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- •The United States of America
- •One nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.
- •The United States
- •Us State Nicknames
- •Illinois
- •Indiana (no official nickname)
- •Vermont
- •Virginia
- •Some of the benchmark events of American history mentioned in the “Gallery of American Presidents”:
- •Монеты сша
- •White House History
- •About the Building
- •The Oval Office
- •Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- •Camp David
- •Air Force One
- •Us Government The Executive Branch
- •The President
- •The Vice President
- •Executive Office of the President
- •The Cabinet
- •Department of Agriculture
- •Department of Commerce
- •Department of Defense
- •Department of Education
- •Department of Energy
- •Department of Health and Human Services
- •Department of Homeland Security
- •Department of Housing and Urban Development
- •Department of the Interior
- •Department of Justice
- •Department of Labor
- •Department of State
- •Department of Transportation
- •Department of the Treasury
- •Department of Veterans Affairs
- •The Legislative Branch
- •The Legislative Process
- •Powers of Congress
- •Government Oversight
- •The Judicial Branch
- •The Supreme Court of the United States
- •The Judicial Process
- •The Constitution
- •Why a Constitution?
- •The Constitutional Convention
- •Ratification
- •The Bill of Rights
- •Elections & Voting
- •The great seal of the united states
- •Designing a Seal The First Committee
- •The Second Committee
- •The Third Committee
- •Charles Thomson’s Proposal
- •The Final “Device”
- •Charles Thomson’s “Remarks and Explanation,” Adopted by the Continental Congress, June 20, 1782
- •Its simplicity and lack of clutter. His design was
- •Meaning of the Seal
- •Designs of the Reverse
- •In 1782, no die has ever
- •Uses of the Seal and the Coat of Arms
- •Requests To Use the Great Seal and Coat of Arms
- •Great Seal Today
- •The Great Seal of the United States
- •The Great Seal on Display
- •Langley
- •Central intelligence agency
- •The work of a nation. The centre of intelligence. About cia
- •Today's cia
- •Mission
- •The cia Campus: a Walk Outside Headquarters
- •Nathan Hale Statue
- •Memorial Garden
- •The cia Campus: New Headquarters Building
- •The History of the Scattergood-Thorne Property
- •Cia Glossary
- •Laughing at cia?
- •The lapd, the fbi and the cia
- •Federal Bureau of Investigation
- •Laughing at fbi?
- •An fbi investigation
- •9/11 Warnings and fbi/cia Bungling
- •Late-Night Jokes About Sept. 11 Intelligence Failures
- •Foggy Bottom
- •Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom The State Department suffers from low morale, bottlenecks, and bureaucratic ineptitude. Do we need to kill it to save it? by matthew armstrong | september 11, 2009
- •The Watergate hotel
- •Us Department of State Headquarters
- •History
- •Duties and responsibilities
- •American entertainment
- •Hollywood
- •Hollywood glossary
- •Capitol Records
- •.. 1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, ca. / (323) 462-6252
- •On Hollywood Boulevard: from Gower Street to La Brea Avenue, and on Vine Street: from Yucca Street to Sunset Boulevard.
- •Hollywood glossary
- •"Celebrity Death Sites" a list of celebrities, whose deaths were the result of murder or suicide, including the location of their death sites
- •John Belushi's Death Site"
- •John Belushi's Death Site.
- •Silicon Valley
- •Вот, что мне особенно понравилось (для людей, изучающих английский, может показаться странным, что некоторые слова попали в разряд «чудных» с точки зрения американца).
- •Distinctive features Phonology
- •Grammatical aspect marking
- •Ebonics Translations
- •Ebonics Prayer
- •Nursery Rhymez
- •The us army
- •Army Commands (acom):
- •Army Service Component Commands (ascc):
- •Direct Reporting Units (dru):
- •Mission
- •“The Army Goes Rolling Along”
- •Пример описания боевых характеристик: Patriot
- •Entered Army Service
- •Description and Specifications
- •Manufacturer
- •Униформа армии сша
- •Знаки различия званий уорент-офицеров (Warrant Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий младших офицеров (Сompany Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий старших офицеров (Field Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий генералов (General Officers).
- •Наградная система армии сша
- •2. Крест за выдающуюся службу (Distinguished Service Cross).
- •8. Медаль Министерства обороны за отличную службу (Defense Superior Service Medal).
- •9. «За боевые заслуги», Орден Почетного Легиона (Legion of Merit).
