Posted on March 19, 2009 by kfarbridge
Chetra Navartras (Hindu) – This festival honouring Great Goddess Maha Devi as Gauri – life, growth and fruition is honoured by keeping a fast.
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Posted on March 17, 2009 by kfarbridge
St. Patrick’s Day (Ireland) – The death anniversary of their patron saint. He used the three-leaved shamrock to explain the Christian idea of the Holy Trinity, thus the idea of wearing a shamrock.
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Posted on March 16, 2009 by kfarbridge
Gahambar Hamaspathmaedem (thru March 20) (Zorostrian) – This day celebrates the creation of human beings.
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Posted on March 12, 2009 by kfarbridge
Girl Scout Day (Canada, USA) – Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low assembled 18 girls from Savannah, Georgia, on March 12, 1912, for a local Girl Scouting meeting. She believed that all girls should be given the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. With the goal of bringing girls out of isolated home environments and into [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2009 by kfarbridge
Hola Mohalla (Bikarami) (Sikh) – Mock battles are fought and martial arts are displayed in honour of Guru Gobind Singh, who took to armed struggle against tyranny.
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Posted on March 11, 2009 by kfarbridge
In Romania at this time of year, people celebrate by giving each other red and white silk threads with a little talisman object attached, called Martisor, as a symbol of the new sring bringing back to life to the natural world. Each year, the Romanian Association kindly send me a Martisor and wishes for a happy and [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2009 by kfarbridge
A Guelph resident is in the running for “the best job in the world,” a promotion by Tourism Queensland in Australia that will name one candidate as the caretaker for islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
University of Guelph student Mitchell Moffitt has made it to the top 50 out of more than 34,000 applicants.
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Posted on March 11, 2009 by kfarbridge
Holi (Sikh, Hindu) – According to myth, a tyrannical king’s son, Pralad, refused to worship his father as God and was condemned to death by burning. However, the boy’s aunt, named Holika, transferred her own immunity from fire to Prahlad, and burned to death in his place. This festival of colour celebrates Spring, where people [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2009 by kfarbridge
Purim (Jewish) – Purim is know as the Feast of Lots, which celebrtes the deliverance of Jews in Persia from the machinations of Haman. Jews dress in costume and give gifts of food to each other.
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