| Jour du Président - Lundi 17 Février 2020 Clôture des banques : Jusqu'en 1975, l'anniversaire de George Washington - héros de la guerre d'Indépendance et premier président des États-Unis - qui tombait le 22 février, était une fête nationale. Banks, post office and governement close, but businesses, more and more, remain open, as well as universities. These banks remain open: Chase Bank, TD Bank, Wells Fargo
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| Vacances de printemps (début) - Jeudi 19 Mars 2020 vacances scolaires :
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| Fête des Mères - Dimanche 10 Mai 2020 Cartes/Fleurs : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Vacances d'été (début) - Jeudi 21 Mai 2020 vacances scolaires :
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| Journée de la Mémoire - Lundi 25 Mai 2020 Jour férié laïc : Célébré le quatrième lundi de mai, ce jour honore les morts. Créé après la guerre de Sécession, il est devenu le jour où l'on se souvient des morts de toutes les guerres et des défunts en général, au cours de cérémonies qui se déroulent dans les cimetières.
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