U.S. grocery stores specialize in food and drinks but sell a small selection of household products, as well. While food and drinks remain central to supermarkets, these stores devote more shelf space to other items than grocery stores. Supermarkets offer more household products, plus personal care products, cookware, and small kitchen appliances. Other markers of… (συνέχεια…)
Άρθρα με ετικέτα ‘Αγγλία’
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18 Σεπ 2023
At the Grocery Store
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!Δεν επιτρέπεται σχολιασμός στο One Giant Leap for Mankind
17 Ιούλ 2023
One Giant Leap for Mankind
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong Ένα μικρό βήμα για τον άνθρωπο, ένα γιγάντιο άλμα για την ανθρωπότητα. Ο πατέρας λέει στο γιο του να μην πλησιάσει και να μην ακουμπήσει το φρουρό επειδή κάτι τέτοιο δεν επιτρέπεται. Ο φρουρός ξέρουμε ότι απαγορεύεται να κινηθεί. Σπάει το πρωτόκολλο και κινείται για να βγει… (συνέχεια…)
Δεν επιτρέπεται σχολιασμός στο Roeselare, Belgium
Έφτασαν στο δημοτικό σχολείο Sprankel της βελγικής πόλης Roeselare (Ρούσελαρε) τα γράμματα των μαθητριών και μαθητών μου της Ε’ τάξης, μαζί με τις εργασίες που κάναμε στο μάθημα των Αγγλικών, οι οποίες είχαν ως θέμα —μεταξύ άλλων— το Μέγα Αλέξανδρο, τον Οιδίποδα Τύραννο, τον William Shakespeare και την Anne Boleyn. … (συνέχεια…)
Δεν επιτρέπεται σχολιασμός στο Dixit Dominus
Εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος Dixit Dominus is a psalm setting by George Frideric Handel. It uses the Latin text of Psalm 110 (Vulgate 109), which begins with the words Dixit Dominus (“The Lord Said”). The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou… (συνέχεια…)
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“Wuthering Heights” is a song by English singer Kate Bush, released as her debut single on 20 January 1978 through EMI Records and inspired by the 1847 Emily Brontë novel of the same name. Bush became the first female artist in the United Kingdom to achieve a number-one single with a self-penned song. “Wuthering Heights” is… (συνέχεια…)
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A kissing bough (προφ. περίπου σαν /μπάου/) is a traditional Christmas decoration in England. Also called a Christmas-bough or mistletoe-bough, it has the shape of a sphere or globe with a frame made of wire.
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9 Δεκ 2022
Doing the Right Thing with the Parthenon Marbles
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!BY VICTORIA HISLOP | AUG 08, 2022 The UK newspapers have all been buzzing this week with the suggestion that the British Museum may be ready to discuss the return of the Parthenon Sculptures with Greece. This all arose after the new chairman of the BM Trustees, George Osborne, said that there is a “deal to be… (συνέχεια…)
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30 Οκτ 2022
Many Rivers to Cross
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!“Many Rivers to Cross” is a song written and recorded in 1969 by Jimmy Cliff. It has since been recorded by many musicians, including Eric Burdon & The Animals. The Animals were an English rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for… (συνέχεια…)
19 Οκτ 2022
The Laughing Policeman
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!“The Laughing Policeman” is a music hall song recorded by British artist Charles Penrose (published under the pseudonym Charles Jolly in 1922). The song describes a fat jolly policeman who cannot stop laughing and has a chorus in which the sound of laughter is made in a sustained semi musical way by the singer. I know a fat old policeman… (συνέχεια…)
Poet, journalist and travel writer Hugo Williams was born in 1942 in Windsor and grew up in Sussex. Siren Song I phone from time to time, to see if she’s changed the music on her answerphone. ‘Tell me in two words,’ goes the recording, ‘what you were going to tell in a thousand.’… (συνέχεια…)
Ian Emberson (1936–2013) was a poet from Hove, Sussex, proud to have been christened by the poet Andrew Young. After moving around quite a bit, he spent his life in the small town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Lingering by the Doorway of the Woods I was picking blackberries when I thought of the… (συνέχεια…)
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was a writer and poet from Portsmouth, England. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. To a Greek Marble Πότνια, πότνια, White grave goddess, Pity my sadness, O silence of Paros. I am not of these about thy feet, These garments and decorum; I am thy brother, Thy lover… (συνέχεια…)
29 Ιούλ 2022
Underground/Tube, Subway
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!Athens, Greece ● The Athens Metro ● The London Underground, or Tube ● Τhe New York City Subway
8 Ιούλ 2022
The Flame Trees of Thika
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!The Flame Trees of Thika is a British television serial of seven 50-minute episodes made by Euston Films for Thames Television in 1981. It was adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya‘s Central Province. The… (συνέχεια…)
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt… (συνέχεια…)
The Channel Tunnel is a 50.46-kilometre railway tunnel that connects Folkestone with Coquelles beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. It is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.
«Φρύνος (είδος βατράχου) μέσα στην τρύπα» The unusually named toad in the hole is a traditional British delicacy consisting of a number of sausages baked in a Yorkshire pudding batter. The dish is traditionally served with vegetables, mashed potatoes, and onion gravy on the side. It was invented in the 18th century, when batter puddings first became… (συνέχεια…)
5 Ιούν 2022
Cor Anglais / English Horn
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Thank you for stopping by!• Το αγγλικό κόρνο ούτε αγγλικό είναι ούτε κόρνο! • Ο συνθέτης Christopher Ball γεννήθηκε στην Αγγλία και συγκεκριμένα στο Leeds. Τhe cor anglais is neither from England nor related to the various conical-bore brass instruments called “horns,” such as the French horn, the natural horn, the post horn, or the tenor horn. The instrument… (συνέχεια…)