- •Military Humour
- •Спецназ сша/us special forces
- •Рейнджеры / us Army Rangers
- •Спецподразделения Военно-воздушных сил сша / us Air Force Special Operations
- •Спецподразделения военно-морского флота сша, известны как "морские котики"/us Navy Seals
- •Отряд "Дельта" / Delta Force
- •Разведка Морской Пехоты сша / us Marine Force Recon
- •Воздушно-десантные войска/ us Airborn
- •Десятая Горная Дивизия/10th Mountain Division
- •Полувоенные силы Центрального Разведывательного Управления/cia Paramilitary Forces
- •Начало формы Конец формы
- •Sightseeing in america
- •Visual Landmarks New York
- •Районы Нью-Йорка
- •Управление
- •Культура
- •Планировка города
- •Транспорт
- •Сигналы опасности
- •Мосты и туннели
- •Связь в Нью-Йорке
- •Что раздражает ньюйоркцев?
- •Manhattan
- •Башня Банка Америки (Bank of America Tower)
- •Эмпайр Стейт Билдинг Why do we call New York City the Big Apple?
- •Statue of Liberty
- •The National Park Service commemorates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty annually on October 28th. Mount rushmore
- •The grand canyon
- •Niagara Falls
- •Alcatraz
- •History
- •Military history
- •Military prison
- •Prison history Federal prison
- •Notable inmates
- •Post prison years
- •Native American occupation
- •Landmarking and development
- •Arlington National Cemetery
- •Placing of burial flag over a casket
- •A firing party
- •Сто вопросов и ответов о сша one hundred questions and answers about
- •2. What are the ingredients of a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner?
- •3. What do the terms "melting pot" and "salad bowl" mean to u.S. Society and culture?
- •Impressionists?
- •67. Which American President was the first to live in the White House?
- •Isbn 987–5–932050–42–2
- •191104, Г. Санкт-Петербург, наб. Р. Фонтанки, 32/1
Laughing at fbi?
Bulls Eye
One of the best marksmen in the FBI was passing through a small town. Everywhere he saw evidences of the most amazing shooting. On trees, on walls, and on fences there were numerous bull's-eyes with the bullet hole in dead center. The FBI man asked one of the townsmen if he could meet the person responsible for this wonderful marksmanship. The man turned out to be the village idiot.
"This is the best marksmanship I have ever seen," said the FBI man. "How in the world do you do it?"
"Nothing to it," said the idiot. "I shoot first and draw the circles afterward."
An fbi investigation
The phone rings at FBI headquarters. "Hello? I'm calling to report my neighbor, Clifford. He is hiding marijuana inside his firewood!"
"Thank you very much for the call, sir."
The next day, FBI agents descend on the neighbor's house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept. Using axes, they bust open every piece of wood, but find no marijuana. They swear at the neighbors and leave. The phone rings at the neighbor’s house. Hey, Clifford, did the FBI come?" "Yep." "Did they chop your firewood?"
"Yep." "Great, now it's your turn to call. I need my garden plowed."
В шутках, которые вы прочитаете ниже, обыгрывается следующая ситуация:
Террористические акты в США не были ни внезапными, ни непредсказуемыми. О планах "Аль-Каеды", как выяснилось, не знал только ленивый. Этим ленивым оказался президент США, которому то ли не решились доложить о готовящихся атаках, то ли подали невнятно составленную докладную записку (печально известную memo). Теперь советники оправдывают бездействие администрации неконкретностью угроз и невозможностью предотвратить подобные действия в принципе.
Конец формы
Данные об активизации террористов, планирующих теракты на территории США, стали появляться с завидной регулярностью еще во время расследования взрыва в Центре международной торговли в США, совершенного в 1993 году.
Перечислим лишь некоторые из этих докладов:
В 1995 году ФБР было предупреждено о возможных терактах в Нью-Йорке и Вашингтоне;
в 1998 году ЦРУ доложило Клинтону о возможных терактах в Нью-Йорке и Вашингтоне;
в 1999 году ЦРУ вновь предупреждало об атаках на Пентагон и Белый дом;
в 2001 году агент ФБР послал доклад: люди бен Ладена обучаются в летных школах в Фениксе, они планируют захватить самолеты и направить их на объекты в Нью-Йорке и Вашингтоне;
10 сентября 2001 года, за день до терактов, доклад об "Аль-Каиде" лег на стол Джорджу Бушу.
После этого президент США вынужден был оправдываться и заявил, что не знал, о планах террористов использовать самолеты в качестве ракет.
Помощник президента США Кондолиза Райс также подтвердила, что никто не мог знать, что "эти люди возьмут гражданский самолет и расплющат его о Всемирный торговый центр”.
9/11 Warnings and fbi/cia Bungling
Late-Night Jokes About Sept. 11 Intelligence Failures
"President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo." —David Letterman
"In response to a request by the 9/11 commission the White House agreed to declassify the president's daily intelligence briefing from August 6th titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.' The commission also wants to see the August 20th briefing, 'No, Seriously, Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States' and also from August 26th, 'Mr. President, Please Put Down the Game Boy, Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.'—Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update".
