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The new building was built between 1840 and 1852. This enormous edifice, probably the largest in the world contains over 500 apartments as well as the Central Hall, Clock Tower, and the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Clock Tower, 320 feet high is famous for its immense hour bell, known as «Big Ben». The Houses of Parliament stretches for nearly 1.000 feet along the north bank of the Thames. When the House is in session, a Union Jack flies from the tower by day, and a light burns in the clock tower by night. Графика А. Лобашинского слова, которые помогут Вам понять Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey is a symbol of English tradition at its best. The coronations of nearly all English kings and queens since William the Conqueror have taken place here. Many of them are buried within the Abbey. Beneath the roof of this Gothic building there are also the graves and memorial slabs of statesmen, philosophers, men of letters and other distinguished people. Here you can see memorials to Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. One of the treasures of the Abbey is the ancient Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone upon which Scottish kings were crowned. В пять часов вечера Сергей встретился с Джоном. Сергей по- просил его пойти с ним в книжный магазин, где он хотел купить некоторые книги по своей специальности. Они отправились в известный в Англии «Collet's International Book Shop», который находится на Charing Cross Road. | |
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