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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaily Holidays - May 31
National Macaroon Day Macaroons are flourless, often almond-based light cakes, made with whipped egg-whites and sugar (sometimes also with coconut, potato starch or nuts), and date back to a 9th century Italian monastery. Enjoy Macaroon Day by making your own macaroons from scratch try adding cinnamon, ginger, hazelnuts or chocolate! https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/macaroon-day/Save Your Hearing Day Save Your Hearing Day is our yearly reminder to turn down the dial and to listen to the birds chirping outside our windows, for a change. Its originator is unknown, but bless our eardrums, he did us a great service, because how would we otherwise have been able to tell teenagers to turn off that noise? https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/save-your-hearing-day/
World No-Tobacco Day No Tobacco Day is a day to draw attention to the negative effects of tobacco and smoking, where each year the WHO awards individuals and organisations who make an exceptional contribution to the reduction of smoking and tobacco consumption. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/no-tobacco-day/
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Daily Holidays - May 31 (Original Post)
Sherman A1
May 2016
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Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)1. We've always called it Whitsuntide.
Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three vacation weeks for the medieval villein; on most manors he was free from service on the lord's demesne this week, which marked a pause in the agricultural year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsun
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)2. That's a new one to me!
Thanks for adding it to the thread! The more the merrier!!!
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)3. I remember it coming up at school when I studied Gawain and the Green Knight.
It's one of the five festivals when Arthur held court: Easter, Ascension, Whitsun, All Saints and Christmas.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)4. Last day of May
Wow
This month seemed to fly by..... April drug on forever, but May was at warp speed.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)5. Walt Whitman's birthday today:
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)7. I like that quote
Thank You for posting.