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Apple is a symbol of physical, cultural and
genetic variety.
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This day is a way of celebrating and
demonstrating that variety and richness matter to a locality
and that it is possible to effect change in your place.
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Apple Day is an annual celebration, of apples
and orchards. It’s held on October the 21st each
year.
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Apple Day was initiated by Common Ground in
1990 and has been celebrated in each subsequent year
by people organizing hundreds of local events
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The first Apple Day was on October the
21st, 1990 in Covent Garden, London.
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Apple day celebration is something like fair, where
you can buy and taste the great variety of
apple kinds.
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A traditional attribute of this holiday were all
sorts of "apple contests", such as archery for apples
or apple cleaning, where the winner is the one who managed to cut the longest apple peel
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Guinness World Record is held by Kathy Walfer
who peeled an apple for 11 hours 30 minutes
with a peel length of 52.51m on the 16th of October in 1976.
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An old tradition is the English farmers choose
the oldest apple-tree sing ballads and dance round the
tree.
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Pretty much all agrarian societies have some version
of a “First Fruits” celebration, where the products of
the first harvest are presented as a religious offering. The Western Christian Church has long since abandon this practice, but the Eastern Orthodox sects have kept the tradition alive with the August 19th celebration of the Great Feast for the Transfiguration of Our Lord, also known as Apple Day in Honor of the Savior (Yablochniy Spas). It is one of three Russian Orthodox holidays celebrated in August
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Russians bring apples and other autumnal fruits such
as plums and grapes to church on the eve
of Yablochniy Spas to be blessed, and the day itself is spent in a lively holiday atmosphere of street fairs, dancing, and other harvest celebrations.
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A potent symbol for both pagans and Christians,
apples represent life, immortality, and bounty. On Yablochniy Spas,
apples contain special powers – one who eats an apple on the holiday and makes a wish will have it granted
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In the United States Apple Day is celebrated
on February the 20th
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In North America, this day, in most culinary
colleges is cheerful holiday shows and master classes devoted
to the preparation of dishes where the main ingredient is apple
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In late October, in the province of Girona,
Catalan village Vilabertran, traditional festivals happening stuffed apples. On
this day, locals and visitors can taste the apple pancakes, cakes, pies and participate in master classes on stuffed apples.
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At the same time there is an apple
festival of Asturias (Spain). During the festival, you can
try apple dishes and, of course, try one of the favorite drinks of local residents - apple cider.
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Autumn festival takes place in sunny Beijing (China).
This festival traditionally dedicated to the harvest and is
accompanied by the annual auction. The most expensive apple that was ever sold at auction, weighed 600 grams and was sold for 10,2 thousand US dollars.
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On October, held the brightest apple festival in
Kivik (Sweden). The most awaited event of the festival
is the presentation of a huge apple pictures.
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To create such a masterpiece accounts for approximately
20-75 000 apples of different colors.
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Two-meter monument of apple varieties "antonovka“ was established
on the 19th of August 2008 in Kursk on
Lenin Street.
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In the city of Almaty in 2005 set
a very beautiful apple marble fountain. Sculptor E. Rakhmadiyev.
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Monument bitten apple in Perm. It is a
“visual metaphor of vision Perm” Ukrainian sculptor Zhanna Kadyrova.
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In heraldry, the apple is a symbol of
peace. One of the signs of the monarch -
Power, "Reigning apple." Apple is also part of many coats of arms.
Россошь (Воронежская область)
Валуйки (Белгородская область)
Герб коммуны Азелебен в Германии
Верхнесадовое, Украина
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From the biography of Steve Jobs: - Apples
have been a part of my fruit diet. I
just came back from the apple farm and thought that Apple name sounds funny and sincere ...
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There are more than 7000 kinds of apples
in the world.
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Apple orchards occupy in the world almost 5
million hectares. Almost every second fruit tree – is
an apple tree.
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Tonic properties of apple much higher than that
of coffee: one apple is able to replace a
cup of coffee.
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The smaller the apple, the more it contains
vitamins and minerals.
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Unusual fruit grown Swiss horticulturist Marcus Cobert. To
get the fruit, which from the outside looks like
an apple, and the inside - like a tomato, it took him 20 years. The new fruit (or vegetable) was named - "Red Love".