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katyag85 posted Legend of Easter Bunny | Jun 8, 2008
Each Easter one can hear the same questions from children, that adults usually can’t answer. What has bunny to do with the religious holiday of Easter? And why Easter Bunny lays eggs anyways? Usually adults don’t know what to say and joke their way out. Yet, if we go back in history, there are...
katyag85 posted Mother's Day in the US | May 20, 2008
On May 11 we celebrated Mother's Day in the US. In some ways it is our own unique holiday. This holiday is one of the most popular and commercially successful US holidays. It is the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in America. And it still remains heavily marketed concept....
egabriel posted History of the crossbow | May 13, 2008
When we think of the crossbow we imagine all those great medieval battles and sieges of castles. But, in fact, crossbow was invented at least a thousand years before the arrival of Middle Ages. The mystery of its origins still remains, but most historians believe that crossbow first appeared in...
katyag85 posted The origin of the Roman triumph ceremony | Apr 22, 2008
Up until today nobody knows the origin of the Roman triumph ceremony. Some say that it came from ancient Etruscan civilization and then passed to Rome as a civil ceremony and religious rite. No historian could establish with certainty when the last Roman triumph ceremony was conducted. In the times...
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