Φ The Language of Advertising . . .⇐ φ Advertising vocabulary quiz . . . ⇒ [01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03] ⇐ •→38-examples-of-great-visual-pun-in-advertising/⇐ ◊ Guinness 1994 ⇓ ‘We have all the time in the world’ […] 
¤ Ethnocide in the Outback An animated history of Australia, from European discovery to modern days; funny, slapstick humour, with a little satire thrown in ↓ ◊ Australian Aboriginal Genocide ↓ [info from Australian government sources] •→ Aboriginal History ⇐ From the Dreamtime to the arrival of the British…till […] 
⇐indians.org/nativewire-american-indian-videos ¤ →Oral tradition – storytelling⇐ Θ A collection of Native American folktales and traditional stories: indexed tribe by tribe to make them easier to locate ↓ •→www.native-languages.org/legends⇐ Θ Links to several stories of Native American Indian Lore from several Tribes across Turtle Island ↓ febrero 17th, 2015 | Tags: doc, links, USA, story | Category: LISTEN & READ, VDO | Leave a comment 
•→ http://projectbritain.com/americanbritish.html← British English ↔ American English↔ Hello! – Hullo! ♦ John Green kicks off Crash Course US History ↓
∇ · · · A shorter History of the States ↓ [4 Minutes] ∇ A brief history of African slavery […] 
Well, good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jim Carrey ↑ and how are you this evening? Alrightly then. I grew up in Canada… Is there anybody here from Canada? Now I used to get really upset when I told people where I came from down in Los Angeles, […] 
A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly at the bar. Ding Dong insists on telling him the «real» history of Ireland over a number of pints. From the Normans to the Famine to 1916 and the sex shops of O’Connell Street, […] 
•→ Visions of Wales ←• «We have for you tonight a fine young comic who’s been nominated for just every new comedy award going, but it hasn’t been easy for him because he’s come up against lots of prejudice and discrimination to get where he is today. Yes, folks, he’s Welsh. Please go absolutely mad […] 
If you’re travelling to Scotland it may be worth learning some of these words. They are heard everywhere, and most of them have been included in the corpus of modern English vocabulary. ←Wauk yer wits •→wikihow.com/Understand-Scottish-Slang← ↓ Caa canny!
•→Kenneth MacNeill _ Highland clearances ⇐ febrero 12th, 2015 | Tags: lyrics, links, Scotland | Category: VDO | 5 comments 
⇐ ∞ Cheech & Chong, aka. ‘Los Cochinos’, come across some poop and → check it out ⇐ LOOK – PICK UP – FEEL – SMELL – TASTE – STEP . . . . . . DOGSHIT? ⇐ ÷ ÷ ÷ ♣ An Irish joke […] 
Brazilian-born Sebastiao Salgado, who shoots only using Kodak film, is known for his incredibly long-term projects, which require extensive travel and extreme lifestyle changes. Workers took seven years to complete and contained images of manual laborers from 26 countries, while Migrations took six years in 43 different […] 
∇ Fawlty Towers Basil (the owner of the small hotel in Devon which gave name to the TV series) has communication problems with Manuel (his mistreated employee from Barcelona) ↓ Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes). […] 
♥ Silent film actresses ↓ [Chopin Nocturne Opus 9 No. 2 in E Flat Major] – Clara Bow, – Louise Brooks, – Bebe Daniels, – Nita Naldi, – Norma Talmadge, – Constance Talmadge, – Lillian Gish, – Dorothy Gish, – Pola Negri, – Natacha Rambova, – Vilma Banky, – […] 
. . . Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol’s parents were Slovakian immigrants, living in one of Pittsburgh’s Eastern European ethnic enclaves. At the age of 8, Warhol contracted Chorea—also known as St. Vitus’s Dance—a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system […] 
♦ Keith Haring ↓ (1958-1990) ⇓ An American Visual Artist and Social Activist ◊ Keith Haring’s quotes ↓ “The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … […] 
•→http://www.history.com/shows/vikings← The TV series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History, is set at the beginning of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793. The first season portrays Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as a young Viking warrior who longs to discover civilizations […] 
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People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) This is my generation – This is my […] 
There are very few examples of art forms which combine extremes in such a compelling way: joy and grief, life and death, discipline and spontaneity, the inner self and the gregarious mass . . . The thing about flamenco is that even though it’s very popular music, […] 
Jazz began to «swing» as musicians began to adopt swing eighths, the string bass, high hat cymbals, and a looser, more rhythmic feeling . . . ⇒ This change occurred gradually starting in the twenties notably with Louis Armstrong, and continued on into the 40’s. A lot of the music that […] |
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