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24 minutes ago, Prisca said:

I remember that we talked about it last year. Unbelievable that already a year has passed. :o

 

Happy Yorkshire Day :yay:

Today is also @crazyaboutmika's wedding anniversary. :yay:

And Benin and Switzerland have their national day. :yay:

 

 

Wow, that's a busy day!  Happy anniversary @crazyaboutmika! 🎉 🤗🥂🍰 (it's OK, it's sugar free) 

 

@Prisca So what did you get up to for your national day? 

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31 minutes ago, Prisca said:

I remember that we talked about it last year. Unbelievable that already a year has passed. :o

 

Happy Yorkshire Day :yay:

Today is also @crazyaboutmika's wedding anniversary. :yay:

And Benin and Switzerland have their national day. :yay:

 

 

 

I'm annoyed that we missed International Friendship Day on July 30  - I can't think of a better example of international friends than MFC.

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20 hours ago, Hero said:

@Prisca So what did you get up to for your national day? 

I visited my grandmother and my mother. :original:

 

Oh, and I had raclette for dinner. 🤣

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22 hours ago, Prisca said:

I remember that we talked about it last year. Unbelievable that already a year has passed. :o

 

Happy Yorkshire Day :yay:

Today is also @crazyaboutmika's wedding anniversary. :yay:

And Benin and Switzerland have their national day. :yay:

 

 

Thank you :hug: Thirty years :doh: :lmfao:

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23 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Happy Diwali! 

 

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Today is the Hindu festival of lights! Celebrating five days of how light overcomes darkness, symbolising good over evil.

 

 

And also

 

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Happy Halloween! 

 

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A holiday that I'm sure many of us are familiar with, but actually has it's roots in Celtic Paganism (Halloween that we know of today gained in popularity sometime during the 1700's).

 

Dating back to the 9th century Pagans would celebrate the coming of winter and harvest season with a day called Samhain. This is actually on November 1st, but festivities would begin the day before. It's believed that this period of time between the 31st October and the next day was when a door opens to the 'Otherworld' and spirits of loved ones would pass through for one day. Pagans traditionally wore outfits to represent the spirits, who are known as Aos Sí, and would go door to door to collect food. Towns and villages would have feasts to remember their loved ones with the gathered food and it's tradition to leave an empty space at the table as a sign of respect for the spirits.

 

Now a days trick-or-treating is a much more common (and much more commercialised) way of celebrating Halloween.

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Oh Samhain is far older than that  - it was one of the four main festivals of the Celtic year (the others being Beltane (May 1st), Lugnasad (August 1st) and Imbolc (February 1st). 

 

Samhain was Christianised as All Hallows Day (= All Souls Day), and so the night before was All Hallows Eve. Traditionally there were bonfires, but these were forbidden under Puritan rule.  Fortunately Guy Fawkes came along and the bonfires were transferred to a few days later, as people were then no longer celebrating a pagan festival, but marking the failed Gunpowder Plot and the death of a traitor.

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Today is the Day of the Dead

 

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I don't actually know a great deal about it, I know it's widely celebrated in South America, especially Mexico. Altars are made of people that have died and families decorate them with photographs of their loved ones.  Marigold flowers/petals are used as decoration and it's believed that the flowers create a pathway for the spirits to pass through and be remembered.

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Happy Timket to all who celebrate!

 

Timket (every January 19th) is the Ethiopian day of Epiphany where people reenact the baptism of Jesus at River Jordan.

 

Other rituals are performed too but I don't know much else about it.

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4 minutes ago, Hero said:

Oh, that explains all the fireworks I can hear. 

Is it early this year? I thought it was usually in February. 

Happy Chinese New Year GIF by Charlotte Mei

 

Because it follows a lunar calendar, the actual date can vary quite a bit

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17 hours ago, silver said:

Have just discovered that it is World Sparrow Day - how could we overlook such an event?

 

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woow super 

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Today first day of Spring so Spring has come :sorry: may your head always bloom-.. Que notre tete fleurisse toujour 

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