Occasional Digest

Travel - it speaks the truth and turns you into a storyteller

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Thursday 18 June Hijri New Year in Oman

This day is a public holiday in most Islamic countries and this year's date for New Year in each country along with the name of the day in that country
#HijriNewYearinOman #history #holiday #OccasionalDigest #Oman
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Five weekend plans you shouldn't share with your colleagues

IT’S only a matter of hours until office chat turns to what people are doing at the weekend. But probably keep these plans to yourself:
Passing out shitfaced

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Wednesday 17 June Independence Day in Iceland

Iceland was proclaimed an independent republic on June 17th 1944.

#history #holiday #iceland #IndependenceDayinIceland #OccasionalDigest
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Tuesday 16 June Awal Muharram in Malaysia

Awal Muharram, the beginning of the new Hijrah year, is a historic occasion for Muslims around the world.

While traditions for Awal Muharram will vary from
#AwalMuharraminMalaysia #history #holiday #Malaysia
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Monday 15 June Sacred Heart in Colombia

The full title of the holiday is 'The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus'. In Spanish, it is known as 'El Sagrado Corazón de Jesús'.

#Colombia #history #holiday #OccasionalDigest #SacredHeartinColombia
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All homeworkers naked

ALL homeworkers are completing their allotted tasks and attending meetings entirely naked, they have confirmed.

Across the country, anyone working from home is typing with their laptop mere inches from their
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Sunday 14 June Liberation Day in Falkland Islands

On April 2nd 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Argentina asserted that the islands are
#FalklandIslands #history #holiday #LiberationDayinFalklandIslands #OccasionalDigest
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VR headsets, and other technologies you got bored of after 20 minutes

ONCE it was the next big thing, now you can’t even Freecycle it. Were you one of the visionaries who bought a piece of the future that turned out to be a dusty pie
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Saturday 13 June Feast of St. Anthony in Lisbon

Saint Anthony of Padua (August 15th 1195 – June 13th 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Franciscan friar who became a saint in
#FeastofStAnthonyinLisbon #history #holiday #Lisbon #OccasionalDigest
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Text too small, and other legitimate reasons to give up on a book and go on your phone

THE sun is shining, out-of-office is on, it’s a perfect time to read a good book but you don’t want to. Use one of these excuses to squint

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Friday 12 June Russia Day in Russia

Since 1991, this holiday in the world's largest country has changed its name twice. It was originally called 'Independence Day', though it was not
#history #holiday #OccasionalDigest #Russia #RussiaDayinRussia
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Come to Spain, to laugh at the people who'd normally be in Dubai

THE Spanish tourist board is encouraging Britons to visit this summer for a good chuckle at all those miserable because they cannot be in Dubai.

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Thursday 11 June King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii

There is some uncertainty as to when King Kamehameha was born with several years between 1736 and 1761 being proposed. What is known
#hawaii #Histor #holiday #KingKamehamehaIDayinHawaii #OccasionalDigest
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Man hates the snivelling maggot he becomes in covering letters

THE grovelling sentences a man comes out with when writing a covering letter disgust him to his core, it has emerged.

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Wednesday 10 June Portugal Day in Portugal

Camões wrote Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), Portugal's national epic celebrating the country's history and achievements. While it is only
#history #holiday #OccasionalDigest #Portugal #PortugalDayinPortugal
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Tuesday 9 June La Rioja Day in La Rioja Spain

This holiday marks the anniversary of the autonomous community of La Rioja's statute being approved on June 9th 1982.

#history #holiday #LaRiojaDayRiojaSpain #OccasionalDigest #spain
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Monday 8 June Emancipation Day (in lieu) in Tonga

Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom located in the Pacific Ocean, 1,250 miles north of New Zealand. It is composed of over 170 South Pacific
#EmancipationDayTonga #history #holiday #OccasionalDigest #Tonga
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Past-it old bastard referring to you both as 'people our age'

AN old and decrepit man is under the mistaken impression that you and he are contemporaries.

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Sunday 7 June Sette Giugno in Malta

Malta's position in the Mediterranean sea has made the islands a strategically important location since classical times, with the islands passing from one
#history #holiday #Malta #OccasionalDigest #SetteGiugnoinMalta
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Why I gave up being a fashion editor to become a bricklayer, and why the answer is wealth

By Hannah. Not her real name, You know, of the Berkshire Tomlinsons

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