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The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The 46-th Super Bowl XLVI will be played on February 5, 2012, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to determine the champion of the 2011 regular season, between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants.

The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", is a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in Foxborough, Massachusetts. In the 2000s, the Patriots became one of the most successful teams in NFL history. They are in second with 7 appearances in a Super Bowl (the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys each have 8), and have the most appearances in the last 25 years. Between 2001 and 2005, the Patriots became the second team in NFL history (after the Dallas Cowboys) to win three Super Bowls in four years

UK and US, "Britain and America . . . two great nations divided by the same language," observed once Sir Winston Churchill. Similarly, Oscar Wilde elaborated, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." Yes, both of them were joking about our language differences, in reality only minor and insignificant, between the British English and American English.

American take on the same has never been so brilliant as in 1955 Meeting the Queen episode of the famous "I Love Lucy Show." Lucy and Ethel, standing in front of the Buckingham Palace, are trying unsuccessfully to understand Cockney accent of a mumbly Londoner. Ethel, "Sir, you have to pardon us, we're Americans. We don't understand English!" Lucy, "Could you perhaps talk just a bit slower?"

A good news for all Englishmen and New Englanders: No other speech in the USA is as close to British English as the New England's American English. You are going to "Pa[r]k the ca[r] in Ha[r]va[r]d Ya[r]d" only in Massachusetts! And now, after we have established the common ground, the English language, between England and New England, we may move to more important issues, such as . . . photography!

NEW ENGLAND is a region in the northeastern corner of the US, borthering Canada and New York. Its six states are: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. According to the 2006 – 2008 survey, the population of New England was 14,250,000. The majority of them having European ancestry: Irish (21.1 %), French (15.3 %), Italian 14.4 %), English (13.7 %), German (8.2 %), Polish (5.6 %), Portuguese (3.5 %), Scottish (3.1 %), Scotch-Irish descent (2.1 %).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England

In one of the earliest English settlements in North America, Pilgrims from England first settled in New England in 1620, to form Plymouth Colony. Ten years later, the Puritans from the UK settled north of Plymouth Colony in Boston, thus forming Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next 130 years, New England fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their native allies. In the late 18th century, the New England Colonies initiated the resistance to the British that led to the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the expulsion of the British from New England in spring 1776, and the Declaration of Independence in July 1776.

Blackout in SOPA Protest

Many large websites will go dark on Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012. to protest an anti-piracy SOPA bill that critics say will wreck the Internet as we know it. The controversial legislation has turned into an all-out war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Media companies have united in favor of it, while tech's power players are throwing their might into opposing it. Proponents of the SOPA bill dismiss accusations of censorship, but SOPA's critics saythat the bill's backers don't understand the Internet, and therefore don't appreciate the implications of the legislation they're considering.

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