The sublime.

GiRAFFE HEROES

Nancy Abraham and her father Alexander.

New Yorkers often bemoan the lack of housing for the poor in their city, but city government didn't solv this problem. New Yorkers Nancy Abraham and her father Alexander put their own time, money and connections on the line, creating more than 100 units of safe housing for the city's needy. They started with a project to provide transitional housing for women; within three months they had put down $100.000 on what Nancy calls "a beautiful rehabbed building in a wonderful neighborhood". For the next two years Nancy visited nonprofit organizations and offered to help make their dream projects realities; with the Abraham's financial backing two nonprofits now run three new residences.The Abraham's involvement has been "hands-on" from the beginning. They have godparented the residents' children and taken great pride in each one's achievements. They'd tell you that it sure beats complaining about what's wrong, and it is a lot more satisfying that just writing a check to a charity. 

• Community development.

• Poverty.

• Womens issues.

St George's Day

Saint George's Day is the feast day of Saint George and the National Day for England. St. George's Day is not an official national holiday in England or the UK. It is celebrated by various Christian churches and by the several nations, kingdoms, countries, and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint. Saint George's Day is celebrated on 23 April, the traditionally accepted date of Saint George's death in AD 303. For Eastern Orthodox Churches, which use the Julian calendar, 23 April currently falls on 6 May on the Gregorian calendar.

Since Easter often falls close to Saint George's Day, the church celebration of the feast may be moved from 23 April. In England, where it is the National Saint's Day, for 2011 and 2014 the Anglican and Catholic calendars celebrate Saint George's Day on the first Monday after Easter Week (2 May and 28 April, respectively).Similarly, the Eastern Orthodox celebration of the feast moves accordingly to the first Monday after Easter or as it is sometimes called, to the Monday of Bright Week.

CELEBRATIONS.

Countries that celebrate St George's Day include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, England, Georgia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia. Cities include Genoa in Italy, Beirut in Lebanon, Qormi and Victoria in Malta, Moscow in Russia, Ljubljana in Slovenia, and many others. It is also celebrated in the old Crown of Aragon in Spain — Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca.

England.

April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day' is celebrated on 1 April every year. 1 April is not a national holiday, but is recognized and celebrated in various countries as a day when people play pratical jokes and hoaxes on each other called April fools. Precursors of April Fools' Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria, held 25 March, and the Medieval Feast of Fools, held 28 December, still a day on which pranks are played in Spanish-speaking countries.
In the Middle Ages, up until the late 18th century, New Year's Day was celebrated on 25 March (Feast of the Annunciation) in most European towns. In some areas of France, New Year's was a week-long holiday ending on 1 April. Many writers suggest that April Fools originated because those who celebrated on 1 January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates. The use of 1 January as New Year's Day was common in France by the mid-16th century, and this date was adopted officially in 1564 by the Edict of Roussillon

Beowulf plot

King Hrothgar of Denemark has built a mead-hall, Heorot, where his warriors can gather to drink and listen to stories sung by the scops. A terrible monster, Grendel, frightens the Danes. Beowulf, a young warrior, decides to sail to Danemark to defeat Grendel. He fights with the monster and mortally injures him.  
Grendel's mother comes to Heorot seeking revange for he son. She kills Aeschene, one of Hrothgar beste friends. Beowulf travels to the like where she lives.He dives into the water and succeeds in killing Grendel's mother with a sword. Beowulf becomes king abd he rules for 50 years, bringing prosperity to his country. Then, when Beowulf is an old man, a dragon emerges from the barrow and begins killing the Geats. Beowulf has a premonition of disaster, but he decides to fight the fire dragon. He kills the monster, but he is mortally wounded and after the battle he dies.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

The British Royal Family is the family group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. Members of the Royal Family can be known both by the name of the Royal house, and by a surname, which are not always the same. And often they do not use a surname at all.Before 1917, members of the British Royal Family had no surname, but only the name of the house or dynasty to which they belonged. Kings and princes were historically known by the names of the countries over which they and their families ruled. Kings and queens therefore signed themselves by their first names only, a tradition in the United Kingdom which has continued to the present day. The names of dynasties tended to change when the line of succession was taken by a rival faction within the family or when succession passed to a different family branch through females. The House of Windsor came into being in 1917, when the name was adopted as the British Royal Family's official name by a proclamation of King George V, replacing the historic name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It remains the family name of the current Royal Family.  The family name was changed as a result of anti-German feeling during the First World War. The Royal Family name of Windsor was confirmed by The Queen after her accession in 1952. After 1917, members of the Royal Family belong, either by birth or marriage, to the House of Windsor. Senior titled members of the royal family do not usually use a surname, although since 1960 Mountbatten-Windsor (incorporating Prince Philip's adopted surname of Mountbatten) has been prescribed as a surname for Queen Elizabeth II's direct descendants who do not have royal styles and titles, and has also sometimes been used when required for those who do have such titles.

GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS 

Prince George of Cambridge was born 22 July 2013 and he is the only child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. He is the grandson of Prince Charles of Wales and  the great-grandson of the British monarch Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip.Therefore, it is the third in line of succession to the British throne and thrones of sixteen independent realms of the Commonwealth of Nations , after his grandfather and father . Is Prince "Cambridge" by the title of his father who is Duke of Cambridge . The names chosen are several members of the royal family : George by King George VI , father of Isabel II , Alexander is the masculine form of Alexandra , the second name of Queen Elizabeth II , and Louis by Louis Mountbatten , uncle of Felipe Edinburgh. His baptism took place in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace on 23 October 2013.

(Prince William and his wife Kate, with their son)

GHOST IN THE BEDROOM.

 The neighborhood was shaded by the many trees that lined the  old brick homes on the street. Except for the occasional laughter of kids playing outside, my house was quiet.   It was in the fall of 1996.  My two small children and I had moved in and had settled in an old part of Dallas. The school where I taught was only a few blocks away.  One of my students lived down the block.  He was an only child. Once he knew where I lived, he came by often to play with my kids.  
One Saturday, my children were out with their father when Eddie came over.  I let him in and although he knew my kids were out, he chose to hang around.He followed me down the hallway as I picked up after my children.  Eddie trotted at my heels as I collected  laundry.  I walked into my bedroom dropped the clothes in a hamper and reached for my hair brush sitting on the antique dresser.  I offered to take Eddie to the lake to feed the ducks.   His eyes lit up at the suggestion.  I chatted with him as I brushed my hair.  I couldn't help notice he kept looking behind me.  His eyes would look away at something and then back at me.  I didn't think much about it at the time.  I thought he was acting like a normal 10 year old.  
We drove to Bachman lake.  I had bought some fried chicken on the way to the lake and we ate on a nearby picnic table.  Eddie seemed to be distracted.  He was unusually quiet.  Finally he spoke up.  "Ms. T can I tell you something?" "Sure.  What is it Eddie?"
"Well, when we were inside your house...... I ..ah...I .saw something."  I looked at him.  I never told him about the strange sounds, and the paranormal activity that had been going on since I moved in that house. 
" Remember when you were in your bedroom brushing your hair?.......he continued. " Well, there was someone behind you."  My skin went cold.  " What do you mean?" I asked.  " I saw a little boy kneeling on the floor playing."   He....he...was see through.....I...I could see right through him."  Eddie looked serious and a little shook up.  "What was he playing?' I asked.
" He was stacking toy blocks on top of each other." I asked Eddie to describe the little boy.  He went into detail about his suspenders and haircut with bangs.  He even mentioned that the blocks were made of wood.  "Did he look at you?...Did he look at me? I asked.  "No....he just kept playing with his blocks.  I saw him for only a few seconds and then he disappeared." I had not told anyone  that my daughter Karen had seem a little boy ghost sleeping in Jimmy's bunk bed just a few months earlier.    His description seemed to fit the little boy  karen had seen in  September, the night of Jimmy's birthday.   The House off Greenville was my home for a few years and while I lived there, many people who visited experienced unexplainable events.

Diamante poem.

Celts

The Celts were a people coming from the Northern Europe and they spoke a vaguely common language. They were nomad hunters and farmers and they had red hair, blue eyes; they also were tall and sometimes they tattoed their bodies with colorful tattoes. They wore coloured shirts, with trousers called bracae, that were heavy in winter and light in summer. The Celts lived on hile tops in round huts and they would light a fire in the middle of them for cooking and heating. In addition there was a hole in the roof to let the smoke go out (from the fire). The Celts woeship nature and they believed in many gods, but the most important were Sucellos, the sky god, and Nodens, who made clouds and rain. Their traditions were orally transmitted throuh the years by Druids.

Guess

Guess is an American clothing line brand. Guess also markets other fashion accessories besides clothes, such as watches, jewelry and perfumes.
They began advertising in 1982, then later they introduced their iconic black-and-white ads in 1985. The ads have won numerous Clio Awards. Their fashion models have included a number of supermodels, such as Claudia Schiffer, Letitia Casta and Eva Herzigova. In the 1985 Robert Zemeckis movie, Back to the future, Michael J. Fox in the film, wore distinctive Guess denim clothing, reportedly designed specifically for the film.

