Have you ever wondered why we hang socks in Christmas and sometimes we get candies in them? According to the legends, the very first gifts St Nicholas gave were to three very poor girls who needed money for their wedding dowries. On Christmas Eve they hung they’re socks to dry by the fireplace but to their surprise. St Nicholas sneaked in their homes and put gold coins to help their dowries. The gold helped those girls to marry the men they loved. This has given us the tradition to hang socks and get goodies but not specially gold. The Italians would put lumps of coal for naughty children.
St Nicholas, he has been the person who has inspired Santa Claus. He has many names, The wonderworker because he has been know to create lots of miracles out of nowhere.
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On February 25, 2005, the population count by the United Nations Population Division estimed that by 2013, earth will hold around 7 billion people. And by 2050 it will increase by nearly 2 billion and go around 9.1 billion. Most growth will take place in the developing nations. Nearly all humans reside on Earth, of course there isn’t another planet where humans can live in harmony. But 2 people reside in a space station that orbits around the Earth. Every six month they swap peoples in the space station. Sometimes they have trained people who pay or are guests to go on this space station. Currently earth holds around 6,411,000 billion people. The development, I mentioned will take place in developing nations.
As of 2004, around 400 people have been into a space voyage and have stayed there for awhile. Most have come back enlightened, they see life with another view and gain lots of respect for everything that is our planet. And that nobody can understand it.
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If you know a Brazilian they probably have a nickname or just a fraction of their name will be used when talking about them. If you watch soccer(European football) you will surely have noticed phenomenon. If you see Brasil playing you will often see players with one name, examples include: Kaka, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and many more. Most of these players have longer names it wouldn’t be conventional to have it on their jersey and for the commentators. But it goes even deeper than just soccer, even their president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is only refereed by her nickname. Some say it is because of Brazil’s past illiteracy but not many agree with that anymore.
Some people don’t even know their best friends real name because of the nickname phenomena. Some are called by their traits, like an American friend of mine who studied there was called Americano, which is nothing disrespectful it’s just their way of being intimate and friendly. Some Asians have been known to be called Toshiba. If you look like someone famous you get his name, like this Brazilian player who looked like Maradonna(famous soccer player) is now called Maradonna.
Others have different roots such as their home state, Juninho Paulista which someone coming from Paulista would be called. It is the same as saying Bob California..Some cities have the telephone book names in their nicknames, that is how widespread the use of the nickname is in Brazilian society.
Why are some names ended with Ninho’? Well it does resemble to the Spanish word Nino which means small. There are many suffix, which also describe the person in some way. A Ronaldo smaller than the other one would be called Ronaldinho, one bigger than Ronaldo would be called Ronaldao.
So when you see Brazilian nickname know that it has some roots.
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