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Some of the pain of feeling unattractive stems from the stories we tell ourselves about those we deem beautiful. They, the blessed ones, surely do not suffer. They, the gods and goddesses of the body, must have been spared the troubles we wrestle with. In the palaces of the beautiful, invitations must not stop arriving, the attention must be constant, the options manifold, the partners on offer superlative, and the praise never-ending. However otherwise sceptical we may be, we can find it hard to conceive that anyone could be at once very beautiful and very unhappy.

This accounts for the importance of a distinctive thought-experiment, in which we apply ourselves with uncommon intensity to picturing some of the complexities that might attend the possession of a compelling face and body. The exercise may not change our looks, but it may make us a lot more content about the ones we have.

The list of pains confronting the beautiful might run like this:
The Risk of Having no Character
The danger of a very beautiful person having nothing to say is so high, because ever since they were fifteen, they have seldom had to begin a conversation. Others always had to crack the jokes and develop the ideas - just for the pleasure of seeing them smile. A silence with a beautiful person is invariably the less attractive one's fault - and responsibility.

It can be hard to develop a personality when others are permanently keen to project a ready-made one onto one's features. The beautiful are fated to be told who they are far more than they are encouraged to unearth interesting identities for themselves. Regular evenings alone can do wonders for one's capacity to determine where one might want to go in life and what one might really be seeking - but these moments are hard to come by when the crowd below the balcony never disperses.

The beautiful are seldom single for longer than a few months; it's just too difficult to keep turning people down. They don't face rejection in any serious way either. Who would ever leave them? Yet it's often through difficult romantic experiences that we grow to maturity. Rebuffs force us to develop compensating resources; we become stronger, more resilient; we learn compassion. It's not the beautiful's fault, but they can end up a little unimaginative and, in extremis, a touch spoilt

Lack of Trust
In bed, the beautiful will often wonder: 'is it me or is it my body they want?'

They want - of course - to be loved for the whole of who they are. But their exterior is so affecting, it is always at risk of overshadowing everything else; it cannot be ignored.

They might want to be appreciated for their take on the French novel, their loyalty to their troubled sister, their views on the future of the left... But even when people say the right things, the fears that none of that matters won't go away; they make too much sense.
Intimidation of the Plain
The very beautiful stand to discover that very interesting people who don't look so nice are terrified of approaching them. It can be puzzling to find that one has this effect. The beautiful person may really want to get to know the quiet fascinating type in the corner but this plain being can't imagine that they'd be of interest to a god or goddess and therefore emit a hostile defensive atmosphere that wards off any possibility of a friendly remark. In a different life, the plain and the pretty might often be friends, even lovers. Just not in this one.

Even if it's not quite what the beautiful want, the people it may in the end be easiest to pair up with are other beautiful types - and the ensuing relationships are often quite silent.
The Presumption of Stupidity
People don't wait to find out. Their imaginations simply refuse to picture the very beautiful carefully unpicking a page of Plato or analysing the state of the Swedish economy. They like the idea of the beautiful being resolutely dim.

Surely humans can't be that attractive and understand nuclear physics. That would mean too much good fortune landing in one place. However many degrees one may have, when one is astonishing looking, the presumption of idiocy never quite departs.
Aggression
Fortune - people feel - has smiled on these beauties enough already. They surely don't need anything further, like kindness or understanding.

That's why the beautiful may be on the receiving end of some remarkable cruelty. Their pains and sorrows are of no interest, their so-called 'insecurities' attract scorn, they are like the tears of an oligarch. Certain people may even feel they need actively to show these beauties that they are nothing special - though they never claimed to be.

The beautiful become targets upon which disappointed others vent their frustrations with the unfairness of life in general. They seem fair game; it's assumed that they are already far too blessed with riches to get hurt.
The Increased Sorrows of Aging
Their body is ideal. . But that's why getting older terrifies the very beautiful in particular. Yesterday they found another wrinkle. Their left knee has started creaking when they climb the stairs. They will have so much more to lose when they finally become invisible. From being so high, the regret will be so much deeper.

By building up our vision of the inner lives of the beautiful, we're rehumanising a strangely maligned minority. And the more imaginatively we comprehend them, the less enviable (but also the more approachable) they may become.

The very beautiful only seem to be set apart from us; in truth, a millimeter below their dazzling surface, they are as lonely, thoughtful, needy, generous - and banal - as the rest of us, only with a few added complexities. We do not - in the end - have quite so much to envy.

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Did you know that New York City has its own indigenous species of ant and that it's called the ManhattAnt? Did you also know that history's most successful pirate wasn't a bearded, eyepatch-wearing man but a woman? And did you know that humans actually have the power to smell rainfall before it arrives? If you answered "no" to any of those, then congratulations! You're in for a huge treat, because here we've compiled 100 totally random and fascinating facts that will leave you feeling astonished. So read on, and remember that not one but two golf balls have been hit on the moon wit a makeshift six iron.
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George Merryweather was a Victorian doctor and a fan of poetry. In fact, it was in a poem that he found the inspiration to build the Tempest Prognosticator, a kind of barometer powered by leeches. The three-foot-tall contraption was as beautiful as it was intended to be useful. The brass and mahogany structure held 12 glass vials in place, each of which contained a single leech. If it was going to rain soon, the leeches would slither to the top of the vial. By the end of his project, Merryweather had grown so attached to his leeches, he swore that they had befriended him. Unfortunately, only a few of them were actually successful at predicting the weather. Others, he wrote, were "absolutely stupid."

The name " funny bone" comes from the humerus bone, which connects the shoulder to the elbow. However, that's not the source of the tingling sensation you feel when you bump your elbow just right. It's actually the result of the humerus bone coming into contact with the ulnar nerve, which is responsible for telling the brain about feelings in the ring and pinky fingers.

Since 2002, the Greek translator Ioannis Ikonomou has been the chief translator of the European Parliament. With 32 languages under his belt, he merits the position. He initially moved to Brussels to be an interpreter, a valuable position in the EU capital, but after he learned all 12 official languages of the EU, he kept going and now speaks even more, including Bengali, Swahili, and Turkish.

A survey of funeral directors by Co-operative Funeralcare ( per the BBC) found that the most frequently requested song to play at funerals in the United Kingdom is "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python, from their irreverent comedy classic Life of Brian. It beat out Frank Sinatra's "My Way."

At least, they may share the same distant ancestor. After studying the DNA of blue-eyed individuals from Scandinavia, Turkey, Jordan, and India, Danish researchers found that they all had identical gene sequences for eye color. They believe this trait comes from a single individual, called the " founder," whose genes mutated between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Before that, everyone had varying shades of brown eyes.

Okay, technically she wasn't his pet, but after his tour of the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin brought back a five-year-old tortoise he named Harriet. She outlived her adopter by 124 years, ultimately making it to a whopping 176 years old. Harriet lived out her final years as part of the family of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Australia, until she passed away in 2006.

Driving can be a fun and liberating activity-until you get stuck at a red light, that is. The National Association of City Transportation Officials says that the average time spent waiting at a red light is 75 seconds, accounting for approximately 20% of all driving time. That's a whole lot of time doing nothing and just another reason to switch to public transportation.

If you consider that each bolt of lightning contains more than 5 billion Joules of energy, then the average 1,000-watt, two-slice toaster could be powered for 84,000 minutes with just one strike. That's just enough time to toast about 100,000 slices of bread, bagels, English muffins-whatever you prefer.

Always the joker, Lyndon B. Johnson would surprise guests at his Texas ranch by driving them down the hill in his Amphicar, claiming the brakes had gone out. Once it hit the lake, their panic would subside when they realized the car had been designed to function in water.

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While David Bowie's trio of albums recorded in Berlin are considered among his best work, it's not the only legacy he has in the German city. In 1987, his performance of "Heroes" in front of the Reichstag as part of the Concert for Berlin, was loud enough and close enough to the wall to be heard in East Berlin (where such music was forbidden). It sparked a police crackdown, and, according to The Guardian, "Many of the eyewitnesses claim that the violent police crackdown on the third night of the concerts... were crucial in changing the mood against the state."

No, it's not the fear of Cher, as the name might lead you to believe. It comes from the Greek word "chero," which means "to rejoice." People who suffer from cherophobia are often afraid, cripplingly so, of doing anything that might lead to happiness. This includes participating in fun activities and rejecting opportunities that may lead to positive outcomes.

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet, weighing up to 150 tons and measuring up to 90 feet long. Naturally, an animal this massive would have an equally huge heart. Roughly the size of a small car, the blue whale's heart weighs about 1,300 pounds. To move blood through its colossal body and arteries, its heart beats so powerfully, you can hear it from two miles away. You just might miss it, though, as its heart only beats eight to 10 times per minute.

Over 25 years ago, a cargo ship traveling from Hong Kong to the United States accidentally lost a shipping crate in the Pacific Ocean. Inside that crate were 28,000 rubber ducks unwittingly about to embark on many long journeys across the globe. As rubber ducks continue to pop up on shores from Australia to Alaska, they've enlightened our understanding of ocean currents. Some have made it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean while others have been found frozen in Arctic ice.

On Broadway medians between 63rd and 76th streets, biologists discovered a new species of ant. They named it ManhattAnt, naturally. Hey, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

"Steady Ed" Headrick invented the frisbee in the 1950s, then went on to create the sport of disc golf in the 1970s. When he died in 2002, his final wish was to have his ashes turned into-what else?-a frisbee. His son said it was his father's dream that they play with him after death and that he might even accidentally end up on someone's roof.

To provide safe passage to squirrels attempting to cross the N44 motorway, Netherlands officials built a rodent-only bridge. While it may have been a kind-hearted gesture, it might not have been the most economically sensible one: costing £120,000, over a two-year span the bridge was used by just five squirrels in two years. "In 2014 three squirrels, and in 2015 two squirrels, were spotted on the bridge," the government said in a statement.

The New York Post measured the actual length of Subway footlongs in New York City and found they averaged 11 inches, not 12. The sandwich chain commented, "With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, 'SUBWAY FOOTLONG' is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length."

The controversial issue was even taken to court, where the judge ruled in Subway's favor, saying most sandwiches are in fact one foot long, but "due to perfectly natural and unavoidable vagaries in the baking process, a very small fraction of sandwiches fell about a quarter-inch shy of 12 inches."

The mother of modern physics was known for her work with radioactive materials and the discovery of elements like polonium and radium. Unfortunately, her research took a hefty toll on her health, leading to aplastic anemia, which caused her death. The exposure to radioactivity didn't just affect her, it also affected most of her belongings, including her clothes, furniture, and books. Now, more than a century later, Marie Curie's notebooks have to be stored in a lead box, as they are still radioactive (and will be for another 1,500 years!).

That was the case in 2011, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, though that number has likely risen since. "We've had instances where they pull up Facebook in the course of a deposition," divorce lawyer Marian Rosen told ABC News. "Once it's out there for the world, it's very difficult ... to erase from the past. There are going to be trails that can be followed."

Blood donors receive a text message when their blood is used to help a patient. "We get a lot of visibility in social media and traditional media thanks to the SMS," Karolina Blom Wilberg, a communications manager at the Stockholm blood service, told HuffPo. "But above all we believe it makes our donors come back to us, and donate again."

