The last few weeks were marked with the flashmob IceBucketChallenge.
The purpose of IceBucketChallenge is to raise the awareness of population of our planet on the illness of cerebrospinal nervous system entitled amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The essence of fashmob is to pour a cold water on yourself and issue a clarion call to three mates with the idea to do the same. If the stated people do not throw a cold douche on themselves in twenty-four hours, on the conditions of campaign, they have to donate 100 UAH in a benefit for the fund ALS Association, arranged the flashmob.
In IceBucketChallenge several celebrities took place: among them there are Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steven Spielberg, Mickey Rourke, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Jastin Timberlake, and also CEO of Apple Tim Cook, co-founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page, managing director of Tesla Motors and Space X Alon Mask, ex-CEO of Microsoft Steve Balmer, CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, operations director of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg, and other successful enterpreneurs.
International Day of chocolate is non-official holiday dedicated to the favorite delicacy of many people on the planet. It is always celebrated on the 13-th September annually. This holiday is the wonderful reason to take a piece of chocolate, even if you try cutting down on sweets.
On June 9 the International Friendship Day is observed. This is not an official holiday and it was introduced quite recently. However, it has a very noble goal to remind people how much their beloved ones mean for them, and to give a chance to spend an evening with them.
«Let’s learn how to use paper efficiently!» —it is the key thesis of international «paper free» campaign which occurs on every fourth Thursday of October all over the world.
Worldwide in many countries an original holiday is celebrated – Tree-planting day (it is also known as Day of tree, Day of trees, Day of forest plantation).
Madeira Nature Festival is a new event arranged since October, 2011 which gives possibility to the participants of exultance to get familiar with natural wealth of archipelago Madeira. During celebration of festival guests will be offered to try different types of healthy and active rest on the ground, as well as in air and ocean.
On the desert coral-island Aldabra which forms part of Seychelles it is found seven species of Aldabra striped snail which has been considered as extinct since 2007, as it is reported by Russian service of BBC.
The ATOM Project is calling for an international moment of silence during the August 29 UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests in memory of all victims of nuclear weapons testing.
Annualy International day of mosquito is celebrated on the 20-th of August upon an initiative of Sir Ronald Ross, Indian doctor and parasitologist of Scotish origin, who discovered that the carriers of malaria are mosquito females from a kind of Anopheles.
On July 20 is celebrated interesting and yet young holiday - the International Cake Day dedicated to friendship and peace between people, countries and nations.
