Camden Town, often shortened to Camden, is anarea in the LondonBorough of Camden, around 4.1 km north-northwest of Charing Cross. Historically in Middlesex, it is identified in the London Plan as one of 34 major centres in Greater London.
Laid out as a residential district from 1791 and originally part of the manor of Kentish Town and the parish of St Pancras, Camden Town became an important location during the early development of the railways, which reinforced its position on the London
canal network. The area's industrial economic base has been replaced by
service industries such as retail, tourism and entertainment. The area
now hosts street markets and music venues associated with alternative
culture.
Camden Town is named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. His earldom was styled after his estate, Camden Place near Chislehurst in Kent (now in the London Borough of Bromley), formerly owned by historian William Camden. The name, which appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, was later applied to the early-20th-century Camden Town Group of artists and the LondonBorough of Camden, created in 1965.
The emergence of the industrial revolution in the 19th century meant Camden was
the North Western Railway's terminal stop in 1837. It was where goods
were transported off the tracks and onto the roads of London by 250 000 workhorses. The whole area was adapted to a transportation function: the Roundhouse (1846), Camden Lock and the Stables were examples of this.
Camden Town stands on land that was once the manor of Kentish Town. Sir Charles Pratt, a radical 18th-century lawyer and politician, acquired the manor through marriage.
In 1791, he started granting leases for houses to be built in the manor.
In 1816, the Regent's Canal was built through the area. Up to at least the mid-20th century, Camden Town was considered an unfashionable locality.
The Camden Markets, which started in 1973 and have grown since then, attract many visitors.
On 9 February 2008, Camden Canal market suffered a major fire, but there were no injuries. It later reopened as Camden Lock Village, until closed in 2015 for redevelopment.
Camden Town was contained within the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras between 1900 and 1965, when it became part of the new LondonBorough of Camden, of which it is the namesake and administrative centre.
Camden Town
is on relatively flat ground at 30 m above sea level, 4.0 km
north-northwest of Charing Cross. To the north are the hills of
Hampstead and Highgate; to the west is Primrose Hill. The culverted,
subterranean River Fleet flows from its source on Hampstead Heath
through Camden Town south to the River Thames. The Regent's Canal runs through the north of Camden Town.
Camden is well known for its markets.
These date from 1974 or later, except for Inverness Street market, for
over a century a small food market serving the local community, though
by 2013 all foodstuff and produce stalls had gone and only touristy
stalls remained. Camden Lock Market proper started in a former timber yard in 1973, and is now surrounded by five more markets: Buck Street market, Stables market, Camden Lock Village, and an indoor market in the Electric Ballroom.
The markets are a major tourist attraction at weekends,
selling goods of all types, including fashion, lifestyle, books, food,
junk/antiques and more bizarre items; they and the surrounding shops are
popular with young people, in particular, those searching for alternative clothing. While originally open on Sundays only, market activity later extended throughout the week, though concentrating on weekends.
Today, The Fosters & TheGrandma have visited Trafalgar Square, thepublicsquare in the City of Westminster, CentralLondon, that was established in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as CharingCross.
Before this visit, the family has been talking about Santa Eulàlia, the patron of Barcelona, and they have studied some English Grammar with There is/Thereare and Prepositions of Place.
The
Square's name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, the British naval
victory in the Napoleonic Wars over France and Spain that took place on
21 October 1805 off the coast of Cape Trafalgar. The site around Trafalgar Square had been a significant landmark since the 1200s. For centuries, distances measured from Charing Cross
have served as location markers. The site of the present square
formerly contained the elaborately designed, enclosed courtyard, King's
Mews. After George IV moved the mews to Buckingham Palace, the area was
redeveloped by John Nash, but progress was slow after his death, and the
square did not open until 1844.
The 52 m Nelson's Column
at its centre is guarded by four lion statues. A number of
commemorative statues and sculptures occupy the square, but the Fourth
Plinth, left empty since 1840, has been host to contemporary art since
1999. Prominent buildings facing the square include the National Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Canada House, and South Africa House.