We say "cheese" because the word leaves us with a big smile on our faces, but if Victorian-era folk were to see our gleeful expressions, they'd scoff. Once upon a time, smiling in photos was considered undignified and reserved for the poor and the drunk. To retain a more serious look in their photos, they would say " prunes," a word so dull, the chances of it inciting a smile were slim to none.

Considering a rooster's call can reach 140 decibels or louder, it might leave one to wonder how the rooster itself keeps from going deaf when that noise is coming right out of its beak. It turns out, the farm fowl have built-in earplugs. Researchers found that when a rooster opens its beak to crow, its external auditory canals close off, preventing sound from coming in and doing any damage.

The Netherlands has enjoyed a steady drop in crime since 2004, and has become so safe that it's closed down one jail after another- 23 prisons shut their doors since 2014. To help mitigate the job losses that this has created, the country has taken to importing prisoners from other countries, bringing 242 inmates from Norway in 2015.

To help expose how easily false or flawed research could make its way into supposedly peer-reviewed journals, an anonymous biologist managed to get a paper about one of Star Trek's most infamously silly elements accepted by four journals and published in the American Research Journal of Biosciences. The biologist explained that he did so "to expose predatory journals that claim to offer peer-reviewed open-access publications but will publish anything for a fee."

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, is the largest pyramid in the world and-with a base four times the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza-also happens to be the largest monument ever constructed. Part of the reason it's not better known is that it's partially buried under a mountain.

Well, sort of. As the country was reeling from the Great Depression, a local, trusted banker in the town of Quincy, Florida, urged anyone who would listen to invest in Coca-Cola stocks, then selling at $19 per share. Many followed his advice, and when the company's stock boomed as he'd promised, others followed. Soon, at least 67 inhabitants (in a town of fewer than 7,000) had become " Coca-Cola millionaires," making Quincy the richest U.S. town per capita.

In 1977, a volunteer for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence received a 72-second-long signal from a distant star system, 120 light years from Earth. It was loud and sent from a place that had yet to be visited by mankind, so the guy who received it wrote "Wow!" next to the original printout of the signal. It continues to be known as the " Wow! Signal." Researchers have since suggested that the noise was picked up from a passing comet.

Weather patterns produce distinct smells, and one of these is a lightly pungent scent of ozone that springs from fertilizers and can be carried in a thunderstorm's downdrafts from higher altitudes, alerting those with sensitive noses that the rain is about to fall.

If you take a taxicab in London, you can expect the driver to know exactly where they are going, since they are required to take a series of tests known as The Knowledge. These require them to study 320 routes and 25,000 streets, not to mention 20,000 landmarks and places of public interest-estimated to take as long as four years to fully complete.

In 1988, a bar owner visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, made a surreptitious addition to the honorees, slipping a photo of his dad wearing a baseball uniform into one of the glass cases. It remained there for six years before anyone detected that it did not belong there.

Early in life, a dolphin creates a unique vocal whistle that allows it to be identified by other dolphins in its pod. A team of researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that the animals responded when their specific call was played back to them.

In the 1940s, the popular Adventures of Superman radio program ran a 16-episode series, incorporating the findings of activist Stetson Kennedy, who had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan but couldn't get local authorities to use the information to crack down on them. The creators of the Superman show used Kennedy's spy secrets to help tell the story of the " Clan of the Fiery Cross," exposing the organization to the public and earning it widespread mockery and condemnation.

The apex predator with the highest kill rate is not the lion, the cheetah, or the wolf, it's the African wild dog. According to researchers, these lean, big-eared canines are noted for having a kill rate of 85%, while peregrine falcons get 47% of their targets and lions get just 17 to 19%. Another animal with surprisingly high kill rates? Domestic cats, which kill more than 30% of their targets.

Those annoying foil seals on the top of medicine bottles were put in place after a rash of poisonings occurred in 1982, in which seven people in the Chicago area were killed after ingesting Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide.

The British Empire grew ridiculously large before scaling back down. Some 62 countries eventually declared their independence from the empire, 48 of which celebrate an Independence Day from the United Kingdom.
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Before every city had a Walmart, most Americans got their stuff from mail-order catalogs, such as Sears. Among its many, many offerings were so-called " kit houses," or entire homes that were shipped on a train. You had to assemble the house yourself using the 75-page instruction book. It was like Ikea on steroids.

A sculpture outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, fittingly includes un-cracked codes. Created by artist Jim Sanborn, the Kryptos sculpture features four inscriptions, three of which have been cracked, but the forth is still a mystery. (Though in 2010 the artist offered one clue: The letters NYPVTT are an encryption of the word BERLIN.)

Tiny crustaceans have been detected in the tap water of New York City, and while these creatures pose no health threat, they technically disqualify the water from being considered kosher.

That may be a dramatic way of putting it. In fact, the psychedelics advocate, serving a sentence for marijuana possession, simply walked away from the minimum security prison in which he'd been placed in September 1970 by changing out of his prison uniform at a nearby gas station.

When using modern detergent, clothes will be equally clean whether warm or cold water is used. There is one major difference: warm water uses much more energy (about 75% of the energy used for a load of laundry comes from warming the water).

Instead of handwritten notes, Incan people used knots tied on pendants and cords to do their accounting. Called quipu, the types of knots and their location relative to the top of the cord would modify the meaning of the apparatus. About 600 examples of quipu have been discovered so far.

That would be Roy Cleveland Sullivan, a park ranger at the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, who between 1942 and 1977 was struck by lightning on seven different occasions, earning him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records and the nickname "Human Lighting Rod." He survived all of them and lived to the age of 71.

After a while, the plastic will start leaching into the liquid.

When Queen Elizabeth paid a royal visit to the set of Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland, she refused to sit on the Iron Throne for legal reasons. As series co-creator David Benioff told Esquire, "Apparently the Queen of England is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne... This is an esoteric rule we didn't know about until that moment."

Halfway up a glacier in the Andes, hiker Ricardo Peña found a wallet. It belonged to an Uruguayan rugby player who had been in a 1972 plane crash in which all but 16 passengers died. As it turned out, the wallet belonged to one of the survivors. Peña tracked him down and returned the wallet, more than three decades after its loss.

A researcher from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul found that North Koreans are four centimeters shorter on average than South Koreans, pointing to malnourishment, economic stagnation, and lack of immigration as reasons for the difference.

It makes sense: Many pets run away from home out of fear of July 4th fireworks.

The 19th-century Chinese pirate Ching Shih, a former sex worker and widow of fearsome pirate Cheng I, became a hugely successful pirate in her own right, succeeding her husband and eventually commanding more than 1,800 pirate ships and 80,000 men (the secrets she'd learned about her powerful clients at the brothel also came in handy).

A set of coded texts known as the Beale Ciphers (as they were originally acquired by a prospector named Thomas Jefferson Beale in the early 1800s) are said to reveal the location of a massive treasure: approximately $43 million in gold, silver, and jewels. Of the three texts, one has been cracked, revealing that the treasure is in Bedford County, Virginia. Where exactly it is within that county remains unknown.

A man named jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge but survived despite breaking his back. While it seemed he would not be long for this world, a sea lion came to the rescue, swimming beneath him and keeping him afloat until the coast guard arrived.

While "ambulance chaser" might be an insult in the United States, Russians take their selfish use of emergency vehicles to a whole other level by hiring " ambulance taxis"-luxuriously appointed ambulances they hire for $200 an hour that will blast their sirens to speed the passenger through traffic.

Considered "the most important single traffic safety device," the painting of lines down the center of roads was devised by Edward Hines in 1911 when he saw the dotted drippings from a leaking milk wagon and struck on the concept.

A Chinese panda named Ai Hin was believed to be pregnant (showing signs like an increased appetite and less movement), and zookeepers ensured she was well taken care of with extra food, a single room with air conditioning, and more. But then they realized she was not pregnant at all. Researchers believe it may have been a deliberate fake out in order to get the better treatment and treats.

Though diaper-changing stations are now a common sight in public places, that was not always the case. When the founder of Koala changing tables first tried selling them to businesses, he was met with total disinterest. But thanks to a marketing push depicting a woman changing a diaper on a gross bathroom floor, he started changing minds. "We had to make them feel guilty," Jeff Hilger told Fortune. This tactic worked, and soon McDonald's, Target, and other major chains were asking to have them installed.

Though best known as the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, the author also put in time as a spy for the British Security Coordination gathering intelligence during World War II. One of his specialties was using his charm to seduce society ladies, possibly for intelligence gathering, possibly for his own enjoyment.

During a race, the temperature inside a race car regularly reaches up to 170° due to engine activity and traction. Despite ventilation systems that blow cool air into the seats, the helmet, and near the feet, the heat can still lead drivers to lose between five and 10 pounds in sweat during each race. Excessive sweating can lead to focus problems and slower reflexes, which is just one of the factors that makes this sport so dangerous.

Social media and digital consumption have become so overwhelmingly popular in most parts of the world that it's easy to forget that for some people, reading is still a primary form of entertainment. According to a 2017 study, the average Indian spends 10 hours and 42 minutes per week reading. Compare that to America's five hours and 42 minutes per week. The other countries filling out the top five are Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Egypt.

The Northern Lights get a lot of hype, often stealing the spotlight from the Southern Lights, which are visible from New Zealand, Tasmania, and Antarctica. Aurora Australis, like Aurora Borealis, occurs when solar particles collide with gases in Earth's atmosphere. Also like the northern lights, the best time to see this magnificent light show is in the winter- southern winter, of course. March through September are prime viewing seasons.

Christopher Columbus first saw pineapples while exploring the island of Guadeloupe in 1493, but the first recorded reference to a fruit of this name wasn't until 1694. Because of its spiky exterior, a different group of European explorers named it " pineapple" after the equally spiky pine cone. Later, in the 20th century, the pineapple earned its official scientific name, "ananas cosmosus," which literally translates to "excellent tufted fruit."

Jeanine Sugawara was devastated when she cracked open a box of Cap'N'Crunch Crunch Berries cereal to find that there wasn't a single berry in the box. Feeling "tricked" by the cereal company, she sued Quaker Oats, who owns Cap'N'Crunch, on the grounds of false advertising. The complaint was quickly dismissed when the judge reminded her that there is no such thing as a "crunchberry."

And his ship is called the S.S. Guppy. Being named after the famous explorer Ferdinand Magellan isn't the only little-known fact about the cereal celeb. Other fun trivia about the captain includes that he comes from a far-off island known as Crunch Island, where he has his own monument called Mount Crunchmore. Horatio's biggest secret is that he's not really a captain. Just look at his uniform, and you'll see he actually wears the stripes of a commander.

Though these cheesy graphic tees would be a hit today, they were a miserable flop when Apple first presented them in 1986. During Steve Jobs' brief hiatus from Apple, the successful tech company decided to see just how far their fans' love could stretch. Apparently, it wasn't far, as The Apple Collection's branded apparel, accessories, and lifestyle goods were a commercial flop. Sunglasses, lapel pins, and the original $35 Apple Watch are just a few of the goods they couldn't sell.

With more than 200 million copies in circulation every year, the IKEA catalog surpasses the Bible, the Quran, and the Harry Potter series to earn the title of the world's most-printed book. The annual catalogs are usually around 350 pages and vary in each of the 72 regions in which it's distributed. For example, catalogs in Saudi Arabia only feature men in their photos.

