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Hi my dear friends of this OLD blog of mine:<br />
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I'm back, back, back, back...... blogging again!!!!! :-)<br />
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I made this decision some minutes ago... because I was missing to interact with my blog friends so much....lol, it's the truth...! :-)<br />
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I will try to exchange with you my thoughts and experiences, my happiness and want to share the love of every day's peace and also to share my photography with you - again.<br />
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In reverse I'm happy to read your comments and your thoughts, your inputs and enjoying our friendship we had together.<br />
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I'm excited to be back again, hope the same from my readers :-)<br />
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Wishing you a wonderful Sunday!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With this picture of the 7-Mile bridge down to the beautiful Florida Keys I'm wishing you all a very Happy Sunday! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will NOT be blogging from now on for a while, hubby and I will be gone soon on a long journey to Europe - and yes, we both are very excited about our probably last adventure in our life. :-))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...until then, stay tuned, be good and I'll see you here again....!</span><br />
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United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an
official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the
third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given
presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.15in;">The
origin of Father's Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a
church service in </span><span style="line-height: 0.15in;"><a href="http://homeschooling.about.com/od/unitssubjgeog/ss/wvirginiaprint.htm">West
Virginia</a> </span><span style="line-height: 0.15in;">in
1908. Others say the first Father's Day ceremony was held in
Vancouver, </span><span style="line-height: 0.15in;"><a href="http://homeschooling.about.com/od/unitssubjgeog/ss/washingtonprint.htm">Washington</a>
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president of the Chicago branch of the Lions' Club, Harry Meek, is
said to have celebrated the first Father's Day with his organization
in 1915; and the day that they chose was the third Sunday in June,
the closest date to Meek's own birthday!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regardless
of when the first true Father's Day occurred, the strongest promoter
of the holiday was Mrs. Bruce John Dodd of Spokane, Washington. Mrs.
Dodd felt that she had an outstanding father. He was a veteran of the
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War</a>.
His wife had died young, and he had raised six children without their
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1909, Mrs. Dodd approached her own minister and others in Spokane
about having a church service dedicated to fathers on June 5, her
father's birthday. That date was too soon for her minister to prepare
the service, so he spoke a few weeks later on June 19th. From then
on, the state of Washington celebrated the third Sunday in June as
Father's Day. Children made special desserts, or visited their
fathers if they lived apart.</span></div>
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Father's Day. In 1916, <a href="http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/ss/Wilson-Worksheets.htm">President
Woodrow Wilson</a> approved
of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when<a href="http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/ss/Coolidge-Worksheets.htm">President
Calvin Coolidge</a> made
it a national event to "establish more intimate relations
between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the
full measure of their obligations." Since then, fathers had been
honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on
the third Sunday in June.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they
send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards
that are not too sentimental. Most greeting cards are whimsical so
fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for
being there whenever the child needed Dad.</span></div>
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FATHER's DAY to all caring and hard working Daddies and Fathers out
there – we love you all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6e6e6;">Social
role</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #e6e6e6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Historically,
the role of women was confined mostly to being a mother and wife,
with women being expected to dedicate most of their energy to these
roles, and to spend most of their time taking care of the home. In
many cultures, women received significant help in performing these
tasks from older female relatives, such as mothers in law or their
own mothers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6e6e6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mothers
have historically fulfilled the primary r</span><span style="color: #e6e6e6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.16in;">ole in raising children, but
since the late 20th century, the role of the father in child care has
been given greater prominence and social acceptance in some Western
countries. The 20th century also saw more and more women entering
paid work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">The
social role and experience of motherhood varies greatly depending
upon location. Mothers are more likely than fathers to encourage
assimilative and communion-enhancing patterns in their children.
