The Mariinsky Palace was built by emperor Nikolay I for his daughter Maria as a gift to her wedding with the duke Maksimilian Lejhtenbergsky. Maksimilian was Eugenie dе Bogarne's son who was Napoleon's stepson. Wedding was on 5th December in 1838.
The place for this palace was chosen opposite the Isaakievsky cathedral, on the bank of the Ekaterina channel. Before there was Tchernyshev's house there. The emperor wanted to build a palace which would differ from others. This palace should become the standard of comfort of that time. The builders used modern technical decisions and applied the modern building materials.
Mobile phones ,Keeping fit
Mobile phones entered our life not long ago, but today we can’t imagine our life without them. Some doctors say that they are very harmful to the health, especially to the health of children.
The mobile phones emit electromagnetic radiation, and a number of different scientific institutes claim that this radiation is really very harmful, though still there is no hard evidence that showed that mobile phones caused harm in real humans. I try to talk over my mobile phone as less as possibleto avoid the health risks.
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3) I had to translate a passage from "Martin Eden" by Jack London.
4) The first taskwas to read and translate a new text with the help of a dictionary.
5) We repeated all the grammar rules before the examination.
6) I was asked by the teacher to tell some words about my family in English.
7) I heard that you had an interesting English evening party.
8) A girl recited the poem "To the Men of England" by Shelley.