jueves, 3 de diciembre de 2009


HALLOWEEN : Halloween has its origins in a Celtic festival known as Samhain, which derives from Old Irish, meaning end of verano.2 The ancient Britons had a similar festival known as Calan Gaeaf.Samhain was celebrated at the end of the harvest season in celta3 culture and was seen as the "Celtic New Year, which began with the station oscura.4 5The ancient Celts believed that the line between this world with the Underworld narrowed with the advent of Samhain, allowing spirits (both benevolent and malevolent) pass through. The family's ancestors were honored guests and while they were away harmful spirits. It is believed that the use of costumes and masks due to the need to ward off evil spirits. Its purpose was to adopt the appearance of an evil spirit to avoid being damaged. In Scotland the spirits were supplanted by young men wearing white face masks or painted black. 6 7Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and livestock in preparation for winter.The fires also played an important role in the festivities. All other fires were extinguished and in every home was lit a fire in the fireplace. The bones of slaughtered animals are thrown into the fire. 8Another common practice was to divination, which often involved the consumption of foods and beverages.

miércoles, 2 de diciembre de 2009


SCHOOL: the school have one seat with 3 block with colesion . It located in the 138 the left of HIJAS DE CRUSTO REY SCHOOL . the named is PITUFINOS SCHOOL the uniform is white and blue they are boy a girls they admit with 3 year , they spoke Spanish , english and arabe and can be portuges .

TOMATINE : In 1944, during a parade of giants and big-heads, young men who wanted to participate in the same staged a brawl. As near the site had a vegetable stand and vegetables, picked tomatoes and used them as table of contents or weapon. The police had to intervene to break up the fight, and condemned those responsible to pay the damages incurred.The following year the young repeated the argument, only this time brought tomatoes from his home. They were again dissolved by the police. After repeating the same thing in subsequent years, the festival was, albeit unofficially established.

CHARLES DICKENS : Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport district, belonging to the city of Portsmouth, son of John Dickens (1786-1851), clerk of the paymaster of the navy arsenal in the port of Portsmouth, and its wife Elizabeth Dickens née Barrow (1789-1863). In 1814, the family moved to London, Somerset House, at number ten on Norfolk Street. When the future writer was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. His mother was middle class and his father always sneak fingers, due to its excessive inclination to waste. He received no education until the age of nine years, which critics later reproached him for keeping a fairly self-training. At this age, after attending a school in Rome Lane, a student at the school of William Giles, a graduate of Oxford, TURE, spending time outdoors, reading voraciously and showing a particular fondness for the picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, who was his favorite writer, and adventure novels like Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote. In 1823, he reunites with his family back in London, at number 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town, which was then one of the poorest suburbs of the city. Although his early years seem to have been an idyllic time, he was described as "a very young child and not especially careful." Then talk about the extreme pathos and photographic memory of people and events that helped bring his fiction to realidad.3