If you've ever wondered why the delectably fluffy 3 Musketeers bars were named, it's because when they were first invented in 1932, they came in three breakable pieces. Not only were they made for sharing between three people, but they came with three different flavors in each bar: strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla. They also had a slogan inspired by Alexandre Dumas' classic novel: "All for one, or one for a couple of others!" When World War II rations made it difficult to get ahold of strawberry and vanilla flavoring, the chocolate company pivoted to the bar we know and love today.

Scientists still aren't sure how, but crocodiles managed to outlive dinosaurs by 65 million years. In fact, crocodiles have always been so well-designed for survival, that modern crocodiles are hardly different than those found in fossils. Just a few theories about how they've managed to survive so long are crocodiles' ability to go long periods without eating, their ability to survive in land and water, and the fact that they can adjust to cold temperatures easily.

Though pork naturally contains some sodium (as does any meat), the saltiness we love about ham, bacon, and any number of pork products is actually the result of curing and brining processes. After the raw meat has been left to soak in salt or salt water, it becomes dehydrated, flavored, and preserved. This is also the process that creates salami, pepperoni, and other cured meats.

The Scottish painter and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe was an original member of the Beatles when they were just a club act in Hamburg, Germany. There, he met his fiancée, Astrid Kirchherr, and decided to stay behind to be with her. Only a year later, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and died at the age of 21. Meanwhile, his former bandmates would go on to become the most popular musicians in history. Over the years, many others have been given the title of the " Fifth Beatle," including producer George Martin, PR manager Derek Taylor, and road manager Neil Aspinall.

Some people love it and some people hate it, but what is it that makes joint cracking so loud? When joints are stretched, the pockets of gas that get trapped between them are released. When these bubbles of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide escape, they might make a popping or cracking noise. Whether or not intentional joint cracking is bad for your health has yet to be decided. Some scientists say it harmless, while others say it may lead to osteoarthritis.

While most people are familiar with osteoporosis, which leads to brittle bones, you may be less familiar with the gene mutation LRP5. Those with the mutation have bones that are many times denser-up to eight, in extreme cases-than the average person's, with cases of afflicted individuals walking away from car accidents and other impact injuries with no fractures or broken bones.
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On Jan. 28, 1887, two years before Montana was even a state, U.S. Army personnel witnessed the strange sight of a frisbee-sized snowflake falling from the sky in what's now Keogh, Montana. Snowflakes sometimes combine before reaching the ground, leading to large, thick snowflakes. Today, it remains the title holder for the Guinness World Record's largest snowflake ever.

When linguists from the University of Glasgow compiled the first Historical Glossary of Scots, one of Scotland's three official languages, they were blown away at the bountiful ways to express the concept of snow. Some of those words include "snaw" (snow), "feefle" (swirls of snow), and "flindrinkin" (a light snow shower). And that giant snowflake that fell in Montana? hat would be called a "skelf."

Before you roll your eyes, know that this happened during the Middle Ages, when animals were regularly tried for human crimes. One example of such a trial took place in the French village of Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1386. The defendant, a young pig, was arrested for attacking a baby's face. When complications from the injuries ultimately killed the three-month-old, the pig was sent to jail and later, publicly executed after failing to provide a solid defense for its crimes. Naturally.

There's an ongoing rivalry between Australia and New Zealand, but in 2006, one Australian man came very close to winning. In May 2006, he opened a bid on the e-commerce platform for the country of New Zealand. Bids started at $0.01. Bidding prices climbed all the way to $3,000 before eBay officials shut it down, adding "clearly New Zealand is not for sale." Still, New Zealand was salty about the prank. The country's foreign minister at the time even called it "nonsensical stupidity."

Mary Grams always loved gardening, but not as much as she loved her husband. That's why she couldn't bear to risk breaking his heart by telling him she lost her wedding ring in the garden. Instead, she went out and bought a cheap replacement. More surprising than the fact that her husband never noticed the difference is the fact that 13 years after the incident, the ring resurfaced on a carrot growing in the very same garden.

The Oregon city of Boring, named after founder William H. Boring, has claimed the village of Dull, in Perthshire, Scotland, as its sister city. Oregon's governor named August 9 to be the official Boring and Dull Day throughout the state.

It failed, obviously. For the last decade, McDonald's has been incorporating healthier options into its menus. It now offers an entire array of salads and in 2011, it made it possible to swap fries for apples in Happy Meals. Before it decided on apples, though, the fast food chain experimented with a bunch of fruits and vegetables, notably, broccoli. But not just any broccoli. Aware that kids traditionally despise the waxy green veggie, McDonald's engineered it to taste like bubblegum.

Famously mysterious North Korea is full of surprises, not the least of which is its cultural fondness for the accordion. The musical squeezebox is known as the "people's instrument," because its convenient size makes it ideal to take on marches. For years, the accordion has been taught in North Korean schools. It's no wonder, then, why in the '90s, teachers were required to pass an accordion exam to get the job, according to interviews from the book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.

That's right, the combination question mark-exclamation mark that so many of us overuse in text messages has a name. It was invented in the 1960s by an ad man named Martin Speckter who wanted to lend typographical form to the messages behind advertising campaigns that were both questions and exclamations. Think: "Got milk?!" or "Can you hear me now?!" The interrobang originally looked like this, "?" but nowadays most people use its two root symbols instead.

If you're ever in a bind, throw some Doritos on the grill and spark them up. Though you can make kindling out of nearly anything, the flavored corn chips are particularly handy because they'll burn for a long time. In fact, most chips will serve as good fire starters because they're made of flammable hydrocarbons soaked in oil, according to an investigation by The more covered in powdered flavoring they are, the longer the fire will last!

In this alpine country, it's the more the merrier when it comes to guinea pigs. Because the squeaking rodents are herd animals, they can get severely depressed when all alone. In an effort to enhance social rights for animals, Switzerland officially considers owning a single guinea pig an act of animal cruelty. For those who were already single guinea pig owners before the law was passed in 2008, rent-a guinea-pig businesses can provide your beloved fur ball with a pal.

In perhaps the most Floridian attack ever, the deadly weapon of choice was an alligator. As 24-year-old Joshua James was being handed his drink at a Wendy's drive-thru, he tossed a live 3.5-foot alligator at the attendant for absolutely no reason at all. As a result, he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, possession of an alligator, and petty theft. He was also banned from all Wendy's fast food restaurants.

Three decades ago, American Airlines' executives, looking to save money, removed the single olive that was included in every first-class meal. As reported by Jet Set on Bravo, this saved the airline an estimated $40,000 per year-in 1980s dollars.

Under the guise of an initiative called The Citizen's Charter, Britain set up a hotline aimed at improving public services, one traffic cone at a time. The Cones Hotline was launched in 1992 for citizens to report traffic cones on the road "for no apparent reason." The policy was mocked both for being comically pointless and for being a waste of government money before it was disbanded in 1995. Its failure has inspired the term "cone syndrome," which is used to describe policies that serve no real purpose.

While the green siren logo may be ubiquitous throughout the U.S., Starbucks did not have as much success in Australia. After opening dozens of locations throughout the continent beginning in 2000, low demand led it to close 70 percent of its locations, leaving just 23 cafes throughout the country, as reported by CNBC.

Why did it flop? According to Gartner research analyst Thomas O'Conner, the brand, "launched too rapidly and didn't give the Australian consumer an opportunity to really develop an appetite for the Starbucks brand. They also moved into regional areas, into outer suburbs of major cities... it wasn't an organic growth."

The days were dark during World War I when Europe was at war and world powers like Britain were mobilizing their forces. One celebrated British admiral of the Royal Navy had retired by 1917 when he wrote to Winston Churchill to share his take on the headlines of the day, some of which were so exciting, he wrote, "O.M.G. (Oh! My! God!)." How could he have known that the acronym he invented would go on to become one of the most-used phrases in the world?

Richard Montañez, working at the Frito-Lay plant in Southern California, pitched the idea of adding chili powder to regular Cheetos to the company's CEO. Top brass liked the idea and, since its success, Montañez has risen up the company ranks and now serves as an executive for PepsiCo. Eva Longoria is even directing a movie about him.

Blue whales may be the largest animals on the planet, but they aren't the largest living organism. The Pando aspen grove is made up of 47,000 identical quaking aspen trees that cover 106 acres of Fishlake National Forest in Utah. The aspen grove is connected by a single shared root system and has been around for thousands of years. Unfortunately, Pando has been shrinking for decades due largely to human intervention and animal grazing. Only time will tell if conservation efforts will make a difference.

The sound made by melting glaciers and icebergs is similar to the sound of fizzling soft drinks, which is what inspired the name " bergy seltzer." It occurs when melting water frees tiny bubbles of air that have been trapped under ice for centuries. The sound is so loud that it can be used to determine the distance of icebergs at sea.

If only the people of Amity, Long Island, had known this, the movie Jaws would have ended differently! It turns out that a shark's Achilles heel is turning it upside down. Some species of sharks enter a state of tonic immobility due to the loosening of muscles and the respiratory system. The shock puts them into a trance that can make them look like they're dead. About 15 minutes later, they'll become responsive again and return to normal. Some killer whales even exploit this trait by forcibly flipping sharks so they can access prey more easily.

BYU is the Mormon flagship university and has a number of other equally strict guidelines that ban premarital sex, tattoos, and alcohol, to name a few. Until 2015, it was against school policy for any student to grow a beard. Now, the guidelines have been adjusted to allow people with medical conditions, actors who need a beard for a role, and certain religious people to grow a beard if absolutely necessary.

Koko, the beloved gorilla famous for her warm personality, love of cats, and ability to communicate through sign language had a favorite show: Mister Roger's Neighborhood. When she finally met Mister Rogers for the first time, she recognized him right away and immediately helped him untie his shoes and take them off, just as she had seen him do on his show. In the same meeting, she also embraced him and cradled him in her arms to demonstrate that she loved him.

For those lonely folk who pass away with no next of kin and no one to claim them at death, there will be at least one person at their funeral: a poet. In response to these so-called "lonely funerals," the country implemented the ritual of lonely funeral poems, in which poets research the deceased, write a poem in their honor, and recite it at the funeral. What started as a small project in Amsterdam has now grown into a country-wide competition.

The word "flyting" comes from the Old English word for "quarrel." Something like today's freestyle rap battles, the purpose of flyting was to craft poetic insults so devastating to your competitor that they'd be too insulted to muster a comeback. One recorded exchange is known as The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which Kennedie tells Dunbar, "You look like the crows already ate your cheeks; Renounce, rebel, your rhymes and sorry shrieks." What a burn.

On the Apollo 14 space mission in 1971, Alan Shepard became the first and only person to play golf somewhere other than Earth. He attached a six-iron head (which he'd smuggled onboard in a sock) to a piece of rock-collecting equipment and hit two golf balls while on the moon's surface, hitting his second shot further than 200 yards.

The original version of Beauty and the Beast was a 1740 story by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, in which the beast was a hideous combination of an elephant and fish. According to children's literature academic Maria Tatar, the tale was written in order to encourage girls to accept arranged marriages, "for an alliance that required effacing their own desires and submitting to the will of a monster."

Another inventor, LaMarcus Thompson, was disgusted by the debauchery of New York's inhabitants. The saloons and brothels that were so popular in the late 1800s were a disgrace to Thompson, who wanted to provide a family-friendly sin-free way to have fun. Thus, the rollercoaster was born. He was inspired by the railroad tracks of the West, specifically one called the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, which featured a high-speed, 665-foot drop.

