Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
By Mariah Neuhauser
Period 7
F is for Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand is an indie post-punk art rock band that hails from Glasgow, Scotland.
The quartet’s, consisting of Alex Kapranos, Nick Mccarthy, Bob Hardy, and Paul
Thomson, band name is derived from an Austro-Hungarian monarch whose assassination
sparked the beginning of World War I.
(Source: http://www.nme.com/artists/franz-ferdinand#biography)
R is for rugby
Rugby is often noted as the “patriarch” of football. Many refer to William Webb Ellis as
being the inventor of rugby in the year 1823. Early forms of football and rugby were
played in the Middle Ages by the Welsh, Cornish, Celtics and the Vikings. Rugby has
received much notoriety as being a “violent and brutal game,” and has since been
outlawed in the past by various regions in Europe.
Anne Hathaway was allegedly born in 1564. Hathaway was the wife of William
Shakespeare. Hathaway’s cottage is actually an Elizabethan farmhouse that consists of
twelve rooms. Portions of her estate date back to the 15th century. Over ninety acres of
land are included with her estate, consisting of rolling hills and a picturesque garden.
Hathaway’s cottage, and other Shakespearean estates are all viewable by the public on a
daily basis.
(Sources: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-anne-hathaway.htm
and http://www.stratford.co.uk/prop3.asp)
N is for natural hot springs
Bath Spa, Somerset in England is home to natural hot springs that are around 114 degrees
Fahrenheit. The natural hot springs in Bath are a geological phenomenon. Due to Bath’s
geology, Bath seems like an unsuitable place to form hot springs. The Roman bath
pictured above was built nearly 2,000 years ago.
(Source: http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/Building-history)
E is for the Eden Project
(Source: http://www.edenproject.com)
L is for Lord Byron
Lord Byron was born in London, England in the year 1788. His first poetry volume,
published in 1806, was titled Fugitive Pieces. He took his seat in the House of Lords in
1809. One of the more famous poems written by Byron is titled She Walks in Beauty.
His literary works are often compared to the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley & John
Keats.
(Source: http://englishhistory.net/byron/life.html)
G is for Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway is a rock formation located in Northern Ireland. The causeway
was formed by cooling lava from volcanic eruptions. The ancient Celtics thought the
giant named Finn McCool created the causeway by building this large “highway” that
connects Ireland to the island of Staffa in the Hebrides to bring his sweetheart over to
Ulster.
(Source: http://www.geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukiant01.htm)
T is for Trilby
A trilby is an informal hat with a soft, wide brim. The word “Trilby” comes from the
name of the female heroine in the French novel Trilby by George du Maurier. The Trilby
is also known as a snap-brim hat. Hats were often used to determine social class in the
late 19th century and early 20th century, especially in England. The Trilby was often worn
by countrymen.
In Scandinavian, “lutefisk” means “cod soaked in plutonium.” While I don’t care much
for this acquired taste, lutefisk has been around since the Viking era. Lutefisk came about
when frightened villagers from Bjaastivik cooked some Vikings a special meal in
retaliation of their brute ways. Instead of soaking cod in plutonium, they soaked the cod
in lye, which made for a rather macabre meal. It turned out that the Vikings actually
enjoyed the “lutefisk,” which prompted them to bring the recipe back to Scandinavia
where it is now a national delicacy.
(Source: http://netnet.net/~pineaire/Lutefisk.html)
W is for William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland, England in the year 1770. He became
friends with fellow writer Samuel Coleridge and co-wrote various literary successes. He
gained popularity with the public when he wrote Poems in Two Volumes. His most
famous epic novel, titled, The Prelude, has sparked much controversy over which version
of this novel is superior, the 1805 or 1850 version.
(Source: http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/ww/bio.html)
S is for Schwarzwald
Schwarzwald, the German name for the Black Forest, is a 4500 square mile area of forest
land, waterfalls and mountains in southwest Germany. The cuckoo clock is made in the
Schwarzwald region from the vast variety of trees. The infamous Black Forest cake and
the Castle Newschwanstein also call Schwarzwald “home.”