Tuesday, 14 December 2010
The politics of Henry VIII
Monday, 13 December 2010
Friday, 10 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Eid ul-Adha
Feast of the Sacrifice is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide as a commemoration of Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismael for God.It is one of two Eid festivals that Muslims celebrate.Like Eid ul-Fitr,Eid ul-Adha also begins with short prayer followed by a sermon.Eid ul-Adha is three days long and starts on the 10th day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah of the lunar Islamic calendar.This is the day after the pilgrims in Hajj,the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia by Muslims worldwide,descend from Mount Arafat.It happens to be approximately 70 days after the end of the month of Ramadan.
Other names of Eid ul-Adha:
Eid ul-Adha is also known as Hari Raya Haji/Iduladha/Aidiladha/Qurbani/Qurban in Indonesia,Malaysia,the Philippines and Singapore;Eid el-Kbir in Morocco,Algeria,Tunusia,Egypt and Libya;Tfaska Tamoqqart in the Berber language of Jerba;and Tabaski or Tobaski in some parts of America;Babbar Sallah in Nigeria and West Africa;Ciidwayneey in Somalia and Somali speaking regions regions of Kenya and Ethiopia.In Turkey it is often referred to as the Kurban Bayramı or ''Sacrifice Feast''.Similarly,in Bosna and Herzegovina,Albania and Bulgaria it is referred as Kurban Bajram.Kazakhstan,it is referred to as Kurban Ait.
Turkish Wedding
Ceremonies are generally start on Tuesday and end on Thursday, or start on Friday and end on Sunday. Costs and expenses of wedding are met by the bridegroom’s family. Despite differences in accordance with various locations wedding may be classified mainly as planting a flag, women’s entertainment of the night next before the wedding day the bride’s fingers freshly tinged with henna (Kına Gecesi), fetching the bride, bride’s veil. Before the wedding as is done in the course of engagement ceremony invitation is distributed and everybody is invited for the wedding. While the bride’s family tries to complete preparations for trousseau, the bridegroom’s family tries to complete articles which required to be bought for the bride and which have been previously determined.
A wedding flag is planted by men coming from the noon prayer and friends of bridegroom at the bridegroom’s home. At some regions such thins as apple, onion, mirror, etc. are placed on top of the flag. Thus the wedding gets started.
Night Next Before The Wedding Day, A Women’s Entertainment Where Bride’s Fingers Are Freshly Tinged With Henna ( Kına Gecesi): This night in which the bride will be together with her family, relatives and friends all of which are women is just before the day of fetching bride as known the main wedding day. This night which is called “Kına Gecesi” is celebrated in the bride’s home. The bridegroom’s family and other guests are met and
hosted in the bride’s home. Usually dry henna brought by the bridegroom’s family is broken to pieces in a silver or cupper vessel by
a woman whose father and mother alive, not experienced any separation. After preparing the bride, veil
ornamented with red flake is placed over her head, and she is brought into the middle with accompaniment of hymn, folk songs about henna. Hands and feet of the bride are dyed with henna. The bridegroom’s side is under the obligation to put money in the hand of the bride. Dying ceremony of henna is different according to regions. The henna so dyed has such names and types as “iplik kınası” (henna for yarn), “sıvama” (smearing), “kuşgözü” (bird eye).
After leaving woman who came together for dying henna close friend of the bride remain with her and enjoy themselves till morning.
In some of our regions henna dying ceremony for bridegroom is also held in the bridegroom’s home.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Thursday, 25 November 2010
Some news from the world
Tuesday morning was terrifying for the South Koreans.
North Korea attacked their northern border. They fired about 200 rockets at the South Korean island - Yeonpyeong. The victim answered fire with fire.
The accident didn't involve many people. 2 Korean soldiers died during the attack. But Yeonpyeong was damaged. Many houses were destroyed and the rockets started fires in the island.
As the S. Korean ministry said ''the attack was purposeful and planned. The shelling of Yeonpyeong was a clear breach of the ceasefire signed at the end of the war on the Korean Peninsula on the 27 July 1953''
The biggest countries in the world criticised the North Korean action.
But North Korea doesn't feel guilty. Pyongyang claimed that they were fired on by S Korean forces first.
But Seoul says that their fire was just an exercise. They said that they fired to the west, not to North.
So who was the attacker?
And what do you think about this conflict?
pawel
SITGES
Hi! I'm Mireia.
I come from Catalonia. It's a country in Spain near France. To be more precise, I was born in Sitges, and I'll talk about this village.
Sitges is a small village in the Garraf region (Barcelona). In Catalonia, the culture is the same everywhear : the language, the people, the costoums, etc...
The weather in Sitges is very hot all year. In Sitges, there are many discos, and many tourists, because this village is in the Mediterranean sea, and it's beaches are really beautiful. In Sitges, people always eat paella or a variety of seafood when they go to a restaurant.
I love the people in Sitges, because you can see people from different cultures, different styles...but I love the people born in Sitges, because they have a different lifestyle than in Catalonia.
They celebrate two big parties : one is “Saint Bartomeu” and the other is “Santa Tecla”. There days people dance a dance called “Ball de Bastons” and they built human towers called “Castellers”. People in Sitges speak Catalan.
In Sitges, there are more monuments, a palace called “Maricel”, a museum about the history of Sitges and the church of “Bartalome and Santa Tecla”. It's a Christian church.
Now, the big companies want to build more hotels and houses and they intent to evict out the people of the village.
But I love my village!