Thanksgiving Day - What are you thankful for?

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Dia do Meio Ambiente

Quando é o Dia Mundial do Meio Ambiente?
Dia Mundial do Meio Ambiente é comemorado todos os anos no dia 5 de junho. Ela foi criada pela Organização das Nações Unidas durante o movimento verde de início de 1970, e desde então tem sido líder feriado ambiental do mundo. O objetivo deste dia é para aumentar a conscientização sobre questões pertinentes relativas ao ambiente eo modo como as atividades humanas impactá-lo. Além disso, o Dia Mundial do Meio Ambiente age como um lembrete positivo que todos nós podemos fazer a diferença, não importa quão pequena a contribuição ou a mudança.

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Independence Day 2013 - Speak Brazil

When : Always June 14th

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed an act establishing an official flag for the new nation. The resolution ordered that "the flag of the United States would be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union would be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." On August 3, 1949, President Harry S. Truman commemorated the occasion by officially declaring June 14th as Flag Day.

While no one knows the exact origin of the first American flag, some historians believe it was designed by the Congressman Francis Hopkinson and sewn by a Philadelphian seamstress Betsy Ross.

There is a right way and a wrong way to display the flag. The American flag should be held in the highest of regards. It represents our nation and the many people who gave their lives for our country and our flag. 

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Quando: Sempre 14 de junho

Em 14 de Junho de 1777, o Congresso Continental passou uma lei que institui uma bandeira oficial para a nova nação. A resolução ordenou que "a bandeira dos Estados Unidos fosse feita de treze listras, alternadas em vermelho e branco; que a União fosse com treze estrelas, brancas em um campo azul, representando uma constelação nova." Em 3 de agosto de 1949, o presidente Harry S. Truman comemorou a ocasião, declarando oficialmente 14 de junho como o Dia da Bandeira.

Embora ninguém saiba a origem exata da primeira bandeira americana, alguns historiadores acreditam que ela foi projetado pelo congressista Francis Hopkinson e costurada pela costureira da Filadélfia, Betsy Ross. 

Existe uma maneira certa e uma maneira errada de hastear a bandeira. A bandeira americana deve ser mantida no mais elevado dos cumprimentos. Ele representa nossa nação e as muitas pessoas que deram suas vidas para o nosso país e nossa bandeira.

Mother's day roses or carnations?

Mother's day roses or carnations?It is up to your mom or to the country she lives in (READ MORE)

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring mothers and celebrating motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, yet most commonly in March, April, or May.
Mother's Day this year is Sunday, May 13th.  Church services, distribution of carnations, and family dinners is a common practice
In the United States, Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general, as well the positive contributions that they make to society.
Although many Mother's Day celebrations world-wide have quite different origins and traditions, most have now been influenced by the American traditions, including churchgoing, the distribution of carnations, and family dinners

First attempts to establish a holiday
The first attempts to establish a "Mother's Day" in the U.S. were mostly marked by women's peace groups..A common early activity was the meeting of groups of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the American Civil War. There were several limited observances in the 1870s and the 1880s but none achieved resonance beyond the local level.
 In 1868 Ann Jarvis created a committee to establish a "Mother's Friendship Day" whose purpose was "to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War", and she wanted to expand it into an annual memorial for mothers, but she died in 1905 before the celebration became popular. Her daughter Anna Jarvis would continue her mother's efforts.

In New York City, Julia Ward Howe led a "Mother's Day" anti-war observance on June 2, 1872, which was accompanied by a Mother's Day Proclamation. The observance continued in Boston for about 10 years under Howe's personal sponsorship, then died out.
Frank E. Hering, President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, made the first known public plea for "a national day to honor our mothers" in 1904.
Holiday establishment
 In its present form, Mother's Day was established by Anna Marie Jarvis, with the help of Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker following the death of her mother Ann Jarvis on May 9, 1905.
Jarvis then campaigned to establish Mother's Day first as a U.S. national holiday and then later as an international holiday. The holiday was declared officially by the state of West Virginia in 1910, and the rest of states followed quickly. On May 8, 1914, the U.S. Congress passed a law designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and requesting a proclamation. On May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother's Day as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.
In 1934, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a stamp commemorating the holiday.

Carnations Carnations have come to represent Mother's Day, since Anna Jarvis delivered 500 of them at its first celebration in 1908.Many religious services held later adopted the custom of giving away carnations. This also started the custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. The founder, Anna Jarvis, chose the carnation because it was the favorite flower of her mother. In part due to the shortage of white carnations, and in part due to the efforts to expand the sales of more types of flowers in Mother's Day, the florists promoted wearing a red carnation if your mother was living, or a white one if she was dead; this was tirelessly promoted until it made its way into the popular observations at churches.