12. “Black” in names and acronyms – match with the explanations:

1. Black and Tans

1. a large sea in South-Eastern Europe. It is al­most entirely surrounded by land (Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey) and has no tides. It is con­nected to the Mediterranean by the Dardanelles and the Bosporus

2. Black Beauty

2. a) an area of South — West Germany popular for holidays. b) a cake, made of chocolate, black cherries and cream

3. Black Country

3. the first British satellite-launching rocket

4. Black Magic

4. a cell in the jail of a British fort in Calcutta, India. In 1756, British and Indian troops clashed at the fort. The Indian troops drove a reported 146 defenders of the fort into the cell, which measured about fifteen by eighteen feet. Most of them died of suffocation in one night (only 23 remained alive next morning); the name is often used to describe any cramped and stuffy space

5. Black Maria

5. women's anti-apartheid organization in South Africa

6. Black Monday

6. a) a movement supporting civil rights and politi­cal power for the black people that grew out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s (especially in the USA). Black Power calls for independent development of political and social insti­tutions for black people, and emphasizes pride in black culture. It tries to achieve social equality by creating black political and cultural institutions rather than seeking integration into the white community. b) a political movement in favour of the be­lief that in any country black people should have a share of political and economic power which is in accordance with the number of black people in that country

7. Blackshirt

7. a disease that killed nearly half the people of Western Europe in the 14th century. It was a form of bu­bonic plague of modern times. In Britain the expression "Black Death" is connected with the men who went round the streets to collect the dead bodies calling out "Bring out your dead!"

8. Black Forest

8. the name of a horse, the central character of a book of the same name, by Ann Sewell, written in 1877, and later filmed and made into a TV programme

9. Black Knight

9. a member of a fascist organization having a black shirt as part of its uniform (from the Italian Fascist Party before the Second World War whose members wore black shirts)

10. Black Power

10. a British government military force sent by the British government to Ireland in 1921 to fight the Irish or­ganization Sinn Fein. They wore a mixture of the black uni­form of the police and the khaki (tan) uniform of the army, and were hated in Ireland for their often brutal methods

11. Black Sash

11. an industrial area in the West Midlands of England, where there are many collieries and steelworks (from the black smoke and blackened buildings there). The centre is Birmingham

12. Blackwell's

12. October 19, 1987 (Monday), the day on which share prices on stock exchanges all over the world fell sud­denly and steeply

13. the Black Death

13. a famous bookshop in Oxford

14. the Black Hole of Calcutta

14. the name of a kind of plain chocolates sold in Britain in a black box

15. the Black Sea

15. (slang) a vehicle used by the US police to carry prisoners to and from prisons (from the original colour of the vans; another version: Black Maria was said to be the name of a strong black woman in Boston, USA, who helped the police in the handling of the prisoners)