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English accents – British accents

♦ 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 […]

Sports

• Vocabulary … [01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [vid] ⇔ [vidquiz]⇐

•→Body movements←

A-K ⇐… Sports illustrated …⇒ L-Z

• Quizzes: →[01]← / →[02]←

∞ Guessing Game⇐[pairwork sports worksheet]

¤ Extreme sports⇐

Sports classified as […]

Spondulicks

¤ Pictionaries . . . ⇒[01]⇐ / ⇒[02]⇐

• Money Idioms . . . ⇒[01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03]⇐ Be closed-fisted : To be very stingy. Be pressed for money : To be very rich. Be rolling in money : When you have a lot of money. Live on a shoe string : […]

Plants & Trees

•→ http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/plants/⇐

⇑ Root, Stem & Leaf / Flower, Fruit & Seed ⇓

ψ → TREES ⇓

•→ Idioms [Plants – Flowers – Trees]← ¤ Grass ··· Pot … Ganja ··· Hemp … Weed

The Internet … 50 years on

•→ Twitter Explained // •→ Wikileaks⇐[doc]

• Computer glossary … →[01]← / →[02]←

• Computer vocabulary … →[01]← / →[02]←

• Computers illustrated … →[01]← / →[02]←

•→http://www.eslflow.com/Computers—internet-vocabulary-worksheet.html⇐

∇ Screen frozen … ⇓ …Computer crashed

‘…not responding’ / ‘…blank’ / ‘…flickering’ / ‘…beeping’ / ‘…buzzing’

♦ English Vocabulary ↓ […]

Imperialism & War

The actions by which one nation is able to control other usually smaller or weaker nations. The two primary methods of imperialism are military conquest and political diplomacy.

♦ David Crystal ↑ Will English Always Be the Global Language?

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A U S T R A L I A

¤ 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 […]

American First Nations

⇐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 ↓

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A m e r i c a

•→ 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 […]

Canucks

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, […]

Ireland = Eire + Ulster

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, […]

Wales

•→ 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 […]

Sebastião Salgado

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 […]

Vintage TV

∇   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). […]

Sleeve Art

Album cover art is often considered to be one of the “extincted” fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores.

♦ THE ART […]

Op Art

¤ Optical Illusions drawn with SPIEGELKUNSTENAAR (MIRROR ARTIST) ↓

→ http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/Hans.Kuiper/optillus.htm ¤ Trust your brains? ↓ Practice your Spanish with this slideshare

Alucina ⇑ 1. What’s our brains up to…! 2. If you see anything turning – you’re in need for a holiday!!! Stare at each circle in isolation and you’ll […]

German Expressionism

Early 20th Century

Influenced by the work of the Post Impressionists: Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Matisse, there were two great branches of German Expressionism:

¤ Die Brucke: – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; – Edvard Munch; – Paula Modersohn Becker; – Kathe Kollwitz . . .

¤ Der Blaue Reiter: – […]

Andy Warhol

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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 […]

Street Art

♦ 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. … […]

How to destroy the world

♠ RUBBISH ⇓

♠ FOOD ⇓

♠ TRANSPORT ⇓

♠ COMPUTER GAMES ⇓

I read this in theprisma (The Multicultural Newspaper) on 16th August 2012. ¤ Planned Obsolescence – Death on the Instalment Plan

An idea that belongs to capitalism: producing goods that soon stop working (programmed death) and […]