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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Parliament


The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body in theUnited Kingdom and British overseas territories. Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and its territories. At its head is the SovereignQueen Elizabeth II.

The Gunpowder Plot


The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Sir Robert Catesby.
The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.
Although anti-Catholic legislation was introduced soon after the plot's discovery, many important and loyal Catholics retained high office during King James I's reign. The thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot was commemorated for many years afterwards by special sermons and other public events such as the ringing of church bells, which have evolved into the Bonfire Night of today.

Thursday, 4 November 2010

Halloween

October 31 each year is traditionally a festival of Halloween Eve, children will be put on make-up evening clothes, put on a mask, door to door collection of candy. Festival is mainly popular in the English sector, followed bu Australia and New Zealand.

In UK, every place has its own characteristics, and has own activities. But pumplin is representative of Halloween. Two apples or nuts, on behalf of a pair of lovers, all side by side on the side of the fire. If they are in the south of England, "popular music and flying," love is real, but if they burn together, the couple will be partly. In northern England and Scotland exactly the reverse is predicted.

In addition, Scotland has small objects hidden in the potato champit tatties bowl foreseen in the coming year will bring. A spoonful of each individual, their fate is the charm in them show up