Magna Carta

Magna Carta is one of the most popular documents in the world,but why? what does it say?
Well,Magna Carta is the document created by King John I,as a solution to the political crisis in 1215 because merchants forced him,and established that everybody,no matter if had power,had to obey the LAW.

This provided a new framework for the relationship between the king and his subjects,and also a new politic where everybody had to obey the law.
And what does it say that is so important? Magna Carta contained 63 clauses but only 3 clauses remain part of the English law,the third,and the most populart says:
"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice."

Magna Carta changed everything and influenced the whole history because this was the first document that says that everyone had to obey the law,and after that,most of the goverments nowadays have a balanced power between the president and the rest of the people.
Souces:https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-an-introduction
https://www.google.com.ar/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwim4N_8lvPTAhVJUJAKHUIQBrsQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyextra.com%2Ffeature%2Fmagna-carta-turning-point-english-history&psig=AFQjCNG4Poo-0uOq2pLY2MwYOeCI6Zz0cg&ust=1494981657609863
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Viking Religion

Viking Gods are quite popular,Thor,Odin,Loki,etc. But do you know where do they came from and what do they meant to vikings? 

The popular image of vikings is that they were all pagans and hated the church and Christianity but that is not true.  What is true is that people in Scandinavia were pagans  at the beginning of the Viking age and that they had many Gods but they accepted Christianity as well.  

VIKING GODS:

We start with Odin,known as the "Allfather" of the gods,was an emblematic of war but also of poetry,music,prophecy and magic.

Thor,Odin's most famous son,and God of Thunders,and he was also a representative of healing (but not many people know that)

Baldur,Another son of Odin,the God of the sun,summer and radiance.

Loki,the Trickster God and a Shape-shifter,he managed to become Odin's blood brother.

Hel,The goddess of Death 

And Freyja,The goddess of love and fertility

They were more Gods,but those were the most populars 

Nowadays,Thor,Loki,Odin,and some Viking gods are very popular,and popular editorials such as Marvel made movies 

(Thor and Loki)

Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/thor-odin-norse-gods-guide-iceland-temple-vikings-deities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/religion_01.shtml

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The first HERO

Heroes are very popular and different now from the ones we had one hundread years ago. Nowadays we have the "super heroes",the most populars heroes that exist,like Superman and Batman. But have you ever wondered which was the very first heroe that existed? 
BEOWULF is the answer.
But who is Beowulf,and where does this heroe came from?
   Is an epic poem. An epic poem is a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero. Before the development of writing, epic poems were memorized and played an important part in maintaining a record of the great deeds and history of a culture. Beowulf may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of old english literature,(Old english is the oldest historical form of the english language,for example The nouns hæte, ‘heat’, and wæta, ‘moisture’) 
If you want to know the story of the oldest hero that existed you can read it here: 
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/story.html
Is really cool to have the oldest poem in the whole world right? now you,with your computer,cellphone,tablet or whatever you have,you can read something that thousands of years ago only some people could hear by the "Scops"

(scop)

,(who where both poets and performers of the anglo-saxon period ) because it was transmitted orally,and thanks to monk (who wrote it in old english,the oldest form of the language we know as english) is that we have the poem.

Sources:
http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/epic-poem-39
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/story.html
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf984f/images/Beowulf/oldbeowulf.gif
http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/images/thumb/c/cf/44199_C1_bard.jpg/180px-44199_C1_bard.jpg