Edinburgh is a harbour city, became rich also thanks to its coalmines. But more returns also from agriculture, fishing, production of whisky, tourism, oil, methane from North Sea, and from companies specialized in electronics and technology.
The splendour of the centre of the city is testified from the ancient buildings: wonderful houses of the 5hun
Until they were old enough to go away to a boarding school or college, or have a tutor, upper and middle class children were taught in their homes by governesses. Although a governess had to have the education and manners of a "lady," she was treated as a servant. However, the other servants did not accept her either because she shared a level of intima
This large population of poor worried the rich, and a solution was to send them away to be colonists.
A slogan of the period was “In Virginia land free and labor scarced, in England land scarce and labor plently”.
So England had a lot of poor people willing to leave, and a lot of money to send them away and support them once they were in America
In this interesting period, an ill person would have a few choices of where to go provided that they had money to spend. A patient could see a physician who handled most of the areas of medical science. He would tend the sick, prescribe medication, attempt surgery, dissect bodies, and spend the rest of his time creating new medical theories. Another ch
LO STATO
Il Regno Unito è una monarchia costituzionale; caratteristica particolare dell'ordinamento britannico è la mancanza di un'effettiva Costituzione, di un documento cioè unitario, organico, in quanto il sistema di governo è fondato su una serie di documenti, di leggi e di consuetudini, alcuni dei quali risalgono al Medioevo, ed è, si può dire,
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
When Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray, the book was received with a lot of protest and criticisms. The suggested homosexuality, the amoral nature of the story, the description of luxury and moral indifference shocked ‘Victorian’ England. The novel is an expression of anti-Victorian aestheticism, but suffers from
L'offerta turistica complessiva
L'evoluzione della ricettività alberghiera
La struttura dell'offerta ricettiva alberghiere italiana, pari a 33.828 esercizi nel 1997, si presenta come una delle più frammentate dell'interno del panorama europeo. Essa si caratterizza per la prevalenza di esercizi alberghieri delle categorie più modeste 1 e 2 stelle