Mothers are more likely than fathers to acknowledge their children's
contributions in conversation. The way mothers speak to their
children (</span></span><span style="color: #e6e6e6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.16in;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk">"motherese"</a></span><span style="color: #e6e6e6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.16in;">)
is better suited to support very young children in their efforts to
understand speech (in context of the reference English) than fathers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">Since
the 1970s, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilization"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">in
vitro fertilization</span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">
</span><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">has
made pregnancy possible at ages well beyond "natural"
limits, generating ethical controversy and forcing significant
changes in the social meaning of motherhood. This is, however a
position highly biased by Western world locality: outside the Western
world, in-vitro fertilization has far less prominence, importance or
currency compared to primary, basic healthcare, women's basic health,
reducing infant mortality and the prevention of life-threatening
diseases such as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">polio</span></span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">,
</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhus"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">typhus</span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">
</span><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">and
</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">malaria</span></span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">Traditionally,
and still in most parts of the world today, a mother was expected to
be a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">married</span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">
</span><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">woman,
with birth outside of marriage carrying a strong </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stigma"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">social
stigma</span></span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">.
Historically, this stigma didn't only apply to the mother, but also
to her child. This continues to be the case in many parts of the
developing world today, but in many Western countries the situation
has changed radically, with single motherhood being much more
socially acceptable now. For more details on these subjects, see
</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(law)"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">legitimacy
(law)</span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">
</span><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">and
</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_parent"><span style="color: #e6e6e6;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">single
parent</span></span></a><span style="color: #e6e6e6;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HAPPY </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.16in;">MOTHER'S DAY!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God bless you all.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Travels
into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By Lemuel
Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships,</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">better
known simply as </span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Gulliver's
Travels </b></i></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(1726,
amended 1735), is a novel by </span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people">Irish</a>
</span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">writer
and clergyman </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jonathan
Swift</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
that is both a </span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire">satire</a>
</span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on
</span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nature">human
nature</a> </span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
a </span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody">parody</a>
</span></span><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's
best known full-length work, and a classic of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">English
literature</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="line-height: 0.16in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
book became popular as soon as it was published. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay">John
Gay</a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wrote
in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the
cabinet council to the nursery." Since then, it has never been
out of print.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
book begins with a short preamble in which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Gulliver"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lemuel
Gulliver</span></a>,
in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life
and history before his voyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is
that love of travel that is his downfall.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During
his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and
finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches
tall, who are inhabitants of the island country of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lilliput</span></a>.
After giving assurances of his good behaviour, he is given a
residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From
there, the book follows Gulliver's observations on the Court of
Lilliput. He is also given the permission to roam around the city on
a condition that he must not harm their subjects. Gulliver assists
the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbours, the Blefuscudians, by
stealing their fleet. However, he refuses to reduce the island nation
of Blefuscu to a province of Lilliput, displeasing the King and the
court. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gulliver is charged with treason for, among other "crimes",
"making water" in the capital (even though he was putting
out a fire and saving countless lives.) He is convicted and sentenced
to be blinded, but with the assistance of a kind friend, he escapes
to Blefuscu. Here he spots and retrieves an abandoned boat and sails
out to be rescued by a passing ship, which safely takes him back
home. This book of the <i>Travels</i>is
