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 The Serengeti National Park lies in Northern Tanzania and covers an area of about 14,760 square kilometres. It was first established in the 1920's and was made a National Park in 1951. It is renown throughout the world as an area of great wildlife viewing. It is particulary famous for the huge herds of wildebeest and zebra that migrate. Every year following the rains in search of new grass. The word Serengeti comes from the Masai language and means endless plains. The park lies on a high plateau between the Norongoro Highlands to the east and Lake Victoria to the west. To the north lies Kenya and the Masai Mara Game Reserve, which forms the northern part of the Serengeti ecosystem.
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LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
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 Lake Manyara was made a National Park in 1960 and covers an area of 330 square kilometres, of which some 230 square kilometres are lake. it lies at the foot of the western wall of the Rift Valley escarpment, and is particularly famous for its elephant and tree climbing lions. It is also well known for its rich variety of birdlife in both the forest and along the lake shore. the name Manyara comes from the Masai word for the plant euphorbia tirucalli which they use to build their livestock stockades.VEGETATION-CLIMATE :
Due to the variety of habitats the park is able to support both large numbers and a great variety of animal and bird species. there are numerous different tree types in the park, including flat topped acacia (umbrella trees) sausage trees, doum palms, baobabs, and yellow fever trees.
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 William Shakespeare (probably born on 23 April 1564, christened on 26 April 1564, died April 23 in literature in 1616 (52 years) is considered one of the greatest poets, playwrights and writers of the Anglo-Saxon It is renowned for his mastery of literary and poetic forms, and its ability to represent aspects of human nature is often put forward by its fans.
Leading figure of Western culture, Shakespeare continues to influence artists today It is translated into many languages and his plays are regularly performed throughout the world. Shakespeare is one of the few playwrights to have done both comedy as tragedy.
Shakespeare wrote thirty-September dramatic between the years 1580 and 1613. But the exact chronology of his plays are still subject to discussion. However, the volume of his creations is not as exceptional in terms of standards of the time.
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 William Wordsworth, born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth (Cumberland), who died on 23 April 1850 at Ambleside (Cumbria) is an English poet. It starts with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic period of English literature at the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798). Its centerpiece is The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his youth.
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Second in a family of five children, Wordsworth is the son of John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson. He was born in Cockermouth in the old county of Cumberland County today Cumbria. Her sister is a poet Dorothy Wordsworth. His older brother, Richard, was a man of law and the fourth, John, also wants to become a poet when he died in a shipwreck in 1805, Christopher, the Puisne becoming a scientist.
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Celebration of UNESCO's International Mother Language
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 On the occasion of the sixth edition of the International Mother Language Day, UNESCO February 21 a conference on linguistic diversity. The conference will be opened by Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, Musa Bin Jaafar Bin Hassan, President of the General Conference, and Zhang Xinsheng, Chairman of the Executive Council of the Organization.
The program (PDF format)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of the Republic of Iceland and Goodwill Ambassador of the Organization, Adama Samassekou, President of the African Academy of Languages, Vittorio Bo, President of Codice (Italy) and Daniel Prado, Director of the Department of terminology and language industries in the Latin Union, will participate in the discussions. (Room IV, 10h-18h).
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International Mother Language February 21
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 On 21 February 2000 UNESCO proclaimed this day as International Day of the mother tongue.
Since then, this day is celebrated on the same date each year in the Member States and UNESCO. Some details
The recognition of the diversity of language is a political and cultural. UNESCO relays this struggle since 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. This celebration originated in 1952, suppressed a demonstration in Bangladesh.
Meetings for language rights
This day dedicated to the recognition of the Day of the Language Movement, commemorated in Bangladesh since 1952, when the police and the army of the state of Pakistan, the then Bangladesh, opened fire on the crowd of speakers Bengal demonstrating for their language rights in Dhaka.
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