69)The house of parlaments and Elizabeth Tower commonly

called Big Ben are mong London`s most iconic landmarks .

Techically Big Ben is the name give to the massive bell inside the

clock tower which weighs more than 13 tons . The clock tower

looks spectacular ar night when the four clock fakes are iluminated.

№70. On Christmas Day families traditionally sit down to a dinner of roast turkey and Christmas pudding, a rich steamed pudding made from suet, dried fruit and spices. Is it true? Prove your answer.

It is true. Nowadays, if you sit down with a typical British family on Christmas day, the starter is probably going to be prawns or smoked salmon. The main course is more than likely to be turkey, often free-range and the bigger the better, although goose has been making a bit of a comeback, and for the vegetarian in the family (there's always one) a nut roast, this is normally served with potatoes (roasted, boiled, mashed, or maybe all three), vegetables (including the devil's veg - brussel sprouts) roasted parsnips, and stuffing with gravy and bread sauce. This is usually followed by Christmas pudding; a rich fruit pudding served with brandy sauce or brandy butter.

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Charles I rules without Parliament

Charles I, who became king in 1625, also believed in the Divine Right of Kings. To make matters worse, more and more Puritans were becoming MPs and demanding changes in the Church of England. They suspected the new king to be secretly sympathetic to Catholics, particularly when he married Henrietta Maria, a French Catholic princess. Neither did the MPs like the Duke of Buckingham, James I's favourite courtier and Charles I's chief adviser.

When in 1629, Parliament obstructed the king's right to tax his people, Charles dissolved Parliament. For eleven years (the "Eleven Years Tyranny") he managed to rule alone, reviving old medieval taxes that most people had forgotten about, such as Ship Money, to raise his revenues.

In the 1630's Charles and Archbishop Laud began to make changes to the Church of England, but not in the ways Puritans wanted. On the contrary, the king and Archbishop wanted churches and church services to be more decorated and ornate. To the Puritans this was simply a way of making the Church of England more like the hated Catholic Church.

In Parliament more and more MPs were Puritans; some of them were extremely wealthy and powerful.

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yes true in our school collected money in each event for balls and equipment in each event

. in London,^[1] and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.^[2] The tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, renamed as such to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (prior to being renamed in 2012 it was known as simply "Clock Tower"). The tower holds the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world and is the third-tallest free-standing clock tower.^[3] The tower was completed in 1858 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009,^[4] during which celebratory events took place.^[5][6] The tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of the United Kingdom and is often in the establishing shot of films set in London.

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There is no place in British society for extremism or intolerance. Is it true? Prove your answer. This page is about the psychological, societal and religious sources of violent religious extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism. Religious freedom and tolerance is most commonly upheld by secular democracies, minority religions, paganism, new age spiritualism and many new religious movements, and by the non-religious. The horrific spectre of oppression and violent coercion have resulted mostly from Abrahamic monotheistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity (mostly in the past) and Islam (particularly prone to it at present₁), and to a lesser extent from other traditional religions such as Hinduism, especially as a result of battles against multiculturalism. The declining strength of religion in the face of secularisation means there are fewer middle-ground religionists to rein in extremists. Fundamentalist branches of religion across various religions tend to share certain traits and features₂, in particular scriptural literalism and active resistance against multiculturalism.

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On Valentine's Day people exchange gifts and cards and send anonymous cards to people they secretly admire. Is it true? Prove your answer.

Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,^[1] is a holiday observed onFebruary 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them.

St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories were invented for the various Valentines that belonged to February 14, and added to latermartyrologies.^[2] A popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius. An embellishment to this story states that before his execution he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell

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The Canterbury Tales' was one of the first books to be printed by William Caxton, the first person in England to print books using a printing press. Prove your answer.

Caxton was both the first to print a book in English, and the first English printer. He realised the commercial potential of the new technology while working as a merchant in the Low Countries and Germany, birthplace of printing in Europe. Around 1475, Caxton set up his own printing press in London. Among his earliest books are two magnificent editions of the 14th-century classic, Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’: the first published in 1476 and the second, illustrated with woodblock prints, in 1483.

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Cognitive scientists are becoming increasingly aware that a metaphysical outlook may be so deeply ingrained in human thought processes that it cannot be expungedWhile this idea may seem outlandish—after all, it seems easy to decide not to believe in God—evidence from several disciplines indicates that what you actually believe is not a decision you make for yourself Your fundamental beliefs are decided by much deeper levels of consciousness, and some may well be more or less set in stone

We might all be a little more spiritual than we think.

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The Commonwealth is an association of countries, most of which were once part of the British Empire, though a few countries that were not in the Empire have also joined it.

The Queen us the head of the Commonwealth, which currently has 53 member states. Membership is voluntary and the Commonwealth has no power its members although it can membership. The commonwealth aims to promote democracy, good government and to eradicate poverty.