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		<title>Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/maha-saptami-maha-ashtami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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The seventh and eighth days of Durga Puja are two of the most auspicious days of the great Bengali festival. (You&#8217;ll notice a lot of &#8216;Maha&#8217; in Hindu festivals. It&#8217;s a prefix meaning &#8216;great&#8217;.)
Maha Saptami
According to www.indiasite.com
The morning of maha saptami (seventh day) is taken up with the worship of the deity, followed by anjali when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durga Puja - Bengal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Durga Puja is the largest celebration of Bengal and Bangladesh, and is also celebrated throughout Bhutan, and Nepal. It worships the mother goddess Durga, who was called into existence by the trinity of Hindu gods, Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu, to defeat the demon Mahishasura.
According to legend, Shiva gave the once-loyal Mahishasura a power that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinnamon Bun Day - Sweden</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/cinnamon-bun-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a good holiday for those on a diet.
It&#8217;s worth wondering how a people noted for their healthy physique could be gastronomically symbolized by a cinnamon bun. The thing is a black hole of caloric intake.

Cinnamon buns, or kanelbullar, have been a Swedish staple since at least the 1920s. According to Birgit Nilsson Bergström of Sweden&#8217;s Home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Unity Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
18 years ago today the great divide between East and West Germany, the front line between Soviet and Western ideologies for over four decades, was erased in an instant. Germany became one nation for the first time since 1945.
The reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990 followed the dramatic destruction of the Berlin Wall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gandhi Jayanti</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1940

India, a land overflowing with the holy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eid al Fitr</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/eid-al-fitr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
This week Muslims around the world follow up the moderation and solemnity of Ramadan with the joy and festivity of Eid-al-Fitr. Fitr means breaking of the fast, referring to the month-long fast during Ramadan. Eid means &#8220;festival&#8221;, of which Islam has only two: today&#8217;s Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha (Festival of the Sacrifice).
The days before Eid-al-Fitr are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosh Hashanah</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/rosh-hashanah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Happy New Year!
It&#8217;s New Years in Judaism, but you won&#8217;t hear Jews counting down to midnight in celebration. For one, Jewish days begin at sundown the night before. Second, Rosh Hashanah is not so much a time of celebration as a time of reflection and repentance. 
Despite its name, &#8220;Head of the Year&#8221;, Rosh Hashanah actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michaelmas</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/michaelmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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And when the tenants come to pay their quarter&#8217;s rent
They bring some fowle at Midsummer, a dish of fish in Lent,
At Christmasse a capon, at Michaelmasse a goose;
And somewhat else at New-yeres tide, for feare their lease flie loose.
Gasciogne, Posies (1575)

September 29 is the Feast Day of the Archangel St. Michael and All Angels.
The archangel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confucius&#8217;s Birthday - Teachers&#8217; Day</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/confucius-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Nestor the Chronicler says:
Today is Birthday of Confucius.
To which Nestor the Chronicler&#8217;s Father says:
I forgot to get him a card.
+++
Teachers come and go, but teachings are forever.
Today is the (observed) birthday of the man whom many believe to be the greatest teacher ever, Master Kung, K&#8217;ung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night of Destiny, Night of Power</title>
		<link>http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/night-of-destiny-night-of-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Muslims across the world, tonight is a night &#8220;better than a thousand months.&#8221;

On this night, the 27th of Ramadan, in 610 CE, the 40 year-old future Prophet Muhammad was meditating in a cave outside Mecca. The Angel Gabriel/Jibril appeared to Muhammad and commanded him to recite. Muhammad twice refused, explaining he did not know [...]]]></description>
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