The idea of celebrating the Day of Blog on August 31 appeared in 2005 when LiveJournal active users saw in the word blog figures 3108. Therefore, August 31 (31.08) was established as the date of the holiday.
The initiators of the Day of Blog encourage to use this day as a chance to make friends from different countries and with different interests. To do this, one may write a short review of five different blogs and on August 31 publish those records with reference to the author's pages.
Bloggers believe that it is better to write about blogs which are different from the scope of the author’s common interests, vision and life approach, so that both user and visitors can discover something new. Bloggers embraced the idea with enthusiasm. When the holiday was first announced on August 31, Google index came up with 30 thousand of new pages. And in 2007 this observation launched the contest of Best of Blogs. It welcomes to participate publication in ten languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, German, Dutch, Persian, Portuguese, French and Russian.
Today blogosphere is the fastest growing part of the Internet, which has recently demonstrated almost three-fold increase for the year. In the world there are 75 million blogs. In fact blogs are a social network and in the near future may become a weighty alternative to traditional media.
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 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.
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.
The most important holiday in Peru is its Independence Day, it is celebrated on 28th July to commemorate the anniversary of Peru's independence from Spanish rule in the year 1821.
Every year on the fourth Sunday of July Peru celebrates the Day of Pisco Sour cocktail - a holiday of the country's most popular cocktail, prepared on the basis of grape vodka pisco enjoyed by the Peruvians since the 16th century.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
On June 9 the International Friendship Day is observed. This is not an official holiday and it was introduced quite recently. However, it has a very noble goal to remind people how much their beloved ones mean for them, and to give a chance to spend an evening with them.
