Halloween halloween is the oldest holiday with origins going back thousands of years. the holiday we know as halloween has had many influences from many cultures over the centuries. hundreds of years ago in great britain and northern france, lived the celts. the celts celebrated their new year on november 1st. it was celebrated every year with a festival and marked the end of the "season of the sun" and the beginning of "the season of darkness and cold." on october 31st after the crops were all harvested for the long winter the cooking fires in the homes would be extinguished. the druids, the celtic priests, would meet in the hilltop in the dark forest . the druids would light new fires and offer sacrifices of crops and animals. as they danced around the the fires, the season of the sun passed and the season of darkness would begin. when the morning arrived the druids would give an ember from their fires to each family who would then take them home to start new cooking fires. these fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits. the november 1st festival was called samhain (pronounced "sow-en"). the festival would last for 3 days. many people would parade in costumes made from the skins and heads of their animals. this festival would become the first halloween. romans brought with them many of their festivals and customs. one of these was the festival know as pomona day, named for their goddess of fruits and gardens. it was also celebrated around the 1st of november. after hundreds of years of roman rule the customs of the celtic's samhain festival and the roman pomona day mixed becoming 1 major fall holiday. the halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, pomona day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the festival of samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from all saint's day and all soul's day.
ecocheminnov437
08.08.2021
Charles dickens was born in 1812. he lived in the south of england when he was a little boy. his father worked in an office. he was a very clever man, but he was very poor. charles had many brothers and sisters, but he did not often play with them. his father had many books and charles liked to read them. he learned to read very early. when charles was 10 years old, his family went to london. there his fathe got into debt (as he had little money) and then into debtor's prison. so little charles began to work when he was ten. that was the beginning of charles' hard life.чарлз диккенс родился в 1812 году. в детстве он жил на юге . его отец работал в конторе. он был умным, но бедным человеком. у чарлза было много братьев и сестер, но он редко с ними играл. у его отца была большая библиотека, и чарлз любил читать. читать он научился рано. когда чарлзу было десять лет, его семья переехала в лондон. там его отец залез в долги (поскольку у него было мало денег) и затем попал в долговую тюрьму. поэтому маленький чарлз начал работать в десять лет. это было началом тяжелой жизни чарлза.he worked at a small factory in london, pasting labels on blacking bottles. he had to work in a dirty room with no windows. he did not like his work, but he had to work at the factory for two years. then he went to school for three years, but he did not learn much at school. he learned much at home, from his father and from other clever people. later he worked as a reporter to the parliament and became a writer of short stories. in 1837 he published his first novel "the posthumous papers of the pickwick club". and the young reporter became a famous writer. then he published novel after novel - "oliver twist", "dombey and son", "david copperfield" and many other good books.в лондоне он работал на маленькой фабрике, где наклеивал этикетки на бутылочки с ваксой. ему приходилось работать в грязной комнате, где не было окон. работа ему не нравилась, но он проработал на фабрике два года. затем он три года учился в школе, однако там он немногому научился. гораздо больше он узнал дома, от отца и других умных людей. позже он работал репортером по вопросам деятельности парламента и начал писать рассказы. в 1837 г. он опубликовал свой первый роман "посмертные записки пиквикского клуба". и после этого молодой репортер стал известным писателем. затем он публиковал романы один за другим - "оливер твист", "домби и сын", "дэвид копперфилд" и многие другие книги.his books are very interesting, they teu us aoout the hard life of the poor people in england of that time. when we read his books, we sometimes laugh, but we often want to cry. charles dickens died in 1870. he is one of the greatest novelists in the english literature. dickens lived more than a hundred years ago, but people in the whole world like to read his books today, because in his books he showed a real world and people of victorian england. его книги интересные, в них говорится о тяжелой жизни бедных людей в того времени. когда мы читаем его книги, то иногда смеемся, но часто нам хочется плакать. чарлз диккенс умер в 1870 г. он является одним из величайших романистов в английской . диккенс жил более ста лет назад, но и сегодня людям во всем мире нравится читать его книги, потому что в них он показал подлинный мир и людей, живших в викторианской .
Maksimova-Shorokhov303
08.08.2021
In your last message you were asking, what is better for animals - "to live in the wild or in a zoo? " in my opinion the best thing is that they would better live in their natural habitat, because a zoo for an animal is just the same as the prison for a human. of course, in a zoo they have much more food and feel more safe than in wild, but who would like to lose a freedom? also you've asked what kind of animals usually live in our region. all i can say that we have a small number of them. but actually i can say that there is a lot of birds. besides, you can see homeless catd and dogs on the streets. i do remember that you were asking what species of animals of wild nature i have seen. i have seen a lot of dolphins, small fishes and many others inhabitants of the underwater world. also on sicilia i've seen porcupine and rabbits.