Food & festivities: the language of Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, is upon us and those celebrating … Continued
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Christmas or Yule: the lexicon of the holiday season
’Tis the season to be jolly,Fa-la-la-la-lah, la-la-la-lah. Ah, carols! Doesn’t everyone love them? They really lift our spirits: belting them
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Bonfire or Guy Fawkes Night
Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
On the night of 4 November 1605 Guy Fawkes, a Catholic, was discovered in an undercroft of the House of Lords guarding a hoard of gunpowder intended to explode the following day at the state opening of Parliament
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