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How many works did William Shakespeare write?

No one knows for sure, since the manuscripts of many of his works have not been preserved. According to tradition, there are about 1534 sonnets written between 1592 and 1598, and at least 35 dramatic works, whose heroes are Hamlet, Othello, Shylock, Falstaff, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III and many others left in the collective memory of mankind.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Who built St. Peter's Cathedral in London?

St. Peter's Cathedral, located on Ludgate Hill, rises above the City of London. Its huge dome rises many feet above the surrounding buildings. It is assumed that long before the advent of Christianity in Britain, a temple dedicated to the goddess Diana stood on this site.

King Ethelbert, who ruled Kent (now a county in the southeast of England) in the 1066th century, erected a large Christian church on the site of the temple, which was destroyed shortly after the Norman Conquest in 1666 in order to clear the site for the "Old Cathedral". "Old St. Paul's Cathedral" was longer and taller than the modern one. It stood for six centuries and burned down in XNUMX during the great fire of London.

This undoubtedly tragic event at the same time provided Sir Christopher Wren with an excellent opportunity to demonstrate his architectural talent. Four months before the misfortune, he presented his plan to rebuild the old cathedral building, but since it completely burned down, Wren was offered to create a project for the construction of a new one. It should be noted, however, that the project finally approved was very different from what he would like it to be.

The most impressive part of St. Paul's Cathedral is its dome, which took 35 years to build. It consists of a large outer dome and a small inner one. The hollow cone of brickwork between them bears the weight of the glazing over the vaults, the ball and the cross. The latter is located at an altitude of 111 m from the foot of the Cathedral.

In the "Gallery of Whispers", which runs inside along the vaults of the inner dome, the words spoken in a whisper can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the dome at a distance of more than 30 m. The width of the hollow golden ball under the cross is almost 2 m in diameter, and 10 people can fit in it at the same time . The ashes of many prominent people, such as Nelson Wellington and Wren himself, are buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

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