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Cinco de Mayo literally translates as May 5th and this is the name of the celebration also lovingly dubbed as Mexico St. Patty’s Day. The holiday commemorates the Battle of the Puebla between France and Mexico on May 5th 1862. At the time, Mexico owed France along with Spain and England a lot of money.…
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in 1962 Rachel Carson’s new York times best-selling book Silent Spring opened many people’s eyes to the negative consequences of industrialization and showed a direct link between pollution and public health. As the modern environmental movement gained steam in the mid-1960s an activist out of San Francisco wanted to celebrate something like earth day on…
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Earth day always takes place on April 22nd as a nod to the first official demonstration. People worldwide participate with rallies concerts acts of service outdoor activities and more. Its known as international mother earth day around the world. The United Nations general assembly came up with the moniker in 2009 although it never stuck…
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Here are some earthy facts to wow your friends: every day about 100 tons of interplanetary material fall down onto Earth’s surface primarily from the ice of comets as they vaporize near the Sun The Pacific Basin contains half of the free water on earth and could hold all of the world’s continents. Constructed from…
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The world’s largest easter egg weighing a husky 5 000 can be found in Alberta, Canada. It towers at 31 feet in height and has a width of 18 feet. It is put together from 3 500 individual pieces of aluminum and construction on the structure took over 12 000 hours to complete. The first…
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For many people of the Christian faith, Easter is the most important holiday of the year. It is the culmination of the religious season of Lent and the day on which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. The first recorded celebration of Easter was back in the 2nd century but it probably goes back even…
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Unlike fixed holidays like Halloween and Christmas, Easter is considered a “moveable feast” and can fall anywhere from March 22 and April 25. The simple standard definition of Easter is that it is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. If the full Moon falls on a…
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The tradition of celebrating March 17th with parades actually started in America. st. Paddy’s might be more American than Irish. 34 million Americans claim Irish heritage which is about 5 times the population of Ireland itself. The parade tradition really took off after the great potato famine hit Ireland in the 1840s sending hundreds of…
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Traditionally blue was the national color of Ireland instead of the popular green color of today. This was because before the 1600s during Saint Patrick’s time, Ireland was under British rule and Henry the eighth was King and his flag was blue. The great Irish rebellion happened in 1641 allowing Ireland to secede from the…
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Saint Patrick wasn’t Irish and he wasn’t called Patrick. He was actually born in Britain in 386 AD and was originally named Maewyn Succat. Saint Patrick was only known as Patrick once he’d become a priest and the only reason he traveled to Ireland in the first place was because he’d been kidnapped by pirates.…
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