Chocolate

Chocolate is a very famous and good food loved from many people. But most of them ignore his origin.
Chocolate comes from the seeds of Theobroma cacao fruit (that means "fruit of God"), which has a shape of a football ball (pod) and it could be yellow or purple.

These fruits only grow in South-Est Asia, Central-South America and West Africa. Farmers collect the fruits by hand and they cut them in two, taking the seeds from the inside.

The seeds are white, they are left of banana's leaves and covered with the same leaves. After a period of fermentation, the seeds, before white, take the color brown.

They are put in bags and they are sent to factories. 

Black History Month: Jesse Owens

James "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist.  As a boy, he took different jobs in his spare time: he delivered groceries, loaded freight cars and worked in a shoe repair shop. In this period he discovered the passion for running. Owens first came to national attention when he equalled the world record of 9.4 seconds in the 100-yard (91 m) dash and long-jumped 24 feet 9 ¹⁄₂ inches (7.56 metres) at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago. In 1936, Owens arrived in Berlin to compete for the United States in the Summer Olympics.  Adolf Hitler was using the games to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany. Owens won the 100m sprint with a time of 10.3s,  the long jump, the 200m sprint with a time of 20.7s. On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4x100 sprint relay when the coach replaced Marty Glickman with him.  Adolf Hitler viewed Olympic games as an opportunity to show his country and prove to the rest of the world that his Aryan race was superior. On the first day of competition, Hitler shook hands only with the German victors and then left the stadium. Olympic committee officials insisted Hitler greet every medalist or none at all.  Jesse didn't care much for Hitler's politics, he just wanted to show his skills.  Hitler viewed African-Americans as inferior and chastised the United States for 
stooping to use these "non-humans." Despite the endless racial epithets and the constant presence of the red and black swastika, Owens made Hitler eat his words with four gold medals.

Hitler left the stadium furious that his Ayran supermen had been beaten by their supposed racial inferior.

 ¹⁄₂ inches (7.56 metres) at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago.^[8]

Religions and their symbols

New Year's Resolutions

A resolution is a promise that you make for the new year. 

The most populare in the world are:

- Lose Weight
- Volounteer to Help Others 

- Quit smoking
- Get a better education
- Get a better job
- Save money
- Get fit
- Eat healthy food
- Manage stress
- Manage Debt
-Take a trip
- Reduce, reuse and recycle

- Drink less alcohol

 

This is the list of my resolution:
- Save money for concerts and trips
- Study more and better
- Learn a new language
- Travel

- Read a book in English
- Eat healthier
- Don't give up on things

Palindromes!

A palindrome is a word or a phrase which reads the same backward or forward.
The word "palindrome" was coined by the English Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin ("again") and dromos ("way, direction"). The longest English word which is a palindrome is "detartrated".

 Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum. 

It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. It means "The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels".   

The Romans loved palindromes, this is a sentence they created: "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni", that means "we enter the circle after dark and we are consumed by fire".
The Greeks are known to have wrote this on their fountains: "Nipson anomemata me monan opsin" that means "wash the sin as well as the face"

The most famous palindromes are:                     

Madam, in Eden I'm Adam

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!Amor, Roma

Was it a cat I saw?

No 'x' in Nixon

Happy Days!

"Happy Days" is an American sit-com which was broadcasted for the first time in the USA the 15th January 1974. It got a lot of success among teenagers beacause it presented an idealized vision of American life at the turn of the fifties and sixties.
The sit-com focuses on the Cunnigham family, that live in Wisconsin. There is represented friendship, love, festivals, music, fun and the exhilarating lifestyle of the  "American Dream" generation in bright era of the 50s. 

The family consists of Howard Cunningham, owner of a hardware store, his wife Marion, housewife, and his sons Charles said Chuck, Richard said Richie and Joanie. Plus, there are Richie's friends Ralph Malph and Warren Webber "Potsie" and especially by Arthur Fonzarelli, said Fonzie, mechanical heartbreaker. Fonzie will soon become a mentor to Richie thanks to his experience, becoming a Cannigham member. 

Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night

After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion.  Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth and a number of young men, 13 to be exact, decided that violent action was the answer. A small group of people led by Robert Catesby organized to blow up the House of Parliament and kill the King and the member of Parliament. To carry out their plan, they had 36 barrels of gunpowder and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords. Some of the conspirators started to have second thoughts though, because during the attack, innocent people could have died. One of the group members even wrote an anonymous letter to warn the King. The letter arrived and the King's forces made the plan stop. Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder, on the 5th of November 1605, was caught, tortured and executed. On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King. Since then, November 5th has become known as Bonfire Night. 

The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire. Preparations for Bonfire Night celebrations include making a dummy of Guy Fawkes, which is called "the Guy". Some children even keep up an old tradition of walking in the streets, carrying "the Guy" they have just made, and beg passersby for "a penny for the Guy." The kids use the money to buy fireworks for the evening festivities. On the night itself, Guy is placed on top of the bonfire, which is then set alight.