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12) This happened so.

13) During a surprise night attack by the invaders the Scottish soldiers were awakened by the shouts of one of the invaders, whose bare feet stepped on the thorns of the thistle.

14) The alarm was given and soon the Scots won victory over the enemy, and the thistle became their national emblem.

15) The little shamrock is the national emblem of the Irish.

16) It is worn in memory of St. Patrick, Irelands patron saint.

17) A legend says that St. Patrick used a small green shamrock when he was preaching the doctrine of the Trinity to the pagan Irish.

18) There is a legend according to which St. David (the patron saint of Wales) lived for several years on bread and wild leeks.

19) So Welshmen all over the world celebrate St. David’s Day by putting leers onto their clothes.

20) They consider the leek their national emblem.

21) By the way the daffodil is also associated with St. David’s Day, it flowers on that day.

5. MICHAEL FARADAY

1) Could you imagine your life without television, radio, telephones, without electricity?

2) “Of course not!” – this is the answer.

3) The discovery of how electricity could be generated was one of the great scientific events of history.

4) It was made by Michael Faraday.

5) Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in London in a poor family.

6) His father, a blacksmi th, couldn't find work for a long time, and so when Michael was 14 years old he was sent to work.

7) He found work in a bookshop.

8) There he learnt how to bind books and read as much as he could.

9) He was especially fond of books about science.

10) Once a customer at the bookshop gave him a ticket to a lecture by Humphrey Davy, England's greatest scientist of that time.

11) After some time Michael got a job of an assistant in a laboratory of Davy.

12) He got interested in the strange new power, electricity, which had been discovered by that time.

13) Michael Faraday spent long weeks and months studying this strange force.

14) At last he tried to move a magnet between coils of wires.

15) He discovered that electricity passed from the magnet to the wires, and could become a strong electric current.

16) This is the method which is used in every electric generator throughout the world.

17) This was the beginning of all great machines that make our electricity today.

6. ROBERT BURNS

1) Robert Burns is the national poet of Scotland.

2) Burns’s poetry is loved and enjoyed by all his countrymen.