Staff, plus a series Retrospective E-Dublin 2009! Many were curious to speak this year, some in the form of video, text and other pictures. But the coolest is that in our case, exchange students, curiosity is not always something that you just read, think weird, funny, different, and ... Do not forget! For us it is more than that, is to prepare for the unexpected, knowing that the world is very different from anything we have ever known, and also have fun once in a while ... = o)

As we know, read the E-Dublin does not fill the belly, so the Edu made a video / music talking about the beans in Ireland, the Red Kidney!

Taking the time of winter when the sun is even more stubborn (especially since the sun in Ireland, you know it? Is for a few days) we recorded that in Ireland there is the noonday sun!

And take this opportunity to warn everyone that the time difference between Brasilia - Dublin second time zone is 3 hours, but because of daylight saving time for at least 48 weeks of the year are 2 or 4 hours of difference!

In the middle of the year U2 was in the green land! And so we talk some curiosities them! Had to show on youtube! = o)

Warn everyone that the selinho below ensures that quality is because it is IRISH.

To please Greeks and Trojans also talk of Culture! And we look to Halloween is a tradition typically Irish and everyone goes to the streets. Also, do not forget the history that brings these people here, and talked a little more about the great Irish famine, The Great Irish Potato Famine, which killed about 2 million Irish in the nineteenth century.

In addition, we recorded videos to brighten the staff, nor quaint curiosities as well, but that inspired jokes even if not as funny as! = o)

That's it guys, we close with our Restrospectiva of 2009, I hope you enjoyed it! = o)

What day is today? Friday, February 13, 1998, Sanctuary Sacred Heart of Jesus, behold Vanice comes dressed in a long black dress for the ceremony of marriage. That's right, unlike 99.9% of people on earth, she married a 13 Friday and has entered the church dressed in black, and what happened? Two years later, also on Friday 13, the couple died in a mysterious car accident. Ok! Fifty percent of the history and true, the other 50% and drama, but who of you would venture to play with both luck, or rather the bad luck?

The truth is that Friday 13 is filled with beliefs and superstitions. And that, as long as Judas, the 13th guest of Christ to the Last Supper, did what he did. No one actually confirms the truth of bad luck that day, but a series of events, facts and legends related to Christianity, eventually making the Friday 13 one days and nothing came. Cruising with black cat? No way! Ladder? Go away! Living in the 13th floor of a building, as if most of the time he did not exist?

For the Nordic countries, the date came to be considered gambling, provided that the spirit of evil and discord, Loki, appeared at a ceremony uninvited. There were 12 gods, Loki has caused a fight that culminated in the death of Balder, the god of justice and wisdom and one of the most beloved, after which the world plunged into darkness. And here among us, in Norway, natural phenomena happen strangest on the planet.

The Nordic lands also have given rise to the word Friday. Name of Frigga, goddess of beauty and love, originated friadagr = Friday. Legend has it that when the Nordic people had converted to Christianity, Frigga was transformed into a witch. Angry she went to gather all Fridays, twelve witches and a devil to spread evil on human beings.

In numerology, the number 13 associated with poor and bad luck, simply by following the 12, taken as a complete number. Twelve Apostles, 12 months a year, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 signs of the zodiac and so on. Ready, was enough to increase the notoriety of the following paragraph, taken as irregular.

If you watched or read the "Da Vinci Code" should remember the Knights Templar, outlawed by King Philip IV of France. All its members were tortured and killed simultaneously throughout the country, and guess when? October 13, 1307, a Friday. One of the most dramatic moments of Brazilian history, when the military government decreed the AI-5, also occurred on a Friday 13. Jesus Christ was crucified on a Friday.]

Want to know who was born on this date? Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, the twins Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, the actor Steve Buscemi and director of the Fantastic Four, Tim Story. Who died? Benny Goodman (king of swing), the Nascar driver Tony Roper, the rapper Tupac Shakur and the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, by the way was reportedly averse to Friday 13.

Ireland is a Catholic country and like all others, always give the Devil, the issues of bad luck, has said that Irish Lisbon Treaty was not approved in 2008 because the vote came on a Friday 13. Doubters? In Belfast, any marriage that was schedule for Friday, but the staff of the Windsor House ignores the superstitions, and maintains the 13th floor.

Black Sabbath (name of a black magic ritual), the ex-Ozzy Osbourne's band released the debut on Friday 13, 1970.

Finally, the history of Friday the 13th is always the same. The Globe spent the millionth time the movie Friday the 13th, Jason will be more crazy and bloody than ever. You must have received at least one e-mail with horrifying stories in hairy. Then, run the black cats, avoid stairs, ignore and Happy Friday 13th.

Ops.! Also included is a straw with the marriage of Vanice, remember? This part of the story is true!

http://mdemulher.abril.com.br/familia/videos/casamento/casei-preto-sexta-feira-13-399821.shtml

This story rolled into the room with an Irish teacher after class ... I called for more details ...

Did you know that Ireland has had almost twice the current population in its territory, somewhere around 9 million? What of those millions of Irish, about 2 million died of famine between 1840 and 1849 and another 2 million emigrated to countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia?

Imagine people knocking on doors crying for food, shops are looted, and undernourished people staggering down the sidewalks of Dublin, Galway and Irish counties. Outbreak? No, really. This was the picture of Ireland in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Irish crisis became known worldwide as the Great Potato Famine.

The entire population was affected by the potato blight, a plague that struck the potato crops in consecutive years, culminating in the impoverishment of the soil and lack of food in the region. People left the countryside and headed for the cities in search of food. The historical accounts mentioning families stunted invading homes and overlooking the soil in search of any trace of food. Sad is not it? People died mainly from starvation and diseases like typhus.

Moreover, the British Crown who ran Ireland, merely distributing Soup for the population, which is not appeased the hunger in the region. In fact here is another interesting chapter in the history of Ireland. You know where it comes from the habit of eating potato of the Irish? Far from being a choice, in fact, this habit is driven by practicality, or rather necessity. As the Irish land were dominated by British farmers had to rent space for planting, the detail was that 80% of what was grown was for the British Crown, was left with only 20% was left to local plant something that is easy and guaranteed a nutritious food, or potato. Pork also entered the Irish diet, for the same reasons, the ease of maintaining the animal and the little space that had to do so.

That's it! The next time you are commenting on the worship of the Irish for "potato", remember that the fact that hyperlinked the sad story of British rule and lack of food.

For those who want to learn more about The Great Irish Potato Famine, worth taking a look at the book of the same name, the writer James S. Donnelly, Jr, or visit The Famine Museum in Strokestown Park - Strokestown - Co. Roscommon. http://www.strokestownpark.ie/museum.html

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Although it is winter all year round (game) in Ireland - and all Europe, has DST. How can deduce, the DST start them soon after our ends, and ends shortly before our summer schedule.