The square has been used for community gatherings and politicaldemonstrations,
including Bloody Sunday in 1887, the culmination of the first
Aldermaston March, anti-war protests, and campaigns against climate
change.
A Christmas tree has been donated to the square by Norway since 1947 and
is erected for twelve days before and after Christmas Day. The square
is a centre of annual celebrations on New Year's Eve. It was well known
for its feral pigeons until their removal in the early 21st century.
The square is named after the Battle of Trafalgar,
a British naval victory in the Napoleonic Wars with France and Spain
that took place on 21 October 1805 off the coast of Cape Trafalgar,
southwest Spain, although it was not named as such until 1835.
The name Trafalgar is a Spanish word of Arabic origin, derived from either Taraf al-Ghar (طرف الغار cape of the cave/laurel) or Taraf al-Gharb (طرف الغربextremity of the west).
Trafalgar Square
is owned by the King in Right of the Crown and managed by the Greater
London Authority, while Westminster City Council owns the roads around
the square, including the pedestrianised area of the North Terrace.
The
square contains a large central area with roadways on three sides and a
terrace to the north, in front of the National Gallery. The roads
around the square form part of the A4, a major road running west of the
City of London. Originally having roadways on all four sides, traffic
travelled in both directions around the square until a one-way clockwise
gyratory system was introduced on 26 April 1926. Works completed in
2003 reduced the width of the roads and closed the northern side to
traffic.
Nelson's Column
is in the centre of the square, flanked by fountains designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens between 1937 and 1939 (replacements for two of Peterhead
granite, now in Canada) and guarded by four monumental bronze lions
sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer. At the top of the column is a statue of Horatio Nelson,who commanded the British Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Surrounding the square are the National Gallery
on the north side and St Martin-in-the-Fields Church to the east. Also
on the east is South Africa House, and facing it across the square is
Canada House. To the south west is The Mall, which leads towards
Buckingham Palace via Admiralty Arch, while Whitehall is to the south
and the Strand to the east. Charing Cross Road passes between the National Gallery and the church.
Building
work on the south side of the square in the late 1950s revealed
deposits from the last interglacial period. Among the findings were the
remains of cave lions, rhinoceroses, straight-tusked elephants and
hippopotami.
The site has been significant since the 13th century. During Edward I's reign it hosted the King's Mews, running north from the T-junction in the south, CharingCross,
where the Strand from the City meets Whitehall coming north from
Westminster. From the reign of Richard II to that of Henry VII, the mews
was at the western end of the Strand. The name Royal Mews comes from the practice of keeping hawks here for moulting; mew
is an old word for this. After a fire in 1534, the mews were rebuilt as
stables, and remained here until George IV moved them to Buckingham
Palace.
I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
Today, The Wealeys have assisted to a class about how to be an enterpreneur in our real economical world. After this, the family has continue practising English grammar with the Prepositions of Time and Place, and they have practised with some B1 CambridgeExam Tests.
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was the Transfiguration Professor, and later Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Professor Dumbledore also served as Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. He was a
half-blood, Muggle-supporting wizard, the son of Percival and Kendra
Dumbledore, and the elder brother of Aberforth and Ariana. His father
died in Azkaban when Dumbledore was young, while his mother and
sister were later accidentally killed. His early losses greatly affected
him early on, even at his death, but in turn made him a better person.
He was most famous for his defeat of Gellert Grindelwald, the discovery
of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on alchemy with
Nicolas Flamel.
It was through Dumbledore
that resistance to the rise of Lord Voldemort was formed, as it was he
who founded and led both the first and second Order of the Phoenix. Due
to the fact that he had a keen mind and legendary power, Dumbledore
became the only wizard that Voldemort ever feared. He was the wielder
and the master of the Elder Wand from 1945 until 1997 and considered by
many as the greatest Headmaster to ever grace Hogwarts. As he was
about to die by a cursed ring, he planned his own death with Severus
Snape. He was killed by Snape during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
Then, it was through Dumbledore's
manipulations that Voldemort was ultimately defeated and peace restored
to the wizarding world. He is the only Headmaster that was laid to rest
at Hogwarts. Albus Dumbledore's portrait still remains at Hogwarts. Harry Potter later named his second son Albus Severus Potter after him.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
was born to Kendra and Percival Dumbledore in the summer of 1881, in
the mainly wizarding village of Mould-on-the-Wold. The early years of Dumbledore's
life were marked by tragedy when his younger sister, Ariana Dumbledore,
was attacked by a group of Muggle boys, who saw her performing magic
and were frightened by what they saw.
