This is about Mike’s Shayne’s (he was a private detective)cases and adventures.The book is one of the collection of stories about Mike’s Shayne’s job. The first time this book was published in 1968 and I think that action goes on at sixties. The story begins in the office of the Courier-one of the biggest newspaper in Miami. Young journalist Timothy Rourke investigated one case of the three murders (for the newspaper of course). He hadn’t good relations with police and especially with the chief of police Peter Painter. So Rourke rummaged by his own methods:he looked for information everywhere, aspecially on the street. Timothy Rourke suspected one of the richiest and influential man in Miami who had few clubs-casinos. So Timothy Rourke was writing about that for a week. He made a big and very sharp stuff about events during that week in the city. He scold police because no arrests had been made. Rourke warned citizens about the crime wave which could flood the city anytime, anyday. He named some suspects which held high posts.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian, the son of a poor weaver. He was born in 1451 in Genoa, an Italian seaport. At that time Genoa was one of the richest cities in the world. Genoese merchants travelled all over Europe to sell silks, coral, fruit and other things and Genoese seamen sailed the merhant ships not only in the Mediterranean but on other seas too. In the middle of the 15th century much of the world was still unexplored, and most European countries were eager to find and lay claim to new territory and thus become rich. Consequently there was much fighting on the seas. The Mediterranean galleyswere constantly passing in and out of the port of Genoa to load or unload cargoes. Their hardly crews had often been engaged in dangerous adventures and their fine and graceful ships were in a battered condition, and the seamen had plenty of exciting stories to tell little Christopher Columbus.

Autumn for students is necessarily related with school. To some this relation reminds of time spent the best possible way but to some it is the most horrible thing. I myself don’t long for school so much as I do for my classmates. That is easily explained: we’ve already spent nine years together (that isn’t aimed for all the students). During this big period of time we somehow sifted those whom we can trust, those who we can rely upon and those whom we should better leave alone. Now the school: for me it won’t be just a simple building that can be seen through my window. It’ll be a dungeon that must be destroyed or maybe it’ll be a second place that my soul will visit after death. I actually never could make up my mind do I love my school or do I hate it, maybe time will tell.

Now we live in the age of information. Latest technologies develop every day and even every minute. It is very important for us. Now we can find the needed person in a very short time using e-mail, mobile technologies, paging system and others. Maybe the most important of them is Internet. It started in 1960 when some governmental organizations in US wanted to connect their systems in a very reliable net, that couldn’t be affected by war. Later it developed and now we have a big computer network all over the world. And as we have so many new technologies that are used to improve communication process we are talking about such scientific term as global village. There are no not accessible places in the world. So the distances now seem not to be so big like it looked hundred years ago. Then we can talk about centralized world. We can access almost every countries data base and know everything about it. We can talk to different people in teleconferencies as if we were sitting in one room. And that makes the world small.

In the winter months (December, Januar and February) Britain’s vibrant cities provide a wealth of entertainment. You can spend hours in splendid art galleries and museums or escape from the cold with a visit to the theatre, ballet or opera. Winter is a peaceful time for exploring historic town and pictureque villages. Enjoy an envigorating walk in wind and rain knowing a friendly welcome awaits you in old country pubs, where you can warm yourself in front of a roaring log fire and savour a hearty stew or scotch broth. There is a buzz in the air as Christmas approaches. Fairy lights and brightly decorated tree illuminate streets, carols ring out from cathedrals and children anxiously await the arrival of Father Christmas. Visitors can enjoi a traditional Christmas at many hotels and sample festive fare from turkey to mince pies and plum pudding. New Year’s Eve is night of merry – making throughout the land particularly in Scotland. Festivities in the Grampian village of Stonehaved inclube ‘Swinging the Fireball’s, a spectacular start to the year! On Shrove Tuesday pancakes are tossed and eaten in many British homes. Olney in Buckinghamshire, stage one of the most famuos pancake races and in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the customary Shrovetide football match takes place on a pitch with goal post three miles apart!

Autumn is the most melancholy season of the year. When we see the nature languish before the long cold period of winter we somehow feel the same and our mood takes a turn for the worse. Actually I don’t think that the autumn is disliked for that, I think the main reason is that the biggest part of this season people will have to stay at home, because of the bad weather. This year we had luck, as the weather was just perfect. We still can enjoy the last warm rays of the sun; we don’t see heaps of colored leaves. In my humble opinion every season is indispensable to realize how much better are the other seasons of the year. No mater what after autumn will come winter and after winter must come spring the only thing left for us is to wait.

Basketball appeared in Plunge in 1964. The first group of basketball players didn’t achieve any great victories. But still they were the foundators of basketball in our town. The leaders of the team in that time were Salys, Vosylius, Kiudulas and Leliūga. Salys had a good opportunity to join the national basketball team. The next generation of players had much more success. They had won the second place of the LKL championship for several times. From the very beginning their trainer was G.Glikmanas ant the second trainer was Augenijus Jurgutis. The most distinguished players at that time were Midaugas Pranskevičius, Augenijus Vaškys, Dainius Miliūnas, Evaldas Jocys, Arūnas Drąsutis, Tomas Venckūnas; Martynas Slivskis all these players were from Plunge. But there were a lot of players from other towns and even other countries: Dainius Staugaitis from Mažeikiai, Igors Miglinieks from Latvia, Nerijus Zabarauskas Jonava, and Ramūnas Petraitis Kaunas.

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*sudurtinio tarinio vardine dalimi: tom is a clever boy.
*su daiktavardžio, po junginio ‘there is’: there’s a good restourant near my house.
*šaukiamuosiuose sakiniuose: what a nice day.
*po ‘such’: he’s such a good boy.
*daiktavardžio priedėliu: thomas, a third year student, is our friend.
*skaitvardžio one reikįme (reiškinat laiką, atstumą, svorį): I’ll come back in a minute; this path is a kilometre long; I’ll buy a kilogram of bananas.
*prieš skaitvardžius: a dozen, a hundred, a thousand, a million.
*posakiuose: as a rule, to be in a hurry, it’s a shame, to be at a loss, it’s a pity; ypač posakiuose su veiksmažodžiais: to have (a good time, a smoke, a headache), to take (a bath, a shower, a swim), to give (a hand).
*profesijos
*a little, a few.

ankstesnysis – previous
apimti – ride
aplenkti – outstripe
aprūpinimas – supply
apskaičiuoti(apy) – estimate
atitinkamas – adequate
atkariauti – reclaim
atlikti – perform
atstumiantis – appalling
atviras kanalizacijos vamzdys – open-sewer
augti – increase
badas – starvation
baisus – appalling
burtis – swarm
dabar – currently
daugintis – spawn
didėjantis – swelling
drąsa – bravery
drąsiai – gamely
esmė – essence
faktiškai – virtually
garmėti – pour
ginklavimosi varžybos – arms race
greitai augti – mushrooming
greitas – runaway
gyventojas – dweller
įgyti grėsmingą/didelį pavidalą – loom
ilgalaikis – permanent
įsivaizduoti – envisage
iš esmės – virtually
išlaikyti – maintain
išlikimas – survival
įtikinti – convince
įvertinimas – estimate
kaimo vietovė – rural
kametinis – annualy
karštis – sweltering
kentėti – suffer
ketinti – design
kilti – stemme
knibždėti – swarm
kovoti – cope
kryptis – trand
laikyti – hold
leidimas – permit
leisti – allow