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Thank you, dear etwinners, for participating in this event. I wish you happiness and grateful students. Enjoy the music and share yours!

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Thank you, dear etwinners, for participating in this event. I wish you happiness and grateful students. Enjoy the music and share yours!

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In Ukraine Teacher’s Day is the first Sunday in October.

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Uploaded by LEYLi NOSTALJİ on 2015-02-25.

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Chris Spheeris ~ Viva http://chrisspheeris.com/ ~ Thank you for visiting! *** I do not own the copyrigt to the images and music on this video,and it is not profitable.It serves the purpose of entertainment and enjoyment for beautiful music.If it is necessary to remove it will be removed. THANK YOU !!!

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Chris Spheeris (Крис Сфирис) — Eros (Rain).

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Крис Сфирис - new age композитор -- мультиинструменталист начал писать песни для гитары еще подростком. Вдохновленный духовной и народной музыкой родной Греции и других стран, классикой и поп-музыкой, Сфирис сплавил все эти составляющие в свой собственный, уникальный музыкальный стиль.

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Music Is What Feelings Sound Like ... facebook : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009093008521

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Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit’s Juicy Past

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Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit’s Juicy Past

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The apple, that innocent bud of an Americana autumn, has pulled off one of the greatest cons of all time. As students across the country prepare to greet a new school year and teacher with a polished bit of produce, the apple cements its place in the patriotic foods pantheon despite its dodgy past.

A clever bit of biology, well documented in Michael Pollan's Botany of Desire, and a tireless cheer campaign of fall orchard visits and doctor-endorsed slogans saved the apple from its bitter beginnings in early America. Though its standing in society today is rivaled only by bald eagles and baseball, the apple's journey to ubiquity was tumultuous.

Stretching back to the hills of Kazakhstan, early apples were a far cry from today's sweet, fleshy varieties. As Pollan explains, sweetness is a rarity in nature. Apples benefitted from being bitter and sometimes poisonous because it allowed the seeds to spread unmolested. Because each seed has the genetic content of a radically different tree, the fruit came in countless forms, "from large purplish softballs to knobby green clusters."

When the apple came to the American colonies, it was still a long way from a sweet treat. Bitter but easy to grow, the produce made excellent hard cider. In a time when water was considered more dangerous than consuming alcohol, hard cider was a daily indulgence. Its distilled cousin, applejack, also became popular, according to documentation from Colonial Williamsburg.

As anyone who grew up in the Ohio River Valley knows, the greatest champion of the fruit was a wandering missionary named John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and beyond bloomed in the wake of his visits. He was opposed to grafting, the practice of inserting "a section of a stem with leaf buds is inserted into the stock of a tree" to reproduce the same type of apples from the first tree, as described by the University of Minnesota.

Without the human intervention, however, apples remained overwhelmingly bitter and when an anti-alcohol fervor swept the nation in the late 19th century, the plant's fate was in peril. One of the fiercest of opponents, temperance supporter and axe-wielding activist Carrie Nation, went after both growers and bars, leaving a wake of destruction in her path. Nation was arrested 30 times in a ten-year span for vandalism in the name of her movement, according to PBS.

"But with the help of early public relations pioneers crafting slogans such as "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," the plant quickly reinvented itself as a healthy foodstuff," according to the PBS production of Pollan's work.

Elizabeth Mary Wright's 1913 book, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, recorded the use of apples as part of common kitchen cures. "For example," she writes, "Ait a happle avore gwain to bed, An' you'll make the doctor beg his bread...or as the more popular version runs: An apple a day Keeps the doctor away."

Free to produce a socially acceptable fruit, growers raced to develop sweet, edible varieties that would replace the plant's previous life. Shaking its association with hard cider and reckless imbibing, the apple found a place in one of the most faultless places of American society: the schoolhouse.

Held up as the paragon of moral fastidiousness, teachers, particularly on the frontier, frequently received sustenance from their pupils. "Families whose children attended schools were often responsible for housing and feeding frontier teachers," according to a PBS special, titled " Frontier House, Frontier Life." An apple could show appreciation for a teacher sometimes in charge of more than 50 students.