Dumbledore began attending Hogwarts in the autumn of 1892 and was Sorted into Gryffindor house. Dumbledore's
first year was met with much whispering about his father's crime. Many
of Albus' fellow students mistakenly believed that, like father like
son, Albus too hated Muggles. Some praised his father's actions, hoping
to gain his trust, but they would not find favour with the young Dumbledore
this way. Though later in his young life, under the influence of his
love for Gellert Grindelwald, some anti-Muggle prejudice did develop,
but he soon saw the error of his intent.
He
befriended a young Elphias Doge on his first day at Hogwarts; Doge was
suffering from the aftermath of Dragon Pox at the time, greenish skin
and pockmarks, which discouraged most from approaching him. Dumbledore demonstratedhisuncommon kindness and willingness to look past the surface and find inner beauty in people. Dumbledore also became very well-connected during his Hogwarts
years, making notable friends such as Nicolas Flamel, Bathilda Bagshot,
and Griselda Marchbanks, who marked him in his N.E.W.T.s for Charms and
Transfiguration and later recalled that he did things with a wand that
she had never seen before. He also had several of his papers published
during his studies.
After graduating from Hogwarts in June 1899, Dumbledore planned to take the traditional Grand Tour
of the world with his friend Doge. However tragedy ensued on the eve of
the departure when Kendra Dumbledore was killed by an outburst of
Ariana's uncontrollable magic, leaving Albus the head of his own broken
family and now in charge of his younger siblings.
Dumbledore also served in recruiting students for Hogwarts.
Most prominent among the students he recruited was Tom Riddle, who he
found in Wool's Orphanage in 1938. Alone of all the professors at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was not charmed by the natural charisma and cunning of Tom Riddle. In their first encounter, Dumbledore
became immediately suspicious of his "obvious instincts for cruelty,
secrecy and domination" and resolved to keep a close eye on him during
his studies at the school. As Dumbledore was not so easily taken in by his charming façade, Riddle came to despise and fear him.
In 1943,
several Muggle-born students were mysteriously petrified by a beast
rumoured to have been released by the Heir of Slytherin from the
mythical Chamber of Secrets. Indeed, the final victim of the
beast, Myrtle, was actually killed; this act seemed likely to ensure the
permanent closure of the school, forcing Riddle to go back to the
orphanage. While Dumbledore rightly suspected Riddle was behind the attacks, the aspiring Dark Wizard expertly framed Gryffindor student Rubeus Hagrid as the perpetrator.
After Lord Voldemort started his first rise to power in 1970, Dumbledore founded the Order of the Phoenix,
a secret organisation of witches and wizards willing to risk their
lives to fight Voldemort and his Death Eaters. As the only wizard
Voldemort was ever truly afraid of, Dumbledore was the perfect leader of the organisation and was a significant contributor to the fight against Voldemort.
Later on in the war, Dumbledore was approached by another person who also wanted a job at Hogwarts: Sybill Trelawney, who applied to become the new professor of Divination, lessons that Dumbledore disliked and barely considered a part of necessary education for young wizards and witches. Dumbledore
gave her a chance because she was the great-great granddaughter of the
celebrated Seer Cassandra Trelawney. To his disappointment, when he was
interviewing Sybill at the Hog's Head, he came to the conclusion that
she was not a real Seer.
However, as Dumbledore was
about to leave, Trelawney fell into a real trance and made a prophecy
about the birth of the one that would have the power to vanquish the
Dark Lord, who would be born to those whohave thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies. This fact astonished Dumbledore,
but as it turned out, the Death Eater Severus Snape had overheard most
of the prophecy, but had been caught in the act of spying and ejected
from the tavern by Aberforth Dumbledore. Dumbledore hired Trelawney in order to protect her from the Death Eaters.
