Cappuccino Day - November 8

Cappuccino Day falls on November 8 in honor of the hot coffee with the frothed milk. So many people are addicted to cappuccino - Cappuccino is the perfect drink for a cold day, to meet in a cafe with friends, to walk around with it in a cup with a lid that warms the hands and in general to indulge with it whenever possible.

The cappuccino is traditionally made with espresso, hot milk and frothed milk. The origin of the cappuccino is from Italy.

The origin of the word cappuccino is from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an order of the Catholic Church, where monks wore robes with pointed brown hats reminiscent of the popular coffee color.

The first espresso machine used to make a cappuccino was first introduced in the early 20th century, after Luigi Bazera of Milan patented it in 1901.

In 1945, Achilla Gajia, the owner of a café in Milan, invented the modern espresso machine that was suitable for many cafes and restaurants, thus increasing the popularity of cappuccino.

In the mid-1990s cappuccino became a popular beverage in North America, in upscale cafes.

By the late 1990s to the early 2000s, the cappuccino had already become the domain of all cafes for their visitors, while booming in the American coffee industry.

At the beginning of the 21st century, cappuccinos also began to be served in fast food chains.

Cappuccino has also gained popularity in the United Kingdom, due to the British custom of drinking coffee with milk.

When making cappuccino, great care must be taken to arrive at the right ratio of foam and hot milk. The lower third of the cabbage contains the espresso, and the next two thirds consist equally of the hot milk and the whipped part.

A skilled barista can also create artistic forms while he / she pours the frothed milk. The artistic illustrations on top of the foam are called "latte art".

How to celebrate Cappuccino Day?

Of course, Cappuccino Day can be celebrated by drinking cappuccino, it can be done at home alone, if you have an espresso machine, or with friends / family / neighbors / acquaintances. You can drink it at work or in a cafe. No matter where and with whom you drink the cappuccino - it's today to savor this addictive and refreshing drink!

November 8 is also World Urbanism Day (World Town Planning Day) - November 8

World Urbanism Day (World Town Planning Day) - November 8

World Urbanism Day (also called "World Town Planning Day") is a day dedicated to the profession of city planning, the profession that deals with everything related to cities in order to preserve the quality of life and their environment. 

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City planners should think about everything: transportation and accessibility, safety, clean air, proper water, good infrastructure such as roads and bridges, communications, and so on.

World Urbanism Day was founded in 1949 by Professor Carlos Maria della Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires, a graduate of the Institute of Urbanism in Paris, to promote the public and professional interest in urban planning.

On this day there are professional conferences on urban planning in more than 30 different countries.

The profession of city planning has changed over the years because of changes in the climate, needs of the population and more.

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The father of urban planning was Hippodamus, who had planned Miletus, a city in ancient Greece.

Did you know that a great way to teach your kids about city planning is to let them play in Minecraft? In this game you learn to design structures in a public space and it is a good start to learn about the impact of good planning of buildings on the quality of life of the residents.

November 8 is also Cappuccino Day

Happy Birthday to the MoMA Museum in New York- November 7

On November 7, 1929, one of the world's best art museums, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), was opened for the first time.

The MoMA Museum is located in the Midtown area of ​​Manhattan's New York City, at 11 West 53 Street.

The museum opened with the initiative and support of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a philanthropist and a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family from New York. The museum was designed by modernist architect Edward Dorel Stone. On May 21, 2002, the museum was closed for extensive renovations and reopened on November 20, 2004 in a new building designed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi.

If you visit New York, the MoMA Museum is one of the places to visit, and rightly so. You will find, among other things, the best and most famous works in the world, such as: Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night", Pablo Picasso's "The Disappearance of Avignon", "The Continuity of Memory" by Salvador Dali, "Broadway Boogie Wogi" by Pete Mondrian, Claude Monet's "The Water Lilies," "The Dance" by Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne's "Laundromat", Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait," Andy Warhol's "Mercy Campbell," Henri Rousseau's Sleeping Gypsy, Lovers "of Renee Magritte.  

In the museum there are permanent exhibitions of the most highly regarded American artists: Jackson Pollock, Jasper Jones, Edward Hopper, Ross Blackner, Andy Warhol, Chuck Coles, Ralph Basque, Raphael Olavinsky, Edward Avdisian and others.   

The museum also has an extensive collection of photographs and a beautiful sculpture garden. 

Link to MoMA Museum

Starry Night- Vincent Van Goch 1889- MoMA Museum New York

November 7 is also Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day

Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day- November 7

Today is the holiday of dessert that is finally healthy - dark chocolate with almonds.

