STRANGE BRITISH TRADITIONS BOG SNORKELING The world's premier Bog Snorkeling event is held in August each year in Powys, Wales. The first World Bog Snorkeling Championship held in 1985. Basically participants dive into a bog, wearing goggles, a pair of flippers and a snorkel, they then proceed to race each other along a 120ft trench filled with mud. Goggles Kaitseprillid. Participants Osalejad. Bog Raba/soo. Flippers Ujumislestad. Snorkel Hingamistoru. Trench - Kraav PANCAKE RACING Olney's famous race is run every Shrove Tuesday, featuring women who have lived in the town for more than 6 months. It dates back to 1445 and it is believed all began with a townswoman late for the Shriving service at the Olney parish church. She heard the church bells ring out for the service and she fled her house fearful of being late. She ran the distance down the High Street to make it to the pari...
1.The most famous pancake race takes place at Olney 2.Women were supposed to run 450 yards 3.At the famous Westminster School school cook tosses a huge pancake over a five-metre high bar. 4.The game is played over two days and involves thousands of players. 5. The world's biggest pancake was cooked in Rochdale England in 1994, it was 49.2 feet in diameter and weighed three tons. Shrove Tuesday in Estonia This year February 21 we had Shrove Tuesday. We have it moving date, what always requiers new moon and Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday may run into February and March. On Shrove Tuesday we have a lot of manners, what still be followe. Had to get up early then you are busy all year. While you eating was not allowed to lick your fingers, then you cut finger with knife during the summer. Shrove Tuesday were eaten nine times. On Shrove Tuesday was monitored weather, beacause with that predicted what spring ...
Main Sights England is known for its many world-famous sightseeings and people all around the world come to see them. Some of them are even like symbols of England. The most famous ones are: Stonehenge is one of the greatest national icons of Britain. That prehistoric monument is located in the plain of Salisbury, in the county of Wiltshire in the south-west of England. It is built of 150 enormous stones which are set in a purposive circular pattern. Stonehenge was probably built to mark the longest and shortest day of the year because it lies on the line of the midsummer sunrise and the midsummer sunset. That would have enabled people to keep a record of changing of seasons. Although it is still unclear who built it. Hadrian’s Wall is an ancient wall which was built in 2nd century by Hadrian, the emperor of Rome from AD 117 to 138, and it marked the northern border of the Roman Empire in Britain. The wall was 80 Roman miles (117 kilom...
1) INDIAN ROCK ART: A NATIONAL TREASURE IN DANGER Unrecognized, unprotected, this priceless legacy of primitive art has endured the ravages of nature only to fall victim to wanton destruction by ,,civilized" man. Like the huge stone statues of Easter Island and prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux, North American Indian rock art is surrounded by an atmosphere of mystery. Although examples of rock art exist at some 15000 sites in canyons, deserts, caves and river gorges. Nowadays, however, primitive rock art in the United States has become a new field of scientific study. Klaus F Wellmann wrote two books about rock art. He is a professor of medicine. Rock art represents the history of aboriginal Americans. In the most cases the art is an expression of ideas and way of life, ritual ceremonies, hunting, fighting. The pictures of people and animals are often strikingly lifelike and artistic. Many of these ancient relics have ...
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