| Holi / Holika / Medin Poya/Dola Purnima - Friday March 2, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Purim - Friday March 2, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Grandmothers Day - Sunday March 4, 2018 cards/flowers : Depuis 1987
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| Arbor Day - Monday March 4, 2019 cards/flowers : Tree-planting day
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| Saint Casimir's day - Monday March 4, 2019 cards/flowers : Patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia
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| Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women - Friday March 8, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Friday March 8, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Womens' Day - Friday March 8, 2019 cards/flowers : Nőnap
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| Womens' Day - Friday March 8, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday March 11, 2018 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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| Arbor Day - Tuesday March 12, 2019 cards/flowers : Tree-Planting Day
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| Anniversary of the Revolution 1848-49 - Friday March 15, 2019 cards/flowers : Hungarian revolt against the Austrian rule Only observed by the Hungarian community (Transylvania)
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| St Patrick's Day - Sunday March 17, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Day of Solidarity - Monday March 18, 2019 cards/flowers : Between Crimea and Russia
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| San José - Tuesday March 19, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| St Joseph's Day - Monday March 19, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Tuesday March 19, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Gom Kora Tshechu - Wednesday March 20, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Vernal Equinox - Tuesday March 20, 2018 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| St Benedict - Thursday March 21, 2019 cards/flowers : Catholic Christian recognition of the father of the The Benedictine Order. It was the first Order of the Western Church Monastic tradition. Patron saint of speleologists. only in Engelberg
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| Mothers' Day - Thursday March 21, 2019 cards/flowers : Ruz-e Madar in Arabic
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| Noruz - Thursday March 21, 2019 cards/flowers : From 2011 onwards
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| Arbor Day - Thursday March 21, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Noruz - Thursday March 22, 2018 cards/flowers : From 2012 onwards
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| Arbor Day - Sunday March 24, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Greek National Day - Monday March 25, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Sunday March 25, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Day of Peace - Tuesday March 26, 2019 cards/flowers : 'Día Nacional por la Paz, la Vida y la Justicia' is an appeal to Salvadorian society to favour life, peace and security and to repudiate the violent and criminal actions. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Union Day - Wednesday March 27, 2019 cards/flowers : March 27, 1918, is one of the most significant days in the Romanian history. At that moment, after 106 years of Tsarist occupation, Bessarabia returned to its natural borders, being the first Romanian province that united with Romania
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| Tibet Liberation Day (Tibet only) - Thursday March 28, 2019 cards/flowers : Serfs' Emancipation Day
On March 28, 1959, Tibetan serfs and slaves, who accounted for more than 90 percent of the region's population, were freed after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters, Only celebrated in Tibet, NOT in the rest of China.
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| Maundy Thursday - Thursday March 29, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Good Friday - Friday March 30, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Passover - Friday March 30, 2018 cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus NOT a public holiday
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| Cesar Chavez Day - Sunday March 31, 2019 cards/flowers : Labor leader Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Proclaimed a national commemorative holiday in 2014 by President Barack Obama.
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| April Fools Day - Monday April 1, 2019 cards/flowers : As the story goes, in 1564, France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day, instead of the last week of March which was previously observed. In 1582, the Pope followed suit. Those who went on celebrating April 1st were mocked. As the zodiacal sign was the fish, The French placed dead fish on the backs of one another. Traditions vary from country to country.
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| Pascua Florida Day - Tuesday April 2, 2019 cards/flowers : Anniversary of the discovery of Florida in 1513 by Juan Ponce de León, who was looking for gold and the Fountain of Youth. He probably named the land Pascua Florida because the date was near Easter ( Pascua in Spanish) Florida
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 2, 2018 cards/flowers : from 2014 onwards
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| Mother's Day - Saturday April 7, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Orthodox Holy Saturday - Saturday April 7, 2018 cards/flowers : Great Saturday – ts’iteli parask’evi
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| Toussaint Louverture Anniversary - Sunday April 7, 2019 cards/flowers : A former slave who became a general in the French army of Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture (1743 - 1803)established a new constitution of the Dominican Republic.
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| Orthodox Easter - Sunday April 8, 2018 cards/flowers : Sunday of Bright Week – didi shabati
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 9, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Vesak - Buddha Purnima - Visakha Bucha - Sunday April 29, 2018 cards/flowers : Commemorates to Buddhists the birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Gautama Buddha.
