Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. Continue reading
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Category Archives: FESTIVITIES
THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS PRESENT
In Christmas, there is something magical about visiting our relatives, decorating our homes with Chrismas trees, carols and candles, taking a stroll around a traditional market or wrapping up warm with a visit to a cultural event. Continue reading
2010 IS NOT THE YEAR OF THE PIG
The Sheng xiao -better known in English as the Chinese Zodiac- is a scheme that relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, according to a twelve-year cycle which repeats and completes a sexagenary cycle (sixty years). The zodiac begins with the sign of the Rat and finishes with the Pig. Continue reading
CHRISTMAS 2009
Fashion world gives itself up to pigs. Great designers and international brands use pig logos in their creations. Continue reading
VICTORIA BECKHAM PURCHASES 1,400 EUROS MICRO PIGS FOR CHRISTMAS
Victoria Beckham has given her husband David two micro pigs for Christmas. She has recently paid no less than $2,000 for a pair of micro or teacup piglets that are now in their mansion in Hertfordshire, England, according to Daily Mail. Continue reading
JULY 7TH: SAN FERMIN
The Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 went to the American writer 
Hernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) , representative of the so-called Lost Generation. Continue reading
RELIGION AND MEAT
The three main monotheistic religions -Christianity, Judaism and Islam- not only share the belief that one God exists but they also have meat restrictions. Whereas, pork meat is forbidden in Jewish dietary laws -kashrut- and Islamic dietary law -Halal-, Christianity also restricts meat consumption in some liturgical feasts. Continue reading