Cinco de Mayo ((Spanish: “Fifth of May”) is an annual celebration held on May 5.
Cinco De Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army’s successful defense of the city of Puebla against invading French forces in 1862.
This Sunday is Cinco de Mayo, a day celebrating Mexican culture across the United States and, to a lesser extent, in Mexico.
Star Wars Day, May 4, celebrates George Lucas’ Star Wars.
The date was chosen for the pun on the catchphrase “May the Force be with you” as “May the Fourth be with you“.
Star Wars, an epic space opera written and directed by George Lucas, premiered in 1977 and became an almost instant cult classic.
The nearest stars to Earth are in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, about 4.37 light-years away. One of these stars, Proxima Centauri, is slightly closer, at 4.24 light-years.
Of all the stars closer than 15 light-years, only two are spectral type G, similar to our sun: Alpha Centauri A and Tau Ceti. The majority are M-type red dwarf stars.
Only nine of the stars in this area are bright enough to be seen by the naked human eye from Earth. These brightest stars include Alpha Centauri A and B, Sirius A, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, 61 Cygni A and B, Epsilon Indi A and Tau Ceti.
Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf 5.96 light-years away, has the largest proper motion of any known star. This means that Barnard’s Star moves rapidly against the background of more distant stars, at a rate of 10.3 seconds of arc per Earth year.
Sirius A is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky, due to its intrinsic brightness and its proximity to us. Sirius B, a white dwarf star, is smaller than Earth but has a mass 98 percent that of our sun.
In late 2012, astronomers discovered that Tau Ceti may host five planets including one within the star’s habitable zone. Tau Ceti is the nearest single G-type star like our sun (although the Alpha Centauri triple-star system also hosts a G-type star and is much closer).
The masses of Tau Ceti’s planets range from between two and six times the mass of Earth.
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Your stress level comes down to what you see within seconds.
If the image is still, you are calm; if it moves slightly, you are stressed and if it moves like a carousel, you are very stressed.
This image is said to reveal exactly how stressed you’re feeling based on how much or how little it moves.
The now-viral image has people all over the Internet obsessed.
National Spaghetti Day is celebrated every January 4th in the United States of America.
How to celebrate it?
All you have to do is get together your friends and family and serve them a nice dish of spaghetti.
While ancient cultures were making and eating spaghetti and other pastas well before it came to Europe, it’s the Italians who popularized it in cuisines.
It was introduced into the United States through the travels of Thomas Jefferson, who brought it back from Naples, Italy in 1789.
Italian immigrants also brought it over with them to the U.S., where its popularity quickly spread.
Common types of pasta
1. ANGEL HAIR
2. CANNELLONI
3. CONCHIGLIE
4. DITALINI
5. FARFALLE
6. FETTUCCINE
7. LASAGNA
The far side of the Moon is the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth.
A never-before-seen ‘close range’ image taken by the Chinese spacecraft Chang’e-4 of the surface of the far side of the moon. It appears to take on a reddish hue in some of the images released by China, seemingly an effect of the lights used by the probe.
The Chang’e-4 lunar probe mission – named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology – launched last December from the southwestern Xichang launch center.
December 7 2018 – Chinese space agency announces it has launched the Chang’e-4 probe into space.
December 12 2018 – Retrorockets on the probe fired to stabilise the spacecraft and slow it down.
December 31 2018 – The probe prepared for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon.
Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it's edge-on rings. NASA/JPL/Kevin M. Gill pic.twitter.com/BWaVP5h6Ob
— Domenico Calia (@CaliaDomenico) January 1, 2019
The Pig occupies the last (12th) position in the Chinese Zodiac.
You are a “Pig Chinese Zodiac native” if you are born in one of these years: 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019 .
2019 Chinese New Year is arriving on February 5, 2019. That is the 4716th Chinese year. The zodiac sign of 2019 is the Pig.
Lucky Things for People Born in a Year of the Pig
Lucky numbers: 2, 5, 8, and numbers containing them (like 25 and 58)
Lucky days: the 17th and 24th of every Chinese lunar month
Lucky colors: yellow, gray, brown, gold
Lucky flowers: hydrangea and daisy
Lucky direction: east and southwest
Lucky months: the 2nd, 7th, 10th, and 11th Chinese lunar months
The Unlucky Things for Pigs
Unlucky color: red, blue, green
Unlucky numbers: 1, 7, and numbers containing them (like 17 and 71)
Unlucky direction: southeast
Unlucky months: the 4th, 9th, and 12th Chinese lunar months
BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS FOR HOLIDAY 2018
The tradition of gift-giving is an old one, but it became associated with Christmas more recently.
Impress Everyone on Your List this year. Everything to get you through this holiday season from the hottest gift ideas.
Toys & Games
What to Buy Your Friends’ Kids Based on Their Age
Movies & TV
Electronics
Books
Video Games
CDs & Vinyl
In 1800s New York, the overlapping interests of middle-class families and the wealthy produced a cultural practice that’s still in place today.
The practice of buying Christmas presents for children predates the spread of corporate capitalism in the United States: It began during the first half of the 1800s, particularly in New York City, and was part of a broader transformation of Christmas from a time of public revelry into a home- and child-centered holiday.
In the nearly two centuries since New Yorkers instigated the invention of today’s Christmas rituals, American families have invested gift-giving and other widely practiced holiday traditions with their own unique meanings.
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