Father's Day in America

America
Brazil
In Brazil, the annual Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in August.

Cuba
In Cuba, los celebrate Father's Day (Día de Padres) on 3 Sunday in June. This date is based on an initiative of the writer Dulce María Borrero, which campaigned for a national memorial day for the fathers. The first time was the Father's Day in Cuba on 19 June 1938 committed.

USA
In the U.S., Father's Day is on 3 Sunday in June. Sonora Smart Dodd in 1909 first brought the idea of a "Father's Day on" to honor her father William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran. His wife was at the birth of sixth child died, and Mr. Smart took the baby, and the other five children alone on a farm in eastern Washington state. Mrs. Dodd wanted to honor the strength and selflessness her father had met with his children. The first Father's Day was on 19 June 1910 in Spokane, Washington, observed. At the same time appeared in various American cities Father's Day celebrations. 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. And in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a proclamation declaring the third Sunday in June Father's Day.

President Nixon in 1974 rising to the rank of the Father's Day an official holiday for the third Sunday in June.

The Father's Day in the U.S. is primarily the day on which the children meet their fathers with gifts, poems and flowers. Joint excursions are on the program and many, particularly male Americans are the forgotten Father's Day trips and activities with their fathers. In addition, there is also a day for men, similar to the as in Germany the idea of a man's cult is celebrated.

The U.S. President George W. Bush announced on 13th June 2003, a "President's Father's Day Proclamation" out.

Venezuela
In Venezuela, the Father's Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in June.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatertag

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Easter (from Hebrew: Pesach)

Easter
Easter (Latin pascha, from Hebrew: Pesach) in Christianity is the annual commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who conquered the New Testament as the Son of God for death.

Since the saving events were, according to the Bible in a Passover week, determined the date of this movable feast main Jewish also the date of Easter: Easter falls on the Sunday after the first spring full moon, in the Gregorian calendar that is on or after the 22nd March and no later than 25 April.

In the early church Easter was celebrated as the unit of memory of suffering and resurrection in the Easter celebration ("Vollpascha"). From the 4th Century was the most important festival in the church year as a three-day celebration (Triduum paschale) unfolds historicizing. The services cover since in most of the liturgies of the celebration of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday evening - the eve of Good Friday - the Holy Saturday, the day the grave silence of the Lord until the dawn of the new week on Easter Sunday.

This begins the joy of Easter time ("Easter"), the fifty takes days until Pentecost. In the Middle Ages evolved from the original separate Ostertriduum Triduum, which took off the first three days of the Octave of the rest of the celebration week. Later this non-working period was shortened until only the Easter Monday was retained as a public holiday.

The common name in the German Easter is old origin, and is probably the direction "East together": the place of the rising sun is in Christianity as a symbol of the risen and returning Jesus Christ. Many Easter customs are non-Christian ("pagan") origin.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern

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Black Friday is a Famous Name of Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving Day (in English, Thanksgiving, thanking literally) is a traditional celebration of the United States and Canada. In the United States on the fourth Thursday of November, although it was originally made last Thursday.

In Canada, meanwhile, held the second Monday in October. Usually in this festival come together around a table family and friends to share a feast. Although religious in origin, is considered a secular holiday.

Traditions in the United States


Family Dinner

Most people in the United States celebrate this holiday with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks.

The traditional main dish for dinner is a great roast turkey or baked. This turkey is traditionally served with a filling made of cornbread and sage. It is traditionally served with a jelly or cranberry sauce.

Besides vegetable dishes are often served as the green beans (green beans, green beans), sweet potatoes (yams) and mashed potatoes (potatoes) with gravy, a sauce made from the juice of turkey is often served also a variety of desserts, pumpkin pie being the most popular. It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple juice.

Parade in Manhattan

Annually, the department store chain Macy's made a big parade through the streets of Manhattan, New York, which attracts millions of people to Broadway to see the huge giant balloons and witness the performances of guest artists.

Top of the shopping season

Most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores, malls, restaurants and bars stay open. The Friday following the holiday is traditionally the opening of the holiday shopping season.

This day is known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer bargain prices and great people come from the early hours of the day shopping.


Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_de_Acci%C3%B3n_de_Gracias

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Attractive Genus

Rebutia is a genus in the family of cacti (Cactaceae). The botanical name honors the French winemakers and Sukkulentengärtner Pierre Rebut.

Description

Rebutia species are succulent plants with small down-spherical, spherical or short columnar shape. At the mother plant often form in culture Kindel. This can be used for the propagation and plant in sandy substrate.

In case that they are on the mother plant, they can act as a group plant is very attractive. The ribs are broken in warts. The spines are straight, fine to almost borstendünn and yellow, white or slightly brownish color.

The dainty-trichterfömigen (rarely bell) flowers appear in part already annuals. They arise laterally in the lower half of the plant body and often appear in large number to bloom for several days, open during the day and close the evening.

Initially, only red flowering species were known, were later discovered, some with purple, lilac, orange, yellow and white flowers. The corolla tube is usually thin and scaly on the outside small.

The scales bare shoulders, depending on the nature, woolly or even be bristly. Some species share after fertilization with their own pollen fruits, others only after pollination.

The thin-walled, small tears on fruit during drying. It contains fine mützenförmige seeds of black or brown, the surface can be matt or shiny.


Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebutia

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Syringa vulgaris

The common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a plant that belongs to the family of the olive family (Oleaceae),.

