Education and Role of Foreign Languages

American Sports and Games
The national sport of America is Baseball. Although Americans are more passionate about soccer and more likely to play basketball, baseball remains their favorite hobby. In the United States, everyone remembers the sports heroes of their childhood, and very often they are baseball players like the legendary Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees or Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves. The United States is the fourth-largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, and China. It is located in North America, and it is bordered by Canada and Mexico. It also shares maritime borders with the Bahamas, Russia, and Cuba. While its largest city is New York City, its capital city is Washington D.C., which counts more than 689,000 inhabitants (but more than 6,385,000 if you include the metropolitan area!).
The most popular sport in the United States is, by far and away, American Football. American football is vastly played at the high school and college levels. In fact, it has by far the most participants of any sport, and the vast majority of these players are male.
The national league, the NFL, is famous in the entire country. It features 32 franchises, separated into 2 conferences. The regular season lasts for 17 games, after which each conference sends 7 teams to playoffs, which culminates in the most famous American event: the Super Bowl.
Famous American American Football players: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Montana, Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Drew Brees, Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor, Larry Fitzgerald, Dan Marino, Randy Moss, Brett Favre, J. J. Watt, Barry Sanders, O. J. Simpson, Steve Young.
The third most popular sport in the US is Baseball. Baseball, and its variant softball, are some other very famous American sports. As a matter of fact, baseball was the first professional sport in the United States.
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially Republic of Uzbekistan , Uzbek Ŭzbekiston or Ŭzbekistan Respublikasi, country in Central Asia. It lies mainly between two major rivers, the Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes River) to the northeast and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) to the southwest, though they only partly form its boundaries. Uzbekistan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east and southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest. The autonomous republic of Qoraqalpoghiston (Karakalpakstan) is located in the western third of the country. The Soviet government established the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R. in 1924. Uzbekistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 31, 1991. The capital is Tashkent (Toshkent).
Nearly four-fifths of Uzbekistan’s territory, the sun-dried western area, has the appearance of a wasteland. In the northwest the Turan Plain rises 200 to 300 feet (60 to 90 metres) above sea level around the Aral Sea in Karakalpakstan (Qoraqalpog’iston). This terrain merges on the south with the Kyzylkum (Uzbek: Qizilqum) Desert and farther west becomes the Ustyurt Plateau, a region of low ridges, salt marshes, sinkholes, and caverns.
Disastrous depletion of the flow of the two historic rivers—the Syr Darya and Amu Darya—has brought rapid change in the Aral Sea and greatly altered the delta of the Amu Darya. Most streams of the delta have dried up, and the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, has lost as much as nine-tenths of both its water (volume) and its surface area since 1961. On the north as well as on the east, huge shallow and dead ponds have become separated from the main remnant Aral Sea, cut off by sandbars that emerged as the water level dropped some 45 feet between 1961 and 1992. After 2010 the eastern lobe began alternating between wet periods and dry periods during which it would dry up completely