On May 28 Azerbaijan celebrates national holiday dedicated to the Declaration of Independence signed in 1918.
This event marked the appearance of the first secular democratic state in the Islamic East, but it existed for not longer than two years.
From 1922 to 1991 Azerbaijan was a part of the Soviet Union, after its collapse the country revived this holiday and celebrates it at the state level.
Traditionally this day there are mass celebrations. The Azerbaijanis with their families go to the central streets where there are concerts, fairs, exhibitions and fireworks in the evening the view of which is better to be enjoyed from a cosy little restaurant while varnishing national dishes and sipping local wine.
Today Azerbaijan is successfully developing country that is promoted by oil production in the Caspian Sea, fisheries, agriculture and the sale of electricity to neighbouring states.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
In Tintagel Castle in Cornwall which is considered as the birth place of King Arthur the suspension bridge will be built. As The Guardian reports, it will ease the travelling way to the ancient castle located at the rugged cliff.
On the 18-th of October, annually the Independence Day of Azerbaijan is celebrated. This holiday is dedicated to the anniversary of annoucement of Constitutional Act about state independence of Azerbaijan Republic in 1991.
Hundreds of couples gathered in Times Square in New York so as to repeat a kiss of sailor and nurse embedded at the stated area by a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on Victory over Japan Day. It is reported by Associated Press.
