Spirit of the Season

Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly.
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Happy Hannukah

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And a Happy Winter Solstice to everyone

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Happy International Women's Day for our posters and their wives/girlfriends/women relatives. :D
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YMix wrote:Happy International Women's Day for our posters and their wives/girlfriends/women relatives. :D
Indeed. Seconded.
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Forgot to mention that yesterday was March 9, „ziua celor 40 de mucenici”.

Mucenici is a Christian feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, a traditional holiday in Romania and Moldova. It coincides with the start of the agricultural year. Those who observe this holiday clean their households and light fire to garbage collected from their homes, to bring warmth outside.

The pre-Christian and Christian meanings of this day are slowly passing from the land. Today, it's mostly known for its special food.

Mucenici, Moldova-style:

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Mucenici, Muntenia-style in sweet sauce, with crushed walnuts and cinnamon:

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Nat Geo | St. Patrick's Day 2012: Facts, Myths, and Traditions
St. Patrick's Day: Made in America?

Until the 1970s, St. Patrick's Day in Ireland was a minor religious holiday. A priest would acknowledge the feast day, and families would celebrate with a big meal, but that was about it.

"St. Patrick's Day was basically invented in America by Irish-Americans," Freeman said.

Irish-American history expert Timothy Meagher said Irish charitable organizations originally celebrated St. Patrick's Day with banquets in places such as Boston, Massachusetts; Savannah, Georgia; and Charleston, South Carolina.

Eighteenth-century Irish soldiers fighting with the British in the U.S. Revolutionary War held the first St. Patrick's Day parades. Some soldiers, for example, marched through New York City in 1762 to reconnect with their Irish roots.

Other parades followed in the years and decades after, including well-known celebrations in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, primarily in flourishing Irish immigrant communities.

"It becomes a way to honor the saint but also to confirm ethnic identity and to create bonds of solidarity," said Meagher, of Catholic University in Washington, D.C..
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Chag Pesach Sameach; or, have a blessed and joyous Easter.
Be not too curious of Good and Evil;
Seek not to count the future waves of Time;
But be ye satisfied that you have light
Enough to take your step and find your foothold.

--T.S. Eliot
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Chag Pesach Sameach - Happy Passover Festival; or

Happy Easter - Christus resurrexit

to all that celebrate either.
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Χριστός ανέστη

to all, whatever your faith or none
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He is risen indeed!
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You people are a week early. ;)
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Happy Songkran to anuschin et al

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Happy May Day.

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A more impressive version...

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Happy Victoria Day/Empire Day long weekend! But since most of you don't get to celebrate it, I'll take the bullet and enjoy it for you.
Be not too curious of Good and Evil;
Seek not to count the future waves of Time;
But be ye satisfied that you have light
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Antipatros wrote:Happy Victoria Day/Empire Day long weekend! But since most of you don't get to celebrate it, I'll take the bullet and enjoy it for you.
Lucky sod.

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