Coca-cola

Coca-Cola is a carrbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atalanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke (a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.
The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores and vending machines. Such bottlers include Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is the largest single Coca-Cola bottler in North America and western Europe. The Coca-Cola Company also sells concentrate for soda fountains to major restaurants and food service distributors.
The Coca-Cola Company has, on occasion, introduced other cola drinks under the Coke brand name. The most common of these is Diet Coke, with others including Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola, Diet Coke Caffeine-Free, Coca-Cola Cherry, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Vanilla, and special versions with lemon, lime or coffee.

DoodLes.

A doodle is an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract.
Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming terest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if  a pen and paper are available.
Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes and patterns, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.

SUPERSTITIONS MINDS.

Every country has superstitions. Some are universal, but some vary. In Britain for example a black cat is lucky, but in most of Europe it is very unlucky. But, where do all these superstitions come from and what do they mean?Here are some examples.


A ladder leaning against a wall forms the shape of a triangle with the wall and the ground. In Christianity the triangle represents the trinity. People thought it was bad luck to 'break' the perfection of the triangle by walking under the ladder. More rational people think it is dangerous to walk under a ladder, because if you do, something might fall on your head!

The four-leaf clover is a universal symbol of good luck, probably because it is very rare. A lot of people think that four is a lucky number because in Christianity four is the number of the gospels in the Bible.




Farmers think that ladybirds bring good luck because, thousands of years ago, it was a sign of future good weather: good weather helps plants to grow which means people will have more to eat. So if you see a ladybird you might be fortunate and prosperous in the future.

BUY NOTHING DAY.

Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism do served by social activists and many concerned citizens. Buy Nothing Day is held the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the last Saturday in November internationally, which in 2012 correspond to November 23 in North America and November 24 internationally.
The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Mexico in September 1992 as a day for society to examine the issue of over- consumption. In 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving, also called Black Friday, which is one of the ten busiest shopping days in the United States.

My holidays :)

This summer has been different from the others; even is mast of summer I stayed in Mondragone, the second week of July I went to Saint Mary, near Caserta and I stayed at my cousin's house. Then I came back to Mondragone. In the afternoons I went to the sea or I stayed on facebook, while in the evenings I went out with my friends. One day a wees we did a big dinner at my friend's house,and we enjoined ourselves. However I had new experiences and I met new people..And now I also have new friends. I hope that next summer I'll go out from Italy. because it's always beautiful to visit new places and meet new people, with different culture and different type of life. It's almost a week that school is begun, but I already miss summer.

About money.

With money you can buy a house, but not a home.
With money you can buy a clock, but not time.
With money you can buy a bed, but not sleep.
With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge.
With money you can see a doctor, but not good.
With money you can buy a position, but not respect.
With money you can buy a blood, but not life.
With money you can buy sex, but not love.

.CHRiSTMAS TiME♥

-Merry Christmas and best wishes

for a happy new year :D

My daily routine!

When I go to school, I usually get up at seven o' clock in the morning. At quarter past seven I've my breakfast and at half past seven I have a shower. Then I get dressed, I brush my teeth and I comb my hair. At eight o'clock I go to school by car and I start my lessons at quarter past eight. Three times a week I finish my lessons at quarter past one p.m., in the rest of the week I finish my lessons at quarter past twelve. I go home and I've got my lunch. I usually do my homework at two o'clock p.m. Then I watch TV, stay on facebook or go out with my friends in the afternoon. I often send text messages to my friends. At half past seven p.m. I have a shower, then I have my dinner, I watch TV or stay on facebook and I often go to bed at hald past ten.

My new school.

Hi! My name's Federica and I'm fourteen. I am at Liceo Linguistico Galileo Galilei, in Mondragone, the town where I live. My school has got three floors: on the ground floor there is the Headmaster's office, then, there are the first floor and the second floor. It's got lots of good facilities: really modern labs with computers, a theatre, two gyms, one outside and one inside and in the afternoon we follow sportive courses. There are about 1.000 students in my school and in my class we're 27, 4 boys and 23 girls. In a first time my classmate was Christine, but then she has changed school. So, now, my classmate is Vincenzo. He's 14 and he lives in Mondragone too. He's got blond hair and green eyes. He's got a small sister and her name's Marica. My teachers aren't bad. They're all nice. Miss La Torre is my English teacher, she's so sweet with us. Then there is Miss Lonardo, that is my P.E. teacher. She's really cool. They are my favourite teachers.