The plant grows as a deciduous shrub or small tree with height 2:00 to 6:00 meters. The branches have a rounded gray green or brown bark, which is longitudinal cracks on the branches and the trunk.

The opposite leaves arranged between five and 12 centimeters long and are stalked by three centimeters. The heart-shaped leaves are long and pointed glattrandig.

The strong-smelling, flowers are four-fold in a dense terminal panicle. The color can be blue, purple, red or white. Flowering period is from April to May.

As bivalve fruits, brown and woody capsules are formed. The fruit ripening begins in September.

The common lilac is widespread in southeastern Europe and western Asia. The type is often grown in a number of garden varieties and is naturalized in many cliffs or railway embankments.

As the site of open woods and thickets are preferred.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeiner_Flieder
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Brush Flower

The Brush (Clinopodium vulgare, Synonym: Satureja vulgaris) is a plant belonging to the mint family (Lamiaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and moderately decreased. The botanical name Clinopodium is ancient Greek for stool and refer to the hairy end papers, with a bench for the flowers form.

The plant is native to Eurasia, and thyme to smell something.

The plant is 30-60 cm high. The thin leaves are ovate to oblong and slightly serrated.

Brush the flowers from July to September with dark pink, rarely white, about 6 mm long flowers in dense, rich floral wreaths are apparent. Sepals not saccate tube knot. The flowers are surrounded by many awl-shaped, long hairy bracts. The flowers produce nectar and therefore are much visited by bees, butterflies and other insects.

The fruit is a four-part split fruit.

The plant is found on dry, chalky soil in the grass, bushes, and felled areas.


Names in other languages:

German: Wirbeldost, Busty Bergminze

English: Wild Basil

French: Clinopode




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borstelkrans


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About the Fine Gold Screen Plant

Fine gold screen (Bupleurum tenuissimum) is an annual plant belonging to the family floral display (ie Apiaceae Umbelliferae). The salt tolerant plant is native to the coastal areas of Eurasia, it is a plant of high salt marshes and sea dikes. The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as a very rare and greatly reduced.


The plant is 10-60 centimeters high and has branched, thin, tough, bare stems. The blue-green, smooth-edged leaves his line to narrow-lanceolate, three ribs and a spiky top. Only the lower leaves have a short handle, the others are seated.


Fine gold screen blooms from June to September with yellow to orange, almost sitting flowers, much shorter than the three to five elongated and drienervige omwindselbladen. Inflorescence a raceme or spike screen with two or three rays.


The 2 mm wide, almost oval and weakly ribbed fruit is a two-part split fruit, which is almost entirely occupied with small warts. The seeds remain but a short time are viable.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fijn_goudscherm

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The Flowering Rush

The flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus) is a marsh plant with pink flowers in the Flowering Rush Family. It is the only plant species in this family. This plant is protected by law in the Netherlands. The flower is called because the flower pistils swans a form resembling graceful swans. The six pistils have nectar glands at the base.

The fact that the flowering rush legally protected in the Netherlands does not mean that the plant is rare, on the contrary, in the clay areas of the Netherlands, he is generally. The plant often grows in ditches cleaned annually. He did not suffer much because they have cleaning environment preservation. The flowering rush grows in nutrient-rich waters. When the plant emerges amidst the various rare plants in relatively nutrient poor water, is the sign that the water-rich foods to be and that the connoisseurs of such an environment will disappear.

The flowering rush is much visited by Count wasps.

If the exotic flowering rush introduced in the United States of America, since this plant is "flowering rush" mentioned. The plant grows well there.


Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwanenbloem

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The Great Angelica Plant

The great angelica (Angelica archangelica) is a species of plant that flowers family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae). The plant is also called archangel named root. It is a plant of wet, very rich soil to water side (including the lake), river banks and pilot whales. The great angelica is also cultivated in gardens.


It is a two-to four-year type that dies once she has produced seed. The rhizome is fijngeringd and turnip-shaped, it is highly grooved and covered with remnants of the basal leaves. The root is thick, the meestalond 7 mm thick and fleshy, green outside and white inside. The root contains a yellow latex. The marrow-filled, thick bottom stems have an open central channel and up to 2.5 m high. The stem is finely furrowed, and bare branches above.


The great broad pointed leaves are divided into numerous smaller leaves with fijngekartelde edges. The lower large light green leaves are pinnate and have a long triple, round, grooved gutter-shaped and hollow stem. The stem leaves are less strongly sprung and sit with membranous, saccate inflated sheaths on the stems. Such a sheath enveloping even the immature stem tip. The sheath collects rainwater, which many small animals may occur. The wide blade to steal the base thickened. The huge, exceeding 60 cm in girth triangular leaves are divided into egg-shaped, serrated, 3-8 cm long leaves.


The 20 cm wide, greenish and terminal epoxides screens are composed of a number of smaller screens. The screens and screens are veelstralig, with twenty to forty rays. The top screen areas are mealy. Involucre lacking or consists of only one to three leaves. The omwindseltjes are numerous. The flowers bloom from early summer off, June to September, in giant screens. In the wild, the color is usually pink and yellowish green in farmed species. The flowers smell very sweet and covered with a layer of shiny nectar. The flower heads look like they "were baptized in wine". The ovaries ripen into 1 cm thick, yellow fruits. The fruit is elliptical-wide flat compressed, with large wings and consists of two straw yellow, wide-brimmed part fruit.





Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aartsengelwortel


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