CocaCola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke (a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.
The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores and vending machines. Such bottlers include Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is the largest single Coca-Cola bottler in North America and western Europe. The Coca-Cola Company also sells concentrate for soda fountains to major restaurants and food service distributors.The Coca-Cola Company has, on occasion, introduced other cola drinks under the Coke brand name. The most common of these is Diet Coke, with others including Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola, Diet Coke Caffeine-Free, Coca-Cola Cherry, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Vanilla, and special versions with lemon, lime or coffee.Based on Interbrand's best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand.The famous Coca-Cola logo was created by John Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885.[58] Robinson came up with the name and chose the logo's distinctive cursive script. The typeface used, known as Spencerian script, was developed in the mid-19th century and was the dominant form of formal handwriting in the United States during that period.

Sephora Makeup.Skincare.Fragrance

Sephora is a French brand and chain of cosmetics stores founded in Paris in 1970, and acquired by French conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessy) in 1997. The Sephora chain includes more than 1,300 stores in 17 countries. Carrying more than 250 brands, along with their own private label, Sephora offers beauty products including makeup, skincare, fragrance, hair care, bath and body products, and hair and make-up tools.
Sephora opened its first United States store in New York City in 1998.Its North American headquarters is located in San Francisco, with marketing offices in New York City and Montréal. Sephora is owned by the Paris-based LVMH.
Sephora launched its online store to the U.S. in 1999 and into Canada in 2003 Sephora currently operates over 1,300 stores in 27 countries worldwide .Sephora is a combination of "sephos", which is Greek for "beauty" and the name Zipporah, the exceptionally beautiful wife of Moses in the Book of Exodus.The name Zipporah in the Greek Old Testament (LXX or Septuagint) is rendered, Σεπφώρα Sephora. The Sephora logo is a white "S" shaped flame against a black background.

Black Friday

It is the day following Thanksgiving Day in USA,traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.On this day,most major retailers open extremely and offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season,similar to Boxing Day in many Commonwealth Nation.Black Friday isn't an official holiday,but many non-retail employers also observed this day as a holiday along with Thanksgiving,giving their employees the day off,thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers.It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005.The day's name originated in Philadelphia,where it originally was used to describe the heavy traffic which would accour in the day after Thanksgiving.Black Friday shopping is know for attracting aggressive crowds,with annual report of assults,shooting,all this in an attempt to get the best deal on a product before supplies run out.

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British superstition!

Good Luck

• Lucky to meet a black cat. Black Cats are featured on many good luck greetings cards and birthday cards in England.
• Lucky to touch wood. We touch; knock on wood, to make something come true.
• Lucky to find a clover plant with four leaves.
• White heather is lucky.
• A horseshoe over the door brings good luck. But the horseshoe needs to be the right way up. The luck runs out of the horseshoe if it is upside down.Horseshoes are generally a sign of good luck and feature on many good luck cards.
• Catch falling leaves in Autumn and you will have good luck. Every leaf means a lucky month next year.
• Cut your hair when the moon is waxing and you will have good luck.
• Putting money in the pocket of new clothes brings good luck.

Bad Lucky

• Unlucky to walk underneath a ladder.
• Seven years bad luck to break a mirror. The superstition is supposed to have originated in ancient times, when mirrors were considered to be tools of the gods.
• Unlucky to see one magpie, lucky to see two, etc..
• Unlucky to spill salt. If you do, you must throw it over your shoulder to counteract the bad luck.
• Unlucky to open an umbrella in doors.
• The number thirteen is unlucky. Friday the thirteenth is a very unlucky day. Friday is considered to be an unlucky day because Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
• Unlucky to put new shoes on the table.
• Unlucky to pass someone on the stairs.

Food Superstitions

• When finished eating a boiled egg, push the spoon through the bottom of the empty shell to let the devil out
• In Yorkshire, housewives used to believe that bread would not rise if there was a corpse (dead body) in the vicinity, and to cut off both ends of the loaf would make the Devil fly over the house!

Table Superstitions

• If you drop a table knife expect a male visitor, if you drop a fork a female visitor.
• Crossed cutlery on your plate and expect a quarrel.
• Leave a white tablecloth on a table overnight and expect a death.

 

Animal Superstitions

• Animals feature a lot in our superstitions as they do in superstitions around the world.
• One ancient British superstition holds that if a child rides on a bear's back it will be protected from whooping-cough. (Bears used to roam Britain but now they are not seen on our shores)
• In some parts of the UK meeting two or three Ravens together is considered really bad. One very English superstition concerns the tame Ravens at the Tower of London. It is believed if they leave then the crown of England will be lost.
• It is said to be bad luck if you see bats flying and hear their cries. In the middle ages it was believed that witches were closely associated with bats.
• If a Sparrow enters a house it is an omen of death to one of the people who live there. In some areas it is believed that to avoid bad luck, any Sparrow caught must be immediately killed otherwise the person who caught it will die.
• In some areas black Rabbits are thought to host the souls of human beings. White Rabbits are said to be really witches and some believe that saying 'White Rabbit' on the first day of each month brings luck. A common lucky charm is a Rabbit's foot, but not for the Rabbit.
• It is thought very unlucky to have the feathers of a Peacock within the home or handle anything made with them. This is possibly because of the eye shape present upon these feathers i.e. the Evil-Eye associated with wickedness.

Wedding Superstitions

• Bride and groom must not meet on the day of the wedding except at the altar.
• The bride should never wear her complete wedding clothes before the day.
• For good luck the bride should wear “something borrowed, something blue, something old and something new”.
• The husband should carry his new wife over the threshold of their home.

Jack the Ripper

In Victorian times the poor lived in slums,without water or sanitation so the poverty drove many women to prostitution.

Besides,between August-November 1888,the Whitechapel area was place of horrific murders.The death for the prostitute began when Jack the Ripper walked the foggy.He cut their throat (of the prostitute),mutilated their body and slipped away.Nobody could explain the killing!!! Later,people looked at Poe's stories and at Stevenson's Doctor Jeckyll and Mr.Hyde.

The story of Jack the Ripper had a mysterious ending because when he killed his last victim,vanished from the scene for ever.

Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.Banksy's work was born of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s."Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and Jef Aerosol who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours (France), and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.However Banksy himself stated on his website that in all actuality he based his work on that of 3D from Massive Attack, stating, "No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw."Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls, even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself; however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.Banksy's first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie," made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010.In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film.