One of many words that are untranslatable in English is " kummerspeck," which literally translates to "grief bacon" or "sorrow fat." Bacon might not be your binge food of choice, but the idea remains the same. Whether you chow down on cured meats or ice cream during times of emotional crisis, kummerspeck adds insult to injury. It's also proof that the idea of food as comfort is cross-culturally understood.

That is, about a millimeter a week. Tectonic plates, which divide the continents, drift because of the heat that pushes its way up to the surface from the Earth's core. This is the same activity that causes earthquakes and volcanic activity. At the rate they move, the tectonic plates end up drifting between one and two inches each year.

William "Willy" Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool to a British mother and a German father, the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. When Anglo-German relations started heating up due to his uncle's flamboyance, Willy published an essay in Look magazine entitled "Why I Hate My Uncle." As war broke out, he moved his family to the United States, where he tried to enlist in the U.S. Navy but was turned down. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt took a second look at Willy's application and finally approved him to engage in the fight against the Nazis.

The favorite meal of millennials was invented in 1895 by an English writer named Frank Beringer, who published an article called " Brunch: a Plea" in Hunter's Weekly newspaper. In his article, he described an alternative to the traditional Sunday dinner that he dubbed "brunch." He argued that waking up early was no fun for those who had had wild Saturday nights and that brunch was the perfect place for folks to gather around noon, recount the tales of their wild nights, and enjoy each other's company.
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I feel that a child must live in every person, because it makes life more surprising. Get pleasure from little things that fill your life by gladness and positiveness. The more you are surprised the more you get positive emotions. My husband and I try not to forget about it that is why we don't always fit in view of our adults society in Russia. We like to try something new and sometimes get out of the comfort zone. For example it is a skateboarding or trying new food. I want to learn how to serf and my husband too, but he can't swim. I think it isn't a problem as we can buy the subscription and learn it. Passionated to try, to change a lot of things, to fill it by many memorises.

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The Empire State Building

When exploring New York City, there are several different options for activities during a day trip. Some visitors come to see a show, visit art museums, or simply to shop in many of the city’s high-end retailers. However, many tourists simply come to New York City for the sightseeing. One of the most visited landmarks in New York City is the Empire State Building.

The Empire State Building, constructed in 1931, is a 102-story skyscraper, the ninth highest building in the world, and the fourth tallest structure in the United States. It is located in Midtown, Manhattan. This skyscraper is an iconic symbol of the city, having been featured in over 90 popular movies (as of 2018) throughout film history. Tourists come from all over the world to visit this building and view the city from its famous observation decks.

Matthew, an enthusiast of historic buildings, was excited for this trip to New York City because he has always appreciated architectural design. Matthew purchased a ticket that granted him access to beautiful 360-degree views of the city. The ticket included an elevator ride that stopped at two different vantage points, one at the 86th floor and the other at the rooftop observatory on the 102nd floor. From these observation decks, Matthew took incredible photographs of the entire New York City skyline. The rooftop views granted Matthew perfect aerial perspectives of Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, and many other important city landmarks.

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Situation 1

You have scheduled a meeting to show your application to your line manager in August

31st at 1pm. All participants (your colleagues and the line manager) confirmed. 2 days before the

meeting your colleague Mark Browning, emails you that he gave the application to testers and still didn't get it checked so he cannot show it on Friday.

There is another application in the process, Emily Jones -the other teammate could show instead of the planned application interview, but it was very difficult to find a slot for her this week.

Write an email to your line manager  Wendy - explain the situation and suggest a solution.

Please include the subject line.

confirmation request

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Dear Wendy,
I am a team lead of the team A. And we show our new application on August 31st at 1pm.

We faced some difficulties that why I request to reschedule or replace the actual subject by another application which is ready and should be shown as well.

Please, let me know as soon as possible so I could notify my team to be ready

With kind regards,
Alexandra

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Dreams affect on people's mood all day long. Dream without resting fosters an appearance of neurotic diseases. We instill ourselves that the dream don't have nothing in common with our well-being. Our organism prompts us to feel excessive tire and surplus our conscious decision not to sleep which leads us to fainting. In this cases we help ourselves by having a nap.This dream is so deep that we sleep like a log.
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People have no ideas how cope with a huge wishes to sleep. Also another problem is uneasy dream. Either way people should a good sleep. I give some advices for it. First, you shuold to afford a rest during day. The best decision is a meditation, it reduces the risk of anxiety disorder. Immersion in work, should not be accompanied by rush. Overcomming  external irritation you learn restraint. Of course your peace should be appropriate.

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Write USED TO, BE USED TO or GET USED TO in the spaces provided. Make sure you use the correct verb tense. 1. When I was a teenager I used to dress up for Halloween, but not anymore. 2. At first I was really nervous about driving in Vancouver, but now I ...................………. to it. 3. I don't think I'll ever ……………………..… to the rain in Vancouver. 4. Mike is Chinese. He is not used to speaking English in the office. 5. The smell of fish is awful, but you'll get used to it after a couple of months in the job. 6. There are some things in this life that you'll never get used to. 7. It will take a while for the office staff to get used to the new computer software. 8. Two years ago, the students used to have four hours a week of language lessons, but now they have three hours. 9. She is used to hard work. She grew up in a very poor family. 10. My children are used to eating hamburgers, but I don't think I'll ever get used to eating them. 11. People from Africa are used to hot weather because of the dry and hot climate there. 12. I wasn't happy about working the evening shift but I have got used to it now. 13. When I was starting to write, I used to think I would never be as good as Margaret Atwood. 14. Mr. Blundell used to do lots of interviews when he was the mayor of Vancouver. 15. He never got used to flying a helicopter, even after years of working as a copilot.

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8 A Greek architect is designing the new concert hall.
The new concert hall is being designed by a greek architect?

9 Two million people have already seen the exhibition.
The exhibition have already been seen by two million people?

10 They are going to knock down the old theatre.
The old theatre is going to be knocked down by them?

11 They were still painting the walls when I left.
The walls were still being painted when I left

12 An American invented the laser.
The laser was invented by American

13 They ought to mend the roof.
The roof ought to be mended

14 Brazil produces large quantities of coffee.
Large quantities of coffee are produced by Brazil

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1.  Last night, when I was making the dinner, my mom called me. I totally forgot about the roast in the oven, and I burned everything. (MAKE, CALL, FORGET, BURN)
2. Most police officers wear uniforms to work. Only detectives in higher positions wear their street clothes. (WEAR, WEAR)
3. His family had moved to Singapore when he was three, then they moved back again when he started high school. (MOVE, MOVE)
4. Your car is fine now. There was a problem with the gears, but we fixed it. (FIX)
5. After Claire had been running for half an hour, she suddenly stopped to check her watch. (RUN, STOP)
6. I stopped smoking three years ago. Before that, I had been smoking for over a decade. (STOP, SMOKE)
7. Look, Mary is cleaning the windows. Nobody has cleaned them for over a month. (CLEAN, CLEAN))
8. Tina has been checking her emails for the last two hours. (CHECK)
9. Living in a foreign country was strange at first, but we got used to it. (GET)
10.I don't think I want any desert. I have had too much to eat already. (NOT THINK, HAVE)
11.In our history lesson yesterday my friend and I were talking to each other and we weren't paying attention. Suddenly, our history teacher stood right next to us. (TALK, NOT PAY, STAND).
12.Wendy phones her boyfriend every afternoon. (PHONE)
13.I saw him sitting on the sofa. He was very tired because he worked too much. (BE, WORK)
14.John booked our flight this morning, but he hasn't made hotel arrangements yet. (BOOK, NOT MAKE)
15.I was watching the cup finals when you arrived. (WATCH)
16.We normally get together every second Sunday, but this month everyone is on holiday, so we don't have any meetings. (GET, BE, NOT HAVE)

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Today, social media has become a major part of numerous lives through countless websites and apps,  and people have been able to connect with others and share their thoughts, emotions, experiences, etc. It’s been able to provide a source of entertainment and shopping, and many businesses have even found it useful for promotion and marketing. At this point, social media has had such a huge impact on society that it seems like people couldn’t live without it. However, with these advantages, social media has also had a number of disadvantages that have affected our lives. This includes the result of major problems having to do with mental health issues, insecurities about one’s self, and addiction.

The Pros

The main reason behind why social media seems to control so many people is its ability to benefit and support businesses and people in so many ways. Whether it’s promoting companies or reaching out to friends and family, social networking has shown to be a major advantage to almost anyone, anywhere.

If consumers like what they’re seeing, and if relationships are built between them and company workers, they’ll want to buy the product of the company. This can result in businesses being able to productively grow at a much faster rate. In an article titled 12 benefits of social media, and all the ways it can impact your business for good, Jessica Wells writes, “Right now, most companies have anywhere between four and 10 social profiles that they maintain. A strategy like this enables you to reach out to an older audience on Facebook, use an interesting image to connect with younger users on Instagram, and foster professional relationships and thought leadership through LinkedIn posts.”

Through social networking, workers are able to directly respond to clients who have questions, concerns, or suggestions about the product of the company. This will assure customers that companies are paying attention to their needs and desires, which in turn benefits both sides (company and buyers). In 10 Advantages of Social Media Marketing for Your Business, Blue Fountain Media writes, “Customers appreciate knowing that when they post comments on your pages, they will receive a personalized response rather than an automated message. Being able to acknowledge each comment shows that you are attentive of your visitors’ needs and aim to provide the best experience.”

Aside from businesses, social media has allowed people to connect with one another in a much easier, comfortable, and faster way.

In Top 5 benefits of the internet for entertainment, Allconnect talks about how social media’s different applications have allowed chatting to become much simpler to use, which has created multiple ways to chat without having to worry about going over a time limit.

Use of social media has even allowed people who are shy to feel more comfortable expressing themselves. In 21 Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Networking, it says, “About 1 in 4 teens say that their experiences on social media have helped them to feel less shy when interacting with others in real life. Almost 30% of the young people in that group say that these encounters help them to feel more outgoing, while 1 in 5 say that their confidence got a boost.”

Apart from comfort zones being broken, a major positive impact of social media has been its ability to save lives in desperate situations.

In 31 Eye-Opening Pros and Cons of Social Media Use, Develop Good Habits explained situations where people’s lives were saved during natural disasters. Through the quickness of social media, emergency help was able to receive the needed information and reach those people just in time.

The Cons

Even with all the benefits that are gained from social networking, social media has also caused issues related to mental health, self-confidence, and personal security.

In 2018, The University of Pennsylvania conducted a study involving 140 undergraduates either continuing their regular use of social media apps or limiting the amount to 10 minutes per day. In New Studies Show Just How Bad Social Media Is For Mental Health, Alice G. Walton writes, “As the researchers expected, people who limited their social media use to 30 minutes felt significantly better after the three-week period, reporting reduced depression and loneliness, especially those who came into the study with higher levels of depression. Interestingly, both groups reported less FOMO and less anxiety in the end, which the team suggests may just be a resulting benefit of increased self-monitoring.” FOMO stands for “fear of missing out.”

Is social media making more people insecure explains how many teens become very insecure by social media and feel pressured to do certain things that’ll make it seem like they are “cool” or living up to specific standards. A sense of competition could be created between friends and this could result in friendships being broken.

