By Dimitar PAnayotov, Xd class The War of the Oaken Bucket The War of the Bucket or the War of the Oaken Bucket was fought in 1325 between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena. It took place in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy. A common myth surrounding the War of the Bucket…
Category: Columns
Curious Facts About China
Here are some interesting facts about the country that is believed to have brought onto the world the danger of COVID-19. Information that not so many people are aware of, and it comes “straight from the horse’s mouth” as is the saying. Football (soccer) was invented in China! It happened 2200 years ago. The game…
Awarding two short stories: the “AWAKENING” competition!
The first edition of the “Awakening” competition was held in April/May. The competition aimed to honor the renewal of life at Easter and the rebirth of nature. The idea was to praise the awakening of our spirit, conscience and emotions as well as to provoke the desire for wisdom, beauty and miracle-monging by doing good…
Results from the Fun Quiz
Special thanks to the 116 students who took part in the newspaper’s quiz held in April this year! As the answers clearly show, most of those who took part are in 9th and 8th grade (since they have not been on a school trip yet).It is a pleasant surprise to see the newest students of…
Blooming Spring
By Siyana Stefkova Zhelezarova (VIIIb) A lovely story that grabbed our hearts! It earned its publishing at the May’2021 short story competition titled ‘Awakening’! I saw the same figure, standing under exactly the same tree that I seemed to remember very well… But how? Where did such a memory pop up from? I had never…
The Controversial Teacups
By Nikolay Dimitrov Petkov (XI d) A remarkable work! It caught our attention in the May’2021 short story competition titled ‘Awakening’! To Ze The eyes of the teacups abruptly turned towards me, wide-open. Until then, I had been pretty sure that they were too shy to look around. Apparently, I was wrong – they all…
Poetry
Hello everybody and welcome to our poetry rubric! In this weekly column we will be posting poems composed by students or teachers or anyone who wants to share a poem with our readers. 😊You can send it to the ELS Newspaper’s email address:[email protected] will be waiting for your poems. The selected ones will be published upon…
Poetry
Hello everybody and welcome to our poetry rubric! In this weekly column we will be posting poems composed by students or teachers or anyone who wants to share a poem with our readers. 😊You can send it to the ELS Newspaper’s email address:[email protected] We will be waiting for your poems. The selected ones will be…
JOKE
By Alex Sarieva, 9th grade (Feel welcome to send yours!) Joshua to Pulev after the match: – Don’t be sad, you actually scared me a lot. – Really? – Yes, I thought you were dead.
Why Facts Do Not Change Our Minds
Here is another interesting fact! Unlike the other such mentioned here as examples, it is not trying to change your mind, since it simply cannot do it. A curious thing: facts do not change our minds. We used to enjoy certain things in our past and hearing new stuff about them does not make us…