ISRAEL - GAZA CONFLICT

INTRODUCTION_

The conflict began on June 24, 2006, when in light of ongoing Qassam rocket attacks on Israeli cities, Israeli operatives seized suspected Hamas members Osama and Mustafa Muamar in the Gaza Strip. On June 25, a Hamas attack in Israeli checkpoint resulted in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers and the capture of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit. In turn, Israel launched Operation Summer Rains on June 28. Israel maintains that it mobilized thousands of troops in order to suppress Qassam rocket fire against its civilian population and to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit. It is estimated that between 7,000 and 9,000 heavy Israeli artillery shells have been fired into Gaza since September 2005, killing 80 Palestinians in 6 months. On the Palestinian side, approximately 1,000 Qassam missiles are believed to have been fired into Israel. Israel has stated that it will withdraw from Gaza and end the operation as soon as Shalit is released. The Palestinians say the assault is aimed at toppling the democratically elected Hamas-led government and at destabilizing the Palestinian National Authority, citing the targeting of civilian infrastructure such as a power station and the captures of government and parliament members.



HISTORY_

The State of Israel was proclaimed on the 14th of May, 1948, in accordance with international legality and the partition plan of the UN (1947) dividing the Spanish protectorate in Palestine, Jordan and Israel today,, with 77% of the territory to the Arabs ( that included the current territories of Palestine) and 23% for Jews leaving Jerusalem International Zone. The Jews accepted, but not the Arabs.
The regular armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded it, forcing Israel to defend their country. In what became known as the War of Independence of Israel. Israel not only won the war, but others extended their territory of 8,000 km2 to 21,000 km2 in a legitimate war of self-defense against the Arabs.

Barack Obama, who takes over as U.S. president from George W. Bush on January 20, broke his silence about the violence in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling the loss of civilian lives in Gaza and in Israel a "source of deep concern for me." Obama added he would adhere to his principle that only Bush should be the voice of U.S. foreign policy at this time but he would have plenty to say after his inauguration in two weeks.



Credits_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab–Israeli_conflict

http://www.palestinehistory.com/issues/gaza2006/gaza2006.htm

THIS IS ENGLAND

GENRE(S): Drama

WRITTEN BY: Shane Meadows

DIRECTED BY: Shane Meadows

RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 13, 2007 Theatrical: July 27, 2007

RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes, Color

ORIGIN: UK

YEAR: 2006

ACTORS: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure


- The themes cover: Thatcherite England in the 80's, Skinheads,racism, bullyism, and the loss of childhood innocence.
This film is about the story is of a young "Shaun Fields"who lives in a small English town in 1983. "Shaun" has recently lost his father in a War. On the last day of the school term before summer "Shaun" is harassed by kids of his school over his choice of hippy-like clothing.
On his way home from school, Shaun chances upon a non-racist skinhead (which includes two Jamaican members),"Shaun" immediately takes to "Woody" as a surrogate father figure and is soon admitted in to the gang. Admission means parties, a new girlfriend (Rosamund Hanson) a new haircut, a new Ben Sherman shirt, and a new pair of boots. As well as a whole new group of friends who treat Shaun as an equal.
All seems well in this quiet English town until one incident changes all of their lives about midway through the film. This is the return of "Combo" from 3 years in prison. "Combo" is the former leader of this gang and wastes no time trying to re-establish his dominance in a direct confrontation with "Woody". "Combo" has become a racist during his 3 years in prison and views skinheads as the prefect front line soldiers in the National Front's (an extremely conservative political party) war to keep England for "Englishmen."






Credits:

http://www.amazon.com/This-England-Thomas-Turgoose/dp/B000UNYJV8

http://www.thisisenglandmovie.co.uk/#

MICHELANGELO

- Michelangelo di lodovico Buoanarroti Simoni (MArch 6,1475- febraury 18, 1564), he was born al Caprease , a little village in The Republic of Florence , Italy.

Michelangelo was an ilatian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the developmnet of western art.

When Michelangelo was 13 years old, he entered the workshop of Damenico Ghirlandio.

He came under the influence of Mosaccio, because his teacher, Ghirladaio, not only looked to Mosaccio for ideas on religious scenes, but actually imitated certaisn elements of this designs. After less than a year he moved to the academy set up by Lorenzo the Magnificent.

From 1489 till 1492, he lived in the Polazzo Medicini in via Larga, where he could study "antique and good statues" and could meet the sophisticated humanists and writers of the Mecidi circle.