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_II:_A_Voyage_to_Brobdingnag">Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag </span>20 June 1702 – 3 June 1706</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the sailing ship <i>Adventure</i> is blown off course by storms and forced to put into land for want of fresh water, Gulliver is abandoned by his companions and found by a farmer who is 72 feet (22 m) tall (the scale of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brobdingnag" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Brobdingnag">Brobdingnag</a> is about 12:1, compared to Lilliput's 1:12, judging from Gulliver estimating a man's step being 10 yards (9.1 m)). He brings Gulliver home and his daughter cares for Gulliver. The farmer treats him as a curiosity and exhibits him for money. Since Gulliver is too small to use their huge chairs, beds, knives and forks, the queen commissions a small house to be built for him so that he can be carried around in it; this is referred to as his 'travelling box'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Between small adventures such as fighting giant wasps and being carried to the roof by a monkey, he discusses the state of Europe with the King. The King is not happy with Gulliver's accounts of Europe, especially upon learning of the use of guns and cannons. On a trip to the seaside, his travelling box is seized by a giant eagle which drops Gulliver and his box into the sea, where he is picked up by some sailors, who return him to England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book compares the truly moral man to the representative man; the latter is clearly shown to be the lesser of the two. Swift, being in Anglican holy orders, was keen to make such comparisons.</span></div>
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Source of text and pictures are from here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_into_Several_Remote_Nations_of_the_World,_in_Four_Parts.">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_into_Several_Remote_Nations_of_the_World,_in_Four_Parts.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">I
hope you've enjoyed to read about "Gulliver's Travels",
like me. I don't know how many time I was reading this book as a kid,
I liked it so much - we had NO TV back in time when I grew up and
these stories brought the whole far away world right into my house, I
had not to go out there :-)</span></span><br />
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Sunday I will post then Part 3 & 4 - so stay tuned and have a
wonderful and HAPPY SUNDAY!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">The first attempts to establish a "Mother's Day" in the United States came from women's peace groups.</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">A common early activity was the meeting of groups of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></h3>
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In 1868, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Jarvis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ann Jarvis">Ann Jarvis</a> – mother of Anna Jarvis – created a committee to establish a "Mother's Friendship Day", the purpose of which was "to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War." Jarvis – who had previously organized "Mother's Day Work Clubs" to improve sanitation and health for both Union and Confederate encampments undergoing a typhoid outbreak – wanted to expand this into an annual memorial for mothers, but she died in 1905 before the celebration became popular. Her daughter would continue her mother's efforts.</div>
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There were several limited observances in the 1870s and the 1880s but none achieved resonance beyond the local level. At the time, Protestant schools in the United States already held many celebrations and observations such as<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Day" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Children's Day">Children's Day</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Temperance_Sunday&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Temperance Sunday (page does not exist)">Temperance Sunday</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roll_Call_Day&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Roll Call Day (page does not exist)">Roll Call Day</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Decision_Day&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Decision Day (page does not exist)">Decision Day</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionary_Day&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Missionary Day (page does not exist)">Missionary Day</a> and others. In New York City, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Julia Ward Howe">Julia Ward Howe</a> led a "Mother's Day for Peace" anti-war observance on June 2, 1872, which was accompanied by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mother's Day Proclamation">Mother's Day Proclamation</a>. The observance continued in Boston for about 10 years under Howe's personal sponsorship, then died out.</div>
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Several years later a Mother's Day observance on May 13, 1877 was held in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion,_Michigan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Albion, Michigan">Albion, Michigan</a> over a dispute related to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Temperance movement">temperance movement</a>. According to local legend, Albion pioneer Juliet Calhoun Blakeley stepped up to complete the sermon of the Rev. Myron Daughterty who was distraught because an anti-temperance group had forced his son and two other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Temperance movement">temperance</a> advocates to spend the night in a saloon and become publicly drunk. From the pulpit Blakeley called on other mothers to join her. Blakeley's two sons, both traveling salesmen, were so moved that they vowed to return each year to pay tribute to her and embarked on a campaign to urge their business contacts to do likewise. At their urging, in the early 1880s, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Methodist Episcopal Church">Methodist Episcopal Church</a> in Albion set aside the second Sunday in May to recognize the special contributions of mothers.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_E._Hering" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frank E. Hering">Frank E. Hering</a>, President of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_Order_of_Eagles" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fraternal Order of Eagles">Fraternal Order of Eagles</a>, made a plea for "a national day to honor our mothers" in 1904.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day_(U.S.)#cite_note-11" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">]</a></sup></div>
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Anna Jarvis never mentioned Howe or Mothering Sunday, and she never mentioned any connection to the Protestant school celebrations, always claiming that the creation of Mother's Day was hers alone.</div>
