On June 2 the largest state of Australia turns into venue for celebration of the national holiday - the Foundation Day.
This date was proclaimed to honour event of 1829 when the first settlers of the West Coast completed their long journey from Britain to the Green continent.
They arrived on the ship Parmelia in command of Captain James Stirling. For a few days strong wind did not give them a chance to step on shore, and they watched their new home staying in the see. And although officially they landed on the mainland later, June 1 became a foundation day for residents of Western Australia.
Over time the Australians transferred a holiday onto the first Monday in June. Traditionally, building of State Government hosts a grand ball and ceremony of granting award Resident of the Year, and the streets are teeming with noisy festive concerts, there is also cannons salute. A solemn ceremony devoted to granting of Australian citizenship is held this day. Immigrants who have lived there for over four years receive the long-wished passport and take an oath of allegiance to Australia. Most Australians are going for barbecue or camping favoured by long holiday season.
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 tooth of an ancient giant shark was stolen from the Australian World Heritage Collection in a national park in Western Australia. It was reported by Australian authorities.
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).
Geologists defined the age of Australian analogue of Stonehenge that was nearly ten thousand years old what is twice more than British monument has. The edition The Guardian reports about that.
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.