Later, Severus Snape approached Dumbledore,
having already told Voldemort about the Prophecy. Snape was shocked by
the fact that Voldemort had concluded that the prophecy was about Harry Potter, the son of James Potter, and Snape's own loved childhood friend, Lily Evans.
Dumbledore
made arrangements to ensure the safety of the three; he advised them to
stay hidden in their house in Godric's Hollow, which was protected by a
Fidelius Charm. However, their Secret-Keeper, believed by Dumbledore
and everyone else to be Sirius Black, but was in truth Peter Pettigrew,
betrayed them, resulting in James and Lily's deaths at Voldemort's
hands. However, as Voldemort attempted to murder Harry, the curse
backfired due to Lily Potter's love for her son and destroyed his body,
only keeping a part of his soul alive.
Dumbledore,
who likely already knew by then that a part of Voldemort's soul had
concealed itself within Harry, made sure that Harry would be kept safe
with his family, the Dursleys, despite them not being selected as his
guardians in the event of James and Lily's death, as his spells ensured
that Voldemort could not harm Harry there as long as he could have a
home with them. He convinced Snape to help him protect Harry, although Dumbledore
secretly planned to allow Voldemort to kill Harry in the end, which
would destroy the piece of Voldemort's soul inside Harry. However, he
also hoped to influence Harry into such a person who would willingly
sacrifice his life for the greater good, allowing him the chance to
choose between life and death in the end.
Dumbledore
gave Snape employment at Hogwarts as the Potions master, and later
defended Snape against the Ministry of Magic, who were rounding up and
arresting remaining Death Eaters. Dumbledore attended many Death
Eater trials, including that of the Lestranges and Barty Crouch, Jr He
was also witness to Igor Karkaroff's testimony which secured his release
from Azkaban in return for the names of fellow Death Eaters.
Shortly before the Potters' deaths, Dumbledore discovered that James's Cloak of Invisibility was in fact one of the Deathly Hallows. Although Dumbledore
had long given up his desire to unite the Hallows and become Master of
Death, he could not resist the thought of studying the Cloak. To that
end, he borrowed it from James while James and Lilly were in hiding. He
confirmed that it was indeed the cloak of legend, but before he could
return it, James and Lilly were killed by Voldemort. This unfortunate
occurrence provided Dumbledore with ownership of two of the Hallows.
Ten years later, Harry Potter started attending Hogwarts, as happy as Dumbledore
had hoped, despite suffering child neglect and abuse, and alive and
well. That year, Lord Voldemort formulated a plan to regain human form. Dumbledore and his friend Nicolas Flamel, the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone,
began to suspect that the disembodied Dark Lord was plotting to steal
the invaluable object, which would be capable of restoring him to full
power.
Dumbledore had the stone moved to a medium security vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank, but later had it moved to Hogwarts
itself; coincidentally, on the same day that an attempted break-in was
made upon the vault. It was retrieved by Hagrid, who was also taking
Harry to buy his school supplies.
Today, The Grandma has been enjoying one of her favourite TV Series of all time, Forever, the American fantasy crime drama centered on the characters of Dr.HenryMorgan and Detective Jo Martínez created by Matt Miller.
After this, she has revised some English grammar with TheGrangers, Future Simple and Prepositions of Place, again.
Forever is an American fantasy crime drama television series that aired on ABC as part of the 2014–15 fall television season.
Created by Matt Miller, it centers on the character of Dr. Henry Morgan, animmortal New York City medical examiner who
uses his extensive knowledge to assist the New York City Police
Department (NYPD) in solving crimes and to discover a way to end his
immortality. Flashbacks within each episode reveal various details of Henry's life.
The
series' network aired a sneak preview on September 22, 2014, and
resumed the series at 10 p.m. EST on September 23, 2014. Reception of
the series was mixed.
In
the United States, television critics were divided over the series'
similarity to other crime dramas and its premise. In contrast, voters in
several online polls ranked the series as one of the best of the
television season. Forever's broadcast was well-received in France and
Spain.
