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Talk Like a Pirate Day!

On Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 September) meet a real pirate, hear some pirate jokes and explore pirate legends!

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!

Welcome to the new school year 2013/2014!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

Today, March 17th, millions of Irish people, and people of Irish origin, celebrate Saint Patrick's Day!

What do you know about this holiday?

Watch the videos below and find out what leprechauns, shamrocks and parades are, as well as who Saint Patrick was!

V-DAY’S ONE BILLION RISING: 14 FEBRUARY 2013

V-DAY’s ONE BILLION RISING: 14 FEBRUARY 2013

Largest Day of Mass Action Ever to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
With “Risings” Planned in 203 Countries

Activists, Writers, Thinkers, Workers, Students, Poets, Dancers,
Parliamentarians, Mayors, State Representatives, Celebrities,
Women and Men rised on 14 February 2013

V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, has been working for a year in ONE BILLION RISING campaign. 

It is a campaign to stop violence against women.

On Thursday, 14 February, women and men in 203 countries came together in the largest day of mass action ever to stop violence against women and girls, to express their outrage, and to strike, dance and RISE to support an end to violence against women once and for all.

Check out the website to watch videos of the flash mobs that happened all over the world: http://onebillionrising.org/

SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY

Yesterday the whole world celebrated LOVE!

SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY  is definitely a date commemorated all over the world, transcending different peoples, different cultures.

Photo from The Atlantic

Check out this awesome photo gallery at The Atlantic. Click here.

Love Idioms from ESL Library
http://www.esl-library.com/blog/infographic-for-valentines-day-love-idioms/