Apples continued to be a favorite way to curry favor even after the practical purpose of feeding teachers disappeared. Bing Crosby's 1939 "An Apple for the Teacher," explains the persuasive allure of the fruit. "An apple for the teacher will always do the trick," sings Crosby, "when you don't know your lesson in arithmetic."

By the time American scholar Jan Harold Brunvand published his book, The Study of American Folklore, in 1968, the phrase "apple-polisher" was more or less shorthand for brown-nosing suck-up. With cutting-edge technology in classrooms seen as an academic advantage, many teachers may be asking for a completely different kind of apple: not a Red Delicious or Granny Smith but an iPad.

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Leah Binkovitz is a Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow at Washington Post and NPR. Previously, she was a contributing writer and editorial intern for the At the Smithsonian section of Smithsonian magazine.

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Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit's Juicy Past

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The apple, that innocent bud of an Americana autumn, has pulled off one of the greatest cons of all time. As students across the country prepare to greet a new school year and teacher with a polished bit of produce, the apple cements its place in the patriotic foods pantheon despite its dodgy past.

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To Teachers

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Thank you, teachers!

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my country will be celebrated on 24th November

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In Poland we celebrate Teacher's Day on 14th October. Best greetings for all teachers ;D

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In Poland we celebrate Teacher's Day on 14th October. Best greetings for all teachers ;D

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Happy teacher's da

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Thanks to my teachers who have influenced my way of being a teacher, today!

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Thanks to my teachers who have influenced my way of being a teacher, today!

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Gymnasium no.99, vill. Truseni, Republic of Moldova

In Moldova the Teacher's Day  is selebrated on the 5th of October. Happy Teacher's Day!

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PIESA : DRAGI PROFESORI / MUZICA SI TEXT : EUGENIA ANDRIES-CARABUT / ORCHESTRATIE : VITALIE ANDRIES / INTERPRET : RAFAEL BOBEICA .

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The best award for me - my children's team & their amazing work! Thank you, dear! Happy Teacher's Day to all of you! With pleasure! :)

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Republic of Moldova

În Moldova această zi este marcată pe 5 Octombrie. Felicitări cu Ziua Profesorului. La Mulți Ani.

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It is Asturias we will celebrate Teacher's Day on November 3rd. There is no custom of making gifts. It is commented with the students but the celebration consists in that the teachers and the students make party and do not go to the school.I think this year with my students we will celebrate with apples. Thanks for the idea

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Today is 5 October and today more than 100 countries of the world celebrate World Teachers Day.

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Today is 5 October and today more than 100 countries of the world celebrate World Teachers Day.

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Songül KURT/France

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Lovely flowers and sweets from students.

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Lovely flowers and sweets from students.

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https://padlet.com/ukrinusa/2uz36jx81bpv?utm_campaign=liked_padlet&utm_medium=desktop&utm_source=notifications

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Dear colleagues! Let me congratulate you on this lovely autumn day - The Teacher's Day! Wish you to be healthy and wealthy, because these are the main things we need in our lives. Be happy and loved by your families and students, live in peace and harmony! Be creative and spark off the students' souls! HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY!!!

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Dear colleagues! Let me congratulate you on this lovely autumn day - The Teacher's Day! Wish you to be healthy and wealthy, because these are the main things we need in our lives. Be happy and loved by your families and students, live in peace and harmony! Be creative and spark off the students' souls! HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY!!!

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Creative and talanted students. It was marvelous!

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день учителя

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Галина Кузьменко

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День учителя  2017

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Uploaded by Галина Кузьменко on 2017-09-30.

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A selfi for an Etwinning project with my students for this Teacher's Day ;-))

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A selfi for an Etwinning project with my students for this Teacher's Day ;-))

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I share with you this padlet
I celebrate this day with my pupils

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We celebrate Teacher's Day on 5th October. There are many flowers and smiles in this day. Children and there parents wish happy Teacher's Day.

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Dear teachers!
I wish you happy Teacher's Day!
I wish you to be healthy, joy, smiles and many flowers!
Best greetings to all teachers!!!

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Happy teacher's day.We celebrate Teacher's day on 7th March

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Ziua Profesorului