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Sadeh is a midwinter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold. Chahar Shanbeh Suri: Festival of Fire, Last Tuesday of the Iranian Calendar year. It marks the importance of the light over the darkness, and arrival of spring ...
A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, usually with a religious focus. Aside from religion, and sometimes folklore , another significant origin is agricultural . Food (and consequently agriculture) is so vital that many festivals are associated with harvest time.
World Days or International Days observed at UNESCO designated by United Nations General Assembly for marking and commemorating "important aspects of human life and history". [ 1 ] January
International Women's Day – (8 March, particularly in Australia, former Soviet bloc countries and mainland China) May Day, Labor/Labour Day, or International Workers' Day – (1 May in many European and South American countries. The United States and Canada both celebrate on the first Monday in September)
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
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A festival at Antwerp, Belgium, in the 17th century. Festivals have long been significant in human culture and history and are found in virtually all cultures. [12] [13] The importance of festivals, to the present, is found in private and public; secular and religious life. [14]
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