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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.
A day for printed pictures, old phones, albums, names written on backs, and the people a household remembers together.
National holiday. A significant day for Burkina's Catholic community. Churches fill, choirs sing, and afterward everyone gathers for a meal that always includes riz gras. The faith runs deep in the Centre-Ouest and the processions through Koudougou and Ouaga are a sight that stays with you.
You observe the snow leopard, Asian elephant, and markhor wild goat inhabiting Pakistan's diverse mountain and forest ecosystems. You find that Pakistanis typically keep dogs, cats, and chickens as their most common household animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
In heavily Catholic communities (New Orleans, Chicago's Polish neighborhoods, Boston's Irish enclaves, San Antonio's Mexican-American parishes), August 15th is observed with Mass, processions, and family meals. In New Orleans, the connection between the Virgin Mary and the city is so deep that the Archbishop consecrated the city to Mary in 1928. Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005. The Assumption was two weeks before. The city prayed to Mary before the storm. It prayed to her after.