[en] Your Holidays

[Largefry07]

Here we all come together to celebrate all holidays. Father's Day just past, Midsummer was this weekend, and the 4th of July is just around the corner. This thread is for all holidays, well known and not so well known (please don't go to a website with unheard of holidays and post them, you must know them by other means, Ex. calendar, word of mouth, etc.). Tell us how you celebrate an upcoming holiday.



I'll start: My family and I go up to Fair St. Louis on the 3rd of July and watch bands and fireworks under the Arch to celebrate the 4th.

[RobinBanks]

The weekend of the 4th, my family and I, and other homeschoolers and their families camp, are going to camp out at a Christian retreat center. The firework display is provided by the owners, fellow campers, and other people on the lake.

(BTW: Great verse in your sig. :go: )

[Xuca]

Today is 28th june, Vidovdan (St.Vitus' day). It also is St.Tzar Lazar's day. It's a very important both religious and state holiday. There were many important events throughout history on this day:

-On 28th june 1389 happened the battle of Kosovo Polje (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo), where Serbian army, lead by Tzar (he was actually only a Knez) Lazar, and Ottoman army, lead by Sultan Murad, met. Both leaders were killed in the battle, and the battle was long caracterised as a Serbian defeat, but it's been proven that the battle itself was a draw, altought it meant the defeat of Serbia. Today Patriarch Pavle served liturgy in monastery Gračanica and on Gazimestan in Kosovo in honor of the heroes of the battle of Kosovo.

-On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Countess Sophie were killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the revolutionary youth organization Young Bosnia. The event, known as the Assassination in Sarajevo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_in_Sarajevo) triggered World War I.

-on June 28, 1921 King Aleksandar Karađorđević proclaimed the new Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution (Vidovdanski ustav)

[Largefry07]

Very interesting Xuca. Great job. :go:

@Banks: thanks, it's my favorite.

[Frieden]

my body wants to rest here ...

http://www.novasol.de/nov/280.nsf/0/house?opendocument&H=C04680&S=2005

( The only problem each year are the working days between the holiday times :wink: )

[Moryarity]

very beautiful...are these taxes for a week or for a day?

[Xuca]

Very interesting Xuca. Great job. :go:
Thanks :go:. I can describe more interesting holidays, like Sretenje:
February 15th is Sretenje, wich means something like meeting. The legend says that on that day summer and winter meet and decide who will prevail. On that day bears come out of their caves and if they see their shadow and don't come back to their caves, the summer has prevailed, and it will get warmer soon. If they don't see their shadow, and return to the caves, it will be cold for a long time. And I think they weren't wrong yet :wink:.

It is also the National Day of Serbia because of the following events:

-on 15th February 1804 happened the First Serbian Uprising. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Serbian_Uprising) First Serbian Uprising was an uprising at the beginning of the 19th century in which Serbs living in Belgrade Pashaluk in the Ottoman Empire, led by Karadjordje, managed to liberate the Pashaluk for a significant time, which eventually led to the creation of modern Serbia.(note thet in wikipedia it says that it was 14th februar, which is wrong)

-on 15th February 1935 Serbian parlament proclaimed the first Serbian Constitution called Sretenje Constitution(Sretenjski ustav - same as Vidovdanski ustav). It was too democratic for those times, and after great presures form Turkey, Russia and Austria, the constitution was suspended, only two weaks after it was declared.

[Frieden]

very beautiful...are these taxes for a week or for a day?

Don't know ... I hope for a month :wink.

[Largefry07]

Thanks :go:. I can describe more interesting holidays, like Sretenje:
February 15th is Sretenje, wich means something like meeting. The legend says that on that day summer and winter meet and decide who will prevail. On that day bears come out of their caves and if they see their shadow and don't come back to their caves, the summer has prevailed, and it will get warmer soon. If they don't see their shadow, and return to the caves, it will be cold for a long time. And I think they weren't wrong yet :wink:.


We have a very similar holiday. It's called groundhogs day. That is on Feb. 2nd a groundhog (can't think of his name) comes out in some town in pennsylvania. If the sun is out and gets scared b/c of his shadow and returns to his hole and winter last another 6 weeks. If the day is cloudy, he won't see his shadow and spring will be on time.

[Xuca]

Serbian Orthodox church still uses the old Julian calendar, which differs from the standard calendar in 13 days, and it's used for all the holidays (f.e. Christmas is on 7th january, instead of 25th december), so 15th February is by the church calendar 2nd February, so it's maybe the same holiday, only in diferent form.

[Moryarity]

I am bit disappointed, that none of the U.S. here wrote somethign about the 4th of july, exept, what was said in the beginning..It´s the birth of your nation since 1776..so maybe some historic background would be nice :biggrin: and some more statements......

[Largefry07]

Here's an interesting fact that I found.

Signers of the Declaration
Not all the men who helped draw up or voted for the Declaration signed it (Robert R. Livingston, for example, did not) nor were all the signers present at its adoption. All the signatures except six (Wythe, R. H. Lee, Wolcott, Gerry, McKean, and Thornton) were affixed on Aug. 2, 1776. The first is that of John H a n c o c k,(Thank you Dobber) president of the Continental Congress. The remaining 55 (see individual articles on each) are those of Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.

[Dobber]

Largefry you have to do it like this, John H a n c o c k.