the United States
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Halloween in the USA
Le 31/10/2024
Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31. The word "Halloween" is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening or All Hallows' Eve.
Halloween was an ancient Celtic festival, known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win").
This festival celebrated the end of the harvest season. People believed that on October 31, the worlds of the living and the dead superimposed, and the deceased could come back to life and cause destruction or sickness.
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National Candy Day
Le 04/11/2024
4 November is National Candy Day! Did you know that the best-selling candies in the USA are M&M's?
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Milwaukee Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show
Du 08/12/2024 au 10/12/2024
You are an ice fishing and/or a winter sports enthusiast? This festival is for you...
http://www.gsevents.com/shows/display.cfm?showID=110
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Monkey day
Le 14/12/2024
Today is Monkey Day!
It was created in 2000 by an American art student.
People have monkey parties, act as if they were monkeys, play monkey games...
And it's an opportunity to talk about the protection of the monkey population!
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Bacon Day in the USA
Le 30/12/2024
Today is Bacon Day! An opportunity to celebrate that typical Anglo-Saxon food with new recipes...
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Martin Luther King
Le 15/01/2025
Considered as the father of the civil rights movement in the USA, as he fought for equality of races, he was assassinated on 21 January 1968. The third Monday in January is now a national holiday in the United States.
bust of Martin Luther King at the University of South Florida
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the first Mac
Le 24/01/2025
On 24 January 1984, the first Apple Macintosh was created! Such an antique compared to nowadays' computers...