domingo, 1 de marzo de 2009

ALLAN POE



Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January on 19th of 1809 and he died in October on 7th of 1849.



He was an american poet, an a short-story writer, an editor, a literary critic and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He wrote terror tales and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

His parents died when he was very young. He lived with John and Frances Allan who hadn't adopted him. He went to the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe parted ways with the Allans. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".








Charles Darwin

He was born in England the 12 nd on February in 1809 and he died the 19 th on April in 1882 in England too.

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil.
In recognition of Darwin’s pre-eminence, he was one of only five 19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.






CROSSWORD

1. Surname of William Shakespeare's wife: Hathaway
2. The most cruel and bloody of Will's tragedie¨:Titus
3. Queen of England during most of Will's life: Elizabeth
4. Tragedy set in the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar
5. Name of the book which collected Will's plays: First Folio
6. Will's only son: Hamnet
7. Will's mother: Mary Arden
8. Will's hometown: Stratford
9. Name of Will's rival poet.:Christopher
10.Founder of the Theatre: Burbage
11.One of Will's most famous tragedies, in which a king has three daughters: King Lear
12.A famous theatre close to the Globe: Rose
13.Will's first daughter: Susanna
14.Hamlet's unfortunate girlfriend: Ophelia
15.Will's theatre: Globe
16.One of Will's famous tragedy . " Out damn spot. Out, I say !": Macbeth
17.Tragedy and name of the king who said " A horse. My kingdom for a horse !": Richard
18.Tragedy and name of a man who killed his wife Desdemona for jealousy: Othello