1. Read the sentences. Find the proper nouns. 1. John came to our house on Friday. 2. Mary will go to school in September. 3. Maggie went to England. 4. London is the capital of England. 5. Moscow is in Russia. 6. Boston is a big city in the USA.
Kitty kitten was invented in 1974 by Shintaro Tsuji, the owner of the Japanese toy company Sanrio. One day he decided to come up with a new character that everyone would like. As a result of long work (Tsuji spent a long time coming up with, drawing different options, checking the reaction of buyers), an ideal hero appeared. Today, the Hello Kitty brand generates over a billion dollars in revenue annually. The name of the kitty was also in doubt at first. Its creator tossed between versions of "Hello Kitty" and "Kitty White" - that was the name of one of Alice's cats from the book "Alice in Wonderland". But the latter option was eventually rejected
The first item that gained immense popularity among buyers was a simple wallet with a picture of Kitty. Before that, postcards and other similar little things with her image were produced, but they did not have such success. Kitty's popularity grew steadily, but peaked in the late eighties and sales began to slowly decline. Customers didn't like the fact that Kitty was always the same and seemed to be lifeless. She was portrayed in one position - the muzzle looks at the viewer, and the torso is turned sideways, was dressed in a blue jumpsuit, and a thick black outline was drawn around the figure. Then the designer of the company "Sanrio" Yuko Yamaguchi decided to change this image, which was boring to many
The 2000s were marked by significant economic growth in Asian countries, especially in China and India (by analogy with the previous "American century", the XXI century is considered the "Asian century"). Economic growth was accompanied by a rise in oil prices, which reached their all-time high in July 2008. At the same time, the crisis that began in the United States associated with an avalanche-like increase in loan defaults provoked a global recession in 2008.
After the unprecedented scale of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the American government declared the so-called. "War on terrorism", in which the wars began in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). Conflicts continued in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the post-Soviet space. The disintegration of Yugoslavia is over. The expansion of NATO continued, in 2001 the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established.
There was a widespread introduction of digital technologies: the development of the Internet and a significant increase in its role in society, the spread of mobile phones, digital cameras, the emergence of the Blu-ray format. Construction of the ISS continued. In 2001, the Mir orbital station was flooded. The geography of the "space club" expanded: in 2003, China launched its first cosmonaut into space, and in 2009, Iran launched its first satellite.
As indicated in 2014 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the 2000s were the warmest in the history of meteorological observations.
Kitty kitten was invented in 1974 by Shintaro Tsuji, the owner of the Japanese toy company Sanrio. One day he decided to come up with a new character that everyone would like. As a result of long work (Tsuji spent a long time coming up with, drawing different options, checking the reaction of buyers), an ideal hero appeared. Today, the Hello Kitty brand generates over a billion dollars in revenue annually. The name of the kitty was also in doubt at first. Its creator tossed between versions of "Hello Kitty" and "Kitty White" - that was the name of one of Alice's cats from the book "Alice in Wonderland". But the latter option was eventually rejected
The first item that gained immense popularity among buyers was a simple wallet with a picture of Kitty. Before that, postcards and other similar little things with her image were produced, but they did not have such success. Kitty's popularity grew steadily, but peaked in the late eighties and sales began to slowly decline. Customers didn't like the fact that Kitty was always the same and seemed to be lifeless. She was portrayed in one position - the muzzle looks at the viewer, and the torso is turned sideways, was dressed in a blue jumpsuit, and a thick black outline was drawn around the figure. Then the designer of the company "Sanrio" Yuko Yamaguchi decided to change this image, which was boring to many
The 2000s were marked by significant economic growth in Asian countries, especially in China and India (by analogy with the previous "American century", the XXI century is considered the "Asian century"). Economic growth was accompanied by a rise in oil prices, which reached their all-time high in July 2008. At the same time, the crisis that began in the United States associated with an avalanche-like increase in loan defaults provoked a global recession in 2008.
After the unprecedented scale of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the American government declared the so-called. "War on terrorism", in which the wars began in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). Conflicts continued in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the post-Soviet space. The disintegration of Yugoslavia is over. The expansion of NATO continued, in 2001 the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established.
There was a widespread introduction of digital technologies: the development of the Internet and a significant increase in its role in society, the spread of mobile phones, digital cameras, the emergence of the Blu-ray format. Construction of the ISS continued. In 2001, the Mir orbital station was flooded. The geography of the "space club" expanded: in 2003, China launched its first cosmonaut into space, and in 2009, Iran launched its first satellite.
As indicated in 2014 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the 2000s were the warmest in the history of meteorological observations.