one has to see it to account for the beauty of it!
I must confess, I was not a history lover back then in highschool nor was I during my primary school years not because i had something with the teachers- though they were not the kindest at all – but because I simply couldn’t remember all those dates and sophisticated concourse that led to wars and treaties etc etc…
Now on the other hand, I would like to have had someone to explain to me an easier way to get around history.As I firmly believe that a people lives on through its history… I will never forget how I used to read all those stories about our national heroes in sory books and I was surprised when I saw such a book on a bookstall the other day. Maybe this was one way to enjoy history: reading story books.
Another way would be to present the lesson attractively, that is with pictures: everyone loves pictures. take for example this picture representing ChristChurch College. Wouldn’t you love tofind out some hidden facts?
I could tell you that…
Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The cathedral has a famous men and boys’ choir, and is one of the main choral foundations in Oxford. It was founded as the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, which was a house of the Augustinian canons that was later suppressed as a monastic church under Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries.
Christ Church has produced thirteen British prime ministers (the two most recent being Anthony Eden from 1955-1957 and Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963–1964), which is more than any other Oxford or Cambridge college (and two short of the total number for the University of Cambridge, fifteen).
The college is the setting for parts of Evelyn Waugh‘s Brideshead Revisited, as well as Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. More recently it has been used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter series and also the film adaptation of Philip Pullman‘s novel Northern Lights (the film bearing the title of the US edition of the book, The Golden Compass). Distinctive features of the college’s architecture have been used as models by a number of other academic institutions, including the National University of Ireland, Galway, which reproduces Tom Quad. The University of Chicago and Cornell University both have reproductions of Christ Church’s dining hall (in the forms of Hutchinson Hall and Risley’s dining hall respectively). Christ Church Cathedral, New Zealand, after which the City of Christchurch is named, is itself named after Christ Church, Oxford. Stained glass windows in the cathedral and other buildings are by the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris group with designs by Edward Burne-Jones[1][2]
Christ Church is also partly responsible for creation of University College Reading, which later gained its own Royal Charter and became the University of Reading.
Now, can you honestly tell me you have not found out at least one interesting fact about the most wonderful town in the whole wide world?
