It is celebrated with much fanfare, such that it seems to many almost like “a second Easter.” According to the Bible, Pentecost marks the day on which the Holy Spirit descended on the members of the ...

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Aside from Easter, Pentecost is the highest feast on the Orthodox calendar. Year Date Day Holiday 2025 9 Jun Mon Orthodox Whit Monday 2026 1 Jun Mon Orthodox Whit Monday 2027 21 Jun Mon Orthodox Whit ...

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The International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January was declared by the General Assembly (resolution A/77/327) as a call to raise awareness and mobilize action for a just and inclusive transition to ...

This year’s theme for the International Day of Democracy is focused on the importance of Artificial Intelligence as a tool for good governance. In his message for the observance, Secretary ...

The UN General-Assembly, in its resolution 72/130, declared 16 May the International Day of Living Together in Peace, as a means of regularly mobilizing the efforts of the international community ...

One folk tradition that continues in some homes on St. Brigid's Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid's Bed. The girls and young unmarried women of the household or village create a corn dolly to ...

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A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day installing a fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and ...

This Valentine’s Day weekend, folks in the Lincoln Park neighborhood were diving into arts and crafts. The Duluth Art Institute offers a free day of art, four times a year for people of all ages ...