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Pioneer Day is a state holiday in Utah in the United States. It celebrates the arrival in 1847 of Bigham Young and the pioneers who first settled in what is now Salt Lake City.

Plough Monday traditionally is the Monday after Epiphany when The Magi visited the infant Jesus. It is the day for putting Christmas and its excess behind us and "putting one's hand to the plough"; in ot...

(also known as Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day), is one of the Chinese Twenty-four Solar Terms. From that date temperatures begin to rise and rainfall increases, indicating that it is the c...

Remembrance Sunday honours the achievements and sacrifices made by everyone during past and present conflicts. wars. It always falls on the second Sunday in November which is the closest Sunday to when t...

August 1st is Swiss Independence Day and is celebrated in Switzerland with paper lantern parades, bonfires, fireworks and competitive rifle shooting matches (in advance of the September Knabenschiessen n...

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Amerian friends. Giving thanks, is practicing "gratitude" which science is confirming makes us much happier whiolst we do it as well as for days after. Certainly worth doing...

The name "Maundy" comes from the Latin Dias Mandatum, which means the "day of the new commandment," where  people should love one another, just as Christ loved them. To show humility Jesus washed th...

I have often said that it is the things we don't do that we regret, rarely the things we do. But why do we put off those things that are important to us. Sometimes it is because other things are mor...

Valentine's Day is 14th April as I am sure most people know. But who was St. Valentine and how did Valentine's day come about? Legend suggests that during the third century Emperor Claudius dec...

8th May is VE day (Victory in Europe)marking the ending of the world war II in Europe. Every year there are many celebrations. Some will take place and there are many things happening on-line but finding...