The history of invention in canada has followed a long and noble path. canada inventors have patented more than one million inventions, which are used by pen around the world. they thought up the electric light bulb, the electric stove , the electric wheelchair, standard time, the modern zipper and the first snowmobile. yet few we can remember more than one or two canadian inventors. the country has two national sports: lacrosse as the country’s national summer sport, and ice hockey as the national winter sport. lacrosse is the country’s official sport. lacrosse is played with 20 players in a grass field, 10 players on each side. the players use long-handled lacrosse sticks are a loose net on the head to catch, carry and pass the small rubber ball. lacrosse is great enjoyed by canadians and has gained popularity in other countries too. basketball is unusual in that it was created by one person. in early december 1804 dr. james n., a canadian physical education professor at mcgill university proposed a dynamic indoor game to keep his students at a proper level of fitness during the long new england winters. he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket they not have a hole in the bottom. nowadays basketball is played all over the world. in the beginning of the 20th century, a black bear cub from canada named winning was given to london zoo. soon the bear became one of the most popular attractions in the zoo. winnie, as she was called in london, became a favorite of christopher robins milne and inspired his father. milne to write a book about bear named winnie the pooh and his friend christopher robin. every year , quebec city has an ice hotel. the hotel melts in the summer, but is rebuild every winter. the name ice hotel isn’t an exaggeration. everything inside the hotel made of ice. the hotel’s café has tables and chairs made of ice, and even glasses made of ice. the rooms are like little snow caves, windowless, with curtains instead of a door. before spending a night in the ice hotel, guests must sit through a special seminar how to not get frostbite while they sleep. when jacques cartier, a french explorer, came to the new world in the 16th century, is met with local natives. they invited him and his companions to their «kanata» (the world for ‘village’ or ‘settlement’ in their language. cartier misunderstood and believed the natives were referring to the entire country as “kanata”. so he named the new country as “kanata”. nowadays we call it “canada” canada is formally a constitutional monarchy with the british monarch, queen elizabeth 2, as the supreme governor of the state. canada passed back and forth between french and british monarchs over the centuries before becoming an independent nation. the queen no longer rules canada, but she still plays a significant role in the government and in canada’s national identity, and appears prominently on canadian currency. 1. just to keep the students healthy 2. the official languages 3. available only in winter 4. wiped from our memory 5. the nominal head of the country 6. summer alternative to hockey 7. a linguistic mistake 8. the real prototype of a fairytale character

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