Monaco Edition
Resolution Map Day leads today's complete edition for Monaco.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
New Year's Resolutions are nearly universal failures in every culture. Now that New Year's Day is a few days behind, if you truly intend to make change, today is when you map realistic goals on a calendar and write daily steps you can take to make goals real. If you won't write it today, you'll have nothing to follow tomorrow.
The eve of Saint Devote's feast day marks the beginning of Monaco's most important religious celebration. A ceremonial boat is carried through the streets of La Condamine in a torchlit procession, accompanied by the Palais Princier guards in full uniform, members of the clergy, and the faithful singing Monégasque hymns. The procession ends at the Esplanade of the Église Sainte-Dévote, where the boat is prepared for the following day's burning. Saint Devote, a 4th-century Corsican martyr, is the patron saint of Monaco, and her legend says her boat drifted across the Mediterranean to the Monégasque shore : the same shore where today's superyachts anchor for the Grand Prix.
You witness the okapi and the Congo peafowl in the dense rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. You find that Congolese people primarily keep dogs, cats, and chickens as pets in urban and rural areas. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.