This is the day where children can tell their teachers and parents in complete honesty that they will not be doing their homework, in order to mark this special day. Spend some long hours on that favourite video game, go and hang out at the mall with friends, or just go to bed and catch up on...
Corsa Dei Ceri, or the Race of the Candles, is one of the most popular festivals worldwide as well as one of the most exciting. The ancient festivity is held each year in Gubbio, Italy beginning on May 3rd and culminating on May 15th. The history of this Italian festival in honour of St Ubaldo...
The day was established in 2005 by the organization Multiple Births Canada. The event also commemorates the May 28th birth date of the Dionne quintuplets. Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne, born on May 28, 1934, were the first quintuplets known in the world to survive their...
International Tartan Day in Australia and New Zealand is celebrated on a local basis in most states on July 1, the anniversary of the Repeal Proclamation of 1782 annulling the Act of Proscription of 1747, which had made wearing tartan an offense punishable with up to seven years' transportation. ...
Canada Day (French: Fete du Canada) is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada...
Many people now days are rushing through their lives for many different reasons. Lives have become so busy and filled with numerous activities that there’s no time to reflect. Each day is a routine that just flies by. When we're young, we all have high hopes and dreams of where we want to be...