Long sausage day

So the first new year's festivities began in Koenigsberg with the coming to power of Albrecht of Brandenburg, the last master of the Teutonic.And the brightest and the most favourite was the feast of Long sausage.
The first time he had arranged on the day of the New year 1520, when a procession of Koenigsberg butchers walked around the city, carrying the sausage in length 41 elbows. In the new year 1525 sausage was length already in 100 elbows.In 1583 the length of sausage amounted to 596 elbows with a weight of 178,04 kg, for its carrying it took ninety-one (!) apprentices.
The largest size in 1005 elbows sausage reached in 1601. Three masters and eighty-seven apprentices spent on its production eighty-one pork chop and eighteen pounds (7.3 kg) of pepper.
One hundred and three apprentices in festive clothes carried a giant sausage (weighing three hundred and sixty-three pounds!). With banners and music procession moved from the Inn butchers to the castle, where a part of the sausage (length 130 elbows) was brought to the Duke and his advisers as a new year's gifts.
The procession ended up near the Inn bakers. Here butchers, bakers and other citizens together ate the rest of sausages, washed down with her very large number of beer.
Since then, the glory of a Long sausagespread far beyond the Eastern Prussia.

Sage about Ragaina

In ancient times, when dark-faced people didn’t have a memory and hearts, the bright star fell down from the sky to this darkness.

And the star had given a birth to great people, who were higher than trees. Their hair was whiter than snow and the eyes were shining like a morning sky. They were called-giants.

And the biggest from them went up to the mountain and observed the rivers, which were full of fish, the woods with game and said:

It is the worthy country for living. Here we will build up our castles and give our wisdom and force to this land.

The giants had taken the dark-faced in slavery and learnt them built the houses, make clothes, grew bread. They enriched the county and make the people happy.

Thousand years have passed. The giants started to marry with ordinary people and there were many children with fair hair and blue eyes, but not so tall.

People became proud of their original, started to laugh at the Gods because referred themselves to the giants. They declared the war against Gods, calling the evil spirits and dragons.

But Gods destroy beings and ghosts, and punished people-gave someone’s lifes and stayed others without fire. And the giants had never dealt with people.

Last giantess Ragaina locked the entrance to the castle and threw the key in front of gates. Only strong-willed, noble and kind man may come in-she said and wait her husband in breathless suspense.

Many arrogant men tried to pick up this key. But nobody did. Ragaina was terribly upset and prepared to die. But suddenly, the prince of the Prussia appeared on the road. His heart was clear and there is bravery in his eyes. He had picked up the key, unlocked the castle and made the last giantes happy
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 for the conguers of the near univers

This is the monument, which was designed by Moscow sculptor Boris Edunov and was erected in 1980 on Leonova street. We suppose that everyone have seen it. This masterpiece is devoted to conquers of the near Universe and also known as monument of brothers astronauts: Alex Leonov, Yuriy Romanenko and Viktor Pacaev.Their names are placed on the plinth.

So,It is the huge metal construction,resembling the mirrored number nine and it is the reason that some people are also calling this monument *Hi from nine*. Inside the circle we can see a man with raised arms. Such large palms, which are a bit smaller, then the head symbolize how fervently the astronauts wanted to reach space. On the orbit, surrounding the astronaut you may read a quote of Ciolkovskiy.
I want to add that Boris Edunov has also designed the monument of mother of Russia.And according to the local stories the astronaut is changing the position of his arms at midnight.

Ancient alien theory

Nowadays there are so many theories of aliens’ existence. I want to tell you about ancient alien theory, also known as ancient astronaut theory.

This theory grew up from the centuries-old idea that other planets can support life and that human and aliens have crossed ways before. If people can launch their spacecrafts and rocket to getting into space, why couldn’t aliens visit Earth?

Erick Deniken published his bestseller *Chariots of Gods* in 1968, and put in his own idea that thousands years ago aliens landed on Earth, but they didn’t make people to serve them, just told us about space, space technology, galaxies and universe.

Erick and another ancient alien theorists have a lot of evidence to support their idea.                                   

The first is ancient religious texts, in which people interact with Gods and other heavenly beings, which go down from the sky, sometimes in vehicles, resembling spacecraft. People are calling it UFO.The second is odd lines and symbols on the fields, also as ancient artwork with alien-like beings     and some  architectural marvels, for example  the Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.

                The theorists firmly believe ,that aliens may come back to our planet in the near future, so we ought to be prepare for this meeting.