On June 26 one of the most beautiful states of our planet – Madagascar – celebrates its Independence Day.
Before1960 Madagascar was a French colony. However, abuse of the local population by colonialists led to a national revolt and the independence war. France was forced to hold democratic election, as a result the country gained independence and Social Democrats led by Philibert Tsiranana came to power. However he failed to keep power for long and again mass revolts burst out in the country and lasted for several decades.
In 2002 the head of state was successful industrialist Marc Ravalomanana. He introduced a number of important economic and political reforms and initiated active fight against corruption in the country.
Madagascar residents are very religious and public holidays are not marked in a big way. Most of the population professes a local religion which is based on the connection between alive and dead. 40% of the population are Christians of the Roman Catholic Church. Interestingly, the majority of people try to combine both religions.
On the island there are about 12 000 species of animals and plants more than 10 000 of which are unique. Only here you can find a huge ferns and palm trees, amazing desert plants and such incredible animals as endangered lemurs, 90% of their natural habitat was destroyed by unfavourable natural conditions and humans.
Today Madagascar is the world's largest producer and exporter of vanilla.
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.
