"In October 1969, at the National UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, John McConnell proposed a global holiday to celebrate Earth's life and beauty and to advance peace. Along with the celebration of life on Earth, he intended Earth Day to alert earthlings about the need for preserving and renewing the...

March 20th, known as International Day Without Meat or Meatout Day, was created to give up eating meat and thus killing animals at least one day a year, in order to promote a vegetable, fruit and cereal-based diet and to teach a healthy lifestyle and vegetarian diet as being friendly to the human body.

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Everybody has a person to which one owes life – a mother. A person who raised us, took care of us, was always there when we needed. Mothers are the foundation of the society. For this reason, the day honouring all mothers is annually observed in many countries around the world. In the United Kingdom...

There are seven official health-specific United Nations (UN) Days. One of them is April 2 – World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). Many of us are not aware of the fact that people with autistic spectrum disorders surround us every day. April 2 is a great opportunity to find out more about them and their...

International Dollhouse Day is a holiday established by the Museum of Dollhouses, Games and Toys, located in Warsaw. Its purpose is to promote knowledge of historical dollhouses as a material document of the times in which they were made, and to encourage people to make their own dollhouses.

The initiators...