Memorial Day Fireworks detonate above Mount Rushmore National Memorial, July 3. Approximately 30,000 people came to the memorial for the 2008 Independence Day Celebration. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Marc I. Lane) As Memorial Day approaches in the U.S., our readers inquire about its meaning and history. We created this fun quiz [...]
English Language Day By Sharon Schweitzer The English Project launched the world’s first-ever English Language Day on October 13th in 2009. English Language Day is celebrated to commemorate October 13th, 1362, when Parliament was opened for the first time by a speech in English, instead of French. In the same Parliament, a Statute [...]
International Day of Peaceful Communication, World Architecture Day By Sharon Schweitzer International Day of Peaceful Communication was founded by Ruben M. West in 2019. The day was created to raise awareness of the power of peaceful communication. The celebrations intend to promote peaceful communication as the norm for families and communities as well [...]
National Body Language Day By Sharon Schweitzer Body language is a form of communication in which physical behaviors instead of words, are used to express information. This includes facial expressions, postures, gestures, eye movements, touch, and the use of space. Body language is all about nonverbal communication, which is far more effective than [...]
World Sake Day By Sharon Schweitzer World Sake Day, or Nihonshu no Hi, started in 1978 when Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association (J.S.S.) designated October 1st as a day of sake celebration. The day is also to salute the people involved in sake production — the rice farmers and brewery workers. The [...]
National Coffee Day By Sharon Schweitzer People from around the world love their coffee. But the U.S. drinks more coffee than any nation. The typical American adult drinks 2.7 cups of coffee a day. One hundred-fifty million Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee per day and that amounts to 140 billion cups [...]
World Tourism Day By Sharon Schweitzer Tourism has been a part of the human experience as long as there have been distant places to go and experience. It was originally the province of the wealthy, with travel being difficult and expensive, but it afforded opportunities to learn new languages, experience different cuisines, and [...]
European Day of Languages By Sharon Schweitzer In 1997, the idea of organizing a campaign to convince the general public of the importance of learning more languages was born. This idea arose at the conference on Language learning for a new Europe, which launched the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (C.E.F.R.) [...]
International Day of Sign Languages By Sharon Schweitzer The International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated on September 23rd by the United Nations. It is commemorated on this day since the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) was founded on this day in 1951, as a result of efforts by the WFD in [...]
National Chai Day By Sharon Schweitzer National Chai Day is celebrated in India on September 21st each year to celebrate the unique flavors of chai, also known as masala chai. Chai, which means “tea” in many languages, has its roots in South Asia, particularly in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Nepal. It [...]