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In its present form, Mother's Day was established by Anna Jarvis with the help of Philadelphia merchant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wanamaker" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Wanamaker">John Wanamaker</a> following the death of her mother Ann Jarvis on May 9, 1905. A small service was held on May 12, 1907 in the Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton,_West_Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Grafton, West Virginia">Grafton, West Virginia</a> where Anna's mother had been teaching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_school" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sunday school">Sunday school</a>. But the first "official" service was on May 10, 1908 in the same church, accompanied by a larger ceremony in the Wanamaker Auditorium in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker%27s" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wanamaker's">Wanamaker's</a> store on Philadelphia. The next year the day was reported to be widely celebrated in New York.</div>
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Jarvis then campaigned to establish Mother's Day first as a U.S. national holiday and then later as an international holiday. The holiday was declared officially by the state of West Virginia in 1910, and the rest of states followed quickly. On May 8, 1914, the U.S. Congress passed a law designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and requesting a proclamation. On May 9, 1914 President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a> issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother's Day as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.</div>
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In 1934, U.S. President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> approved a stamp commemorating the holiday.</div>
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In May 2008 the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_of_Representatives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="U.S. House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a> voted twice on a resolution commemorating Mother's Day, the first one being unanimous (with 21 members not voting).The Grafton's church, where the first celebration was held, is now the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother%27s_Day_Shrine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="International Mother's Day Shrine">International Mother's Day Shrine</a> and is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_caryophyllus" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dianthus caryophyllus">Carnations</a> have come to represent Mother's Day since Anna Jarvis delivered 500 of them at the first celebration in 1908. Many religious services held later adopted the custom of giving away carnations. This also started the custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. The founder, Anna Jarvis, chose the carnation because it was the favorite flower of her mother. In part due to the shortage of white carnations, and in part due to the efforts to expand the sales of more types of flowers in Mother's Day, florists invented the idea of wearing a red carnation if your mother was living, or a white one if she was dead; this was tirelessly promoted until it made its way into the popular observations at churches.</div>
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The commercialization of the American holiday began very early, and only nine years after the first official Mother's Day had become so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become, spending all her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting what she saw as an abuse of the celebration. She decried the practice of purchasing greeting cards, which she saw as a sign of being too lazy to write a personal letter. She was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialization of Mother's Day, and she finally said that she "...wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control ..." She died later that year.</div>
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However, Mother's Day is now one of the most commercially successful American occasions, having become the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States and generating a significant portion of the U.S. jewelry industry's annual revenue, from custom gifts like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_ring" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mother's ring">mother's rings</a>. Americans spend approximately $2.6 billion on flowers, $1.53 billion on pampering gifts—like spa treatments—and another $68 million on greeting cards.</div>
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Commercialization has ensured that the holiday has continued, when other holidays from the same time, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Day" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Children's Day">Children's Day</a> and Temperance Sunday, are no longer celebrated.</div>
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<b>Mother's Day</b> in the United States is an annual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Holiday">holiday</a> celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day recognizes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mother">mothers</a>, motherhood and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_bond" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Maternal bond">maternal bonds</a> in general, as well the positive contributions that they make to society. Although many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mother's Day">Mother's Day celebrations world-wide</a> have quite different origins and traditions, most have now been influenced by the more recent American tradition established by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jarvis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anna Jarvis">Anna Jarvis</a>, who celebrated it for the first time in 1908, then campaigned to make it an official holiday. Previous attempts at establishing Mother's Day in the United States sought to promote peace by means of honoring mothers who had lost or were at risk of losing their sons to war.</div>
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Traditions on this day include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_service" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Church service">churchgoing</a>, the distribution of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Carnations">carnations</a>, and family dinners. The holiday has been heavily commercialized by advertisers and retailers.</div>
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Alphorn – the sound of natural tones.</h1>
