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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy Leif Erikson Day.
Apparently, today is also Leif Erikson Day. Skál !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson_Day
And all these other days:
Christian feast day:
Abraham
Denis
Dionysius the Areopagite
Ghislain
Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
Blessed John Henry Newman
John Leonardi
Luis Beltran
Robert Grosseteste (Church of England)
Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))
October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Fire Prevention Day (Canada, United States)
Hangul Day (South Korea)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962. (Uganda)
Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Ecuador)
Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)
National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)
National Nanotechnology Day (United States)
Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama, Japan)
World Post Day
bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)Not sure who all is going to get that reference.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Doesnt he count?
And John Crapper? Id celebrate that day lol!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Guy Fawkes is next month.
But I still think good old John Crapper should have a holiday.
Wounded Bear
(58,792 posts)It's when he tried to blow up Parliament.
I don't know! I though Guy Fawkes Day was Nov. 5.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)My mom and dad and some friends used to sit around with drinks, laughing as they chose new holidays.
My mom, who was Welsh, always reminded me of St. Davids.
geardaddy
(24,933 posts)Dw i'n gwybod dy fod dy llysenw yn Gymraeg
(I know your nickname is Welsh)
but shouldn't it be crwydro (to roam) or did you mean it to mean vomit?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I tried to change it, but to no avail.
Yes, it was to roam or wanderer.
Id had a few too many that night. Still irks me.
All my family is in Wales. Pembrokeshire. My mother died in February, and I hope to go over soon. Havent been there in years.
Id love to move for good. Dual citizenship.
geardaddy
(24,933 posts)My grandmother's family was from Port Talbot and used to go to Welsh services in Scranton, PA. I have her Welsh hymnal. I went to Bangor for about three months and took an intensive language course.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)She always said her grandmother spoke it, but not her mother.
Ive never thought about taking a language course; Id love to do that. Lol, wonder if Babble has Welsh?
geardaddy
(24,933 posts)bdtrppr6
(796 posts)but that's everyday!
Well, here's a little something for you then.