GREAT BRITAIN ROYAL WEDDING AND BIRTH

As you may know, from ancient times, monarchy is a way of goverment in the United Kingdom. This country has a constitutional monarchy as Spain.

Constitutional monarchy

The monarch and the parliament

http://www.parliament.uk/education/


There have been different kind of dinasties, I mean, different kind of royal families ruling the country.

List of British Monarchs

Nowadays, the house name is Windsor. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of the State of the UK.

Queen Elizabeth II

 And in few days, we are going to be witness of a royal marriage. Her grandson, Prince William is going to marry Miss Kate Middleton. In the following link you can read some facts about his life. He suffered a lot with his mother's death in 1997.

Prince William


              

A baby has been born!! This summer the Dukes of Cambridge had a son. He is called George.

Prince George of Cambridge (George Alexander Louis;^{[fn 1]} born 22 July 2013) is the son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and the only grandchild of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. After his grandfather and a father, he is third in line to succeed his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

WIKI

GETTING AROUND EXETER

This blog tries to show you just some of the most striking places in New York.
Of course, the best way to know a city is to get there and walk along the streets and get lost among the people. You really can tell others that you know a city when you mingle with the crowd and live as one of them.

And that's what you, my students, are going to do in Exeter. Therefore, the purpose of this wiki is to give you some hints of what you are going to find when you arrive to Exeter.

http://gettingaroundexeter.wikispaces.com/

VIDEOS

Let's see some of my favourite clips about New York.

The first one is a tour around the city which I have uploaded and it is on youtube.

   

The second one is a Alicia Keys ' song and clip.

          


Finally, I love Frank Sinatra's song New York, New York. I listened to it while I was crossing Brooklyn Bridge at night watching New York's skyline and lights.

IMAGES

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :



New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York City has a significant impact on global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment.


As host of the United Nations Headquarters, it is also an important center for international affairs.


The city is often referred to as New York City or the City of New York, to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part.


Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, New York City consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

 With a population of 8.4 milliondistributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km²),New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.The New York metropolitan area's population is the United States' largest, estimated at 19.1 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km²). The New York metropolitan area is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.2 million people as of 2009 Census estimates.


New York traces its roots to the 1624 founding of New Amsterdam as a trading post by Dutch colonists. The city and its surrounds came under English control in 1664, and was renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790.


Many districts and landmarks in New York City have become well known to outsiders. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Times Square, iconified as "The Crossroads of the World", is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. New York City's financial district, anchored by Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, functions as the financial capital of the world and is home to the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization of its listed companies. Manhattan's real estate market has become reputed as one of the most prized and expensive in the world. Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.

Numerous colleges and universities are located in New York, including Columbia University, New York University and Rockefeller University, which are ranked among the top 100 in the world.

INTRODUCTION

The aim of this blog is to report about some cultural facts from different English speaking countries. The country which I have chosen first is USA. It is such a large country that we can find different kinds of landmarks in it

One of the most important landmarks in itself is the city of New York. It was a Dutch settlement in origin and its districts are well known for most people since its streets have been used as locations for many films and sitcoms

Some of the most famous films are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Manhattan,  and a famous sitcom is Friends, where all the characters meet at Central Perk.