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With the passing of time, the alphorn almost totally disappeared as an instrument used by Swiss shepherds. It was only with the romanticism of the 19th century and the revival of folklore and tourism that the alphorn experienced a renaissance and even became a national symbol.</h3>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Like the didgeridoo, the Indian bamboo or wooden trumpet and the African horn, the alphorn is one of the original wooden wind instruments. The alphorn in Switzerland was first documented in the mid-16th century by natural scientist Conrad Gesner.</span></div>
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Communication with humans and animals</h3>
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The alphorn has long been a tool used by shepherds. It was used to <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">call</strong>the cows from the pastures and into the barn at milking time. An engraving from 1754 shows a shepherd using the alphorn to motivate the cows to cover the last steep stretch on their big climb up into the Alps. A glass painting from the Emmental Valley dating back to 1595 shows the alphorn being blown, probably to <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">pacify</strong> the cows during milking. The blowing of the alphorn in the evening is also a traditional theme in art. This sound served as an <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">evening prayer</strong>, and was mainly practiced in the Reformed cantons, while in the German-speaking Catholic cantons in Central Switzerland, the call to prayer was preferred. The main function of the alphorn was, however, for <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">communication</strong> with the herdsmen on the neighboring Alps and with the people down in the valley below.</div>
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After 1800, as the production of cheese increasingly shifted from the Alps to the dairies in the villages, the alphorn was used less and less. After the alphorn was hardly heard at <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">traditional festivals</strong> any more, the Bernese official, Niklaus von Mülinen, began to repair alphorns in the 1820s and distribute them to talented players in Grindelwald. Although the alphorn had more or less lost its original function in the mountains, it now won the hearts of its audiences as a <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">musical instrument</strong> – and has become a tourist attraction and a symbol of Switzerland.</div>
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The key in which an alphorn can be played depends on its <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">length</strong>. In Switzerland, the Fis/Ges (F sharp/G flat) alphorn is used, which is 3.5 metres long. Despite or indeed because of its simple design, the alphorn is a difficult instrument to play. This is because all other wind instruments have undergone technical advancements over time (finger holes, valves) while the alphorn has retained its original form. Musicians regard instruments made of wood as being brass instruments because the tones are produced by the same blowing techniques. The distinctive sound of the alphorn, however, combines the richness of a <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">brass wind instrumentwith the softness of a woodwind instrument.</strong></div>
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Ways to know if you are a TRUE Floridian...</u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">1. Socks are only
for bowling. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. You never use an umbrella because the rain will
be over in five minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. A good parking place has nothing to
do with distance from the store, but everything to do with shade. </span></div>
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Your winter coat is made of denim. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. You can tell the difference
between fire ant bites and mosquito bites. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. You're younger than
thirty but some of your friends are over 65. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Anything under 70
degrees is chilly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. You've driven through Yeehaw Junction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9.
You know that no other grocery store can compare to Publix. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10.
You know that anything under a Category 3 just isn't worth waking up
for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">11. You dread love bug season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">12. You are on a first
name basis with the hurricane list. They aren't Hurricane Charley or
Hurricane Frances. You know them as Andrew, Charley, Frances, Ivan,
Jeanne, Wilma, Irene, Cheryl, Rita, Mary, Alison </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">13. You know
what a snowbird is and when they'll leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">14. You think a
six-foot alligator is actually pretty average. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">15. 'Down South'
means Key West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">16. Flip-flops are everyday wear. Shoes are for
business meetings and church, but you HAVE worn flip flops to church
before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">17. You have a drawer full of bathing suits, and one
sweatshirt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">18. You get annoyed at the tourists who feed
seagulls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">19. A mountain is any hill 100 feet above sea level.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">20. You know the four seasons really are: hurricane season, love
bug season, tourist season and summer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">21. You've hosted a
hurricane party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">22. You can pronounce Okeechobee, Kissimmee ,
Withlacoochee , Thonotosassa and Micanopy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">23. You understand why
it's better to have a friend with a boat, than have a boat yourself.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">24. You've worn shorts and used the A/C on Christmas and New
Years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">25. You recognize Miami-Dade as 'Northern Cuba.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi my friends,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I'm living also in Florida I have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">something for you today to smile about! It's not my wisdom... I've found this on Facebook two days ago... Facebook is a good source for a lot of funny stuff...!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read it with a smile and.... HAPPY SUNDAY! :-)</span></div>
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Easter is a holiday that was created because of Jesus, then where did
all the eggs and bunnies come from? Well, as I have said many, many
times before, Christianity is based on much older religious texts.
(Many of which were destroyed to keep the origins of Christianity a
secret. Hence why they've burned so many libraries throughout
history) If you want to know the long, drawn out history of Easter,
then I shall share it below.<br /><br />Easter History : Christian and
Pagan Traditions Interwoven<br /><br />The history of Easter reveals rich
associations between the Christian faith and the seemingly unrelated
practices of the early pagan religions. Easter history and traditions
that we practice today evolved from pagan symbols, from the ancient
goddess Ishtar to Easter eggs and the Easter bunny.<br /><br />Easter,
perhaps the most important of the Christian holidays, celebrates the
Christ's resurrection from the dead following his death on Good
Friday. . . a rebirth that is commemorated around the vernal equinox,
historically a time of pagan celebration that coincides with the
arrival of spring and symbolizes the arrival of light and the
awakening of life around us.<br /><br />Ostara, Goddess of Spring and the
Dawn (Oestre / Eastre)<br /><br />Easter is named for a Saxon goddess who
was known by the names of Oestre or Eastre, and in Germany by the
name of Ostara. She is a goddess of the dawn and the spring, and her
name derives from words for dawn, the shining light arising from the
east. Our words for the "female hormone" estrogen derives
from her name.<br /><br />Ostara was, of course, a fertility goddess.
Bringing in the end of winter, with the days brighter and growing
longer after the vernal equinox, Ostara had a passion for new life.
Her presence was felt in the flowering of plants and the birth of
babies, both animal and human. The rabbit (well known for its
propensity for rapid reproduction) was her sacred animal.<br /><br />Easter
eggs and the Easter Bunny both featured in the spring festivals of
Ostara, which were initially held during the feasts of the goddess
Ishtar | Inanna. Eggs are an obvious symbol of fertility, and the
newborn chicks an adorable representation of new growth. Brightly
colored eggs, chicks, and bunnies were all used at festival time to
express appreciation for Ostara's gift of abundance.</span></div>
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of Easter Eggs and Easter Candy</u><br /><br />The history of Easter Eggs
as a symbol of new life should come as no surprise. The notion that
the Earth itself was hatched from an egg was once widespread and
appears in creation stories ranging from Asian to Ireland.<br /><br />Eggs,
in ancient times in Northern Europe, were a potent symbol of
fertility and often used in rituals to guarantee a woman's ability to
bear children. To this day rural "grannywomen" (lay
midwives/healers in the Appalachian mountains) still use eggs to
predict, with uncanny accuracy, the sex of an unborn child by
watching the rotation of an egg as it is suspended by a string over
the abdomen of a pregnant woman.<br /><br />Dyed eggs are given as
gifts in many cultures. Decorated eggs bring with them a wish for the
prosperity of the abundance during the coming year.<br /><br />Folklore
suggests that Easter egg hunts arose in Europe during "the
Burning Times", when the rise of Christianity led to the
shunning (and persecution) of the followers of the "Old
Religion". Instead of giving the eggs as gifts the adults made a
game of hiding them, gathering the children together and encouraging
them to find the eggs.<br /><br />Some believe that the authorities
seeking to find the "heathens" would follow or bribe the
children to reveal where they found the eggs so that the property
owner could be brought to justice.<br />Green Eggs . . .<br />. . . and
Ham???<br /><br />The meat that is traditionally associated with Easter
is ham. Though some might argue that ham is served at Easter since it
is a "Christian" meat, (prohibited for others by the
religious laws of Judaism and Islam) the origin probably lies in the
early practices of the pagans of Northern Europe.<br /><br />Having
