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Paraguay - Heroes' Day | 1st March 2005, 22:32 |
National Defense Day |
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Switzerland - Chalanda Marz | 1st March 2005, 22:29 |
| Is the Swiss celebration to welcome spring The Engadin school children drive away winter with bells and songs. Children go from door to door singing and receive sweets in return. Early morning, young boys with big bells (you may know them as the typical swiss souvenier bells) as the cows wear them on the alps, are strolling through the villages of the Engadin (the upper Inn valley, Canton of Graubunden) and ring the bells whilst elder boys try to keep the group of youngsters together, using whips. A noisy spectacle which is to drive out the winter. |
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North Korea - Anti-Japanese Uprising Day | 1st March 2005, 22:24 |
| Anniversary of the March 1 Civil Uprising was in 1919 against the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule, for national independence and liberation. | ||
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Bulgaria - Baba Marta | 1st March 2005, 22:21 |
| Baba Marta (Grandmother March) March 1st is probably the most intrinsic holiday because it is unique to Bulgaria. The custom of wearing martenitsas (red-and-white threads worn as a decoration) is only popular in Bulgaria and it is perhaps the most positive one in all our folklore. The traditions related to March 1st as well as the martenitsas themselves are associated with optimism and anticipation of warmer weather, fertility and well-being. This tradition is based upon the founding of Bulgaria in 681 AD and there are different folk-legends about the origin of this celecrated day. In the morning of 1st of March people set fire in the yards of their houses, with lots of smoke. Then everybody jumps over the fire three times, facing the rising sun, in order to be purified from evil forces and guarded against diseases. The lady of the house takes out red clothes and fabrics and puts them on the branches of the trees in front of the house and on the fence. Only then she decorates the children and the animals with the martenitzas made from woolen or cotton thread. On the first of March and the days following all people give to each other strips or small woolen dolls called Pigo and Penda, also known as Martenitzi. They are so named because they bring the name of March, or in Bulgarian, Mart. According to tradition, Mart is an angry old lady who rapidly changes her mood from bad to good and back again. She is Grandmother March, in Bulgarian"Baba Marta." |
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South Korea - Independence Movement Day | 1st March 2005, 22:11 |
| March 1, 1919, marked the beginning of the Korean Independence Movement On this day, independence fighters announced Korea's declaration of independence from Japanese colonialism. In response, Japanese police and military forces killed and injured thousands of unarmed protestors. |
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Switzerland - Instauration de la Republique | 1st March 2005, 22:07 |
I would be grateful for further information about this day. |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina - National Independence Day | 1st March 2005, 22:04 |
The elected government of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1992; referendum for independence was completed 1 March 1992; independence was declared 3 March 1992. |
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Marshall Islands - Memorial Day & Nuclear Victim's Remembrance Day | 1st March 2005, 21:56 |
| Several of the islands - the Bikini atoll in particular - served as US nuclear testing sites for atomic bombs through the 1960s, and many of their inhabitants have suffered from radiation poisoning, while their home islands remain too contaminated to be resettled. | ||
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