|
 Thanksgiving Day [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 24, Hits: 358]
Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival and is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude...
Updated On: 11/4/2009
Tags:
Harvest Festival, Thanksgiving Day United States, Thanksgiving Day Canada, USA Secular Holiday, Canada Secular Holiday, Thanksgiving Celebrations, Plymouth Celebration, Thanksgiving Dinner, Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie, George Washington, National Day of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day Traditions, Thanksgiving Family Feast, Thanksgiving Day Cranberry Sauce, Thanksgiving Day Parades, Football Games, Thanksgiving Day Customs, Thanksgiving Day Prayer, USA, Canada, Christian
 Print : Read On...
 Gurupurav: Guru Nanak's Birthday [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 915, Hits: 7886]
Saints like Guru Nanak make their presence in this weary world in order to show the right path to the suffering humanity
Amrik Singh Updated On: 11/1/2009
Tags:
Prabhat Pheri, Tenth Sikh Guru, Nishan Sahib, Bhangra Dance, Sikh Community, Saint, Humanity, Rai Bhoeki Talwandi, Nankana Sahib, Lahore, Pakistan, Mehta Kalu, Mata Tripta, Bibi Nanaki, Astrologer Hardyal, Pandit Bhijnath Shastri, Maulvi Qutab-ud-Din, Nirankar, TERA MAIN TERA, Mool Mantra, Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Bhai Mardana, Akhand Path
Print : Read On...
 Hannukah [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 487, Hits: 1531]
[A Jewish Festival] A Jewish festival that occurs in December (the Hebrew month Kislev), also spelled Chanukah...
Updated On: 10/25/2009
Tags:
Temple of Jerusalem, Syrian Greeks, Jewish Christmas, Temple of Jerusalem, Hannukah gelt, Gold coins, Hannukah, Jewish festival, Chanukah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of Maccabees
Print : Read On...
 Memorial Day [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 159, Hits: 922]
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May...
Updated On: 5/23/2009
Tags:
United States federal holiday, Decoration Day, Commemorate U.S. men and women, Military service, American Civil War, Reunification after the civil war, Visiting cemeteries and memorials, Flag of United States at half-staff, Foreign Wars take donations for poppies, John McCrae poem, National Memorial Day Concert, United States Capitol, Indianapolis 500, USA, Washington
Print : Read On...
 Mother's Day [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 468, Hits: 2288]
A question has been raised as to the correct form of the name of this holiday. Mother's Day, with the singular possessive of mother, is the accepted form...
Updated On: 5/6/2009
Tags:
Legal public holiday in USA, Miss Anna Jarvis, Philadelphia, USA, House of Representatives by J. Thomas Heflin, Miss Jarvis, Mrs. Anna M. Jarvis, Wearing of the white carnation, Miss Mary Towles Sasseen of Kentucky, Frank E. Hering, South Bend, Indiana, Universalist Church of Our Father in Baltimore, Robert K. Cummins, George M. Pullman, Inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, Mothers Day International Association
Print : Read On...
 Baisakhi - derives its name from the month of Vaisakha [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1598, Hits: 6696]
For Hindus, it's start of new year, celebrated with requisite bathing, partying, and worshiping. It's believed that the goddess Ganga descended to earth thousands of years ago...
Updated On: 4/5/2009
Tags:
Thirteenth of April every year, Baisakhi, Vaisakha, Shrines, Temples, Gurudawaras, Offer prayers, Worship, Bhangra dances, Sikh community, Guru Gobind Singh organised sikhs into Khalsa, Hindu Calendar, Goddess Ganga, Jammu Nagbani Temple, Vishu Kani, Bohag Bihu, Vaisakha bathing, Holy shrine of Badrinath
Print : Read On...
 Natyanjali Festival [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 281, Hits: 1832]
The ancient Nataraja temple of Chidambaram pays special tribute to Lord Nataraja...
Updated On: 12/29/2008
Tags:
Ancient Nataraja Temple, Lord Nataraja, Dancing Shiva, Natyanjali Festival, Bharathanatyam Classical Dance, Maha Shivaratri, Department of Tourism Tamil Nadu, Natyanjali Trust, Hindu Mythology, Cosmic Dancer, Chidambaram Temple, Classical Dance
Print : Read On...
 Onam [Hits: 190]
Onam - harvest festivals of Kerala. Festival, which Kerala People celebrate together without difference of caste and religion...
Updated On: 8/30/2008
Tags:
Greatest festivals of Kerala, Kerala People, Time for sports and festivities, Canals, Lakes and backwaters, Sacred river Pamba, Chingam, Pamba, Malayalam New Year, Harvest festival of Kerala, Rangolis, Pookkalam, Trichur, River Pampa, Keralites, Thiruvathira kali Thumbi Tullal, Thiuruvonam day, Kanam Vittu Onam Unnanam, Malayalam calendar, Onapookalam, Atham, Thiruvonam, Utradam, Trikkakara Appan, Aarppu Vilikkukal, Karanavar, Tarawad, Onakazhcha, Nayar Tarawad, Aranmulla, Chundan Vallams, Snake boats, Oarsmen, Katoormana, Uthruttathi, Thiru Onam, Nambudiri Brahmin, Caparisoned elephants, Asura, Mahabali, Aditi, Lord Vishnu, Sukracharya, Vamana, Worshiper of Lord Vishnu
Print : Read On...
 Shab-e-Qadr [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 553, Hits: 5997]
The most blessed of all the nights of the year according to Islam...
Updated On: 7/25/2007
Print : Read On...
 Bataan Day [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 407, Hits: 1808]
Bataan Day commemorates those who lost their lives defending the peninsula of Bataan...
Updated On: 7/25/2007
Print : Read On...
|
