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It's not really a holiday, but... Today is Harry Potter's birthday! Since the Harry Potter series has been translated into over 75 languages (including Latin and Ancient Greek!) it should be an international holiday, shouldn't it? #HappyBirthdayHarry

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Today it's #Ólavsøka (St Olav's Day) in the Faroe Islands! King Olav II of Norway helped to Christianise Norway, for which he was quickly made saint after dying fightingan invading Danish army. In the Faroe Islands, this day is the highlight of summer.

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On 26 July 1953, the Moncada Barracks in Cuba saw an armed attack by a group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. The date became the name of Castro's revolutionary movement (Movimiento 26 de Julio). The 25th, 26th and 27th of July are public holidays in Cuba.

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In Vanuatu, an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean, Children's Day is celebrated today. The two main themes of the festivity, which is a public holiday, are "stop violence against children" and "give a child the chance to express their opinion today".

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Sarawak Independence Day is a holiday observed on 22 July every year by the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, celebrating the establishment of self-government and de facto independence from the British Crown on 22 July 1963.

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Today, the first day of the waning moon of the eighth lunar month, #Vassa starts for Theravada Buddhist practitioners. During three lunar months, monks retreat to a temple or monastery. Some lay people observe Vassa by adopting more ascetic practices, like giving up meat.

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Yesterday it was Bastille Day in France! Bastille Day is the French National Day, celebrated on the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a turning point of the French Revolution #bastilleday

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Interested in UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage? Today in Mongolia the Nadaam traditional festival celebrates the "three games of men": Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery.

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Do you feel like celebrating Carnival today? Then you should go to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an Anglo-Caribbean island country located where the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic meet.

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Today is Independence Day in the United States, commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer subject to the British monarch. #4July #IndependenceDay

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This month we'll go on (bank) holidays around the world! Today it's #Canada Day, celebrating the anniversary of the 1st of July 1867, when the Constitution Act united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a single dominion.

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J. R. R. Tolkien playfully named Bilbo Baggins' home "Bag End" in the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. "Bag end" is a #calque of French "cul-de-sac", to poke fun at the British use of French terms.

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The metaphor "double-edged sword" is used to describe a benefit with a risk attached to it: if the two sides of a blade are sharp, it can cut both ways. The expression may be a #calque from the Arabic سَيْف ذُو حَدَيْن (sayf ḏū ḥadayn, “double-edged sword”).

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Have you heard the expression "dog days"? It's a #calque of Latin "diēs caniculārēs". "Dog" is a reference to the star Sirius, which returned to the night sky in late July in ancient Rome. It announced what were considered the hottest, least healthy and least lucky days of summer

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Have you ever wondered why Bluetooth, the wireless technology standard, is called that? "Bluetooth" is a #calque of the Old Norse epithet of a Danish king, Harald "Blåtand" Gormsen, who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom in the 10th century.

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Unsurprisingly, "people's republic" is a #calque from Russian. Originating from "народная респ��блика" (narodnaja respublika), the term was coined in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917. #languagehistory

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Did you know that the pejorative term "running dog" is a #calque from Chinese? 走狗 (zǒu gǒu) is an insult that means "servile follower". It derives from the tendency of dogs to follow humans in hopes to receive food scraps.

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#Calques are common in specialised or internationalised fields. The French word "courriel" (contraction of courrier électronique), for example, calques the English "email" (contraction of electronic mail).

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"Wisdom tooth" is a #calque from Latin "dentes sapientiæ", which is a calque from Greek "sophronisteres", from "sophron", meaning "prudent, self-controlled" – Hippocrates is credited with naming them that way because wisdom teeth usually appear at adulthood (17-25 years).