These are some of his most important works:

Statue of David: 1501-1504

Sixtine chapel ceiling: 1508-1512

Crucifix: 1497-1498

Pietà: 1499-1500

Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

WILLIAM OCKHAM

- William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347) is, along with Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, among the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy during the High Middle Ages. He's probably best known today for his espousal of metaphysical nominalism; indeed, the methodological principle known as “Ockham's Razor” (Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar.) ,is named after him.




But Ockham held important, often influential views not only in metaphysics but also in all other major areas of medieval philosophy—logic, physics or natural philosophy, theory of knowledge, ethics, and political philosophy—as well as in theology.


He was born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley, and he estudied in two importants universities: Merton school, Oxford, and also he had John Duns Scotus ( he was one of the most important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages) of teacher.

Ocham was born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley, in England and died in a convent in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany).William okham lives 61 years old (1288-1349) .







Major works of William of Okham


BEFORE 1324:

- The Sum of All Logic

- Exposition on the Book of Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Categories

- Compendium of Logic

- Exposition on the Eight Books of Physics of Aristotle

- Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and Reportatio

- Seven Discussions on Anything and Everything

- On the Sacrament of the Altar- Predestination

- God's Foreknowledge

- Future Contingents


AFTER 1324:


- The Work of Ninety Days

- Compendium of Errors of Pope John XXII

- Eight Questions Concerning Power and Dignity of the Pope

- Dialogues Between Master and Disciples upon the Power of Emperors and Popes





Credits:
http://www.philosophyprofessor.com/philosophers/william-of-ockham.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham

EL INTERNADO

"El Internado" (Boarding School) is a Spanish television drama thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest (" La Laguna Negra"), where teenagers are sent by their parents to study.
The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city.
This serie is about a lot of mistery , is about two brothers ; Paula and Marcos who had to begin a new life because their parents have disappeared.They legal tutor was Hector de la Vega , Hector is a school director.
The protagonist are: Carolina, Julia,Marcos, Iván, Roque and Viky.
The series debut on 24 May 2007, and is a production of Antena 3.

Characters and actors

Héctor de la Vega - Luis Merlo
Elsa Fernández Campos - Natalia Millán
Jacinta García - Amparo Baró, Carolina Lapausa
María Almagro - Marta Torné
Marcos Novoa Pazos - Martín Rivas
Iván Noiret León - Yon González
Carolina Leal - Ana Celia de Armas
Victoria Martínez González - Elena Furiase
Roque Sánchez Navas - Daniel Retuerta
Cayetano Montero Ruiz - Fernando Tielve, Roger Príncep
Fermín de Pablo / Carlos Almansa - Raúl Fernández
Camilo - Pedro Civera
Amelia - Marta Hazas
Pedro - Eduardo Velasco
Paula Novoa Pazos - Carlota García
Evelyn - Denisse Peña
Mateo Tabuenca - Alejandro Botto
Jacques Noiret - Carlos Leal
Nora - Mariona Ribas
Joaquín Fernández - Eduardo McGregor
"The gnome" - Javier Iribarren, Roger Príncep
Irene Espí / Sandra Pazos - Yolanda Arestegui
"The old man" - Manuel de Blas
Andrés Novoa - Luis Mottola
Miguel - Eduardo Espinilla
Julia - Blanca Suárez
Alfonso Ceballos - Paco Merino
Ricardo Montoya - Miguel Alcíbar
Mario Torres - José Luis Patiño
Susana Saavedra / López - Chusa Barbero
Antonio - Manuel Jurado
Julia's Mother - Àngels Bassas
Manuela Portillo - Úrsula Corberó
Verónica Fernández García - Lucía Quintana
Martín - Oriol Tarrasón
Márquez - Bruno Squarcia
Rodrigo - Pablo Castellanos
Ángel Lázaro Díaz "Juan" - Quim Ramos
Julia's Father - Carlos Olaya
Mary - Violeta Pérez
Evelyn's Mother - Lucina Gil
Evelyn's Father - Jesús Fuente
Gerardo - Álex Quiroga
Vicky's Mother - Lolita Flores










Credits:

ttp://www.antena3.com/PortalA3com/El-Internado/P_84035

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Internado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALOgM528BxA

-MUSIC-

-The music is the art to combine the sound with the time, the traditional definition is that the music the art of organised sensivility convination if the sounds, using the melody.

-The concept of the music realized on three things: The sounds, the human production and the physic imagen. well, in four words: THE MUSIC IS AN ART.

-Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

(The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "of the Muses".)







there are many difrentes styles of music, there are some examples:

Opera

Classical

Rap/Hip Hop

Pop

Jazz

Dance

Rock&Roll

Blues

Regeeton

Salsa

and more...

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Countable nouns are things that we can count.