Evidence of a bitter chocolate recipe with almonds has been found in 18th-century cookbooks.

The inventor of this holiday is the National Confections Association, and sites around the internet such as Food.com, encourage this day to use dark chocolate with almonds for cooking and enriching various dishes and of course to upload the impressive works to social networks.

Bitter chocolate usually has no milk, and has a high amount of different flavonoids, and eating a small amount of bitter chocolate every day helps maintain healthy blood pressure. Almonds have fatty acids that have many health benefits, which help maintain good health. That is why dark chocolate with almonds is both a delicious and nutritious dessert, which contributes to health and long life.

How to celebrate Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day?

You can make dark chocolate with almonds yourself: Melt dark chocolate and mix it with almonds, pour into a mold and wait for it to cool. You can make dishes that contain dark chocolate with almonds and upload the photo to Instagram and Facebook, eat a dark chocolate bar with almonds, or almonds coated in dark chocolate - a perfect and healthy candy! (Just not too much) ...

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November 7 is also the birthday of the MOMA Museum in New York

Nachos Day- November 6

Nachos Day is one of the food days in the United States and is celebrated every year on November 6.

The nachos is a food whose source is from Mexico and it started to be popular in Texas and from there in many countries around the world.

The nachos was invented in 1943 in northern Mexico, in a place called Piedras Negres, in the state of Coahuila. One evening, several U.S. soldiers wives who were at an outpost in the area, located just off the border with Texas, arrived at a hotel restaurant.

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The restaurant was already closed and the food was almost over. The restaurant's head waiter, whose name was Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, had to improvise to give them something to eat.

From the only ingredients he had: a few tortillas, some grated cheese and peppers, he made snacks with melted cheese and chopped peppers. The women very much liked the snack and when they asked the waiter what they were called, he replied: "Nacho's specials."

The snack soon became a hit in Texas and other Southwest states.

Ignacio Nacio Anaya moved to work at the El Moderno restaurant in Pieders Negres, which turned his nachos into its special dish. To this day the restaurant adheres to its Nachos and serves them.

Ignacio later opened his own restaurant and called it "Nacho's Restaurant", also in Pieders Negres, Mexico. Ignacio Nacio Anaya died in 1975. The original recipe of Nachos was printed in St. Ann's Cookbook in 1954.

Later, they began marketing the nachos in new versions, serving it with sauces such as spicy salsa, minced meat or guacamole, and it became a commercial snack.

Love Your Red Hair Day - November 5

Love Your Red Hair Day celebrates the beauty of redheads that add color to our lives every year on November 5th. On this day the redheads get the spotlight to show the unique features of red haired people.

Many redheads feel a little ashamed because of their red hair because most of the time they are different and stand out over the others and not always people accept the different in a nice way, especially children.

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Redheads are rare. Less than two percent of the population boasts red hair. Many redheads are also left-handed. The holiday in honor of the redheads is meant to make them feel safe and proud, understand that they look amazing and show it off. Red hair is more than color; It's a way of life.

Most natural redheads have brown eyes, followed by green or walnut brown. Blue-eyed redheads make up about 1% of the world's population, and are extremely rare.

Love Day for Your Red Hair was founded by Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti, natural red hair sisters who created the book and website "How to Be a Redhead" in August 2015. The site has lots of tips for red hair owners, from hair care and haircuts to confidence and self-acceptance .

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How to celebrate Love your red hair day?

If you are redheads and know more redheads then come together and see your red hair in all its glory. Short, long, curly or straight hair, always the red hair wins the spotlight. Celebrate your beauty by posting pictures of your red hair on social media with the hashtag LoveYourRedHairDay#.

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 November 5 is also the Night of Guy Fawkes

Night of Guy Fawkes- November 5

The night of the gunpowder is the night of firecamps and firecrackers in the UK, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, Canada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Australia, to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot, a plot of Catholic rebels led by Guy Fawkes, to kill England King James I by bombing the House of Lords in London.

The night of the bonfire is also called Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night and Plot Night.

  
It is an informal holiday in which it is customary to light bonfires and eat roasted potatoes in a bonfire wrapped in aluminum foil. They also fire fireworks and burn dolls in the form of Guy Fawkes, who was the gunpowder expert that was supposed to detonate the bomb he had prepared in the basement of the House of Lords.

  The children have a favorite holiday: they eat a candy called "bonfires toffee" near the fire, a caramel apple and a Perkin cake.

