Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you could—from childhood ones to some very adult ones. Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to type—witty and whimsical, childish and charming, linguistic and logical, fair dinkum and funny, barmy and British. Australian idols and icons, place names, and prime ministers are paraded in all their historical and satirical glory.
Armory history of Britain and other countries. The book is illustrated with 450 engravings and 42 tone illustrations. Covers the period from ancient times to the 17 th century
These materials are the product of the Police Materials and Professional Development Course which was held in Haapsalu and Tallinn, Estonia in June 2003. The course was part of the Peacekeeping English Project which is funded by the British government and managed by the British Council.
Different texts and reading activities concerning policing
An Ice-Cream War (1982) is a darkly comic war novel by Scottish author William Boyd, which was nominated for a Booker Prize in the year of its publication. The story focuses on the battle fought in East Africa between British and German forces during World War I, and how it affects several individual people whose paths will eventually converge.
Full of information and bristling with insights, this fine book on the many functions of alcohol and taverns in early America deserves a place on the bookshelf of every American historian. Working from a variety of sources, Salinger sweeps across all the mainland British colonies and shows the centrality of taverns in the conduct of colonial life.
