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8 mar 2016
1 mar 2016
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2017
When: Tuesday 8 March 2017
Where: Everywhere
What:
International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the
economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and
future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria,
International Women's Day is a national holiday.
Why:
Suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word
'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to
vote. International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes,
celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be
redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911.
2011 was the Global Centenary Year. Let's reinvent opportunity for all women ... more ...
26 ene 2016
20 dic 2015
A Cristmas Carol (Part one)
Christmas
stories are important tools for spreading Christmas cheer. Actually it is said
that Charles Dickens’ story, “A Christmas Carol”, saved Christmas as we know it
today. When Charles Dickens wrote his story in the 18th century, the celebration
of Xmas was on the wane. But Dickens used his story to describe Christmas as a
time of joy, a time when people respect each other, and a time when everything
is all right.
People
liked to hear this story, and in the following years, happy Christmas stories
became more and more popular together with the decorated Christmas tree,
Christmas gifts, and the overall Christmas spirit. If you like christmas
stories, you can print and read the christmas stories right
now!
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Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has officially been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the "big six" major holidays of the year (along with Christmas, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day). Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World.[2] The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 13 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.[3] The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl (ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beetroot and possibly, wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize or corn, and squash.[2][4][5][6] The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.[7]
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