USA (Virgin islands) : helgdagar, stängning av banker, skolan semester

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Skollovens :

Vykort/Blommor : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation.

Sekulär semester : Observed on the last Monday in May in most of the United States, in honour of the nation’s armed services personnel killed in wartime and the deceased in general. Created after the Civil War, it is traditionally marked by parades, memorial speeches

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Vykort/Blommor :

kultur : The US Congress enacted the Organic Act setting the government of the Virgin Islands on July 22, 1954

Sekulär semester : End of slavery in the Danish West Indies granted in 1848.

Sekulär semester : USA:s självständighetsförklaring (ibland: oavhängighetsförklaring) (engelska: United States Declaration of Independence), formellt Den enhälliga deklarationen av Amerikas tretton förenta stater (engelska: The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America), som ratificerades av kontinentala kongressen den 4 juli 1776, förklarar de 13 nordamerikanska kolonierna sig själva fristående från Storbritannien. I dokumentet anges även skälen till varför man har rätt att göra så.

kultur : Officially, hurricane season is June 1 through November 30th, however this is the day the Virgin Islands set aside for prayer.

Skollovens : http://www.islands.vi/~sjhs/2004cal.html

Sekulär semester : Celebrated on the first Monday in September with parades. For most Americans, it marks the end of summer holidays, and for many students the beginning of the classes.

kultur :

Sekulär semester : Denna högtid har firats sedan 1960-talet, för att fira det unika förhållandet mellan Virgin Islanders och Puerto Ricans. Detta firande firas i stället för Columbus Day, på grund av kontroversen kring de grymheter som begicks mot de inhemska invånarna i Karibien under den spanska koloniseringen av regionen.

kultur : Goes back to 1726 when the first service was conducted in one of the oldest standing structures on St. Thomas which is over 300 years old Fort Christian cancelled in case a hurricane occurred

kultur :

Sekulär semester : Dr Hamilton Jackson Day

kultur : David Hamilton Jackson (1884-1946) was resident of the United States Virgin Islands which was under the rule of Danish West Indies who was an important figure in the struggle for increased civil liberties and workers' rights on the islands. He petitioned for freedom of the press, was involved in the territory's labor movement, and, when the Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1917, he lobbied for citizenship for the islanders. [Wikipedia]

Extraordinära händelser :

mässa : Formerly Armistice Day, is a holiday observed in honour of all those, living and dead, who served with U.S. armed forces in wartime. Armistice Day, the forerunner of Veterans Day, was proclaimed to commemorate the termination of World War I Some banks, post office and governement close, but businesses, more and more, remain open, as well as universities.

Skollovens :

Sekulär semester : År 1621, ett år efter sin ankomst i Massachusetts, den Puritans ville utöva sin religion fritt. Efter en hård vinter, hälften av dem dog. Med indiska stammar, de har lärt sig att överleva, särskilt genom att äta kalkon.

Extraordinära händelser : Day of sales and bargains

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