Fallas*

FALLAS:

They are a few holidays that celebrate the Valencia, the name of faults corresponds to artistic constructions of combustible materials in his set, which figures represent known like “ninots”.

The neighbors' group they constitute the commission fallera, being his members known as falleros and falleras.
Nowadays, this festivity has turned into a tourist very important attraction.
Habitually the faults are provided with satirical character on topics of current importance. The faults are in the habit of having several meters of height (the biggest come to 25 or 30 meters).

Also there are pyrotechnic spectacles.
Valencia together with China they are the biggest pyrotechnic.

The mascletás the mas preferred by the Valencian ones and less understood with visitors.
To understand them is necessary to be close to the place where they are exploded, since it is not a question of seeing, but of being sorry and hearing, everything concerning a few minutes.

Then the castles are where the important mas is the NIT DEL FÓC where thousands that kg of gunpowder illuminate the sky of Valencia, managing to congregate more than one million persons to attend it.

Credits: TELEPOLIS ---> 13-04-07

FALLAS IN ENGLISH ---> 13-04-07

THE ORIGINS OF THE SAHARAN POPULATION

Approximately 3.000 years ago the sanhaja, preceding people of the different groups Berbers initiated a migration from the north towards the northwest of Africa. In his advance, they were expelling towards the south the population of black skin who was living in the Sahara, until they managed to occupy the whole territory. Nevertheless, the control of the sanhaja on the desert was not complete until they started using the camel, it does approximately 2.000 thousand years.
For many centuries the sanhaja who were living the zone of the western Sahara faced to other villages the aim to support the control of the routes that were crossing the desert of north on south. This way, in the IXth century they took Aoudaghost's control that was a center of the route transahariana, until they lost it at the end of the same century to hands of the “soninké”, group proceeding from the current Ghana.

Credits: http://biblioteca.udg.es/fl/sahara/p-12.htm

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