Although ABC gave the series a full-season episode order on November 7, 2014, it cancelled Forever after one season. ABC
cited the show's low ratings as the rationale behind the decision.
Television critics believed that other factors explained the network's
decision, as the show gained viewers who watched up to seven days later
on their DVRs. Fans of the series reacted strongly, creating a social
media campaign to save the series; despite these efforts, the series
remains canceled.
Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a New York City medical examiner
who studies the dead for criminal cases, and to solve the mystery of
his own immortality. His first death was 200 years ago while trying to
free slaves as a doctor aboard a ship in the African slave trade. Each
time he dies, Henry disappears almost immediately and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water. He has also stopped aging.
Henry's long life has given him broad knowledge and remarkable observation skills which impress most people he encounters, including New York PoliceDepartment Detective Jo Martinez (Alana de la Garza). Only antiquarian, Abe
(Judd Hirsch), whom Henry and his now-deceased wife Abigail found as a
newborn in a German concentration camp during World War II, knows that
he is immortal. Henry is stalked by Adam, who is also an immortal, and claims to have been alive for around 2,000 years.
As sad and dreadful as death may be, it forces us to cherish every moment because the truth is... Life is precious because it's finite.
Dr. Henry Morgan
Ioan Gruffudd as Doctor Henry Morgan.
Born in 1779, Henry is a New York City medical examiner who studies the dead for criminal cases and to solve the mystery of his immortality.
His
first death was in 1814 while trying to free slaves as a doctor aboard a
ship in the African slave trade. Since that time, Henry disappears each
time he dies and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water.
He has been married twice; his first wife Nora, whom he married before he became immortal, had him committed to an asylum, and his second wife, Abigail,
whom he met during the Second World War and remained with until 1984,
when she left to find somewhere they could be together without being
judged for Abigail's apparently greater age.
He abandoned his original career as a doctor in 1956 after he and a butcher were shot; Henry
chose to crawl away and die instead of trying to save the other man
because he feared others finding out his secret. Although knowledgeable
about many topics, Henry demonstrates a general lack of knowledge
about modern popular culture. He also dislikes cell phones but will use
one if necessary.
Alana de la Garza as Detective Jo Martínez.
Jo is a sharp, no-nonsense, determined
detective with the NYPD who is both intrigued and disgusted by Henry's
detailed medical knowledge when examining a corpse.
She finds his behavior to be out there,
but still relies on his insight for solving homicides. Originating from
a rough background with a law-breaking father, she is also a recent
widow; her husband was a lawyer who died of an unexpected heart attack
while running on a treadmill on a visit to Washington a year before she
met Henry. She is stationed at the 11th Precinct.
Joel David Moore as Lucas Wahl.
Henry's assistant in the Medical Examiner's office,
who expresses uncertainty about how little he knows about his boss, and
an uncanny memory for his daily activities. He studied film in college
before working in the medical examiner's office. He makes horror films
in his spare time.
Lucas tends to use popular culture references in his speech, many of which Henry does not understand.
Donnie Keshawarz as Detective Mike Hanson.
Jo's partner, who is stationed at the 11th Precinct. He was in a band when he was younger. He is married and has two sons. He also has a brother.
Judd Hirsch as Abraham "Abe" Morgan.
Henry's adopted son and main confidant. No one knows Dr. Henry Morgan better than his son, Abe. The keeper of Henry's immortality secret, although he has claimed that he worked with Henry's
father to explain their association to strangers. At the end of World
War II, he was rescued from Belsen, after surviving a death march from
Auschwitz.
He
currently owns an antique store where Henry uses the basement for his
immortality research on himself. Abe fought in the Vietnam War and has a
two-time ex-wife named Maureen Delacroix (Jane Seymour).
Abe's research into his family tree revealed that he is a distant relative of Henry's, as one of his ancestors was the illegitimate son of Henry's womanizing uncle.
Lorraine Toussaint as Lieutenant Joanna Reece.
Jo and Hanson's supervisor at the 11th Precinct.
MacKenzie Mauzy as Abigail Morgan.
Henry's second wife and Abe's adoptive mother.
