Generally public holidays in Great Britain include bank holidays, holidays by Royal Proclamation and "common law holidays". In England and Wales there are six bank holidays and two common law holidays. They are New Year's Day, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank holiday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, Boxing Day, Good Friday and Christmas Day. In Scotland and Northern Ireland the days of their saint
patrons are also public holidays.

There are many national holidays in Russia, when people all over the country do not work and have special celebrations. The major holidays are: New Year's Day, Women's Day, May
Day, Victory Day, and Independence Day.

From the late 1960s to the early 1990s, the Internet was a communication and research tool used almost exclusively for academic and military purposes. This changed radically with the introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The first people to coin the term "internet" were two scientists, Vinton Cerf (known as "father of the Internet") and his collaborator Bob Kahn, who in 1974 devised a means by which data could be transmitted across a global-network
of computers.

British Broadcasting has traditionally been based on the principle that it is a public service accountable to the people through Parliament. It also embraces the principle of competition and choice. Three public bodies are responsible
for television and radio services in Britain

Great Britain is really a newspaper reading nation. More national and regional daily newspapers are sold in Britain than in most other developed countries. In Britain there are 11 national daily newspapers and most people read one of them every day. Daily newspapers are published on every day of the week except Sunday. Sunday newspapers are larger than daily newspapers. All the Sunday newspapers are national. Most national newspapers in Britain express a political opinion, most of them right-wing, and people choose the newspaper that they read according to their own political
beliefs.

There are many different ways to get knowledge about our big world. It is traveling and going sightseeing, meeting interesting people, reading books, etc. But one of the best ways of getting new information is mass media. We live today in what has been characterized as a mass-mediated culture, a culture in which the mass media play a key role in both shaping and creating cultural perceptions. The mass media do not simply mirror society. They help to create the very
world they purport to cover.

There are many types of dictionaries: monolingual, bilingual, specialized in any branch of industry, scientific and technical, with illustrations, dictionaries of abbreviations
and others.

Library is a place where information in print (books, manuscripts, periodicals and musical scores) and in other forms
is collected and arranged to serve people of all ages and interests.

Librarians help people find facts. They organize information and help people find books, magazines, videos, Web sites,
and other information.

Interpreters and translators enable the cross-cultural communication necessary in today's society by converting one language into another. However, these language specialists do more than simply translate words - they relay concepts and ideas between languages. They must thoroughly understand the subject matter in which they work so that they are able to convert information from one language, known as the source
language, into another, the target language.