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Spirit of the Season
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:55 pm
by Typhoon
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:56 pm
by Typhoon
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:49 pm
by YMix
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:32 am
by Hoosiernorm
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:48 am
by Typhoon
Happy Hannukah
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:07 am
by Typhoon
And a Happy Winter Solstice to everyone
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:19 am
by Hoosiernorm
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:21 am
by Hoosiernorm
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:26 am
by YMix
Happy
International Women's Day for our posters and their wives/girlfriends/women relatives.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:39 pm
by Typhoon
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:44 am
by YMix
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:
Mucenici, Muntenia-style in sweet sauce, with crushed walnuts and cinnamon:
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:42 pm
by Typhoon
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..
Spring
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:54 pm
by Typhoon
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:04 pm
by Antipatros
Chag Pesach Sameach; or, have a blessed and joyous Easter.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:01 pm
by Typhoon
Chag Pesach Sameach - Happy Passover Festival; or
Happy Easter - Christus resurrexit
to all that celebrate either.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:32 am
by Torchwood
Χριστός ανέστη
to all, whatever your faith or none
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:52 am
by Hoosiernorm
He is risen indeed!
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:13 pm
by YMix
You people are a week early.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:41 pm
by Hoosiernorm
Thai New Yeat
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:57 pm
by Typhoon
Happy Songkran to anuschin et al
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 4:35 pm
by Typhoon
Happy May Day.
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 5:45 pm
by YMix
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:31 pm
by Endovelico
A more impressive version...
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 3:14 pm
by Antipatros
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.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:39 pm
by Typhoon
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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