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  • Scottish kilt for children

    31 January 2019

    Scottish kilt For anyone of Scottish ancestry, the kilt is a symbol of honor for the clan which they belong. First worn by those who lived in the Scottish Highlands, the kilt was a manner of dress that afforded the fighting army with possibly its most...

  • Northern Ireland Explained

    08 September 2018

    The Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict framed by a civil rights march in Londonderry on 5th October 1968 and the Good Friday Agreement on 10th April 1998 At the heart of the conflict lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. The...

  • Saturday: An Asbos Day.

    07 July 2018

    Asbos Asbos were once used to clamp down on unruly teenagers. Now they are being used in petty disputes between neighbours First they came for the hoodlums, and we did not speak up, because teenagers get on everyone’s nerves. But next they’re coming for...

  • Free medical care in the good USA

    20 July 2018

    Stan Brock was born in England. From 1952 to 1968, he managed the world’s largest cattle ranch operation, a 4,000-square mile combination of rainforest and savannah in British Guiana. There, he became a pioneer bush pilot and subsequently acquired numerous...

  • Ladybirds

    17 June 2018

    Ladybirds Many of Britain’s native species of ladybirds are suffering serious declines in numbers, thanks to the arrival of the harlequin ladybird. It has been declared the UK’s fastest invading species, after reaching almost every corner of the country...

  • The Green Cat

    01 April 2018

    The green cat Firlefanz sneaks quietly through the garden. He wriggles with the wobbly tail and wants to wait for mice. There is already a little mouse, the cat ducks deeply. "Oh, stay in your little house!", the sparrow called in flight. The little mouse...

  • Miejscowe zioła lecznicze są silniejsze

    15 April 2018

    Miejscowe zioła lecznicze są silniejsze Zioła, które sam uprawiasz i zbierają, dostosowują się do lokalnych warunków uprawy. Rozpoznają bakterie i grzyby, które masz w swojej okolicy, jak również wpływ lokalnej strefy klimatycznej i odpornościowej. Rozwijają...

  • Elevator

    23 April 2018

    Elevator or Lift The earliest known reference to an elevator is in the works of the Roman architect Vitruvius, who reported that Archimedes (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) built his first elevator probably in 236 BC. [9] Some sources from later historical periods...

  • Late capitalism

    29 April 2018

    Late capitalism is the advanced stage of an un-managed capitalism in which corporations and the wealthy, having run out of quick and easy paths to profit and economic growth, begin cannibalising the societies in which they operate instead of investing...

  • Burning out the poor.

    22 June 2017

    . Housing crisis in England. The crisis is that the Rich, Elite and Criminals are running out of space in their patch. The Problems is that there are too many poor people living there and they will not go.. Solution is to clad the buildings where the...

  • WHAT IS SOIL COMPACTION, AND WHY IS DECOMPACTION NECESSARY?

    17 March 2017

    WHAT IS SOIL COMPACTION, AND WHY IS DECOMPACTION NECESSARY? ·Having too compact a soil is essentially the slow, strangling of your tree. Often times, the warning symptoms of compacted soil go unnoticed; yet, ones that go unheeded can lead to serious consequences....

  • Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing

    09 April 2017

    Facebook is now carrying a health warning. Children that spend lots of time on Internet. Online social networks cause unhappiness. Ups and downs of mostly the Social Media. Impressions and facts on internet can differ Correlation implies causality but...

  • Common Sicknesses and Their Symptoms.

    12 February 2017

    J'a la migraine = I have a migraine head-ache .....Mam migrenowych bólów głowy .... Ich habe Migränekopfschmerzen ....................... Minulla on migreeni ...............................Tengo migraña .......................Ik heb een migraine J'ai...

  • America now returns to the Scottish values.

    20 January 2017

    The Scottish doctrines and political ideas that were most embraced in the United States of America.with it's birth and now we can see a return to it's values and the spirit of it's freedom from the Scottish idea of democracy and that of giving the greatness...

  • Luis the CEO of Duolingo now explains

    20 January 2017

    This is what Luis the CEO of Duolingo has Just said "Thank you very much for taking the time to write this, and thank you for using a polite tone :) The decision to remove Immersion was not an easy one, but unfortunately we just don't have the resources...

  • outdoor schooling

    30 August 2020

    outdoor schooling There has been much research focused on the outdoors, outdoor play, and outdoor education including sustainability and recreation activities. ‘Outdoor learning is an important and integral part of a high-quality early childhood education...

  • Reptiles

    10 June 2017

    Reptiles Alligators, crocodiles, tortoises, turtles, snakes and lizards are all members of the reptile family. Reptiles live mainly on land, but some of them spend a lot of time in water They all have scaly, watertight skins. They are cold-blooded which...

  • "A lion is not a dog."

    03 February 2020

    "A lion is not a dog." Translation:Lew to nie pies. " Kaczka nie jest psem. " Translation:A duck is not a dog. " Czy lew to nie kot? " Translation:Is a lion not a cat? "Is a tomato a vegetable?" Translation:Czy pomidor to warzywo? " Nie jesteś dzieckiem....

  • Time Banks

    08 January 2017

    Time Bank What is a Time Bank Time is something I know A Bank is where my money is. Food Banks are all over the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland because of poverty. However a Time Bank is something interesting, perhaps it is like a...

  • e-scooters

    09 March 2019

    Scooters are, of course, not a panacea for urban transportation problems. But they do have a legitimate role to play in offering a direct point-to-point transportation option that is less physically demanding than a bicycle, cleaner than a car, and smaller...

  • Antek w krainie lektur Antek in the land of reading

    06 July 2020

    wstep Mam na imie Antek wirzelski i chce wam opowiedziec. O tym co mnie spotkalo w dziwnej krainie My name is Antek wirzelski and I want to tell you. About what happened to me in a strange land 1 lektura Jestem w szkole omawiamy nasza piersza lekture...

  • SOS in Loch Trieg

    06 February 2019

    A man living without electricity in a forest in the Highlands was airlifted to hospital after his distress call was picked up in the United States. The man, in his mid-seventies, lives alone in a cabin near Loch Treig, about 13 miles inland from Fort...

  • Appalachian Culture Is Connected to Scotland,

    08 July 2018

    Between the 1680s and 1815 at least 100,000 Ulster Scots embarked on a new migration, this time across the Atlantic to North America. They were pushed out of Ulster by discrimination by the Anglican Church of Ireland against their Presbyterian religion,...

  • Three Vloggers plunge to death

    07 July 2018

    Three young YouTube stars have died at a waterfall in Canada. Police said Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in British Columbia on Tuesday when they “slipped and fell into a pool 30 metres below”. The...

  • Scottish Soul Music

    08 September 2018

    Scotland is hugely into soul music, If you went to a club in Scotland in the 1960's, you would hear Tamla-Motown, Stax, Atlantic, Chess, Brunswick … the labels that put out soul music in the States. That was the standard fare for all of the club music....