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Upcoming World Holidays
Holidays provide a great way to introduce students to the culture and history of a country. "Observe" a world holiday in your classroom by asking students to research the holiday's origins or learn more about a particular aspect of the country.
Holiday Focus: Kadooment Day (Barbados)
Kadooment Day is the culmination of the Crop Over Festival, which spans June, July, and early August. Its origins go back to the 1780s when Barbados was the world's largest producer of sugar.
Participants celebrate another year of successful sugar cane harvest with bands (groups of people in brightly colored theme costumes) that parade and dance through the streets, followed by trucks blasting calypso and other music. Festivities include costume and music contests, street vendors, and craft displays. Kadooment Day is celebrated on the first Monday in August.
World Holidays Featured This Month
Japan - Bon Day - August 15 (dates vary by region)
A time when people vacation and return to their ancestral homes to welcome visiting ancestral spirits with bonfires.
Argentina - Death of General Jose de San Martin - August 17
Commemorates the general who is known as the Liberator of Peru, Chile, and Argentina for his defeat of the Spanish in 1812.
Hungary - St. Stephen's Day - August 20
Celebrates the harvest and honors the first king of Hungary.
Namibia - Heroes' Day - August 26
A day when the Owamba mark the beginning of the armed resistance to South Africa, while the Hereo honor ancestors killed by German colonizers.
Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day - August 29
Commemorates the 1944 rebellion against the Nazis.
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