Category: What Day
On National Goof-off Day, why not try some of these retro goof-off techniques at work? On National Goof-Off Day, spare a thought for those who didn’t have the internet …
Meet Julia, the first new Muppet to join the Sesame Street neighborhood in a decade. Julia is a little different from the other puppets on the show. She sometimes …
They welded pipes, they drew blueprints. And of course, they fastened munitions and machine parts together with rivets. Seven decades after World War Two, Rosie the Riveter Day honours the …
Marzanna is the Polish incarnation of the old Slavic goddess of winter, plague and death. Drowning of the Marzanna or Topienie Marzanny. The best way for superstitious Slavs to protect …
American and Swiss citizens blow up snowmen to mark seasons change. Boom! Snowman Burning Day is derived from a German tradition – the Rose Sunday Festival. The mayor passes through …
Every Equinox, thousands gather to watch the shadow of a feathered serpent god slither down a pyramid. During the Spring equinox, tourists and locals pack in around the pyramid of …
We’re used to movies about bands of rough-and-ready, raggle-tag, misfit smugglers. The exploits of a small group of smugglers in Eastern Europe are far better: It really happened. In Lithuania, …
Today is the feast of St Urho, a saint invented to fill the role of the Finnish St Patrick. The legend of Saint Urho was hatched up by Finnish-American Richard …
The excitement and fear of 400 spectacular sculptures going up in flames may remind you of another Spanish festival: the Running of the Bulls. The ultimate purpose of a …
Today – March 15 – is referred to as “The Ides of March.” Will you be like Ceasar who, when warned, said: “He is a Dreamer, let us leave …
Even those of us who are not math nerds can celebrate March 14, also known as Pi Day. Pi is not an ordinary number. It’s a small number, bigger …
For almost 1,500 years, the Japanese have been celebrating Honen Matsuri for fertility and good harvests. And there’s a giant wooden phallus. You can see why Honen Matsuri is …