Cyberbullying has also been a big problem for many teens around the world, occurring whenever threats or comments are made online to hurt others, whether it’s intentional or unintentional. Social Media and Teens: How Does Social Media Affect Teenagers’ Mental Health says, “Teens girls in particular are at risk of cyberbullying through use of social media, but teen boys are not immune. Cyberbullying is associated with depression, anxiety, and an elevated risk of suicidal thoughts.”

With the impact of cyberbullying being a major problem, a lighter but still important problem has been a lack of productivity being shown among many students.

In 10 Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media for Society, Bilal Ahmad talks about how social media has caused numerous teens to waste a lot of time doing things that aren’t as important, saying that “They get involved very extensively and are eventually cut off from the society. It can also waste individual time that could have been utilized by productive tasks and activities.”

Ahmad also goes on by explaining how easy it is for people nowadays to use scams that allow access to others’ private information. This could be very dangerous to one’s identity and security.

All in all, social media has been the cause of many advantages and disadvantages. Social media has helped many businesses grow and promote itself, and has helped people find a better way to connect and communicate with one another. On the other hand, it’s also provided many people with problems involving mental health, emotional insecurities, and waste of time. With social media being such a big part of people’s lives, it’s important to understand the impact it’s made and how it could affect the future of this world.

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"Влияние социальных сетей на современное общество"
The impact of social media on the modern society

HOOK
There is a VARIETY OF reasons of PRESENCE ON social media and ASPECTS to INTERACT with other individuals: starting from splitting up into groups by interest to keeping the blog

PROBLEM
- It is told that using social media could be a cause  of addiction
- In the process of FORMATION of communication groups EMERGES a need of any kind of regulation mechanisms, EITHER for keeping traditions of cultural communication,  ETHNIC and INTERFAITH standards, OR for CONSIDERATION of RESTRICTIONS according to moral and ethical standards.
- In modern society communication tools are a way of accessing a limitless amount of information.
- ???The social networks HAS A direct IMPACT on man's mind who is  a SPECTATOR and a content creator.

RISING ACTION
Rising : ????The MAJORITY of  INVENTIONS SIMPLIFY and IMPROVE people lives.

CLIMAX

FALLING ACTION
- As the part of social networks EVOLUTION there are new ways of ADAPTATION to different generations.
- According to technological development of society communication between people adapts to a more universal and standard form to MEET their NEEDS in the COGNITION of the world and INTERACTION with each other.
- That's why it's important to ADMIT, any changes in life affect people 's worldview.
- With the appearance of the internet , geopolitical borders were smoothed, and the possibility of access to VARIOUS information sources which can be filtered,  widened the horizon and adapted to various cultural and social aspects of life.
- CONSEQUENTLY,  we make a conclusion that forming and functioning of social networks are a natural process of development and influence of the modern world.
- A man got a chance to become a FULL-FLEDGED part of society and DEFINE ON IT'S OWN like-minded groups, members of which ENCOURAGE and support each other. Social networks can be REFERRED to similar mechanisms.

RESOLUTION
- By the time past social networks were given a chance to WIDEN a COVERAGE and increase the amount of users, DUE TO supplements, in other words - tools for internet functioning.
- To that kind of tools can be referred to different types of routers, unlimited traffic, etc, that are CONTRIBUTE to SIMPLIFIED access.

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Marie's husband said that he wouldn't budge until realter didn't propos al something appropriate. It was long lasting and the realter was like a log and Jim was sufficient persist ence. Mary took undertake and disid e to dilute this  rising tension. She begged them to stop and offered tea, but her husband was stringent enought. That moment she clued what do.
When we made a contract with this person, he seemed in charge and instilled the trust and buy this apartment seemed really innocuous. We waited a disastrous errors less likely.
Now I am in surplus of emoustion and almost faint. Viciousness fulfill Jim and my soft dizziness turns me off.
I woke up by  pleasant smell of b un. I was well-being and my husband said that to take nap was a good idea. I understood that it was a bad dream. Our relocation fostered to this dream.

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1) I wonder if he is getting (over/along) with his colleagues.
2) Stop wasting the time! Let’s get (down/out) to business.
3) I advise you to get (up/on) the bus that goes to the centre.
4) Don’t forget you are to get (away/off) at the next stop or you won’t reach
the place of destination.
5) He kept silent and I couldn’t get a word (on/out) of him.
6) She is rather lazy and doesn’t like to get (on/up) early in the morning.
7) I hope he will get (away/over) his cold quickly.
8) Read the text up to the end before you get (along/down) to translate it.
9) I won’t be able to get (away/over) from the office before seven.
10) I’m afraid the situation is getting (along/out) of control.
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1) I think the problem can be got over(преодолена) without too much difficulty.
2) Was she very tired this morning? She couldn’t get up(подняться с постели).
3) I think they have got out(сбежали) through Mrs. Barnett’s garden.
4) She is getting well(продвигается) fine despite all her problems.
5) If everybody is here, let’s get down(приступим) to business.

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to get across — четко излагать, убедительно объяснять

She is a great teacher. She can get across even the most complicated rule. | Она великолепный учитель. Она может доступно объяснить самое сложное правило.

to get along — ладить, уживаться

Some friends or even relatives could be hard to get along with. | C некоторыми друзьями или даже родственниками бывает нелегко ужиться.

to get away — «выбираться», уезжать на отдых

I will not be able to get away until the end of the year. I am so busy. | Я не смогу уехать отдыхать до конца года. Я так занята.
Выражение Get away! означает: Прочь! Отстань!

to get away (with) — уходить от наказания

“Though you are stiffer than a girder,
They’ll let you get away with murder…”Razzle-Dazzle, Chicago Musical | «И будь ты абсолютно безнадежна,
Они позволят тебе избежать наказания за убийство…»«Шика-блеска дай», мюзикл «Чикаго»

to get back — возвращаться

He gets back on Sunday morning. | Он возвращается утром в воскресенье.
Get back to where you once belonged. | Вернись туда, где был своим.

to get back — получать назад

We lent them some money last year and never got it back. | Мы заняли им немного денег в прошлом году и так и не получили их назад.

to get back (to) — повторно связываться (с кем-л.)

When we have more details, we will surely get back to you. | Когда у нас будет более подробная информация, мы обязательно с вами свяжемся.

to get behind (on) — опаздывать, не укладываться в сроки

We don’t want to get behind schedule on this issue, do we? | Мы ведь не хотим сорвать сроки по этому вопросу, не так ли?

to get by — «сводить концы с концами»

At the end of each month, I have no money left. It is difficult to get by on my salary. | В конце каждого месяца у меня не остается денег. Трудно прожить на мою зарплату.

to get down to — приступать (к работе, выполнению задания)

If everybody is here, let’s get down to business. | Если все здесь, приступим к делам.

to get in — проходить, попадать (также в переносном смысле)

You need to have a pass to get in the head office. | Для того чтобы попасть в головной офис, вам нужно иметь пропуск.

to get into — попадать, ввязываться, приступать

I thought Mary would get into trouble, but she seems to have a few guardian angels. | Я думал, Мэри попадет в беду, но, похоже, у нее сразу несколько ангелов-хранителей.

to get on — продолжать

I must get on or I will never get this book finished. | Я должен продолжать, иначе никогда не закончу эту книгу.

to get on (with) — сходиться, ладить (с людьми)

My mother-in-law and I get on really well. | Мы со свекровью прекрасно ладим.

to get off — выходить (из транспортного средства)

To go to the National Gallery, take the underground and get off at Trafalgar Square. | Чтобы попасть к Национальной галерее, сядьте на метро и выйдите на Трафальгар-Сквер.

to get out (of) — покидать, выходить, уходить

Usually Alex doesn’t get out of work until after 8 pm. | Обычно Алекс не уходит с работы до 8 часов вечера.

to get out (of) — избавляться

Sarah is always getting out of the difficult tasks and I have to do them. | Сара всегда избавляется от трудных заданий, а делать их должна я.

to get over — убедительно объяснять

He is not convinced. I didn’t get my plan over. | Он не убежден. Я не смог донести до него мой план.

to get over — преодолевать, оправляться (от болезни, переживания и т.д.)

Nick has not got over Jess. She broke his heart. | Ник так и не отошел от расставания с Джесс. Она разбила ему сердце.

to get round to — находить время (для чего-л.)

I’m sorry but I haven’t done it yet, I haven’t got round to it. | Простите, но я этого еще не сделал, у меня руки не дошли.

to get through (to) — связываться по телефону

I’ve been trying all day — I can’t get through to them. | Я пыталась весь день — не могу до них дозвониться.

to get together - собираться

We need to get together to solve a problem

to get well - справляться

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a dream | сон, сновидение, мечта
to have a dream | видеть сон
a dream come true | сон в руку, сбывшийся сон
a nightmare | кошмар
a nap | дремота (именно короткий сон в течение дня)
to take a nap | вздремнуть (мечта большинства офисных работников!)
a heavy sleeper | человек, который спит крепко (как говорится, «из пушки не разбудишь»)
a light sleeper | наоборот, человек, который чутко спит
to sleep like a baby | сладко спать, как младенец
to sleep like a log | спать, как бревно (= «спит без задних ног»)
to sleep away | проспать сколько-то времени
to snore | храпеть
a hibernation | спячка

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Can you remember a time when you woke up from a fantastic or strange dream? Maybe you were afraid and turned on the light or the dream was so good you wanted to sleep longer. But do you think your dreams are telling you something?Can you see the future in dreams?For hundreds of years, people thought dreams were messages from gods or spirits. Today, too, many people can remember a time when they saw a place or person in their dream and then, later, the dream happened in real life. Maybe that’s not surprising because we dream a lot but we probably only remember the times when something happens in a dream and then happens for real. Most people have four to six dreams every night after the age of ten. That’s as many as 2,000 dreams per year. So, an 80-year-old person has probably had 140,000 dreams. Maybe we forget 95–99 per cent of our dreams, but that’s still thousands of dreams that might ‘come true’.Are dreams recycled thoughts?Around the 18th and 19th centuries, there were two popular ideas about dreams. One said that the things we see in our dreams are things we keep in our subconscious because we don’t want or need to think about them when we’re awake. The opposite idea said that while we’re sleeping, the brain organises memories and thoughts from the day. Dreams are just random thoughts from our day but we try to make a story from them when we wake up.Are dreams messages from our brains?But perhaps both ideas are a little bit right. Maybe dreams are made from the thoughts we have during the day, but we see them as symbols. For example, a dream of flying might be a symbol for an exciting new job. When we’re awake, we think in words most of the time. But when we’re sleeping, the part of our brain that helps us with language sleeps, and the part that makes us happy or sad or angry is awake and busy. So, maybe our thoughts come to us in dreams as feelings and symbols instead of words. If you can understand these symbols, you have a window into your subconscious. If you want to understand the messages, you have to match them to what’s happening in your life.How can you understand the messages?One way to help you do this is to keep a dream diary. As soon as you wake up, write down everything you remember about your dreams. Use pen and paper, not your phone or computer because the light might wake you up and you’ll forget faster. Sometimes your eyes will be half-closed and your writing will be difficult to read.Now you can match your dreams to your daily life. Think about the people and place where the dream happened, as they might mean something too. Also, how you were feeling in the dream is important. If you were afraid instead of happy in the flying dream, maybe it means you are worried about the new job. Are you ready to find out what your subconscious is trying to tell you?

