On May 29 the UK residents celebrate the Royal Oak Day which commemorates the restoration of the Monarchy in the country.
In 1653 ended the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell came to power after he had overthrown the ruling King Charles I, and arbitrarily declared himself as the Lord Protector. After the death of the dictator, power passed to his son who refused to descend the throne.
At the request of the people, the monarchy in England was restored, and on May 29, 1660 in his thirtieth birthday was crowned Charles II Stuart, the eldest son of King Charles I.
Parliament decided to declare the day as a public holiday. The name of holiday origins from the story that after the Battle of Worcester the king hid in an oak tree.
This day there is a custom to wear ornaments made of oak leaves in support of the monarchy. Despite the fact that the festival was formally abolished in 1859, it is still celebrated in rural areas.
On the 15-th of April the Day of Love in Georgiais celebrated.This holiday, dedicated to lovers, as an alternative to the famous Western holiday called Valentine's Day,was organized by Georgian parliament that accepted proposal of Besik Chubinidze - a famouspersonality in local show business.
The experts of NASA published video record and several shots which show how the planet Earth looks during New Year holidays if one looks at it from the Universe.
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.
The famous in the world artist Hailey King working under the trademark FLOX has created the design of Christmas baubles depicting flower with medical peculiarities manuka. With the help of sales FLOX intends to arrange December campaign on the collection of financial expenses for the support of hospices in New Zealand.
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.
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 the 14-th of August Independence Day is celebrated in Pakistan. Firstly this national holiday happened in 1947, it was established in honour of anniversary of independence announcement in Pakistan.
In 1653 ended the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell came to power after he had overthrown the ruling King Charles I, and arbitrarily declared himself as the Lord Protector. After the death of the dictator, power passed to his son who refused to descend the throne.
