Michael Schumacher is a former racing driver from Germany. Schumacher is a seven-time Formula One World Champion and is widely regarded as one of the greatestF1 drivers of all time.He holds many of Formula One's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions and most races won in a single season – 13 in 2004. In 2002 he became the only driver in Formula One history to finish in the top three in every race of a season and then also broke the record for most consecutive podium finishes. According to the official Formula One website he is "statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen".After beginning with karting, Schumacher won German drivers' championships in Formula Konig and Formula Thre before joining Mercedes in the Worls Sportcar Championship . After one Mercedes-funded race for the Jordan Formula One team, Schumacher signed as a driver for the Benneton Formula One team in 1991. After winning consecutive championships with Benetton in 1994/5, Schumacher moved to Ferrari in 1996 and won another five consecutive drivers' titles with them from 2000 to 2004. Schumacher retired from Formula One driving in 2006 staying with Ferrari as an advisor. Schumacher agreed to return for Ferrari part-way through 2009, as cover for the badly injured Felipe Massa, but was prevented by a neck injury. He later signed a three-year contract to drive for the new Mercedes team starting in 2010.His career has not been without controversy, including being twice involved in collisions in the final race of a season that determined the outcome of the world championship, with Damon Hill in 1994 in Adelaide, and with Jacques Villeneuve in1997 in Jerez Off the track Schumacher is an ambassador for UNESCO and a spokesman for driver safety. He has been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts throughout his life and donated tens of millions of dollars to charity.Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001. The two brothers repeated this achievement in four more races.
I am 15year old girl and I have very strict parents.They don*t like it when I go out to meet my friends.They know very well that I am a responsible child but they are always so overprotective.I love them but they kill my social life.I never have freedom.I always have to be there when they call me.I let my friends down.I don*t go to their birthday parties or to the cinema.I*m also afraid of losing them,I feel depressed and stupid over it.I can*t wait until I*m 18nto do what I want to.Please help. What*s Ann*s problem?-She has strict parents. What should Ann do?-She should wait for her 18th birthday.She should to her parents about her social life.
От необъятных пустынь Каракума до снегов Тянь-Шаня, недавно ставшие независимыми республики центральной Азии имеют естественную красоту и величие, которые легко сочетаются с богатством сокровищ Шелкового пути.
Наше путешествие начинается в Кыргызстане, горном раю, окруженном пустынями. Горцы киргизы – выдающиеся всадники и многие из них до сих пор проводят лето в отдаленных лагерях – юртах в Тянь-Шане (Небесные горы). Мы проходим красивые долины с лесами и ледниковыми озерами и отдыхаем на зере Иссык-Куль (Киргизское. Священное море), огромное альпийское озеро в 5,000 футов, где можно покататься на лошадях и понежиться в горячих источниках. После катания на плотах на реке Чу, мы переходим в степи Казахстана, чтобы посмотреть на птиц в заказнике ущелья Аксу.
В Узбекистане мы посещаем три волшебных оазиса Шелкового пути славы: Самарканд, Бухару, Хиву и, в Самарканде, где Тамерлан удерживал власть, мы находим самые зрелищные архитектурный ансамбль во всей Центральной Азии: площадь Регистан 14-го века, по сравнению с которой Тадж-Махал – карлик, минареты, и мозаику. В Бухаре, одной из (трех жемчужин) Великого шелкового пути, старый исторический квартал иллюстрирует 1,000 лет истории в своей коллекции караван-сараи, куполообразные базары, мечети и медресе. В Хиве, городе-крепости, находящейся далеко от Хорезмского оазиса, дворы и узкие переулки всего внутреннего города являются виртуальным музеем под открытым небом с 17 по 19 века. Наша последняя остановка происходит в Ашхабаде, столице Туркменистана, где мы блуждаем по знаменитому ковровому базару и ездим на верблюдах, прежде чем вернуться домой.