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Can you remember a time when you woke up from a fantastic or strange dream? Maybe you were afraid and turned on the light or the dream was so good you wanted to sleep longer. But do you think your dreams are telling you something?Can you see the future in dreams?For hundreds of years, people thought dreams were messages from gods or spirits. Today, too, many people can remember a time when they saw a place or person in their dream and then, later, the dream happened in real life. Maybe that’s not surprising because we dream a lot but we probably only remember the times when something happens in a dream and then happens for real. Most people have four to six dreams every night after the age of ten. That’s as many as 2,000 dreams per year. So, an 80-year-old person has probably had 140,000 dreams. Maybe we forget 95–99 per cent of our dreams, but that’s still thousands of dreams that might ‘come true’.Are dreams recycled thoughts?Around the 18th and 19th centuries, there were two popular ideas about dreams. One said that the things we see in our dreams are things we keep in our subconscious because we don’t want or need to think about them when we’re awake. The opposite idea said that while we’re sleeping, the brain organises memories and thoughts from the day. Dreams are just random thoughts from our day but we try to make a story from them when we wake up.Are dreams messages from our brains?But perhaps both ideas are a little bit right. Maybe dreams are made from the thoughts we have during the day, but we see them as symbols. For example, a dream of flying might be a symbol for an exciting new job. When we’re awake, we think in words most of the time. But when we’re sleeping, the part of our brain that helps us with language sleeps, and the part that makes us happy or sad or angry is awake and busy. So, maybe our thoughts come to us in dreams as feelings and symbols instead of words. If you can understand these symbols, you have a window into your subconscious. If you want to understand the messages, you have to match them to what’s happening in your life.How can you understand the messages?One way to help you do this is to keep a dream diary. As soon as you wake up, write down everything you remember about your dreams. Use pen and paper, not your phone or computer because the light might wake you up and you’ll forget faster. Sometimes your eyes will be half-closed and your writing will be difficult to read.Now you can match your dreams to your daily life. Think about the people and place where the dream happened, as they might mean something too. Also, how you were feeling in the dream is important. If you were afraid instead of happy in the flying dream, maybe it means you are worried about the new job. Are you ready to find out what your subconscious is trying to tell you?

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if it rains, we won't walk

if you have a lot of work, i will go to the shop

if you didn't have a lot of work, i wouldn't go to the shop

if I had a lot of work, she would go to the shop

if i played well I would(could) play on a concert
if I play well I will(can, may, might, could, should) play on a concert

if i run, I do sports

if you pray, you are religious

if you jumped high, you would play basketball
if you played basketball, you would jump high

if you catch a cold, you should stay in bed

i would love my job if i earned money

----- I not sing if become a manager

I won't sing if i become a manager

if i buy a house, i will have a place to live

i will be in time if i come

if you stay i wont stay

if you call me a child why i am mature

if i can do something, i will do it

if i were a boy, i would play with girls

if i played with sea animals, i could sink

If i draw very bad , i will work in the office

what if i were a star , would i pay my bills?

I will come to dinner if i am in the city

I could keep my memories if i had enough space in my head

if i say, you  always say back

if we were married, you would not bear it

even if i come i will play video games

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so if i judged people why would i love them they way they are

i will not see nightmares if i pray

if you drink a lot you will be alcoholic (2)
if you drink a lot you are an alcoholic

why do you  play basketball if you  have a leg ache

even If you were ugly you would be happy anyway

if past [erfect + would HAVE V3
regrets that we cant change

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Today's grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations' online habits couldn't be more different. In the UK the over-55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site's second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55–64 and 2.9 million over-65s.

Sheila, aged 59, says, 'I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It's a much better way to see what they're doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. That's how we did it when I was a child, but I think I'm lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.'

Ironically, Sheila's grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they're not going far from their smartphones. Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. 'It's my alarm clock so I have to,' she says. 'I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.'

Unlike her grandmother's generation, Chloe's age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn't heard from in forty years. 'We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,' she says. 'It's changed my social life completely.'

Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. 'I was always connected and I felt like I was always working,' he says. 'How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?' So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. 'I'm not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I'm setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.'

Is it only a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?

12-year-old in North Carolina used the downtime he had during the pandemic to take on a few extra classes in school. Now, one year later, Mike Wimmer, of Salisbury, is getting ready to graduate high school and college — in the same week. Wimmer completed four years of school in one year — two years of high school and a two-year associate's degree. He will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21, and from Concord Academy High School on May 28, where he is valedictorian. He said his GPA at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is 4.0, while his high school GPA is 5.45.⁠
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get  lucky
rich
cold
stupid
low
bad
better
worse
along
getting cold
tired

GET TIRED OF (

GET CRAZY OF ( CANT STAND

GET MAD OF (

He got lucky of passing the exam
He got rich  because he is stopborn(persistent, goal oriented)
I usually get cold when I don't take an umbrella while rain
He got stupid after passing the exam
He got low after being fired from work
He always get bad when he is hungry
He got better after illness
He got worse after a long walk
I get along well with children
It is getting cold this autumn

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B) Combine the following sentences by using AFTER / BEFORE: 1. My mother took her umbrella. She went out. ………………………………………………………………………………………. 2. Frank called me. I went to school. ………………………………………………………………………………………. 3. I washed the dishes. I watched TV. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4. She washed her hands. She had lunch. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 5. The boys bought a ball. They played football. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 6. My mother made a cake. The guests came. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 7. He put sugar in his tea. He drank it. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 8. I got up. I had breakfast. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 9. The children ran away. They broke the window. …………………………………………………………………………………….. 10. I fastened my seat belt. The plane took off. ……………………………………………

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1. I hate long calls, because it wastes a lot of time. I am scared of making calls to strangers
2. I hate being alone, because if I am alone for a long time, I can have a depression
3. I am afraid of letting people down otherwise I feel guilty

Why is it problematic?
I am scared that stranger is rude to me
The depression can start
People won't want to communicate with me

Excuses that I use?
I'm busy, I'm scared, it'll make me unhappy, I will have a bad mood, I will do it worser then ...

The solution
I can think it over and  cite statistics
I should find work that I can do alone and appreciate the moments
I should go to specialist to become more confident

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In the era of coronavirus, a large number of companies, who makes smart watch and fitness bracelets, invented to place the oxygen sensor in the blood in their inventions. It helps to monitor your health and prematurely identify the problem.
I, as the owner of a fitness bracelet and a lover of all kinds of new products, could not pass by this idea. And I wanted to understand how it's work.

Of course, these companies didn't make up anything. They took it from professional devices. We know that when we breath the oxygen enters in all parts of our body and no doubt into the blood. It is through the blood that oxygen is distributed throughout the body with help of hemoglobin. And SpO2 shows the relationship between hemoglobin with O2 and total hemoglobin. The norm is an oxyhemoglobin content of about 96-99%.

So how does measurement work. Usually, fitness bands have two colors of LEDs and photodiode. The LEDs are red and infrared. First, hemoglobin absorbs light and depending on whether it contains oxygen or not, absorb light waves of different lengths differently. if length light is 650nm,  deoxyhemoglobin absorbs it good, but oxyhemoglobin absorbs it bad. if length light is 950nm then vice versa. The light length of 650nm is red and 950 is infrared. It turns out that in order to determine the level of blood oxygen saturation, you need to know how much infrared and red light has been absorbed by hemoglobin.

Of course it's not that easy. It depends on many factors, for example skin, fat, thick arms. So develops use different algorithms, math statistics and other.

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I want to start this story with a big Gratituing smile of memories about big love of my life. I always become Numb when I see these beautiful eyes. But to my  Disastrous regret I lost them.

I clearly remember that Exceptional morning when I let her down. I was dressing up for my work and my wife helped me to Bow tie with a Scowl on her face. This tradition we kept from our youth. I had a hope that our relationship would advance over the years, but time passed and nothing changed. She Extinguished loving me by her Permanent passion. By the Flow of the time that was measured by my Wrinkles I noticed her being interested in other same old men. I might Bent a stick the moment I become Furiously jealous. But I was afraid of losing her and leave us behind.

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The cruel Iberian Peninsula
It seemed to be an INNOCUOUS idea to visit a new place. Our EXPERIENCED friend was IN CHARGE of the trip. He INSTILLED us that it will be  EXCITING. Under his IMPACT he PROMPTED us to buy URGENT tickets.
We were ATTRACTED by diffent SPECIES of animals that we saw on the map of this island. I immediately closed the TAB and went PACKING. I LOADED my car with GREASY luggage. I was WORRIED A LOT because i knew that they have STRINGENT rules of TRACEABILITY in the airport. I couldn't even think that this trip could APPEAR to be DISASTROUS.

To my STAGGERING WONDER I wasn't BICKERED that much besides of my CREASED shirt. The INTERMEDIARIES of my friend called me the moment I BUDGED from my queue. I heard MOCKERIES and JEERS for my russian accent. I looked at them with CONTEMPT and said "you RAN OUT of manners". The TIDE of anger came to me.

I tried to SURPASS them in society behavior and didn't say a word. I CEASED keeping the anger. It was SUFFICIENT to bring a joy back    after I DILUTED my whisky with coke. I appeared to BE IN SURPLUS of energy that moment. I felt DIZZINESS and suddenly FAINTED.

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1. If I were hungry, I would eat a sandwich.
2. I would buy a new car if I had more money.
3. If he did his homework everyday, he would get better marks.
4. If our parents were here, they would tell us what to do.
5. I would help her if she asked me.
6. If I found a $20 dollar bill on the street, I would spend it.
7. I would come to your party on Saturday if I didn’t have to work.
8. I would call them if I knew their telephone number.

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He must have spent all the money because he can't pay the bills
She should have come in time because she dreamed of getting there
Eric shouldn't have punished her because she didn't
The cat mustn't have drunk a water from a puddle because it is durty
She might have said him the truth but but she didn't have time.

19. Я хочу, чтобы погода была хорошая.

I want the weather to be fine.

20. Какой же он умный мальчик!

What an intelligent boy he is!

21. Find the incorrect sentence.

It was only nine o’clock in the morning, and there were too many people in the café.

22. Какое из перечисленных ниже предложений нельзя перевести на русский язык как «Я читаю»?

Все варианты подходят.

23. When Kate ................. at Pier 90, it was crowded with football fans.

arrived

24. There was no one to cheer him ................. .

up

25. Could you possibly give me ................. ?

an advice

We use "must have", "can't have" and "might have" in the same way as the present perfect - the action we are describing happened, or did not happen, in the past and is still true in the present.

"must have": we believe the action definitely happened.

"She must have left the house by now; it’s nearly 11 o'clock."

She usually leaves her house before 11 o’clock so I deduce that she has definitely left the house.

"can't have": we believe the action definitely did not happen (the opposite of "must have").

"She can’t have left the house yet because her car is still outside."

She usually takes her car so I deduce that she has definitely not left the house because her car is outside (the opposite of "must have").

"might have": we believe it's possible that the action happened, but we don't know.

"She might have gone to the shops."

It is possible that she has gone to the shops, but it is also possible that she has gone somewhere else.

"might not have": we believe it's possible that the action did not happen, but we don't know.

"He might not have finished his exams yet."

