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St. George's Day

St George's Day include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, England, Georgia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia. Cities include Genoa in Italy, Beiruit 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. Saint George's Day is the feast df 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.

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St George's Day is known as the Feast of St. George by Palestinians and is celebrated in the Monastery of St. George in al-Khader, near Bethlehem. it is also know as Georgemas.

Besides the 23 April feast, some Orthodox Churches have additional feasts dedicated to St George. The country of Georgia celebrates the feast St. George on 23 April and, more prominently, 10 November (Julian Calendar), which currently fall on 6 May and 23 November (Gregorian Calendar), respectively. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the dedication of the Church of St George in Kiev by YaroslaV I the Wise in 1051 on 26 November (Julian Calendar), which currently falls on the Gregorian 9 December.

In the General Calendar of the Roman Rite, the feast of Saint George is on 23 April. In the Tridentine Calendar it was given the rank of "Semidouble". In Pope Pius XII's 1955 calendar this rank is reduced to "Simple." In Pope John XXIII's 1960 calendar the celebration to just a "Commemoration". In Pope Paul VI's revision of the calendar, that came into force in 1969, it was given the equivalent rank of a "Memorial", of optional use. In some countries, such as England, the rank is higher.

St George's feast is ranked higher in England and in certain other regions. It is the second most important National Feast in Catalonia, where the day is known in Catalan as La Diada de Sant Jordi, and it is traditional to give a rose and a book to a loved one.

Under the state atheism of former Eastern Bloc countries, the celebration of Saint George's Day was historically suppressed.

UNESCO declared this day the International Day of the Book, since 23 April 1616 was the date of death and possibly anniversary of birth of both the English playwright William Shakespeare (according to the Julian calendar) and the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (according to the Gregorian calendar).

23 April is also the anniversary of the St. George Dragons Rugby League Football Club. The St George club coincidentally played their inaugural NSWRL first grade match on St George's Day, 23 April 1921 at the Sydney Sports Ground in Australia.

George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney born May 6, 1961 is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has received three Golden Globe Awards  for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards-one for acting and the other for producing. Clooney is also noted for his political activism and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.

Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Douglas "Doug" Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations. While working on ER, he began attracting a variety of leading roles in films, including Batman e Robin and Out of Singht, in which he first worked with long-term collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In 1999 Clooney took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, Ocean's Eleven, the first of a profitable film trilogy, aremakea of the 1960film which starred members of the Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean. He made his directorial debut a year later with the 2002 biographical thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed Good Night, and Good Luck, Leatherheads and The Ides of March. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Middle East thriller Syriana and subsequently gained Best Actor nominations for such films as Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, and The Descendants. In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the film Argo, alongside Ben Affleck and  Grant Heslov. He is the only person ever to be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.

In 2005, TV Guide ranked Clooney #1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" lists.

Clooney's humanitarian work includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2004 Tsunami, and 9/11 victims, and creating documentaries such as Sand and Sorrow to raise awareness about international crises. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America.The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.
The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its storyline and character development, though some reviewers have noted similarities between Collins' book and Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (1999). In writing "The Hunger Games", Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the Californis Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008.
The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. It has since been released in paperback and also as an audiobook and ebook. After an initial print of 200,000, the book had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. Since its release, The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games triology, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself was released in 2012.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character andnarrato of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians Rick Riordan's series and aprotagonista in the sequel series The Heroes Of Olympus, which are part of the Camp Half-Blood chronicles.Percy is the son of Poseidon, Neptune (Roman Form) in The Heroes of Olympus. He begins in The Lightning Thief as a troubled twelve-year-old boy withdyslexia and ADHD. When his class takes a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of his teachers turns into a Fury and attacks him. His friend Grover (Underwood) then reveals himself to be a satyr and takes Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a place where demigods can train. Percy then learns that he, as a child of Poseidon, is mentioned in the Great Prophecy given by the Oracle. In the remainder of the series, Percy, with the help of his new friend, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood to defeat the forces of Kronos and other Titans to save the camp, and the world.
In The Heroes of Olympus, Percy starts off the series missing. Annabeth Chase and his other friends are searching for him. (Annabeth and Percy are now together.) He returns with amnesia in The Son of Neptune, in which he comes across Camp Jupiter, a camp for the children of the Roman gods. Mars tells him to go with other demigods to Alaska and free the god of death, Thanatos. Percy regains his memory, and re-encounters with Annabeth. He meets the 7 of the Great Prophecy, and embarks on a quest to close the Doors of Death and stop Gaea. Unfortunately, Annabeth and Percy fall into Tartarus and journey towards the Doors of Death to close them and to meet with the other 5, Coach Gleeson Hedge, and Nico Di Angelo on the other side.

               

 Friendship

Some friendships do not last,
but some friends are more loyal than brothers.
Alcune amicizie non durano,
ma alcuni amici sono più leali dei fratelli.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Tieni un vero amico con tutte e due le tue mani .

A friend can tell you things you
don't want to tell yourself.
Un amico può dirti cose che non vuoi dire a te stesso.
 
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Il miglior modo per avere amici è esserlo.

A mere friend will agree with you, 
but a real friend will argue.Russian Proverb 
Un semplice amico sarà daccordo con te,
ma un vero amico discuterà.




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The Weird World Of Sports

Speak Takraw 
Speak Takraw is a popular sport in Malaysia and other countries in Asia. It combines football, volleyball, and gymnastics in one game!
They use their feet, knees, and head to pass a synthetic ball over the net. They can't use their hands or arms.

Cheese-rolling There are some man who run down a very steep hill. They are following a very big local cheese that rolls down the hill!

                                        

Bossaball

Bossaball is a new, musical sport from Belgium. It is a combination of volleyball and trampolining. Players play on an inflatable court, with round trampolines and a net. People play it at school, on the beach and at music festivals. Teams of 3-5 playres can use their head to hit the ball over the net. They jump on the trampoline, and try to keep the ball eight times before they pass it to the other team.

 

My favourite sport

My favourite sport is swimming. I swimming twice a week, I go swimming with my friends. I like swimming but I like dancing in fact I go to dance three times a week 

Origins my name.

My name has a Greek origin (Alékso). It Der es form the verb to protect.My name date is the 17th July. My numer is 7, although I like the numeber 18. My favourite color is blue.