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Holiday May 15, 2020
Lacomaniac day, chocolate chips and kaleidoscopes, International Family and Climate Day: celebration lovers, there is a place to stroll. On the holidays of May 15, 2020, in the material Korrespondent.net.
Today’s Friday, May 15, 2020, is rich with a wide variety of holidays and events. On this day many famous talented people were also born.
What a vacation today, May 15, 2020
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International family day. Held since 1994. The establishment of this day aims to draw public attention to many family problems.
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International day of conscientious objection. Refuseniks are those people who, for moral or religious reasons, refuse to participate in armed conflict or join the army.
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International climate day
International climate day. Twitter
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Lacomaniac day. It shows for fair sex, passionate about manicure and nail polish collection.
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Kaleidoscope day
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Test Horse Day
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Chocolate chip day in the US USA
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Day of endangered animals in the United States. Today, according to UN statistics, 4,749 species of living organisms are on the brink of extinction, including almost 2,427 animal species and 2,314 plant species. The overwhelming majority are vulnerable due to human failure, and over the past half century, more than 50% of the rare species of flora and fauna are finally lost.
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USA Nylon Stockings Day USA The famous slogan “thinner than the net, stronger than steel”, which accompanied the preliminary marketing campaign to introduce nylon stockings to the market, was not true. Newspapers quickly spread a strong slogan, but nylon maker DuPont quickly changed the phrase, abandoning the “stronger than steel” part for fear that buyers whose excessive expectations do not match reality will be unhappy and quickly return half-heartedly. silk or viscose.
USA Nylon Stockings Day USA laist.com
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Straw Hat Day in the USA USA
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Teacher’s Day in Mexico, Colombia, South Korea
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Paraguay Mother’s Day
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Malva Festival (Aoi Matsuri) in Japan
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Konstantineoba in Georgia. Konstantineoba – Annual official celebrations dedicated to the birthday of the Georgian writer Konstantin Gamsakhurdia. The festival has been held since 1989. As part of the festival, Marula and horse races are held for 25 km.
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Persian language day in Iran
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Slovenian Armed Forces Day
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US Guardians Day USA
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Seim founding day in Lithuania
What happened on May 15
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1252 – Pope Innocent IV announced the bull Ad extirpanda, authorizing the Inquisition to torture alleged heresies.
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1618 – German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.
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1648 – The Peace of Westphalia was signed, ending the Thirty Years’ War.
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1673 – Cornelius and Rosa Barle receive an award for the black tulip they have raised.
Black tulips. simya.com.ua
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1730 – King George II claims that Prime Minister Robert Walpole is the British Prime Minister.
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1891 – Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical forcing employers to care for the welfare of workers.
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1905 – Founded the city of Las Vegas in the state of Nevada, United States.
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1928 – Cartoon character Mickey Mouse first appeared in the Plane Crazy cartoon, but at first he still had no voice and looked a bit like the future.
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1930 – The American church Ellen became the world’s first stewardess.
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1940 – Nylon stockings went on sale in the United States.
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1990 – The program for the return of the Crimean Tatars to Crimea was adopted.
Who was born on May 15
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1845 – Ilya Mechnikov, biologist and immunologist, founder of scientific gerontology, Nobel Prize (1908).
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1848 – Victor Vasnetsov, artist, master of painting on historical and folk themes (Three heroes, Alyonushka, Tsar Ivan the Terrible).
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1856 – Lymene Frank Baum, American writer, “creator” of the magical land of Oz.
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1873: Pavel Skoropadsky, Ukrainian military and political figure, hetman of Ukraine (in 1918).
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1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, playwright (White Guard, Master and Margarita).
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1914 – Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa mountaineer, in 1953, along with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, who for the first time in the world conquered the highest peak in the world, Everest.
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1925 – Lyudmila Kasatkina, theater and film actress (Tamer of the Tigers, “Big Break, Princess of the Circus, etc.), People’s Artist of the USSR.
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1937 – Madeleine Albright (real name Maria Yana Korbelova), Secretary of State of the United States in 1997-2001.
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1940 – Svetlana Svetlichnaya, stage and film actress.
What is a church calendar holiday today?
Today is Memorial Day in the transfer of the sacred remains of the great brother martyrs, Princes Boris and Gleb.
Boris and Gleb, the first Russian princes classified as saints, perished at the hands of their older brother Svyatopolk the Damned in the power struggle.
His remains were secretly buried in the Vyshgorod Church of Basil the Great, and after it burned down, they built a new temple in its place, where the timeless relics of the brother martyrs were transferred with honors.
What a national holiday on May 15
People commemorate the transfer of the sacred remains of the great brother martyr princes Boris and Gleb called sowers Boris and Gleb. On this day, squash and cucumbers started planting in Russia, and Boris and Gleb helped with this.
May 15 was also considered a suitable day to buy cattle, trade deals, and discuss financial issues.
Signs and traditions in Boris and Gleb planters
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Seeing a bird with white plumage today is a great success.
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If the nightingale’s song sounds before the cuckoo, summer will be hot. If vice versa, cold and rainy.
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When in doubt, today is the time to decide.
Name day
Today you can safely congratulate those who are called: Athanasius, Boris, Gleb, Zoya, Iolanta, Mikhail, Roman, David.
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