Henry
met her toward the end of World War II when they were working as
medical personnel near one of the Nazi concentration camps. Over the
years, she worked as a nurse in addition to being a housewife.
The latest time period in which Abigail has been shown is 1982, when she was still married to Henry but looked a generation older than he (Janet Zarish); in 1984, she vanished without a trace despite Henry's best efforts to find her. Henry has acknowledged that the end of his relationship with Abigail caused him a lot of pain that prevents him from dating anyone for whom he has real feelings.
Burn Gorman as Lewis Farber/Adam.
A 2,000-year-old immortal who claims that he has been here since the beginning
and that he has not found a death for himself. Analysis of his blood
revealed that he had contracted several extinct diseases, including the
bubonic plague.
Adam was
tortured as part of the Nazis' research into his immortality, leaving
him with a hatred of the Nazis and a sympathy for other Holocaust
survivors, including Abe. Adam first appeared as Henry's appointed psychiatrist and convinced a patient that he could pass on his immortality.
Adam continued to try to find a lost dagger, one that not only caused Adam's first death but also was used to kill Julius Caesar. Adam appears in five episodes.
Yes, some memories are precious... and we need to hang on to them. But Emily Dickinson wrote, 'Forever is composed of nows,' and she's right. If we root ourselves too deeply in the past, we'll miss what's right in front of us.
Another day in New York and TheGrangers and TheGrandma have continued their formation in English. They have studied the Prepositions of Place,and they have been describing their suites at Carlyle Hotel.
The Carlyle Hotelis a combination luxury apartment hotel located at 35 East 76th Street on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 76th Street, on the Upper East Side of New York City.
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least 100 metres or 150 metres in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-rise buildings.
Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces.
One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete.
Modern skyscrapers' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterised by large surface areas of windows made possible by steel frames and curtain walls. However, skyscrapers can have curtain walls that mimic conventional walls with a small surface area of windows.
Modern skyscrapers often have a tubular structure, and are designed to act like a hollow cylinder to resist wind, seismic, and other lateral loads. To appear more slender, allow less wind exposure and transmit more daylight to the ground, many skyscrapers have a design with setbacks, which in some cases is also structurally required.
The term skyscraper was first applied to buildings of steel-framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major American cities like New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis.
The first steel-frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building, originally 10 stories with a height of 42 m, in Chicago in 1885; two additional stories were added. Some point to Philadelphia's 10-storey Jayne Building (1849-50) as a proto-skyscraper, or to New York's seven-floor Equitable Life Building, built in 1870.
Steel skeleton construction has allowed for today's supertall skyscrapers now being built worldwide. The nomination of one structure versus another being the first skyscraper, and why, depends on what factors are stressed.
In 1857, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator at the E.V. Haughwout Building in New York City, allowing convenient and safe transport to buildings' upper floors. Otis later introduced the first commercial passenger elevators to the Equitable Life Building in 1870, considered by some architectural historians to be the first skyscraper.
Today, The Newtons and The Grandma have travelled from New York to AtlanticCity in New Jersey.
Martha Newton is going to start her particular career in this resort and the family has wanted to spend these later moments with her before she leaves the family. During the travel, The Newtons have studied the English Prepositions of Place.
Atlantic City, often known by its initials A.C., is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, known for its casinos, boardwalk, andbeaches.
In 2020, the city had a population of 38,497. It was incorporated on May 1, 1854, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township.
it is located on Absecon Island and borders Absecon, Brigantine, Pleasantville, Ventnor City, Egg Harbor Township, and the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantic City inspired the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly, especially the street names.
Since 1921, Atlantic City has been the home of the Miss America pageant.
In 1976, New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City, and the first casino opened in 1978.
For many years before the city was founded, the island site of the future settlement was the summer home of the Lenape. While the precise date of the first permanent occupation of what came to be Atlantic City has not been precisely determined, it is commonly thought that in 1783 Jeremiah Leeds first built and occupied an all year home on the island. However, it was not until 1850 that the idea arose to develop the location into a resort town and in early 1853 the name Atlantic City was adopted.
