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Sports events : Www.midwintermarathon.nl/ in Apeldoorn 2024 edition confirmed

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Tradeshows : Https://bit.fieramilano.it lasts 4 days - in Milano 2024 edition confirmed

Sports events : lasts 6 days -- in Marseilles 2024 edition confirmed

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Secular holiday : Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (Irish: Naomh Bríd; Latin: Brigida; c. 451 – 525) is one of Ireland's patron saints, along with Patrick and Columba. Irish hagiography makes her an early Irish Christian nun, abbess, and foundress of several monasteries of nuns, including that of Kildare in Ireland, which was famous and was revered. Her feast day is 1 February, which was originally a pagan festival called Imbolc, marking the beginning of spring. Her feast day is shared by Dar Lugdach, who tradition says was her student, close companion, and the woman who succeeded her. [Wikipedia]

Sports events : Www.atptennis.com 2024 edition confirmed

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Secular holiday : Nice Carnaval - www.nicecarnaval.com lasts 2 weeks -- in Nice only - Southern France 2024 edition NOT YET confirmed

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cards/flowers : At New Year during the night, the Jade Emperor conveyed all animals. Only 12 showed up. To thank them, Buddha dedicated one symbolic year per visitor. Each new born would inherit the relevant animal's characteristics.

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Sports events : Http://www.stpetersburgdistanceclassic.com/ 2024 edition confirmed

Sports events : Www.wroclawmaraton.pl 2024 edition confirmed

cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation.

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Sports events : Www.atptennis.com/ 2024 edition confirmed

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Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days - https://www.foiresinfo.fr/Wine-M11633/Paris.html in Paris 2024 edition confirmed

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Secular holiday : Shrove Tuesday Carnival

Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days - www.biofach.de/en/
organic food 2024 edition confirmed

Secular holiday : Carnival in Santa Cruz only

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Tradeshows : Lasts 5 days - www.zv.hr 2024 edition confirmed

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Secular holiday : Anniversary of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the first Serbian Constitution in 1835

Sports events : Www.rallysweden.com/ lasts 3 days - in Karlstad 2027 edition confirmed

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Secular holiday : Anniversary of Lithuania's declaration of independence in 1918. However, it became a republic of the USSR in 1940, after a secret treaty between Stalin and Hitler. The country regained independence in 1990.

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Sports events : Https://en.zurichmaratonsevilla.es/ 2024 edition confirmed

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Catholic or protestant : Please check with www.fasnachts-comite.ch (in German) for a list of numerous festivities. It all begins with what is known as the Morgestraich. At exactly 4 a.m., all the lights in the city center go off. Out of the pitch darkness, the sound of drums and piccolos waft through the cold night air. Closer and closer it comes, and a faint light glows in the distance. Suddenly, there they are, coming from all directions, the musicians and marchers of the city’s Fasnacht cliques. Each wears a masks. Some have small lamps on their heads. They carry painted lanterns that mock things that happend during the past year.

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Secular holiday : First celebrated in 1919 the holiday marks the date in 1918 during the Russian Civil War when the first mass draft into the Red Army occurred in Petrograd and Moscow. In January 1919 it was decided to combine the celebration that day with the anniversary of the publication of the decree on the establishment of the Red Army (of 18 February 1918). Since then it stayed that day. In 1923 it was officially named the Day of the Red Army and the Navy. In 1949, it was renamed Soviet Army and Navy Day. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the holiday was given its current name in 2002. work on weekends and non-working holidays is not overtime work.

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Tradeshows : Www.salon-agriculture.com/ lasts 10 days - in Paris 2024 edition confirmed

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Sports events : Www.maltamarathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed

Special Events : On the direct election of the government members

Sports events : Http://verdimarathon.it/ 2024 edition confirmed

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Tradeshows : Www.salon-auto.ch lasts 10 days - 2024 edition confirmed

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Tradeshows : Https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/ in Barcelona 2024 edition confirmed

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Tradeshows : Https://imexmadrid.com/ Lasts 4 days 2024 edition confirmed

Secular holiday : Commemorates the day when the Andalucian people voted for autonomy on Feb. 28, 1980

Secular holiday : Public sector employees including transport workers, air traffic controllers, health professionals, and teachers will take part in the nationwide industrial action

Tradeshows : Http://eng.mosboatshow.ru/boat/ lasts 4 days - 2024 edition confirmed

Tradeshows : Https://www.bvv.cz/en/prodite/prodite-2017/ lasts 4 days - in Brno 2024 edition confirmed

Catholic : Virgen de la Calle in Palencia only

Catholic : Candlemas is a Roman Catholic festival that commemorates the ritual purification of Mary 40 days after the birth of her son. The candles used in the church during the rest of the year are blessed.

Secular holiday : St. Blaise (festa Sveti Vlaho) A 4th century Armenian martyr, he is said to have appeared to the inhabitants of Dubrovnik floating in the air in 971 in order to warn them of an imminent attack from Venice. Since 972, Saint-Blaise has been celebrated every year. in Dubrovnik only

Secular holiday : Separation from Cardinal Alberoni's protectorate in 1740

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Secular holiday : The Sami are an Arctic indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. They are considered to have been living in the Sami settlement area - Sapmi - as far back in time as source material can tell us, which stretches from the Kola Peninsula in northeast Russia to Engerdal in eastern Norway and Idre in southern Sweden. It is estimated that about 60-70 000 Sami live in these areas today, whereas approximately 40 000 live in Norway, 20 000 in Sweden, 7500 in Finland and 2000 in Russia.

Secular holiday : Commemorates the death of Slovenian poet France Prešeren. It was established as a national cultural day in 1944, and was declared public holiday in 1991. [Wikipedia]

Secular holiday : Commemorates abolition in Muntenia on Feb. 8, 1856. Not all communities are concerned with this celebration.

Secular holiday : In the year 60 AD, an event took place that is comprehensively described in the New Testament: the shipwreck of the apostle Paul. According to the legend this shipwreck took place at St Paul's Bay. Saint Paul stayed in Malta for three months and performed a number of miracles, like the healing of the father of Publius, the Roman governor. St. Paul converted the Maltese to christianity.

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cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February

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Secular holiday : Elizabeth Wedding Anniversary in Teruel only

Secular holiday : Kurt Cobain Day in Aberdeen only

cards/flowers : Dragobete was the son of Baba Dochia, which stands for the main character in the pagan myth related to spring arrival and the end of the harsh winter. Due to his endless kindness he was chosen – according to some sources, by Virgin Mary – to be the Guardian of Love. The day is particularly known as the day when the birds are betrothed . It is around this time that the birds begin to build their nests and mate. On this day, considered locally the first day of spring, boys and girls gather vernal flowers and sing together. [Wikipedia]

Secular holiday : Commemorates the declaration of independence on Feb. 24, 1918 (the day before German troops invaded Tallinn) Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday