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This is when we celebrate the birthday of the United States of America.
Starting four hundred years ago, people from Europe came to live in America. They formed thirteen colonies on the east coast.

A colony is an area of land ruled by another country. These colonies were ruled by Britain, a European country. The British government told the people in the colonies to send them money for taxes. This made the colonists angry. They refused to pay the taxes. The thirteen colonies decided it was time to break free from Britain. They wanted to make their own rules. This caused the Revolutionary War to begin in America in 1775.

Future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson wrote a document called the Declaration of Independence. This paper said the colonies were no longer under British rule. The colonies were creating the United States of America.American leaders voted to accept the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. But it took seven more years before the United States was completely free from Britain’s rule.

Church bells rang out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4th , 1777. It was the nation’s first birthday.
Fireworks lit up the sky. Ships fired their cannons.

These noisy Fourth of July customs soon spread to other cities. In 1870, Independence Day bacame a U.S. holiday

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Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. It is a  day of remembrance for those who have died in the service of  our Nation.

Waterloo N.Y. Was  officially declared the birthplace of Memorial day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, but it’s  difficult to prove the origins of the day. There is also evidence that a women’s group in the South decorated graves before the end of the Civil War.

In either case, Memorial Day  has had numerous starts due to the human need to honor the dead. Though some people think it’s a day to honor any and all dead, Memorial Day is intended to honor those who have given their all in service to aur contry.

MATER

Tu, grande Mãe!… do amor de teus filhos escrava,

para teus filhos és, no caminho da vida,

como a faixa de luz que o povo hebreu guiava

à longe Terra Prometida.

Jorra de teu olhar um rio luminoso.

Pois, para batizar essas almas em flor,

deixas cascatear desse olhar carinhoso

todo o Jordão do teu amor.

E espalham tanto brilho as asas infinitas

que expandes sobre os teus, carinhosas e belas,

que o seu grande clarão sobe, quando as agitas,

e vai perder-se entre as estrelas.

E eles, pelos degraus  da luz ampla e sagrada,

fogem da humana dor, fogem do humano pó,

e, à procura de Deus, vão subindo essa escada, que é como a escada de Jacó

Olavo Bilac (1865-1918)

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Answer: Earth Day  is an annual event most commonly celebrated the 22nd of April . Earth Day is a day on which people around the world gather to participate in activities and demonstrations aimed at raising public awareness about a variety of environmental issues including air pollution, water pollution, habitat destruction, sustainable energy, climate change, species losses, and environmental policies. The history of Eaarth Day is rooted in the 1970s, during a time when the modern environmental movement was gaining momentum.

The first Day was on April 22, 1970 and marks the start of the modern environmental movement . On April 22, 1970, 20 million people demonstrated across the US, calling for a healthy and sustainable environment. There were rallies on college and university campuses coast-to-coast. People joined together to fight against a wide variety of issues including pollution, toxic dumps, oil spills, habitat  destruction, power plants, and other issues that were causing visible harm to the environment. The first Earth Day was founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson and events and rallies were organized by the national coordinator, Denis Hayes.