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May Day 2017

Date: 
Monday, May 1, 2017

May 1 is May Day, one of the oldest festivals in Northern Hemisphere.

This is a well-known spring festival and a public holiday in number of countries.

The earliest May Day celebrations date back to the pre-Christian times, when festival of Flora, or Floralia, the Roman goddess of flowers, was observed.

Since May was the first month of the summer, this holiday honored the beginning of the season.

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