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| Deportation Day - Sunday April 29, 2018 cards/flowers : In the early 1950s, former deportees or their families wanted a national celebration for preserving the memory of the deportation.
The law of 14 April 1954, unanimously passed by the French Parliament has responded to the need to preserve the memory of the deportation by creating the National Day of Remembrance of the victims and heroes of the deportation . Not a public holiday
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 6, 2018 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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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 6, 2018 cards/flowers : Anyák napja
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| 1902 Montagne Pelée eruption commemoration - Wednesday May 8, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| National Day of Prayer - Thursday May 9, 2019 cards/flowers : National Day of Honor for troops who contributed to Afghanistan mission
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| Ascension - Thursday May 10, 2018 cards/flowers : not a public holiday
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| Mothers' Day - Friday May 10, 2019 cards/flowers : The mother is given a serenade sung by her family or by a band
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| Abolition of Slavery - Friday May 10, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Friday May 10, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Thursday May 10, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Probably linked with a celebration in England in the 1600s ( Mothering Sunday ). Honored all mothers in England. Mothering Sunday gave poor servants who lived and worked for the wealthy a day off to actually go home and dedicate time to their mothers. Mothering Cake , a special cake, was common for the celebration.
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 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. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Ziua Tatălui
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| Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Wednesday May 16, 2018 cards/flowers : Originally Ramadama is the name of the ninth month in the Arab world.
It is, above all, a month of fasting.
Fasting was not born with Islam. The abstaining from eating and drinking is mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, preceding the prophet Muhammad.
Thus, in the Bible, it is mentioned that Queen Esther asked the Jews to fast for three days before asking her husband to spare the Jews.
According to the New Testament, Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert. Referring to this episode, Christianity has a fasting period of 40 days called Lent .
Today, the fasting period of practicing Catholics lasts from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday.
The start of Ramadan generally depends on local observation of the moon crescent, but others choose the calculation of the new moon or the statement of Saudi Arabia to determine the start of the fasting period.
The three main prohibitions of Ramadan are: eat, drink and have sex,
It is possible to swallow one's own saliva, but not the water with which mouth was rinsed.
Practitioners can go swimming or take a shower, as long as they do not swallow water.
Alcohol-based perfume is prohibited.
Nail biting is allowed as long as nails are clean.
Dates fruit are recommended after breaking of the fast, provided they do not come from Israel.
Travelers, pregnant or nursing or menstruating women are allowed to stop fasting.
Practitioners usually gain weight during this period.
Punishments are particularly heavy year Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
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| Deportation Day - Saturday May 18, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday May 20, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Buddha's Anniversary - Tuesday May 22, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Saturday May 26, 2018 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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| Mothers Day - Sunday May 26, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Commemoration of J.A.G.S. McCartney - Monday May 27, 2019 cards/flowers : In tribute to the first Chief Minister and National Hero of these islands
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 27, 2018 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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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 27, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Sunday May 27, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day - Monday May 28, 2018 cards/flowers : Grandson of King Thakombau, the last king of Fiji (until 1874), Mr. Sukuna joined the French Legion during WW1. He was highly honored and even has a monument in Souain-Perthes-les Hurlus (France), as a horseman
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday May 31, 2018 cards/flowers : Makeshift altars are displayed on the previous day. Spectacular processions on the Corpus Christi day.
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| Peace Memorial Day - Thursday May 31, 2018 cards/flowers : The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) was finalized at the All Darfur Stakeholders Conference in May 2011, in Doha, Qatar. In accordance with the DDPD, the Government of Sudan appointed a Darfur Regional Authority and a Darfuri as Second Vice President of the Republic of Sudan.
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| Children's Day - Saturday June 1, 2019 cards/flowers : Originated in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925.