The history of gambling in Atlantic City traces back to prohibition and the 1920s, with racketeer Louis Kuehnle running an underground hotel and casino. Enoch "Nucky" Johnson followed and furthered Atlantic City's rise through the Roaring Twenties as a destination for drinking, gambling, and nightlife.
In 1974, New Jersey voters voted 60%-40% against legalizing casino gambling at four sites statewide, but two years later approved by 56%-44% a new referendum which legalized casinos, but restricted them to Atlantic City.
Resorts Atlantic City was the first casino to open, in May 1978, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Governor of New Jersey Brendan Byrne.
Atlantic City is considered the Gambling Capital of the East Coast, and currently has nine large casinos.
In 2011, New Jersey's then 12 casinos employed approximately 33,000 employees, had 28.5 million visitors, made $3.3 billion in gaming revenue, and paid $278 million in taxes. They are regulated by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.
In the wake of the economic downturn following the Great Recession and the legalization of gambling in adjacent and nearby states (including Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania), four casino closures took place in 2014: the Atlantic Club on January 13; the Showboat on August 31; the Revel, which was Atlantic City's second-newest casino, on September 2; and Trump Plaza, which originally opened in 1984, and was the poorest performing casino in the city, on September 16.
Executives at Trump Entertainment Resorts, whose sole remaining property at the time was the Trump Taj Mahal, said in 2013 that they were considering the option of selling the Taj and winding down and exiting the gaming and hotel business. Trump Taj Mahal closed October 10, 2016, after failing to come to terms with union workers.
Caesars Entertainment executives have been reconsidering the future of their three remaining Atlantic City properties (Bally's, Caesars and Harrah's), in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by the company's casino operating unit in January 2015.
In 2020, Bally's Atlantic City was acquired by Bally's Corporation.
The Grandma has an enormous objective this year, to manage two families at time The Watsons & TheStones. It is not possible to stay in two different places at the same moment and thanks to the new technology, she can stay closer to both families.
While The Stones are preparing their baggage to travel to Ithaca, Greece, The Grandma has been with The Watsons preparing a new English exam, studying some English grammar and talking about their last visit to some important enterprises.
They have been talking about Adverbs of Manner, Prepositions of Place and Questions Tags. They have remembered the difficulty of the Phrasal Verbs and they have also read two new chapters of The Secret of Oldstone Hall and they have discussed about March, 8, its significance and some women chosen from an endless list who have not had their recognition in their professions.
In the moonlit nights, when all the surrounding woods remain silent, you can feel the somorous voices that sing Gregorian songs coming, along the winding path that goes from Sant Boi de Llobregat to the hermitage of Sant Ramon,thesummit of Montbaig.
Suddenly, the procession stops on a bend. Barefoot, with its brown habit, the white cord at the waist and the hood covering their faces, the spectral friars move forward until they reach the garden square in front of the hermitage, now in shadows. And as soon as they begin to climb up the large stairway leading up to the front door, they disappear as mysteriously as they have appeared.
Their hesitating and uncertain step reminds us of the resurrectioned mummies...
From the middle of the 16th century, the Capuchin Order developed a macabre funerary practice that consisted of mummifying the deceased friars. The method became so famous that it even gave its name: to be buried in the way of the Capuchin.
This religious order was born in 1520 in Italy, separated from the Franciscans. The communities were small, ten or twelve members, who lived with simplicity and austerity, preaching the Franciscan spirit of poverty, observing rigorous fastings and penances and taking care of the disadvantaged. His name comes from the long and sharp hood of his habit.
The Grandma in an old visit to the Capuchins
In Catalonia, the Capuchin Order arrived in 1578, byspecialrequest of the Consell de Cent.
And they established convents in several cities and towns, where they still profess. Under the plant of the old convents of Girona, currently in the Museum of History of the City, and Figueres, now converted into an auditorium, the corpse dryers are still preserved. The process of conserving the bodies of the deceased, perfected by the years of practice of the monks, consisted of the following: first, the bodies of the deceased brothers were placed in small underground cells called coladors, a kind of vertical niches with some banks of stone where the corpses were sitting, before covering the entrance.