For example: "door".

We can count doors, we can have one, two, three or more doors.

Here are some more countable nouns:

dog, cat, animal, man, person-bottle,

box, litre-table, chair, suitcase, bag

A noun can be countable or uncountable.

Countable nouns

Countable nouns can be "counted", they have a singular and plural form .
For example:
A book, two books, three books .....
An apple, two apples, three apples ....

Countable(use a/an or a number in front of countable nouns)

example: An Apple - 1 Apple / I eat an apple every day.

Add (s) to make a countable noun plural

examples: apples /I eat an apple every day. Apples are good for you.

You can use some and any with countable nouns.

-Some dogs can be dangerous.

-I don't use any computers at work.

You only use many and few with plural countable nouns.

-Many elephants have been hunted.

-There are few elephants in England.

You can use a lot of and no with plural countable nouns.

-No computers were bought last week.

-A lot of computers were reported broken the week before.

Uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns cannot be counted. This means they have only a singular form. It also means that they do not take a/an before them.

For example:
Water
Coffee
Wine
Rice

Uncountable(there is no a/an or number with uncountable nouns)

example: Rice/I eat rice every day. (not I eat a rice every day.)

There is no plural form for an uncountable noun

example: rice/I eat rice every day. Rice is good for you.

To make uncountable nouns countable add a counting word, such as a unit of measurement, or the general word piece. We use the form "a ....... of ......."

example: Rice=a grain of rice/ Water=a glass of water/ Rain=a drop of rain/ Music=a piece of music

You can use some and any with uncountable nouns.

-I usually drink some wine with my meal.

-I don't usually drink any water with my wine.

You only use much and little with uncountable nouns.

-I don't usually drink much coffee.

-Little wine is undrinkable though.

You can use a lot of and no with uncountable nouns.

-A lot of wine is drunk in France.

-No wine is drunk in Iran.

Credits:

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-un-countable.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-un-countable.htm

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/noununcount.htm

My Holidays

- This summer I was with my father June and July.
I was in "pobla de farnals " many weekend , when we want.
and I met many new friends in the urbanization where my father lives ,they were very nice and funny.
I was very nice with my father! :)
With my mother I was Agust and September.
On 12, Agust I traveled two weeks with my mother and my sister to Ibiza.
I went with my mother, my sister and with Marisa, Alberto(Eso1) and Carmina (5th).
When we arrived we were in a smaller apartment although with view the sea by the terrace and later we changed to an urbanization with the greatest house where I became some friends.
we went in boat to formentera where with one zodiac approached us the beach! , slight prettier water. I LOVE FORMENTERA :)

When we were in Ibiza we met Natalia Millán, Elsa in a serious of "antena 3" (El Internado) we met Natalia because she is sister-in-law of Marisa. we was brilliant with her and her daughter Violeta of 14 years ,like me. I`m very nervious when I met her because I love "El Internado" ,it enchanted to met her .

Is a really likeable girl. :)

When I arrived at valencia I finished the homeworks that I had left (that wasn´t many, don´t think bad xD')This year I have had very good summer, but now we have returned to the school, so there will be to concentrate itself because we go to eso 3!!!!

ECOLOGY

- Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic ecosystem, which includes other organisms that share its habitat.

The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment".

Ecology is usually considered a branch of biology, the general science that studies living organisms. Organisms can be studied at many different levels, from proteins and nucleic acids (in biochemistry and molecular biology), to cells (in cellular biology), to individuals (in botany, zoology, and other similar disciplines), and finally at the level of populations, communities, and ecosystems.

Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

-Use the Present Continuous with normal verbs to express the idea that something is happening now. It can also be used to show that something is not happening now.

Examples:
You are watching TV.
Are you watching TV?
You are not watching TV.

Present Progressive - Use

1-actions happening at the moment of speaking
Peter is reading a book now.

2- fixed plan in the near future
She is going to Basel on Saturday.

3- temporary actions
His father is working in Rome this month.

4- actions happening around the moment of speaking (longer actions)
My friend is preparing for his exams.

5- trends
More and more people are using their computers to listen to music.

6- repeated actions which are irritating to the speaker (with always, constantly, forever)
Andrew is always coming late.

-Common present continuous time expressions include: at the moment, now, day, this week, this month, tomorrow, next week (for future arrangements ), currently .


Credits:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/prescont.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/grammar/pres_pro.htm

WILL AND GOING TO

Simple Future has two different forms in English: "will" and "be going to."

They often express two very different meanings.

WILL - [will + verb]

Examples:
You will help him, will you help him ?, you won't help him

we use will : promises, offers, intentions and plans and ask politely.

