30 как празднуют новый год в австралии how to celebrate new year in aurtalia

Так австралийцы “зазывают” новый год в гости. 1 января в австралии – выходной день. большинство австралийцев устраивают в этот день традиционные пикники и пляжные вечеринки, а также родео и карнавалы для любителей серфинга. вечеринки как правило заканчиваются лишь к 6 января.

Alan alexander milne was born in london on january 18th, 1882. milne, the youngest of the family's three sons, went to westminster school at the age of 11 and then went on to cambridge to become a mathematician. then he went to london hoping to earn his living as a writer. by and by london magazines began to publish his witty works, and in 1905 he published his first book. aged only 24 he was given a post of assistant editor of the famous magazine "punch", at the salary of 5 pounds a week - a lot of money at that time. in 1913 he married dorothy de selincourt and the following year, when the war broke out, he joined the army. at the front line he got ill and had to return home, to london. the milnes' only child was born on august 21st, 1920. mrs milne had hoped for a girl, to be called rosemary. but she presented her husband with a lovely, fair-haired and adorable son, christopher robin. the milnes bought him a teddy bear for his first birthday. a. a. milne wrote a lot of poems for christopher robin and about him. it was published in 1924 under the name "when we were very young" and sold half a million copies! in 1925 the milnes bought a farm in sussex, which they used for weekends away from london. he used his story-telling talents to describe how one little boy so loved his teddy bear that - for him at least - the toy animal came alive. what happened to winnie-the-pooh? well, the bear was put into a glass case with all the other toy animals like eeyore the donkey and little piglet, at the milnes' house in london when christopher went off to school in 1930.