For a couple of years, with the shortage of air and humidity, the bodies were dehydrating naturally, and the internal fluids were escorted by the holes that had been practiced in the banks. After this time, the individual tufts were demolished, the mummified bodies were removed, they were cleaned with vinegar, and they were allowed to dry outdoors.
Finally, they were dressed in their habit and hanged in nearby units, along with other mummified monks. In this way, some macabre exhibition halls were created, gradually becoming one of the most important parts of the architecture of Capuchin convents. There they were contemplated and venerated by their alive brothers, as a reminder of the brevity of life and the need for captivity and humility.
In Sant Boi de Llobregat, the Capuchin Community was soon established: in 1579, they built a convent in the neighborhood of El Molí Nou, which they dedicated to the Visitation of the Virgin. But sixteen years later, for reasons of unhealthiness, the Provincial Government decided to close it. The building passed into the hands of another mendicant order, the Servants of Mary. After the 1835 dissolution, he was occupied by the brothers of Sant Joan de Déu, who established the famous mental health center today known as the Psychiatric Hospital.
Perhaps because of this, because they no longer have a room to rest for all eternity, the Capuchin Order of Sant Boi wake up at night, mummified, in the Baix Llobregat county.
Last Friday, 22, The Beans reviewedsome grammar about Prepositions of place and There is-There are while they welcame another new member of the family: Natalia Bean.
The family was excited about the next travel to The USA and they were preparing the travel and searching information about flights and hotels.
The Grandma talked about her personal point of view about Christmas and she remembered the Song of Sibyl, one of her favourite songs, a song full of history and trascendental events.
Today, The Bonds are still in the capital of The USA.They're checking their passports to know if they can travel to New York City,first, and San Francisco,later or they must return to Sant Boi. You know, the new rules of the man with orange hair...
The family is celebrating Eli's birthday and they've received an unexpected visit: Manuela Bond, an EliBond'scloser friend who has surprised all the family with a huge cake. Delicious!
Manuela is a shy person and she doesn't want to appear in our blog, for the moment, but the family is persistent and they're working to convince her to appear on it.
Before eating the cake, the family has worked Future Continuous, Prepositions of Place,some Social English and some Airplane and Business Vocabulary.
Finally, The Bonds have created some crosswordsto prepare their closer travel to Kiev, after visiting San Francisco, a long trip which offers lots of leisure and they've talked about how to try to be brave in front of difficult situations, especially in interviews and embarrasing ones.
Today, The Poppins have revised some new
grammar like Prepositions of Time and Place,
Too and Enough. They have been doing some exercises about Social English they have been writing
about to search Nessie or not.
It has been an intensive day because tomorrow,
they’re preparing their songs to participate in Eurovision.
They have
been talking about Salvador Dalí and
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle two geniuses
who changed painting and writing with his surrealistic pictures, the first, and
with his fantastic character of Sherlock
Holmes, the second.
Next, they
have been talking about security in the cities and strange situations which
haven’t got any explication or meaning and about the importance of having as
information as you can in all the aspects of life to try to have more
possibilities of success.
Finally,
they have discussed about kinds of pens and their advantages and disadvantages.
Tomorrow,
the family is going to prepare Eurovision
and they’re talking about the next travel to Australia.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in
imitation.
Today, The Grandma has met The Poppins, her new family. It has
been a beautiful an intensive day for this new family.
After listening to all
the explanations of MJ very
carefully, the family has started to introduce itself and every member has
adopted her new role: nationality and job.
It seemed
that it was a normal day until the family has received her first, but not the
last, incredible information: M.Carmen Poppins
is kidnapped in a prison in Siberia.
Tomorrow,
the family will work together to rescue her because they have another
objective: travel to Brazil to help IsaAddams-Poppins in her Olympic
Games training and to Scotland
to visit Núria’s hometown.
Without a
lot of time to do nothing, they’ve talked about the order of MPT in a sentence and about how to
start to write a composition paying attention to the most important
information: Who? When? Where? and What?
So you set out to travel to Rome and end up in Istanbul.
You set off for Japan and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.
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