GOING TO - [am/is/are + going to + verb]

Examples:

You are going to eat pizza ,Are you going to eat pizza?, You aren't going to eat pizza

we use going to : express plans and intentions, future events and preditions with evidence (things that are evident, for example if there are clouds it is evident that it is going to rain)

Credits:

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/goingtoorwill/menu.php

http://boards4.melodysoft.com/app?ID=omforum&msg=1006&DOC=201

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplefuture.html

VIDEOGAMES.

VideoGame is like a informatic programe, It can be a computer, a videoconsole or a handheld dispositive.

Before, all the videogames were similar, violent, cars,of war, but now you can learn with the videogame .

A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

• Now are a lot of kinds game:

- Adventure -Shooter
-Sport -Party
-Games -Education
-Rol -Musicians

To play this games you can use the videogames on :

-Play station

-Nintendo

-PSP

- Xbox 360

-Gameboy

-Nintendo Wii

-Pc (computer)

and more...

Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

-Europe Committeé-

The last Wednesday 14 th, my class ESO 2 went to Germany to do an exchange with the other people with the same age and of the diffrents countries.

the families recibe us and we stay in one house where we practise,learn and speak English with they.

We met in a school and there we make activities like soocker,dancing,fashion and cooking.



They separated to us by worckshops and we went to visit the city in bus,also we make a disco and in the free time when we go in the afternoons with the families we go to wittmund city.

We stay in Wittmund for three days and after we go all of my class to be in Cologne for one night and two days ina hostal.

We was very well because the hostal are very,very good not like spanish hostal.

In Cologne we go to visit the Cathedral and a Chocolate factory and we go and we went and we returned to Spain all together in airplane.

India (2)

-Moonson Weddings-

Monsoon wedding is a Indian film. Is a film of the director of Bollywood cinema Mira Nair. The history is about a tipical Indian's event (arranged married),one girl( Aiditi ) who meet her husband fiveteen days ago her wedding. She loves other boy, but he doesn't divorced with his wife to be with her.
This history is a tipical preparations of arranged weddinngs,In this film there are several love stories; the girl protagonist with the married man, the love between the boy who preparing the wedding and the servant..
The Indians films have a lot of musical scenes where the people dance like this film.

-Arranged Weddings-

The weddings are preparate by the parents of the girl and boy.The institution of marriage in India is considered a very important.Arranged marriages, which are so the norm here in India, always seem to faze the non-Indians. One simply can't fathom how practical strangers can be married to each other and settle down for a life together. No matter how westernised our country may have become, arranged marriages are still how a majority of the weddings in India.

-Differents in our weddings and Indian weddings-

The similar : the celebration is the same because one becomes a party with the guests and with the boyfriends.

The diffrence: In india do rituals and preparate the wedding with a lot of time

credits:

Wikipedia.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265343/

India (1)

Bollywood Indian films Mira Nair

-Bollywood-

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema it is only a part of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in the world.Is like Hollywood(England) but this are in India.

-Indian films -

The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced annually (877 feature films and 1177 short films were released in the year 2003 alone).

For example:



Hyderabad Blues,Monsoon weddings,Gandhi, Earth,Bollywood Calling,
Salaam Bombay,A Passage to India,etc...

-Mira Nair-

Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa to a civil servant in 1957.


She went on to attend the University of New Delhi where she studied Sociology and Theater.




Her production company is Mirabai films.




Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes film Festival and was also nominated for an Oscar .





Credits:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India




http://mundobollywood.blogspot.com/




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood

Easter 2008

This year I stay easter's week with my father.

I didn't have nothung special because I was triped to madrid the last week

I was very,very tired and I want met with my friends.

the 25th of March Sofia,Susana,Angela,Leonor,Tatiana,Adriá,Pablo,Edu,Silvia,Marga,Valeria,

MªLuz,Paula's mother and me made a surprise party for her and and Paula liked

a lot.

This week I didn't have a lot of things like fallas beacuse I had do all the

homework.

This week I met more with my friends but Í didn't met with Marga,Carla and Ana.

Fallas 2008

This year I triped to madrid again, but this time I was with my family,
my mother, my sister and a friend of my mother.
I was in madrid for six days.I did many things: I was in the Prado,in the Retiro,
in "La puerta del Sol", in the village "El Escorial" and the most important that
I was in madrid is that I was in the musical "Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar"!!
I was very well in the travell.
When I arrive to Valencia I go to Silvia's house with Valeria beacuse
I have a lot of desires to see them.Also I meet with Sofia and Susana,and
with Elisa and Silvia too.
I didn't throw lots of "petardos" because I was in Madrid.