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 3, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Liberation Day - Wednesday June 5, 2019 cards/flowers : Commemorates the resolution which lead to independence on June 29, 1976
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| Fathers' Day - Wednesday June 5, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Valentine's Day - Wednesday June 12, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday June 15, 2018 cards/flowers : The month of Ramadan is that in which was revealed the Quran; a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, a number of other days. Allah desires for you ease; He desires not hardship for you; and that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that perhaps you may be thankful NOT a public holiday [Wikipedia]
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| Arbor Day - Saturday June 15, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 17, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) - Monday June 18, 2018 cards/flowers : The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar, the source of its alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice treats wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine (雄黃酒, xiónghuángjiǔ), and racing dragon boats.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty. [Wikipedia]
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| Fathers' Day - Thursday June 21, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Saturday June 23, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Youth Day - Sunday July 1, 2018 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Armed Forces Day - Sunday July 1, 2018 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| St Cyrilus and St Methodius - Thursday July 5, 2018 cards/flowers : Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity in Khazaria and Great Moravia. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into this language.
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 8, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Behdeinkhlam - Saturday July 21, 2018 cards/flowers : Agrarian festival that asks God to chase away plagues and diseases and to bless the people with good health and a bountiful
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| Racial Harmony Day - Saturday July 21, 2018 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Parents' Day - Sunday July 22, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 22, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Christmas in July - Wednesday July 25, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Tu B'Av - Friday July 27, 2018 cards/flowers : Celebration of love -- similar to Valentine
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| Arbor Day - Sunday July 29, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Earthquake Mourning - Monday July 30, 2018 cards/flowers : Remembrance of the 2010 earthquake
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| Sisters' Day - Sunday August 5, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Wednesday August 8, 2018 cards/flowers : 8th day of the 8th month
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday August 12, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Assumption - Wednesday August 15, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Wednesday August 15, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Chinese Valentine's day - Friday August 17, 2018 cards/flowers : It was said that the Goddess of Heaven, out of pity, decided to let them unite once on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month as she was touched by their love for each other.
In some versions it is the Emperor of Heaven, the cowherd's father, or the cowherd's mother who has the role of separating the lovers for them to focus on their work instead of romance.
The star Deneb is a fairy who acts as a chaperone when the lovers meet on the magpie bridge. Rather than once a year, there is a version where the lovers were permitted to reunite once a month.
There is a belief that sometime during the night of Qixi, the two stars Altair and Vega will actually unite on the same side of the Milky Way.
Similar stories are told throughout Asia: in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia. In South-east Asia the stories were known as Sudhana Jataka, believed to be one of the stories of the past lives of the Buddha, or the jataka
[Wikipedia]
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| Indian National Day - Saturday August 18, 2018 cards/flowers : To recognize the contributions Indo-St. Lucians have made to the development of the island.
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Sunday August 19, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Isese Day - Monday August 20, 2018 cards/flowers : Traditional celebration observed by the Osun community
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Wednesday August 22, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism - Thursday August 23, 2018 cards/flowers : Kommunismi ja natsismi ohvrite mälestuspäev: Day when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939.
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| Grandparents Day - Sunday August 26, 2018 cards/flowers : To honor grandparents, to give grandparents an opportunity to show love for their children's children, and to help children become aware of strength, information, and guidance older people can offer.
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| Sri Krishna Jayanthi (Janmashtami) - Tuesday August 28, 2018 cards/flowers : Krishna (literally black , dark , dark-blue ) is a Hindu deity, regarded as an avatar of Vishnu and in some traditions considered the Supreme Being. Krishna is often depicted as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions.They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being.
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| National Day on Detained-Missing People - Thursday August 30, 2018 cards/flowers : From 2007 onwards
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday September 2, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Teachers' Day - Friday September 7, 2018 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Grandparents Day - Sunday September 9, 2018 cards/flowers : To honor grandparents, to give grandparents an opportunity to show love for their children's children, and to help children become aware of strength, information, and guidance older people can offer The official flower of the Grandparents Day is the forget-me-not
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| Family Day - Sunday September 9, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Rosh Hashanah - Monday September 10, 2018 cards/flowers : Jewish New Year NOT a public holiday
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| Teachers' Day - Monday September 10, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day) - Wednesday September 12, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| All Souls' Day - Thursday September 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Commemoration of the Faithful Departed Day (Merelots)
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday September 16, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Yom Kippur - Tuesday September 18, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Day of Mourning - Thursday September 20, 2018 cards/flowers : President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. On 20 September 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul.
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| International Day of the Bosnian - Friday September 28, 2018 cards/flowers :
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