In Australia, Guy Fawkes' night was celebrated with a lot of fireworks, so they called it "Cracker Night". In the 1960s, Australian states banned free fireworks from the general public because of the danger, and since then the popularity of the holiday has faded. In New Zealand to this day to this day celebrate with fireworks.

What was the gunpowder plot?

The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt by a group of Catholic extremists to murder King James I of England, his family and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Westminster Palace in 1605 during the opening ceremony of the Parliament to obtain rights for Catholics.

They also plotted to kidnap and murder the king's children who were not present at the ceremony.

The original plan was to dig a tunnel from a distant basement to the House of Lords and place the explosives there, but at the end one of the conspirators, Thomas Percy, managed to rent a cellar under the House of Lords and there was no need to mine the tunnel.

Guy Fuchs filled the basement with gunpowder gradually, until by March 1605 there were 36 barrels containing 2.5 tons of gunpowder that could have destroyed all the structures in the Westminster Palace including Westminster Abbey, if they had exploded.

Fox's job was to blow up the barrels of gunpowder while his friends waited in Dunchurch, Warwickshire, for the consequences of the plot.

How did the plot fail?

The members of the plot group feared that the Catholics would be hit by the blast. One of them, apparently Francis Treshem, wrote on October 26 a letter to Catholic Lord William Parker-Lord Montagel, warning him against the planned explosion. Lord Montagall showed the letter to Robert Cecil, the Secretary of State. Following the letter, the palace guard searched all the basements below, until on November 5, Judge Thomas Kenneth, accompanied by an armed guard, caught Fawkes holding a watch and matches, and then discovered barrels full of explosives. Fawkes promptly admitted the plot with pride and was sent to prison at London Fort, where he gave the names of the rest of the group after being tortured.

Guy Fawkes and his teammates were executed on 31 January 1606 in the courtyard of the old palace in Westminster by hanging. 

Results of plot failure

The plot was intended to grant rights to Catholics, but instead the rights were revoked and they were accepted only after two hundred years.

More interesting facts about the failed gunpowder scheme:

Literary scholars believe William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" was inspired by the plot.

The word "Guy" in English - which means a generic term for a person - comes from Guy Fawkes, whose name was shouted at the bonfires.

  Every year, before the opening ceremony of the British parliament, members of the Parliament Guard conduct a ceremonial search for explosive charges in all rooms of the Parliament building.

  The cellar in which the barrels were hidden was destroyed in the fire in 1834.

The lantern that Fox carried in his hand while he was caught is being exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Link to Ashmolean Museum

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The mask of Anonymous - the activists who want to remain anonymous, was inspired by Guy Fawkes' face, following the film V for Vendetta, which was released in 2006, inspired by the plot and used in this mask.

November 5 is also Love Your Red Hair Day

Coloring pages of Halloween

Coloring pages for halloween​. Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. 

Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic harvest  festival of Samhain that includes fortune-telling and magic. The Celts believed that on this day the winds move over the earth at night and the world is closer to ghosts than to life. The hypothesis is that the Celts disguised themselves as witches and demons to confuse the spirits that roam the world this night.

Halloween is the night before November 1, which is "All Saints' Day," the day that is celebrated in memory of all the saints and people who died because of their faith in Christianity.

The holiday began in the seventh century AD, during the reign of Pope Boniface IV, who inaugurated the Pantheon in Rome. Until then the Roman structure was a pagan temple, and the pope declared it "the Church of St. Mary of the Tortured Saints". Since that day it has been celebrated as "All Saints' Day."

These are the fun customs of Halloween:

Trick or treat - The children walk the streets with scary costumes, knock on the doors of the houses and say: Trick or treat. Whoever opens the door for them should give them sweets, if not, they are doing him some trick like throwing an egg on the house.

Decorating the houses in the holiday spirit - in the US, Canada and parts of the UK it is customary to decorate the houses with a carved pumpkin in the shape of a face also called a jack-o-lantern.

More activities include attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, eating candy corns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing and divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. Here are some coloring pages for Halloween. To print the coloring page of Halloween, click on the coloring page and then Ctrl + P. The printable coloring sheets of Halloween are for free and you can come back to print and color again and again. Below you will find Halloween coloring pages which you can paint for your enjoyment. Choose the coloring page of Halloween you want to paint, print and paint for your enjoyment. To print the page you would like to color, click on page and then click Ctrl+P. Have fun and happy Halloween!

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