On June 6 Sweden celebrates two public holidays: National Day dedicated to the first king of the country, and Flag Day.
The event roots deep into 1521 when Gustav Vasa I headed a popular revolt against Denmark, and consequently was elected the first king of Sweden. Over time the Swedes decided to immortalize the memory of the monarch by proclaiming this day as a national holiday.
And since 1916 the 6th day of June is also celebrated as Flag Day. The exact age of blue banner with a yellow cross is unknown, though the experts attribute its oldest image to the 16th century.
Traditionally the main events take place at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. Every year the King and the Queen of Sweden participate in a ceremony at Skansen, Stockholm’s open-air museum, where the Swedish flag is run up the mast, and children in national costumes present the royal couple with bouquets of summer flowers.
This day special ceremony welcoming new Swedish citizens is held in the City Hall.
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.
Waffle Day is an unofficial folk festival celebrated on the 25-th of March in Sweden. It coincides with the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary among Catholics. And the coincidence is not accidental.
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.