It is possible that he has not finished his exams, but it is also possible that he has finished them.

"might have" / "might not have" in the third conditional structure: to imagine the possible result of an unreal situation in the past.

"If I had known about the traffic problems, I might have taken a different route."

The clause with might have describes the possible result of the unreal situation described by the "if" clause. The real situation and result: I didn’t know about the traffic problem so I am imagining the possibility of taking a different route if I had known.

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“This is the story of the first time I went to my office. I remember my first director very well. He was a very interesting and funny man. I was 20 that time. I was in a mixed mood, because it was my first job as a programmer, but I was happy because I could get some more experience. I felt very proud of myself because I could answer the bigger part of questionary. At first, I chose my working space and looked around. Then I installed all the application which I needed that moment. I remember that I was really worried because I was afraid not to handle it.

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I had an unforgettable day
exceptional - (необычный)
an unusual day
I hardly finished this day- я еле закончил
unbearable day - невыносимый день
challenging day - день полный вызовов
tricky day - день полон фокусов
backbreaking day  - спиноламающий день
nasty day - противный день
cheering day - веселый, подымающий настроение день
memorable day - запоминающий день
significant day - значительный день
crusial  day - очень важный день
faithful day - судьбоносный день
as well - так же
I understand/ i think альтернатива

i feel (мне кажется)/I dare (я осмеливаюсь)/ i suppose (я предполагаю)/ i believe/ i assume ( я полагаю)/ in my opinion/  (я полагаю)/ i would like to tell (я хотел бы сказать)/ i wonder (мне интересно)
in common - общие
went well - прошло хорошо

+must have been
wait for it
I am embarrassed because of being late
I want to find the thing that turn me on(light me up)
to be keen on - быть в восторге
i am not a huge fan of - не большой фанат
tend to - склонность к

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Should  have v3 -  следовало бы(сожаление)
must have v3 - должно было быть(сожаление и подозрение)
can't have - не может быть
might have v3 - вероятно
might not have - возможно не

a bank - можем посчитать
oil- масло
the - множ число
some any
little a little исчисляемое
few a few не исч

4 формы used to

1 used to - когда-то в прошлом

2 got used to - свыклась ( I got used to wearing a mask)

3 to be getting used to - с процессе привыкаю к чему-то (i am getting used to covid in our lives)

4 to be used to +V ing - привыкла что всегда так
( i am used to waking up with my husband )

to be supposed to - сожаление и что-то между should и must
i was supposed to go to school but i am in the hospital now
( must should supposed to ) мысли о своих планах которые не сбылись.
i should go to the dentist, My tooth looks really bad
i was supposed to go to my prom but i went to the party instead
i must go to school even if i dont want

How to Use 'Wish'

Wishes about the present or future

Wish + (that) + past simple:
We can use 'wish' to talk about something that we would like to be different in the present or the future. It's used for things which are impossible or very unlikely.

I wish that I had a big house (I don't have a big house, but it's a nice idea!).

I wish that we didn't need to work today (we do need to work today, unfortunately).

I wish that you lived close by (you don't live close by).

I wish that John wasn't busy tomorrow* (he is busy, unfortunately).

We don't usually use 'wish' in this way for things that are really possible in the future. Instead, we use 'hope'.

I hope that you pass your exam (NOT: I wish that you passed the exam).

I hope that it's sunny tomorrow (NOT: I wish that it was sunny tomorrow).

I hope that Julie has a lovely holiday (NOT: I wish that Julie had a lovely holiday).

Wish + (that) + would:
On the other hand, we use 'would' with 'wish' in a little bit of a special way. It's generally used about other people who are doing (or not doing) something that we don't like and we want that person to change. It's not usually used about ourselves, or about something which nobody can change though, exceptionally, we do use it about the weather.

I wish that John wouldn't eat all the chocolate. (John does usually eat all the chocolate and I don't like it. I want him to change his behaviour!)

I wish that the neighbours would be quiet! (They are not quiet and I don't like the noise.)

I wish that you wouldn't smoke so much! (You do smoke a lot and I don't like it. I want you to change this.)

I wish that you wouldn't work late so often.

I wish that it would stop raining!

We don't usually use 'would' when there's no feeling that we want somebody to change their behaviour.

NOT: I wish that tomorrow would be a holiday. (Instead: I wish that tomorrow was a holiday.)

NOT: I wish that I would work harder. (It's strange to use 'wish' + 'would' about yourself, as you can change your behaviour if you don't like it!)

Wishes about the past

Wish + (that) + past perfect:
We can use 'wish' with the past perfect to talk about regrets from the past. These are things that have already happened but we wish they'd happened in a different way. This use of 'wish' is very similar to the third conditional.

I wish that I had studied harder at school. (I didn't study hard at school, and now I'm sorry about it.)

I wish that I hadn't eaten so much yesterday! (But I did eat a lot yesterday. Now I think it wasn't a good idea.)

I wish that the train had been on time. (But unfortunately the train was late, and so I missed my interview.)

Other uses of 'wish'

Wish + to + infinitive:
We can use 'wish' with the infinitive to mean 'would like'. This is very formal. We don't usually use a continuous tense with 'wish' in this case.

I wish to speak to the headmaster. (This means the same as 'I would like to speak to the headmaster'.)

I wish to go now.

Wish + object + to + infinitive:
In the same way, we can use 'wish' with an object and an infinitive.

I do not wish you to publish this article.

I wish these people to leave.

Wish + somebody + something:
This is used mostly in set phrases.

I wished him a happy birthday.

They wished us Merry Christmas.

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CHEER UP — подбадривать/приободряться I think he misses her terribly. You should cheer him up. Мне кажется, он очень скучает по ней. Тебе надо подбодрить его.
CALM DOWN — успокаивать/успокаиваться Calm down for a minute and listen to me. Успокойся на минутку и послушай меня. LIGHTEN UP — развеселиться, расслабиться Come on, this is a party.
Lighten up. Да ладно тебе, это же вечеринка. Расслабься.
COOL DOWN — успокоиться, остыть He had time to cool down and look at what had happened more objectively. Он успел остыть и посмотреть на то, что произошло, более объективно.
LET DOWN — разочаровывать, подводить Trust me, I won’t let you down. Доверься мне, я тебя не подведу.
FREAK OUT — этот фразовый глагол можно встретить в трех основных значениях Выходить из себя, беситься Становиться взволнованным, эмоционально возбужденным, встревоженным Вести себя необычно, терять контроль Don't freak out just because my parents are coming Не бесись только потому, что приезжают мои родители You'd better sit down, this news will freak you out Ты лучше сядь, а то от этой новости ты можешь упасть He's freaking out. You know, Amelia's coming in town Он просто не в себе. Ты же в курсе, Амелия приезжает
FLIP OUT — выходить из себя, терять самообладание, приходить в эмоциональное возбуждение He flipped out when he won the final. Он был вне себя от счастья, когда победил в финале.
CARRY AWAY — увлекать, охватывать Don't let him carry you away with his promises. Не дай ему увлечь себя своими обещаниями.
PISS OFF — раздражать, бесить He never helps me with the housework and it's starting to piss me off. Он никогда не помогает с уборкой по дому, и это начинает меня раздражать.
GET DOWN — расстраивать, портить настроение The miserable weather in winter really gets me down. Плохая погода зимой очень меня расстраивает.

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I didn't plan it, it was by chance
We need to solve this kind of questions in private
In short it was a failed idea

My close person should support me, I am on a diet and I don't eat meat anymore
On one hand you need to be more sensative and not to forget that she is your daughter
On the contrary , you don't understand me

We usually observe the starry sky at night
At first I was trying to catch everything, but now I understand that it  was naive
Children are at school,  didn't you realise?
He pointed at me

I bought this flower for my mother
For the first time I watched this wonderful film
I am grateful for your understanding

My father usually takes me to school by car
I admire this poet so I know a lot of his poems by heart
I was really scared and my husband who was setting near by me, supported me

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First, I want to be sure that my idea is correct. For this I want to visit those countries which I selected for relocation. For the beginning I think It would be Amsterdam and then Munich. I hope that after living there I will be able to understand  exactly whether I can live abroad or not. These are the most important steps I think.  People, attitude, medicine, spendings, - everything matters for better live.
Now We have enough money to pursue our idea.
Next step is to collect the documents. My company will help me with it. Then My husband and I will need to think about what we should take. I want to move easily without huge things that we have got. Even when I travel I only take  a backpack.  We do not have to think about transportation. And of course our cat) We probably need to do all the inoculation and understand how we will take him with us. Although our company provides us flat, I want  to start looking for an apartment beforehand to subsequent our live. For this I will obviously need to make a research of districts, to understand how to get to work and etc.
After our relocation we would like to have a holidays for  adaptation. As I am not changing my job I don’t need to look for it, but my husband should take care of his work. The main problem now is English. Yeah, it is my and my husband's headache. Now we are learning it, but it really difficult for us. I hope that we will speak fluently and correctly soon) In the meantime, we try to do our best.

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1. I liked him at first, but then he started being bossy and arrogant.
2. In conclusion, the report told us to follow the guidelines.
3. We went to the stadium by bus.
4. The nurse was on duty from 6 in the morning until midnight.
5. On your left you can see one of the biggest libraries in the world.
6. When his wife died, he put up the house on sale.
7. My sister travelled to the Far East for the first time in her life.
8. In theory it was a good method, but we did not know if it would work in practice.
9. We had to learn all the poems by heart.
10.I filled out the wrong application by mistake.
11.He's on a diet so don't offer him any sweets.
12. In any case, the police have to catch the criminal before he causes any more harm.
13.The black Porsche was driving at a speed of over 100 m.p.h.
14.After the attack they found themselves at war with the enemy.
15.We must try to avoid deaths and casualties at all costs.
16.John is at university and comes home every two or three months.
17.Why don't you go with your mother for a change?
18.She had to travel to New York on business.
19.The paintings are on loan to the Guggenheim museum.
20.She can't sleep at night and always needs to take some pills.
21.In all means, we must try to bring all the parties together and work out a solution.
22.The children get in trouble all the time.
23.I didn't want to break the vase in purpose. It just slipped out of my hand.
24.Do you, by chance, have a phone charger with you?
25.Could I have a word with you in private?

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1. I like the 8 March holiday, It's my favorite feast day said Sara
Sara said that She liked th 8 March holiday, it was her favorite feast day

2. It's a feast day when everything blooms said Mark
Mark said that it was a feast day when everything bloomed

3. For me this day is when I can say my mother how I love her and present something good said Jhon
Jhon told me that for him that day was when he could say his mother how he love her and presented somthing good

4. In that day I remember how each of the women in my live is importent for me answered Din
Din answered that in that day He remembered how each of the women in his live was important for him

5. The 8 of March is a day when I can relax answered Lois
Lois answered that the 8 of March was a day when she could relax

6. I don't understend this feast day, for me it is a usual day said Marta
Marta said that she didn't understood this feast day, for her it was a usual day

7. I hate this day because I must spend more money on gifts. My wife love expensive gifts complained Jack
Jack complained that He hate this day because he  had to spend more money on gifts and that his wife loved expensive gifts

8. I insist that each of the men need to divote more time his women no matter whether the holiday is now or not exclaimed Vi
Vi exclaimed that he insisted that each of the men needed to divote more time their women no matter whether the holiday was now or not

9. I love this day because our company makes  a beauty pageant and I can prove myself said Nathaly
Nethaly said that she love that day because her company made a beauty pageant and she could prove herself

10. This day remember me how I met my hasband and I adore this feast day noticed Niсol
Nicol noticed that that day remembered her how she had met her hasband and She adored that feast day

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(This generation doesn't have a matter with “new technology”, any gadgets, network, social network for them is a present, they don’t imagine themself without it. Let’s get a short characterization to this generation. I would notice such important details:

They are self-contained and easily adaptable: Imagine, young student get in an alien city without money and familiars. He will find an exit from this situation more probably then a person from the older generation. Google maps, couch surfing, blablacar, generation z will use them.

