English Reading: Short Story - The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree. Pluto - this was the cat's name - was my favorite pet and playmate. Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character - through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance - had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. In the meantime the cat slowly recovered.
Drapeau du Royaume-Uni Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. L'Union Flag, le drapeau du Royaume-Uni. Histoire[modifier | modifier le code] Union Flag[modifier | modifier le code] Évolution de l'Union Flag. En 1603, Jacques VI d'Écosse hérite des trônes d'Angleterre et d'Irlande comme Jacques Ier, unissant les couronnes d'Angleterre, d'Écosse et d'Irlande en une union personnelle (avec cependant trois États différents). « By the King: Whereas, some differences hath arisen between Our subjects of South and North Britaine travelling by Seas, about the bearing of their Flagges: For the avoiding of all contentions hereafter. Le pays de Galles n'est pas représenté sur l'Union Flag car il a été annexé au Royaume d'Angleterre en 1282 et pleinement intégré au XVIe siècle[2]. Union Flag écossais[modifier | modifier le code] Union Flag écossais On peut penser que des drapeaux ont existé au XVIIe siècle sur lesquels la croix de saint André est dessiné sur la croix de saint Georges[5],[6],[7].