Moscow Moscow is the head-capital city of Russia. It is in the Central Federal district of European Russia. Moscow is located down by the Moskva-river. It has about 12 million inhabitants. Its radius is 25 kilometers, but it gets even 50 kilometers long at its’ widest. The city is 850 years old. At first it was just a little wooden village, then it was made of white stones and today the Kremlin of Moscow, where it all started, is beautifully red. Moscow hasn’t always been the capital of Russia. For a certain temporary period of time Sankt-Petersburg served as a capital of the land, since Peter the Great moved it there. Moscow is not only the political capital, but also a religious capital of the orthodox Christians. Therefore Moscow has a huge amount of lovely churches with gold cupolas that are certainly worth of visiting. By many ranks Moscow’s metro is considered to be the most beautiful in the world, so it also is a tourist attraction. Many parks of Moscow offer excellent places to have fun and relax for the guests and citizens of Moscow. Moscow has nearly thousand museums. Some famous museums are Tretyakov gallery and the Pushkin museum of fine arts. People can also see high quality theatrical performances and ballet in Moscow.
Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U.S. on the fourth Thursday of November and on the second Monday of October in Canada. First, a group of European immigrants were heading to North-Virginia (of that time), but they ended up in Cape Cod due to a sea storm. This happened in the late fall of 1620. This company grounded a town called Plymouth. They weren’t able to start farming or raising their own food because of the cold weather so they starved of a huge famine. Many people died. In the spring time, a local Indian chief named Massasoit helped the newcomers by giving them food and teaching them to raise their own food correctly. Next autumn the new Americans and local Indians joined to celebrate and eat together on a traditional Indian party of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest of the previous year. This common supper is considered to be the origin of the Thanksgiving Day we know today. Nowadays families get together on a thanksgiving day to eat for example turkey, corn and pumpkin pies. Thanksgiving is a national holiday (in fact even for a couple of days). It is the most important family-holiday in U.S.A, even more important than Christmas.
