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Post by wolferin on Mar 4, 2008 12:59:01 GMT 2
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Post by Southern Troll on Mar 30, 2008 5:08:35 GMT 2
Well we have Independence Day 7th September and Tiradentes 21st April republic day 15th November.
The rest is christian holydays.
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Post by bungdeetle on Mar 30, 2008 11:56:01 GMT 2
That is possibly the sweetest celebration ever :}
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Post by Mighty Croc on Feb 23, 2009 21:02:33 GMT 2
Today we have two celebrations: The first is "The Day of the Defender of Fatherland". In Russia, all main professions have their own celebration days, established in the communism period - for example, the Medical Worker's Day, or Teacher's Day (when all the pupils and stundents bring flowers and sweets to the teachers). Also, we have a "Women's Day", celebrated in March 8th, and so, nowadays the Day of the Defender of Fatherland turned from the army men's day, as it was, into a some kind of "all the men's day" - and so, today we are gifted with socks, shower gels and other things like that. The second is the start of Maslenitza week. Maslenitza is a heathen festival, one of a few last splinters of paganism - it's celebration of meeting of spring, and, of course, saying "farewell" to winter. During Maslenitza, people cook and eat the Russian pancakes (pancake is a solar symbol), and burn a big straw doll of Mara (or Marena) - the heathen goddess of winter and death. This celebration is not official, but it is always celebrated in schools and kindergartens, because children really like it - and so, most of the native Russian folk (especially heathen people) celebrate this every year. Of course, the orthodox christianity church (which is the main Russian religion) tries to gain the official ban of Maslenitza, as a pagan festival - but Russian folk likes celebrating it, so only the most orthodox christians do not recognize it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2009 16:25:00 GMT 2
Today ,in Romania, we celebrate Dragobete...tis similar to Valentine's Day, but not quite the same thing. Our ancestors, the Dacians celebrate it before the Roman conquest. Another so called pagan fest here If anyone interested 'bout it l'll be bakk with details ,DRAGOBETELE SARUTA FETELE!!" (Dragobete kisses the girls!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2009 20:26:03 GMT 2
On 1st March we also celebrate &have the same customs as in Bulgaria, except the fest is called Martzishor. This year my friends will receive handmade martzishoares: shells &buttons painted (with swallows, ladybirds, grass and snowdrops) adorned with the traditional white&red threads
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Post by Mighty Croc on Mar 8, 2009 10:24:13 GMT 2
Today we celebrate The International (it's celebrated in ex-communist countries) Women's Day. It's a day, when men perform feats in the name of women And so, I would like to congratulate all the beautiful half of mankind - our dear girls!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2009 19:39:21 GMT 2
Ahaaam! We also celebrate Woman's Day here too ...it's a nice fest and l guess everybody loves it. Ex-comunist countries do celebrate it and it's something great in my opinion....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2009 23:14:02 GMT 2
Excuse me for double posting, but l must add: tomorrow's a christian celebration of the 44 Mucenici and tis something crazy men like to do,or perhaps they use this as an excuse....unofficially they call it Men's day when tis compulsory to drink 44 glasses of wine or tzuika (or rakja for some)
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Post by Mighty Croc on Mar 17, 2009 8:15:30 GMT 2
Today is St. Patrick's day. It's not celebrated in our country, of course - but all the folk-metalheads here consider it as a good reason to get drunk, though we're not Irish, nor christians...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 19:19:17 GMT 2
Yeah, same here.,.mostly in the towns where pubs use the oportunity to organise parties..mainly for the Irish people here. But my people likes to party too ,so another excuse to drink doesn't bother some, although they are orthodox not catholic...l'm neither, so l couldn't care less But l agree with those parties for lrish people..
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Post by Socke on Mar 17, 2009 19:52:52 GMT 2
We had almost a whole week of Irish music concerts here. There's even an Irish music society in Oulu, three local bands that play Irish folk music and the annual Irish festival, where there are lots of concerts (and when even other bands than those three mentioned come here ), folk tales readings, Irish dancing courses and whatnot. I don't know, Irish stuff is actually pretty popular in Oulu for some reason even though I don't think there are overproportionally many Irish people here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 21:18:01 GMT 2
There aren't manx lrish people here but they mark their presence in a lively manner In Bucharest for example, they have their own clubs and also organise the kind of events as Socke said. They are beautiful people with an extraordinary folklore... Green rokks!
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Post by Mighty Croc on Mar 18, 2009 7:09:19 GMT 2
We don't have many Irish citizens of St.Petersburg, but we have pubs in Irish style, where you can have a pint of Guinness or Kilkenny. I'm sure that St. Patrick's Day is celebrated there. And we have folk music festivals, and folk metal gigs - for example, a few days after we'll have another Troll Gnet El' concert. For us the ordinary poser-heads - we gather and drink a beer or few, and that's all.
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Post by branigan on Mar 18, 2009 7:42:41 GMT 2
I cooked corned beef and cabbage to celebrate the day! Other than that, we didn't do anything. I even forgot to wear green.
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