slaughtered and preserved the meat of their agricultural animals
during the Blood Moon celebrations the previous autumn so they would
have food throughout the winter months, they would celebrate the
occasion by using up the last of the remaining cured meats.<br /><br />In
anticipation that the arrival of spring with its emerging plants and
wildlife would provide them with fresh food in abundance, it was
customary for many pagans to begin fasting at the time of the vernal
equinox, clearing the "poisons" (and excess weight)
produced by the heavier winter meals that had been stored in their
bodies over the winter. Some have suggested that the purpose of this
fasting may have been to create a sought-after state of "altered
consciousness" in time for the spring festivals. One cannot but
wonder if this practice of fasting might have been a forerunner of
"giving up" foods during the Lenten season.<br /><br />Chocolate
Easter bunnies and eggs, marshmallow chicks in pastel colors, and
candy of all sorts, most of which are given out as personalized gifts
during Easter . . . these have pagan origins as well! To understand
their association with religion we need to examine the meaning of
food as a symbol.<br /><br />The ancient belief that, by eating something
we take on its characteristics formed the basis for the earliest
"blessings" before meals (a way to honor the life that had
been sacrificed so that we as humans could enjoy life) and,
presumably, for the more recent Christian sacrament of communion as
well.<br /><br />Shaping candy Easter eggs and bunnies to celebrate
the spring festival was, simply put, a way to celebrate the symbols
of the goddess and the season, while laying claim to their strengths
(vitality, growth, and fertility) for ourselves.<br />The Goddess
Ostara and the Easter Bunny<br /><br />Feeling guilty about
arriving late one spring, the Goddess Ostara saved the life of a poor
bird whose wings had been frozen by the snow. She made him her pet
or, as some versions have it, her lover. Filled with compassion for
him since he could no longer fly (in some versions, it was because
she wished to amuse a group of young children), Ostara turned him
into a snow hare and gave him the gift of being able to run with
incredible speed so he could protect himself from hunters.<br /><br />In
remembrance of his earlier form as a bird, she also gave him the
ability to lay eggs (in all the colors of the rainbow, no less), but
only on one day out of each year.<br /><br />Eventually the hare
managed to anger the goddess Ostara, and she cast him into the skies
where he would remain as the constellation Lepus (The Hare) forever
positioned under the feet of the constellation Orion (the Hunter). He
was allowed to return to earth once each year, but only to give away
his eggs to the children attending the Ostara festivals that were
held each spring. The tradition of the Easter Bunny had begun.<br /><br />The
Hare was sacred in many ancient traditions and was associated with
the moon goddesses and the various deities of the hunt. In ancient
times eating the Hare was prohibited except at Beltane (Celts) and
the festival of Ostara (Anglo-Saxons), when a ritual hare-hunt would
take place.<br /><br />In many cultures rabbits, like eggs, were
considered to be potent remedies for fertility problems. The ancient
philosopher-physician Pliny the Elder prescribed rabbit meat as a
cure for female sterility, and in some cultures the genitals of a
hare were carried to avert barrenness.<br /><br />Medieval Christians
considered the hare to bring bad fortune, saying witches changed into
rabbits in order to suck the cows dry. It was claimed that a witch
could only be killed by a silver crucifix or a bullet when she
appeared as a hare.<br /><br />Given their "mad" leaping and
boxing displays during mating season as well as their ability to
produce up to 42 offspring each spring, it is understandable that
they came to represent lust, sexuality, and excess in general.
