On June 14, the Americans celebrate National Flag Day.
The star-spangled banner appeared in 1777, in the midst of the war for independence. That's when the Continental Congress adopted it as the official flag of all the free states of America.
Festival dedicated to the state symbol was established after more than hundred years when schoolteacher Bernard J. Cigrand organized it for his pupils. In subsequent years, in numerous magazine articles and personal letters Cigrand enthusiastically promoted the observance of June 14 as Flag Day.
Officially, however, it was approved only in 1949, when President Truman signed a corresponding legislation.
Many people in the United States honour this day by displaying the American flag at homes. This holiday many patriotic speeches are pronounced and songs performed, and everywhere an American flag is a hero of celebrations. It symbolizes the unity of all states (number of stars) and reminds about the Independence War (the number of stripes on the flag mean the 13 states that decided to declare independence from England back in the 18th century).
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.
Near the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii, on the 17-th of September the scientists finished an investigation that imitated the Mars lifestyle for the participators.
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.
