Wicker man since 1986, an effigy of a man has been burned during Burning Man, a week-long annual event currently being held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Wicker man A wicker man was a large wicker statue reportedly used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for sacrifice by burning it in effigy. The main evidence for this practice is one sentence in Julius Caesar's "Commentary on the Gallic war", which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier writer, Poseidonius. Modern archaeological research has not yielded much evidence of human sacrifice among the Celts, and the ancient Greco-Roman sources are now
Flame Is Burning Flame Is Burning "Flame Is Burning" is a song performed by Russian singer Yuliya Samoylova. It would have represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 that was held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. On 13 March 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine announced that they might ban Samoylova from entering Ukraine due to her unlawful visit to Crimea, a peninsula that was unilaterally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. State broadcaster Channel One announced on 13 April 2017 of their withdrawal from the contest. The song is about hope, that never dies, like a flame burning