This year I like fallas very much!,I hope that next year would be better.

INDIA

ECONOMY

*India's population is estimated at more than 1.1 billion and is growing at 1.3% a year. It has the world's 12th largest economy--and the third largest in Asia behind Japan and China--with total GDP of around $1 trillion ($1,000 billion). Services, industry, and agriculture account for 55%, 27%, and 18% of GDP respectively. Nearly two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture for its livelihood. 700 million Indians live on $2 per day or less, but there is a large and growing middle class of 325-350 million with disposable income for consumer goods.

-Economy GDP (FY 2007): $1 trillion ($1,000 billion).
-Real growth rate (2006-2007 est.): 9.4%.
-Per capita GDP (FY 2006-2007): $909.
-Natural resources: Coal, iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, chromite, thorium, limestone, barite, titanium ore, diamonds, crude oil.
-Agriculture: 18% of GDP. Products--wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, sugar, cotton, jute, teaIndustry: 27% of GDP. -Products--textiles, jute, processed food, steel, machinery, transport equipment, cement, aluminum, fertilizers, mining, petroleum, chemicals, and computer software.
-Services and transportation: 55% of GDP.Trade: Exports (FY 2006-2007)--$127 billion; engineering goods, petroleum products, precious stones, cotton apparel and fabrics, gems and jewelry, handicrafts, tea. Software exports--$22 billion.
-Imports (FY 2006-2007)--$192 billion; petroleum, machinery and transport equipment, electronic goods, edible oils, fertilizers, chemicals, gold, textiles, iron and steel.
-Major trade partners--U.S., China, EU, Russia, Japan.



SOCIETY

* The ethnic and linguistic diversity of Indian civilization is more like the diversity of an area as variable as Europe than like that of any other single nation-state. Living within the embrace of the Indian nation are vast numbers of different regional, social, and economic groups, each with different cultural practices. Particularly noteworthy are differences between social structures in the north and the south, especially in the realm of kinship systems. Throughout the country, religious differences can be significant, especially between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority; and other Indian groups--Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Jews, Parsis, Sikhs, and practitioners of tribal religions--all pride themselves on being unlike members of other faiths.



HISTORY OF INDIA

India earned its independence from the British on the 15/8/47. But the British army left India ultimately in 1950. The Indians celebrate 26/1/1950 as the Republic Day of India. On this day the Indian constitution was adopted. Until its independence in 1947, other countries which neighbor India today; Pakistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), Myanmar (formerly Burma) and distant places like Aden in present day Yemen; were all parts of British India and were all considered as India. Until then (including the British era) India was never one single country but a collection of kingdoms and authorities with no sense of unity. In this sense India as one single country is mainly a result of British rule. Before that the word India was not used to indicate the present day India, but any kingdom, culture or community that existed between present day Afganistan, in the west, up to China and Myanmar in the east.


CREDITS:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

Past Continuous



FORM: [was/were + present participle]





The past continuous of any verb is composed of two parts : the past tense of the verb to be (was/were), and the base of the main verb +ing





The past continuous describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and was still going on at the time of speaking.





It is used:



- Often, to describe the background in a story written in the past tense.





- To describe an unfinished action that was interrupted by another event or action: "I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock rang."



- To express a change of mind: e.g. "I was going to spend the day at the beach but I've decided to go on an excursion instead."

Afirmative:

* I was studying when she called

Negative:

*I wasn't studing when she called

Interrogative:

*Was I studing when she called?

It is important to remember that non-continuous verbs can't be used in any continuous tenses. Also, certain non-continuous meanings for mixed verbs can't be used in continuous tenses. Instead of using Past Continuous with these verbs, you must use simple past.

- Jane was being at my house when you arrived. Not Correct
- Jane was at my house when you arrived. Correct

Credits: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html

Tanzania

Tanzania is a country in East Africa,on the Indian Ocean.

Languages: Swahili, English ,Arabic; many local languages.

Religions: Christian 30%, Islam 35%, indigenous 35%; Zanzibar: more than 99% Islam

Area: 945,000 sq. km.

Population: 39.3 million.

The United Republic of Tanzania was formed out of the union of two sovereign states namely Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika became a sovereign state on 9th December, 1961 and became a Republic the following year. Zanzibar became independent on 10th December, 1963 and the People's Republic of Zanzibar was established after the revolution of 12th January, 1964. The two sovereign republics formed the United Republic of Tanzania on 26th April, 1964. However, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is a unitary republic consisting of the Union Government and the Zanzibar Revol

utionary Government.

Credits :

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2843.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania