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Environmental Date Date(s) National Bird Day: January 5 International Zebra Day: January 31 World Wetlands Day: February 2 World Ostrich Day [3] [4] February 2 World Marmot Day [5] [6] February 2 World Pangolin Day [7] [8] Third Saturday of February World Whale Day [9] Third Sunday of February World Bonobo Day [10] [11] [12] February 14 World ...
Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in Victoria Park, Hong Kong. A harvest festival is an annual celebration which occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. . Given regional differences in climates and crops, harvest festivals can be found at various times throughout the wo
The original crop-over tradition began in 1687 as a way to mark the end of the yearly harvest, but was wide-spread throughout the region at the time, including in St. Vincent, Trinidad and Jamaica. As such, it still shares similarities with Carnival in Brazil and Trinidad. Many crop-over celebrations were organized and sponsored by planters ...
A corned beef and cabbage boiled dinner is $20, and corned beef sandwiches are $15. There will also be music and a full bar. All ages are welcome to enjoy the celebration.
Also, many church schools hold one mid-week. Harvest Festivals in the United Kingdom take place on different dates after the end of harvest, usually in September or October, depending on what crops are grown and when they are harvested locally. Unlike Thanksgiving in the US, the date has not been made an official public holiday. Though Harvest ...
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It is believed this is because the coming of the harvest was a busy time and the weather could be unpredictable, which meant work days were too important to give up. As Sunday would have been a day of rest anyway, it made sense to hold celebrations then. The festival may also have been affected by the shift to the Gregorian calendar. [48]
Nuakhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Western Odisha in India. [1] [5] Nuakhai is observed to welcome the new rice of the season.According to the calendar it is observed on panchami tithi (the fifth day) of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhadraba (August–September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.