May Day
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International Workers’ Day
Main article: International Workers’ Day
May Day can refer to various labour celebrations conducted on May 1 that commemorate the fight for the eight hour day. May Day in this regard is called International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day. The idea for a “workers holiday” began in
The Haymarket affair occurred during the course of a three-day general strike in
Haymarket Square
May Day has become an international celebration of the social and economic achievements of the labour movement. Although the commemoration of May Day as International Workers’ Day received its inspiration from the
Traditional May Day celebrations
May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half of a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and neopagan festivals such as Samhain. May Day marks the end of the unfarmable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.
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Origins
The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times, with the festival of Flora, the Roman Goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries. It is also associated with the Gaelic Beltane. Many pagan celebrations were abandoned or Christianized during the process of conversion in
May 1 is celebrated as Maharashtra Day in Maharashtra and Gujarat Day in Gujarat, two states on the western coast of
1 May is celebrated as Labour Day in
Roodmas was a Christian Mass celebrated in
Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and celebrations involving a Maypole. Much of this tradition derive from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during “Þrimilci-mōnaþ” (the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings).
May Day has been a traditional day of festivities throughout the centuries. With Christianity came agricultural feasts such as Plough Sunday (the first Sunday in January), Rogationtide, Harvest Festival and May Day. It is most associated with towns and villages celebrating springtime fertility and revelry with village fetes and community gatherings. Since May 1st is the Feast of St Philip & St James, they became the patron saints of workers. Seeding has been completed by this date and it was convenient to give farm labourers a day off. Perhaps the most significant of the traditions is the Maypole, around which traditional dancers circle with ribbons.
The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time. The May Day bank holiday was created in 1978. In February 2011 the UK Parliament was reported to be considering scrapping the bank holiday associated with May Day, replacing it with a bank holiday in October, possibly co-inciding with Trafalgar Day (celebrated on 21 October), to create a “United Kingdom Day”,.
May day was abolished and its celebration banned by puritan parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of Charles II in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining
In Oxford, it is traditional for May Morning revellers to gather below the Great Tower of Magdalen College at 6.00am to listen to the college choir sing traditional madrigals as a conclusion to the previous night’s celebrations. It is then thought to be traditional for some people to jump off
In
The Maydayrun involves thousands of motorbikes taking a 55-mile (89 km) trip from
Padstow in
Kingsand, Cawsand and Millbrook in
Cawsand Square
In St Andrews, some of the students gather on the beach late on April 30 and run into the
Both Edinburgh and Glasgow organize Mayday festivals and rallies. In
1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining
A traditional May Day has been celebrated in
Labor Day in
In
On May 1st, 1561, King Charles IX of
In rural regions of
While most celebrations take place on Mayday eve (see Walpurgis Night in
Mayday is denoted “First of May” (”Första maj” in Swedish) and has been a public holiday in
Pacific
In
May Day was also celebrated by some early European settlers of the American continent. In some parts of the
Modern May Day ceremonies in the
May 1 also is recognized in the
These chapters tell how Jesus was born as a baby to Mary. This was no ordinary birth! She was not married, she was a virgin, (yes, really!) and an angel had told her she would bear a special baby. Her husband-to-be, Joseph, did not believe her at first. Who would? Then an angel told him in a dream that it was true! Probably no one else believed it. So when they had to travel from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem (near Jerusalem), to register their names with the ruling Roman government, they probably escaped many hard words from other people.
Arrival in Bethlehem brought worry and upset: there was no room for them to stay at the hotel. There was only space in the stable - the animal house for travellers’ donkeys and horses.
At that time, sheep farmers were seen by other
people as low and of no value. Yet it was to these shepherds that the birth of Jesus was first announced in an amazing dramatic way:
After Jesus was born, wise men came to look for Him, from an area which is now in either Iran or Saudi Arabia. Although they are often called the “Three Kings”, the Bible does not say how many there were, or that they were kings. Three is only a guess because they brought with them three gifts.
Here is a newspaper cartoon printed some years ago, showing Father Christmas reading the Christmas story to a child. “But how did it end?” the child asks. Behind them, you can see the Cross (execution pole) on which Jesus was killed at the age of 33.
The first thing you should do is keep some books in your
The next thing to do is to keep some drawing paper and pencils in the car. Buy yourself a small to medium sized flat container and put some paper and pencils in there. This will keep it all organized and will prevent a huge mess from happening in your car. This kind of container can easily sit between the kids. If purchasing that doesn’t sound like the best idea for you then you can also buy some clip boards. Anything that helps keep the paper together is good.
Music is good for two things when driving with kids in the car. One thing is that music naturally gets your child’s attention and they want to listen to it…second is that it keep them quiet! If your child is listening to music, odds are they won’t talk too much. This isn’t guaranteed of course, but if you have fun kid songs playing odds are your kids will either sing along or sit and listen. Give it a try!
If all of the above is not working then the last and near sure fire way to keep your kids quiet while driving is to purchase a portable DVD player. Pop in your kids favorite movie and enjoy the sound of quiet children. There is nothing better. And remember that most portable DVD players have a socket for head phones if you want some pure silence!


















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