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READING
A LOT OF WORDS
A major effort by Russian philologists has been completed
with the publication of the county's biggest dictionary of
modem Russian in 17 volumes. The completed work contains a
lot of words - nearly 120,500 of them - used in literature
from the time of Pushkin to 20th-century writers.
The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, a modern, one-volume reference
work centered on the subject of chemistry but including more
than twenty different sciences that border on the main subject,
has been published by the Reinhold publishing Corporation.
Written by more than 500 authors, the volume consists of about
850 articles ranging in legit from 300 to 4,000 words each,
covering a broad range of subjects of chemical importance.
Topics include atomic power, automatic control, electron tubes,
radioactivity, new elements, plastics, antibiotics, amino
acids, allergy, air pollution (загрязнение воздуха), safety,
and hundreds of others.
From The New York Times
Pages from Anna Karenina, War and Peace and Resurrection
("Воскресение") in Tolstoy's own hand were shown
at a Tolstoy exhibition in the British Museum.
Russia also sent personal belongings of the great writer,
letters, photographs, sculptures, rare editions of his works,
illustrations to them - nearly 300 items in all, mostly from
the museum on Tolstoy's estate, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula.
They also included a bronze death-mask, a cast go his hand,
his personal seal and a photograph given him by Thomas Edison.
Other items in the exhibition showed Tolstoy's interest in
the British people and their culture. He had a lifelong ()
love of Dickens.
There were letters and documents connected with visit to
London in 1861, also from Yasnaya Polyana.
QUOTATIONS
Knowledge, too, is itself a power.
Francis Bacon (England, 1561-1626)
To be conscious (сознавать) that you are ignorant is a great
step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli (England, 1804-1881)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or
we know where We can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson (England, 1709-1784)
Our knowledge is the 0 thought and experience of innumerable
(бесчисленный) minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (USA, 1803-1882)
Training is everything. Cauliflower is nothing but (1)
cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain (USA, 1835-1910)
JOKES
DINER: Waiter, I want chicken - and younger the better.
WAITER: In that case (в таком случае), sir, order eggs.
"Raise your hand", the judge said to a woman preparing
to testify (давать показания).
The woman quickly raised her left hand.
"You'll have to raise your right hand", said the
judge.
"This is my right hand", she answered. "I'm
left-handed (левша)".
"What is your age?" asked the judge. "Remember
you are under oath". "Twenty-one years and some
months", the lady answered. "How many months?"
the judge persisted (настаивал). "One hundred and eight".
Примечание
(1) nothing but -не что иное, как
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