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Halloween, a corrupted contraction of “Hallow evening” is celebrated on 31st October every year. Nowadays people have lots of fun, they dress up, go trick or treating and carve pupkins to make jack-o-lanterns.

But, do you know about the origins of this pagan holiday?. Check here how the Celts, the Chistians and later on the Americans celebrated Halloween 

IS THERE ANY SIMILAR HOLIDAY WHERE YOU LIVE? DO YOU CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN? WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT IT?. SEND YOUR COMMENTS

history of halloween

history of jack-o-lantern

Marion Jones was an outstanding American athlete who won 5 gold medals at the Olympics in Sydney (Autralia) in 2000. Now, seven years later she admitted taking steroids to run faster and be stronger  than her oponents. She has now been judged because she lied about taking steroids. Apart from that, her personal life is a complete disaster. She also admitted she earned a lot of money during her career but now she only has 2000 dollars in her bank account.

What is your opinion about this athlete?

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Have a look at these links if you want to know more about Marion Jones

                                                    After the race in China, Fernando Alonso still has a chance of getting his3rd World Championship. He will only be able to achieve this if a miracle happens. He needs to be 1st in Brazil and wait to check what Lewis Hamilton and Raikkonen do during the Brazilian Grand Prix. Fernando needs five points over Hamilton to be the world champion again, but Raikkonen is there struggling for the championsip again. Everything is very tight so we’ll have to wait and see what happens in the next weeks.

Fernando Alonso has recently declared that Hamilton is still favourite .

What do you think? Who will win the championship? Fernando, Hamilton or Raikkonen?

Listen to this report about the  Chinese Grand Prix

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For the fifth time in a row the Swiss tennis player Roger Federer has been the winner at Wimbledon. Only one tennis player, Bjorn Borg, had won this championship five times. Rafael Nadal was a hard rival to win and also deserved to get the championship.

Read more and have a look at some pictures at WIMBLEDON 2007