Thanks Giving Day

The Thanks Giving Day is a heaveres festival about giving thanks for everything and to share with other people food and time. Mostly it is celebrated in USA the last thursday of November, and in Canada the second monday of October. It is a tradision to make a family meal in one house of one member of the family and there all people make something to eat and to share it with everybody, one typical meal of Thanks Giving Day is the turkey. The turkey is feel with bread and corn, and is served with jelly or cranberry sauce. There are also more meals like: mashed potatoes, salad, green beans, sweet potatoes and the most popular dessert is the pumpkin pie.

In Thanks Giving Day people make a parade in the cities of Manhattan and New York with performance of artists and big balloons. That day people also close treir stores, restaurants and shopping centers, few are open. The next day people start selling christams things in a very cheap price and that day is called "Black Friday"

Rhine in Flames (Germany)

The main highlight in Bingen is the annual "Rhine in Flames" firework spectacular, which lights up the night skies on both sides of the river and attracts large numbers of spectators to this picturesque setting in the Rhine Valley.

The "Rhine in Flames" festival brings a night of magnificent firework magic to Bingen. This spectacular show is accompanied by a three-day programme of events.

Rhine in Flames is a yearly fireworks extravaganza that bathes the river in light in five different cities throughout the summer. On July 3rd, the lights lit up between Trechtingshausen and Bingen.

Over 50 illuminated boats were underway for the festivities. Castles, houses, and monuments along the river were lit in red as seven firework displays adorned the evening's festivities on both land and water.

A three-day program of events kicked off the event in Bingen to accompany the fireworks and featured food and wine stands, as well as theater, comedy, and live music. Many visitors highly recommend viewing the annual spectacle by boat.

Rhine in Flames dates back to the 1930s. Though during its first 20 years, it was often heald sporadically, it has become a regular attraction in the five participating cities.

Flowers Festival

Scince July 28 to August 7, the Feria de las Flores, or the Flowers Festival in Medellin, is one of the largest events in the country and one of the largest horticultural events in the world.

The festival began in the 1950's to help inspire the large number of flower growers in and around Medellin. The first festivities consisted of just the locals parading small arrangements through the downtown area but it has blossomed into a more than a week long event filled with concerts, parades, speeches, and craft sales.

There are some arrangements called Silletas that can be as large as 15 feet in diameter and need to be carried by a handful of people are one of the highlights. They are arranged to make intricate designs, sometimes of landscapes, figures, or famous paintings and images.

Elsewhere in Medellin during the festival, one can visit the Old Car Parade, the Horse Parade, a Bird and Flower Exposition at the Botanical Gardens, the San Alejo handicrafts market, and the Tablados, or street parties that take place everyday in different parts of the city.

The fair ends with a Grand Parade on the final day that is hours long and filled with music and dancing and flowers.

However, the fair has replaced that image and tourists are taking notice as the festival grows each year.

At present, more than 70% of the flowers sold in the US come from Colombia.

Charles Dickens

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacs on social evil, injustice and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory. Dickens's good, bad, and comic characters such as the cruel miser Scrooge, the aspiring novelis David Copperfield, or the trusting and innocent Mr. Pickwick, have facinated generations of readers.

Charles Dickens was born in Landport, hampshire, during the new industrial age, which gave birth to theories ok Karl Marx. Dickens's father was a clerck in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education, and he made rapid progress. In 1824 Dickens was sent to work for some months at a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his father John was in Marshalea debtor's prison. "My father and mother were quite satisfied," Dickens remember. "They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge''. John Dickens paid his £40 debt with the money he inherited from his mother; she died at the age of seventy-nine when he was still in prison.