How is ANZAC Day celebrated?
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Australia and New Zealand commemorate the ANZAC Day public holiday on the 25th of April every year to honour the bravery and sacrifice of the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), and of all those who served their country. ANZAC Day is also a public holiday in Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tonga.\n\nThe number of New Zealanders attending ANZAC Day events in New Zealand, and at Gallipoli, is increasing. For some younger people, the sombre focus of the day receives less emphasis than do the more celebratory aspects of a national holiday. For most, though, the day is an occasion on which to formally pay tribute and to remember.\n\nANZAC Day now promotes a sense of unity, perhaps more effectively than any other day on the national calendar. People whose politics, beliefs and aspirations are widely different can nevertheless share a genuine sorrow at the loss of so many lives in war, and a real respect for those who have endured warfare on behalf of the country they live in.
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Yes, I celebrate it. While it's not an officially recognized holiday in the US, it is celebrated by pagans here. We refer to it as Beltane more often than May Day.
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Boxing day is an English tradition it is celebrated the day after Christmas because you took the gifts that you did not care for or got two of and boxed them up and gave them to other family friends or relatives. Maybe the boxing boy is because a large number of Gay men celebrate this holiday. Many of my friends do.
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queensland is NOT a country. it is australia, however im not sure what you mean by "national day of healing" in recent times australia day (january 26th...the date when australia was settled by europeans) has become a day to remember the hardships caused to the aborignals including those in recent times however it is NOT a national day of HEALING,. australia day is traditonally about getting drunk, watching cricket and trying to get a shag!
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We celebrate it with picnics and parades, and fireworks displays at night.\n\nFirst, the picnic.  Hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, macoroni salad, potato chips, water mellon, and a whole lot more food.\n\nParades, they have marching bands from a lot of schools, flags waving, floats and banners.\n\nFireworks are done at night when it gets dark. They usually last a half hour to an hour, depends on how much they spend on the pyrotechnics.\n\nI wish you well...\n\nJesse
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easter is calculated according to when the first new moon of the year arrives\nFathers day is always the third sunday in june.\nMother's day I'm not sure of,in Ireland it is earlier (March)than in the US (may)
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Well, in Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland) and in Australia, Canada and New Zeland, they have Rememberance Day.  It's the same day as our Veteran's Day - November 11th, because that is the day that WWI ended in 1918.  \n\nPeople in the UK wear red poppies on Rememberance Day to commemerate a poem by John McCrae called "In Flanders Fields", about a WWI battle on a field covered in red poppies. \n\nHope this helps you with your project!
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I've lived in Holland, Belgium, Russia and Romania. In all those countries, the poppy (or a flower of some sort in Russia) was worn on and around the date of 11the Nov. In Holland and Belgium, people put their poppies on the cenotaphs found in the Commonwealth cemeteries, or by the graves of men who had helped them (or that they had helped).\nWherever there's a British Embassy or High Commission, there will always be remembrance poppies worn in those countries (even if it's only by the people in the embassies). And services are always performed in the capitol cities.
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veterans day honers the living who fought in wars / Conflicts\nMemorial day is memory of those who died.
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I think Australia Day started to celebrate when it was first colonized (as a penal colony). It then morphed into what it is today, a celebration of all the different people who have become celebration, their diversity of culture, etc. January 26, 2007 is the next Australia Day.
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It is the day when people celebrate the dead.It is in Mexico.They go to the cemeteryes,they bring flowers and other gifts(like food,drink)and they put it to the graves of the dead or share it with poore people in memory of the lost ones.They also go to churches and take part in religious gatherings.They tend not be sad in this day,but to think that the dead ones found rest and peace,and they're happy for them.This thing happens everywhere in the world in my opinion,in different ways of course.It is a very well celebrated day in my country,in Romania,where people,on the other side morn the dead ones.
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Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
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Greeks celebrate New Year's day the same way as most nations in the Western World.\n\nIn addition, the 1st of January it is the day of  St. Vasilios  -- therefore all people with the name of Vasilis or Vasilia celebrate their nameday (which in Greece is almost as important as their birthday).
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Hi,\n\nthe main cultural festival is the eisteddfod, see wikipedia or other entries on this site for more information on that.\n\nnew years day is called calennig and people go from house to house singing through the door (don't ask!), sometimes with a horse's skull.......\n\n25th january - santes dwynwen, instead of valentines day.\n\nnational day - dydd gwyl dewi (st davids day) 1st march, children dress up in national costume and have their photos taken, eisteddfodau take place and ex-pats have huge balls!\n\nhow are you: siw mae?  (pron: shoe maie)\n\nthanks: diolch.  (ch is a guttural sound eg kh, not as in charles)\n\npob lwc!
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Check out what happened in Perth, Aust Monday afternoon & it should be fairly plain.\n\nOnly one example
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It's a flower, the poppy. Saturday is Veteran's Day in the United States. In Canada it is called Remembrance Day. It is to honour all the men and women who have fought to protect their countries.
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Many of the customs were borrowed from Pagan traditions.  It does not mean Xmas and Easter are pagan holidays.  Where did you get this stuff??\n\nYou can celebrate anything you want.  It's a free country.