They are ready for instability. All your life in a rented apartment? It isn’t problem. Move to another city in search of a better life? Give me urbania! The younger generation differs from the 50-year-olds in that they are not so tragic about instability in their lives. One of the reasons is the same light adaptability.

Conformists - this generation is less inclined to rebellion(бунт), since it does not see the enemy in the face of the past generation. Their parents spent more time with them than with other generations, so they are more friends than enemies(враг).

Appreciate(ценить) relationships - this is what social networks cultivate. Even a foreign friend on Facebook will be closer than a neighbor just because of common interests, the ability to have access to someone else's online life.

They value the family - distance work is now very popular, if forty years ago children hardly saw their parents at home (left for the factory in the morning, returned late), modern parents spend much more time with their children because of the opportunity to work "at home"

More information - in one day they process as much information as they did all their lives a hundred years ago.

Clip thinking - due to an overabundance of information, young people are no longer ready to perceive everything. This explains the hundreds of likes under the photo with the cat and at least under the long quote from Hegel. The Instagram feed is overflowing with gigabytes of information that a young student "has to" process. Infographics and memes are our everything.

Multi-tasking - A Gen Z representative can read, text, and listen to music at the same time. A student can easily jump from one topic to another; his smartphone can have several tabs. As a result, it feels great in the multitask mode.

Procrastination - the modern student will find it increasingly difficult to follow the rules and frameworks ("deadlines"), since the variety of choice of actions is very large, and can often interfere with focusing on one thing. Especially when it comes to frames and timing.

Creativity - they develop it against the background of tons of life hacks from Instagram and YouTube. Before, in order to reinstall Windows, you had to call a friend, now you just need to find the corresponding video and follow the instructions. Making a shelf or decorating someone's birthday in an original way is not a problem.

And a few more observations - generation Z engages in sex much later, smokes much less than their predecessors, cultivates environmental protection and a healthy lifestyle.)

Very interesting to watch different generations. Usually people of the older generation like saying that the new generation is worse. But it isn’t so because each generation has themself advantages and faults. For example, my generation have internet and a lot of new technology, and if we get in an alien city, we don’t lose because we have a thing which we use. It is google map, blablacar, couch surfing and ect.

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1. By the 25th of December she will have been working on this project for six months.

2.  By Saturday, Fred will have been painting this picture for two weeks.

3.  We will have been studying marketing for a year by the end of the academic year.

4.  By tomorrow morning Laura will have been sleeping for twelve hours.

5. Will they have been working together for ten years by the end of May? — Yes, they ….

6. … Nick … (to train) for four hours by 6 o’clock? — No, he ….

7.  By 5 o’clock Jessica … (to sit) at the dentist’s for three hours.

8.  By 12 o’clock the children … (to swim) for two hours.

9.  By the end of the day the workers …(to paint) this house for nine hours.

10.  By 6 o’clock in the evening we … (to wait) for his message for five hours.

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1. I don’t remember ... that,  I’m sure you’re mistaken.
a) to say;  b) say;  c) saying;  d) to have said.

2. There were two answers, and ... was right.
a) neither; b) no one; c) no; d) not any.

3. This dress is ... as the one I had before.
a) plenty the same; b) very similar; c) very same; d) much the same.

4. He ... here from 1955 to 1960.
a) worked; b) works; c) has been working; d) has worked.

5. He’s... his sister.
a) much taller that; b) much more taller than; c) much taller than; d) more taller than.

6. Be careful you don’t... your keys!
a) lost; b) loosen; c) lose; d) loose.

7. What they say may be true; you never can
a) say; b) tell; c) remember; d) recognise.

8. He didn’t move, but just... where he fell.
a) lain; b) lay; c) laid; d) lied.

9. I haven’t had a reply to the invitation I sent you last week. ... to my patty?
a) Shall you come; b) Are you coming; c) Do you come; d) Should you come,

10. That man reminds me ... my history teacher.
a) from; b) of; c) about; d) on.

11. The children hadn’t met ... their grandparents or their uncle before.
a) or, b) neither; c) nor, d) either.

12. Before she started university, Jane ... in the States for six months working as a nanny.
a) lives; b) has been living; c) has lived; d) had lived.

13. He was ... tired to go on.
a) to; b) enough; c) so; d) too.

14. I  last saw Michael two years ago.
a) lastly; b) last time; c) last; d) the last time.

15. I like the red dress and the pink shoes. The trouble is that they don’t ...very well.
a) match not each other; b) match themselves; c) go with each other; d) go on with the other.

16. He’s as polite as his brother is ...polite. (подобрать префикс)
a) im; b) non; c) dis; d) un.

17. It’s been quite a long time ... I had a holiday abroad,
a) ago; b) since; c) for; d) when.

18. You ... pay for this information. It’s free.
a) oughtn’t to; b) don’t have to; c) shouldn’t to; d) mustn’t.

19. ... quite a lot of rain forecast for today.
a) It has; b) Is; c) It’s; d) There’s.

20. I’m free this evening. ... we go out to dinner?
a) Will; b) Would; c) Shall; d) Won’t.

21. I need a holiday, ... I?
a) need nоt; b) aren’t; c) don’t; d) need.

22. Most of the cattle ... under the trees.
a) is laying; b) is lying; c) are lying; d) are laying.

23. Children seem to find computers easy, but many adults aren’t used to ... with microtechnology.
a) work; b) working; c) a work; d) the work.

24. Parents were made ... the school reconstruction,
a) finance; b) to financing; c) to finance; d) financing.

25. The children have made lots of new friends since we ... to this town.
a) have moved; b) moving; c) moved; d) have been moved.

26. I don’t understand this sentence. Could you tell me what …?
a) this word means; b) means this word; c) does mean this word; d) does this word mean.

27. ... of the three boys got a prize,
a) A few; b) Both; c) Each; d) Every.

28. The agency intended to let each applicant... in the interview.
a) participate; b) to participate; c) so as to participate; d) participating.

29. All the children in this family are gifted, but this one is … gifted of all.
a) little; b) the less; c) the least; d) un- .

30. He enjoyed ... computer games at first, but after a while he got bored with them.
a) to play; b) playing; c) make play; d) having played.

31. We haven’t managed to meet... three years.
a) since; b) for; c) after; d) last.

32. Nothing is wrong,...?
a) can it; b) is it; c) isn’t it; d) can’t be.

33. A meeting of the society will be ... on Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock.
a) made; b) taken; c) held; d) placed.

34. May I apologize ... being so late?
a) myself for; b) for; c) -; d) myself.

35. All the furniture in this room ... antique.
a) are; b) are made of; c) have; d) is.

36. ... traffic in the city center.
a) There’s always many; b) It is always heavy; c) There’s always heavy; d) It is always much.

37. You’ll find the travel agency ... the end of the street.
a) by; b) in; c) on; d) at.

38. She ... the piano since she was ten.
a) has been playing; b) is playing; c) has played; d) had played.

39. Doing these exercises may be good ... me, but I hate every minute of it.
a) to; b) for; c) on; d) at.

40. She heard Miss Drake … that Ann was really happy.
a) tell; b) to tell; c) say; d) to say.
saying

41. You have bought a FIAT. You ... a BMW.
a) should have bought; b) would have bought; c) had better buy; d) would rather have bought.

42. Poor Jack — he lost his homework, and he ... do it again,
a) needs; b) ought; c) shall; d) has to.

43. The food at the party was horrible, I’ve never eaten ... awful food!
a) such a; b) such; c) such an d) so.

44. “I’m not very hungry”. — “…”
a) Neither do I; b) I am; c) So am I; d) Nor am I.

45. The... from London to Bristol takes two hours by car.
a) travel; b) journey; c) voyage; d) driving.

46. Open the window, ... you?
a) must; b) need; c) will; d) do.

47. You must try not to ... so many mistakes.
a) do; b) tell; c) make; d) perform.

48. Helen asked me if... the film called “Star wars”.
a) have I seen; b) have you seen; c) had I seen; d) I had seen.

49. I promise that I... to work on time every morning in future,
a) get; b) am getting; c) will get; d) would get.

50. I’m not going to tell you the reason ... my decision,
a) to; b) with; c) on; d) for.

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to be supposed to - должен был
tap dance - чечетка
performance - выстепление
audience - аудитория(люди)
make a leaving as(a teacher) - выживать с помощью(жить за счет)
prom - выпускной
Simply - просто
landmarks - достопримечательность
featured - упомянутый
throughout - через, в течении? за
decks - площадка
appreciate - ценю
purchased - заказать
granted - дарован
vantage - преимущество
conquer - завоевывать
hold on - подожди
equipped - оборудованный
well-mannier - воспитанный
tenant - жилец, арендатор
cowardly - трусливый
carry out - проводятся, справляться
raffle - разыгрывать
keep this in mind - держи в голове
Appointment - прием
Involve - предлагать, привлекать к участию
Imagine - полагать, представлять
Watching the starts- наблюдать за Звёздами
Familiar - Знакомый
Volition -воля
Broad - minded - широкий - широко мыслящий
as well -тоже
crosswalk street - пешеходная улица

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confession - признание
invigorating - бодрящий
concoction - приготовление
frothing - вспенивающийся
foam - пена
feathered - пернатый
serpent - змея
feast - наслаждение, праздник
jug - кувшин
consuming - поглащающий
supply - запас, поставка
labor  - труд

burnout - перегореть
dilute - разбавить
irreverent- оскорбительно
funeral - похоронный
aware - осведомленный

stubborn - упрямый
as long as - до тех пор пока
provided that - до тех пор пока
whereas - в то время как
least - наименее
We're struggling to make meet - мы еле сводим концы с концами
quantity - кол-во
guilty - виновен
adequately - достаточно
in two minds - быть неуверенным в решении
gone - пропавший(продукт)

intention - намерение,
rotten - пропавший
wisdom(разум)
kingdom(царство)
sneeze - чихать

mourning - траур
weigh - взвешивать(гл.)

weight - вес, весить

width - ширина

waist - талия

way - путь

waste - тратить

wide - широкий

wild - дикий

hight

deserve - заслужить

desire - желание

get across - донести

shelf-life - полочная жизнь

take over - завоевывать

break through - сенсация

perceive - воспринимать

selective - выборочный

tinker - варьировать

bombardier - взрывать(оплодотворять)

snippet - фрагмент

harvest - урожай

slip - скользить

overnight - быстро, мгновенно

sneak - проскальзывать

shrunk - уменьшение, высохший

infertility - бесплодие

intention - намерение
consequences - последствия(плохие)
insist - настаивать
outcome - хорошие последствия
deem - находим
wrestle - биться
manifold - многообразие
distinctive - отличительный
conceive - тяжело принять

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