Elephant and Castle

King Leopold's Ghost provides the reader with the riveting true story of the reign of King Leopold the second of Belgium. King Leopold used many tricks and twisted stories to snatch up undocumented territory in africa before it was all gone. Many other notable figures were involved such as Henry Morton Stanley (John Rowlands), Edmund Dene Morel, Roger Casement, William Sheppard, George washington williams, and many others. King Leopold’s Ghost explores topics such as social class, manipulation,…

The Early Seventeenth Century of the English East India Company in the Spice Archipelago The English Company's first interest lay in the Malay Archipelago and the Spice islands, although from the start it faced considerable competition from Dutch merchants. The fleet of the first voyage (1600) visited Acheen in Sumatra and Bantam in Java; in both places the commander, James Lancaster, obtained permission to trade and to establish a factory. He also visits the Moluccas. The fleet of the second…

Public house slang group of words and phrase makes up for the smalless of the recorded vocabulary by the nature of the subject. Here are the examples of public house slang: • Favorite vice means strong drink taken habitually • Jumbo means the elephant and castle, perhaps the most famous public house in London. Workmen’s Slang This type of slang has a relation with the public house slang. It is considered as the tradesmen’s slang, because it is put from the people’s activity in their working. …

SCRAPBOOK (A Collection of Poems) Rubene Maria Cesar de Avellar ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rubene Maria Cesar de Avellar was born in 1950 and raised in Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil. She graduated as a Librarian and at 21 years old was married and since had six children, and four grandchildren. The child of two teachers, she was an avid reader and loved poems and novels. She also loved the arts and was talented in porcelain painting. Her passion for reading and her experience in raising six…

Imagine you are in a world where individuals have the chance to create a very powerful bond with an animal, you are a teenager who just turned the right age to finally have a chance to bond with a spirit animal. However, you did something thought impossible. You summoned one of the four fallen great beasts who were thought to have died long ago. Would you believe it, or would you think you're dreaming? The Spirit Animals series is written by Maggie Stiefvater. Other books written by Maggie…

Little Simon earliest date of publication: 1984 type: Concept difficulty level: Preschool, Kindergarten awards: Summary of Content ‘Blue Hat, Green Hat’ is a book to teach children the concept of colors and how to wear clothes. It starts off with an elephant wearing a blue hat, a moose wearing a green hat, a bear wearing a red hat and then it says “oops” because the next animal is a turkey with a yellow hat, but not on his head, on his feet. As the book goes on listing other articles of…