Medieval Christians considered the hare to be an evil omen, believing
that witches changed into rabbits in order to suck the cows dry. It
was claimed that a witch could only be killed by a silver crucifix or
a bullet when she appeared as a hare.<br /><br />In later Christian
tradition the white Hare, when depicted at the Virgin Mary's feet,
represents triumph over lust or the flesh. The rabbit's vigilance and
speed came to represent the need to flee from sin and temptation and
a reminder of the swift passage of life.<br /><br />And, finally, there
is a sweet Christian legend about a young rabbit who, for three days,
waited anxiously for his friend, Jesus, to return to the Garden of
Gethsemane, not knowing what had become of him. Early on Easter
morning, Jesus returned to His favorite garden and was welcomed the
little rabbit. That evening when the disciples came into the garden
to pray, still unaware of the resurrection, they found a clump of
beautiful larkspurs, each blossom bearing the image of a rabbit in
its center as a remembrance of the little creature's hope and faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><u>Ishtar,
Goddess of Love, and the First Resurrection (also known as
Inanna)</u><br /><br />Ishtar, goddess of romance, procreation, and war
in ancient Babylon, was also worshipped as the Sumerian goddess
Inanna. One of the great goddesses, or "mother goddesses",
the stories of her descent to the Underworld and the resurrection
that follows are contained in the oldest writings that have ever been
discovered. . . the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish and the
story of Gilgamesh. Scholars believed that they were based on the
oral mythology of the region and were recorded about 2,100
B.C.E.<br /><br />The most famous of the myths of Ishtar tell of her
descent into the realm of the dead to rescue her young lover, Tammuz,
a Vegetation god forced to live half the year in the Underworld.
Ishtar approached the gates of the Underworld, which was ruled by her
twin sister Eresh-kigel, the goddess of death and infertility. She
was refused admission.<br /><br />Similar to the Greek myths of Demeter
and Persephone that came later, during Ishtar's absence the earth
grew barren since all acts of procreation ceased while she was away.
Ishtar screamed and ranted that she would break down the gates and
release all of the dead to overwhelm the world and compete with the
living for the remaining food unless she was allowed to enter and
plead her case with her twin.<br /><br />Needless to say, she won
admission. But the guard, following standard protocol, refused to let
her pass through the first gate unless she removed her crown. At the
next gate, she had to remove her earrings, then her necklace at the
next, removing her garments and proud finery until she stood humbled
and naked after passing through the seventh (and last) gate.<br /><br />In
one version, she was held captive and died but was brought back to
life when her servant sprinkled her with the "water of life".
In the more widely known version of the myth, Ishtar's request was
granted and she regained all of her attire and possessions as she
slowly re-emerged through the gates of darkness.<br /><br />Upon
her return, Tammuz and the earth returned to life. Annual
celebrations of this "Day of Joy", were held each year
around the time of the vernal equinox. These celebrations became the
forerunners of the Ostara festivals that welcomed Oestre and the
arrival of spring.<br /><br />A section on the Goddess Inanna (the
Sumerian version of the Goddess Ishtar), her myths and symbols, is
included with the myths of the goddesses at this website.<br /><br />Easter
eggs, the Easter Bunny, the dawn that arrives with resurrection of
life, and the celebration of spring all serve to remind us of the
cycle of rebirth and the need for renewal in our lives. In the
history of Easter, Christian and pagan traditions are gracefully
interwoven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">compulsions, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi my friends,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This new year started out not that good for me. My new laptop what I bought 2 months ago went "black"...and, as the French always use to say when they play Roulette at the Casinos: "rien-ne-vas-plus"!.... or with other words: it died! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this happened on a Wednesday, of course! It was short before weekend too and the technicians don't work over weekends! The computer guy came on Monday, built in a new motherboard, but still nothing, no movements at all, still a black screen! Later, after almost 2 hrs talking with a software engineer far away in India somewhere, it started finally working again - yeah!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the best of all of this is, that all my photo files could be saved and didn't get lost - because that was my biggest fear and concern! Lucky me...!!! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now everything is working fine and as you can see: I'm posting again and I hope you'll enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wishing you with this picture and this quote what I love very much, a very HAPPY SUNDAY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~Susanne</span><br />
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