HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY, MR. DICKENS!

Many cities around the world are celebrating Charles Dickens' bicentenary today, so why not pay one of the major novelists in English Literature a little homage and see the following videos? Happy Dickens' Year!

(Check http://www.dickens2012.org/ for full information on this event)





http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16850193 (BBC News: 200th anniversary celebrates the works of Dickens)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-16846438 (BBC News: Charles Dickens bicentenary: The Dickens industry)

Just for a laugh

We can see Hitler just wanted Peace, or "piece"?




I don't want war.
All I want is peace. Peace.
Peace!
A little piece of Poland
A little piece France
A little piece of Portugal
And Austria perchance
A little slice of Turkey
And all that that entails
Und then a piece of England Scotland
lreland and Wales

Nobody's allowed here
during a performance!

A little nip of Norway
A little spot of Greece
A little hunk of Hungary
Oh what a lovely feast
A little bite of Belgium
And now for some dessert
Armenia Albania
And Russia wouldn 't hurt

We're from the foreign office.
We must see Bronski.
I'm sorry, sir, but you can't.
He's on-stage.

A little piece of Poland
A little piece of France
A little piece of lndia
And Pakistan perchance

School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (DENIP from Catalan-majorcan: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964.It is observed on January 30 or thereabouts every year, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi, in schools all over the world . Its basic and permanent message is: "Universal love, non-violence and peace. Universal love is better than egoism, non-violence is better than violence, and peace is better than war".In countries with a Southern Hemisphere school calendar, it can be observed on March 30 or thereabouts. In Navarra the slogan for the 2009 was "above all, we are friends" (Spanish:"Por encima de todo, somos amigos").DENIP and World Association of Early Childhood Educators (AMEI-WAECE)