"I heard some good news today: the FBI and the CIA are going to start cooperating. They are going to start working together. And if you don't know the difference between the FBI and the CIA, the FBI bungles domestic crime, the CIA bungles foreign crime." —David Letterman.
"The CIA announced that they plan now to cooperate more openly with the FBI. The just haven't told the FBI yet. ... But if you think about it the FBI and CIA are very competitive. In times of trouble, both agencies want to be the one to drop the ball." —David Letterman
"The White House admitted that President Bush was warned last summer about possible terrorist hijackings. Now Democrats are criticizing him for not seeing the 9/11 attacks coming. You think that is fair? Come on, he was attacked by a pretzel, he didn't see that coming!" —Jay Leno
"How is this for irony; did you ever think two years ago Bush would be in trouble for something he knew?" —Jay Leno
"You know, there was that controversial terrorist memo that never got to President George W. Bush. Well, they finally figured out what happened. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shredded them with some Enron documents." —David Letterman
"It was revealed this week that instead of tracking down the hijackers, the FBI had 10 agents working full time for 3 months investigating $300- an- hour hookers working a brothel in New Orleans. Huh! They are still trying to catch Bill Clinton. Why don't they stop?" —Jay Leno
"Good news, the government's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy appears to be working. The bad news is that it is the FBI and the CIA. They're not really exchanging information." —Jay Leno
"I saw an intelligence expert on TV today saying the White House failed to connect the dots. That's ironic because connecting the dots, that's Bush's favorite game." —Jay Leno
"Senator Joe Lieberman said as far as these hijacking threats are concerned somebody should have put two and two together. Put two and two together? Well, that eliminates Bush right there." —Jay Leno
"U.S. officials said yesterday that the big problem is that our intelligence agencies aren't sharing information. What kind of an excuse is that? We don't share our intelligence with the Chinese, they don't have any problem getting it." —Jay Leno
"I don't want to bum you kids out, but New York is on a terror warning. Here's what you do, if you see anything suspicious, you make a note of it and you send it off to Washington. It should get to President Bush sometime within the next couple of years." —David Letterman
"Today the White House admitted that President Bush was warned last summer that Al Qaeda may have been planning hijackings in the U.S. Of course now Congress is demanding answers. They want to know what did George Bush know, and when did Dick Cheney explain it to him." —Jay Leno
"They say Osama bin Laden is still alive and planning more attacks. Now, the question I have is: do you want to tell the FBI or should I?" —David Letterman
"Bailer University in Texas wants to be the new home of the George Bush Presidential Library, they say they want to have a complete collection of all the memos and FBI warnings that Bush didn't read." —Jay Leno
"Barbara Streisand faxed a memo to Dick Gephardt telling him to stand up against President Bush and his plans against Iraq. This is what I love, we have Barbara Streisand telling elected officials what to do, and people looked at the memo and passed it around. Then we had memos about terrorists attacks sent to the FBI and President Bush and no one knows what happened to those." —Jay Leno
"Folks, I've got to tell you something. These jokes may be new to you, but the White House was told about these jokes last July." —Jay Leno
Glossary:
Bungling
To bungle |
Плохая, неумелая работа, головотяпство Напортачить, все испортить |
Marksman |
Меткий стрелок, снайпер
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Marksmanship |
Меткая стрельба, мастерство снайпера
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Bull’s eyes |
Мишени
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White-collar crime |
Должностные/экономические преступления
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Violent crime |
Преступления против личности
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Fiscal year |
Финансовый год
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Cyber security |
Безопасность в кибернетическом пространстве |
Declassify |
Рассекречивать, открывать для общего пользования |
Drop the ball |
Не суметь достичь цели, напортачить, допустить грубую ошибку
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Hijacking |
Угон самолета
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Enron documents |
Корпорация Enron оказалась в центре грандиозного скандала, чреватого далеко идущими политическими и финансовыми последствиями. Всего 15 лет назад Enron был ничем. За эти годы он превратился в седьмую по величине компанию Америки, на которую работала 21 тысяча человек в 40 странах мира. Руководителей Enron обвиняют в том, что компания лгала о прибылях и провела целый ряд теневых сделок. Драматизма ситуации добавило самоубийство вице-президента компании Клиффорда Бакстера, покончившего с собой выстрелом из пистолета.
Федеральное бюро расследований обеспечивает охрану офисов после того, как стало известно, что в Enron уничтожают документы, проливающие свет на махинации.
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Connect the dots |
Сопоставить факты, нарисовать полную картину происходящего В тексте обыгрывается детское увлечение «соедини точки, и получи рисунок» |
Put two and two together
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Связать факты в единое целое, сообразить, скумекать |
To bum smb out |
Пугать кого-то
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