Why are we celebrating the 23 June each year? Well, there are at least 6 reasons for that. One is the longest day in the year. The other is the day of birth to John the Baptist. And the third day is the the experience of perceiving the Olympic Day in history. And the fourth is the national pink day for women. And the fifth reason is that a known philosopher was born. The sixth reason was a marathon in Tromsoe in Norway! So, we are celebrating many things simultaneously at 23 June! Well, it has a history in the world, of all we can fnd and think of historically in the human nature in the nature. With roots in pagan times, Midsummer is a celebration of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, but it is also a celebration of life and love. So, we should be ourselves, and making human relations of all the kinds we want, just to appreciated the life instead of the death. And there is a bright day, the longest in the year, and the sun has shown it for operating the longest day, and therefore there is bright seasons, when being in the spring and in the summer, and dark seasons when there is autumn and winter.
Why do we celebrate the birth of John the Baptist? Each year on June 24 the Catholic Church honors the birth of John by reflecting on his unique role as the precursor of Jesus. The solemnity held on that date praises John as a worthy example of what it means to be a follower of Christ. A solemnity is the most significant feast the Church can establish.
The third reason for celebrating the Midsummer is due to the first Olympic Day on 23 June 1894. Olympic Day is a celebration of sport, health, and being together. It invites everyone around the globe to be active and move together with purpose on 23 June every year. Participants from all over the world will commemorate the day the International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, where Pierre de Coubertin rallied the revival of the Ancient Olympic Games on 23 June 1894.
National Pink Day is celebrated on June 23 every year. As you might imagine, it’s a day to celebrate the meaning, history, and beauty of the pale shade of red. Surveys in both the United States and Europe found pink to be most commonly associated with femininity, sensitivity and tenderness. From pink being a subject of recent pop culture, to interesting facts about the delightful shade throughout time, the day celebrates all things pink.
On 23 June 1668 Giambattista Vico was born. The eighteenth-century Italian philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vico was born in Naples on 23 June 1668. The theory of history that Vico proposed in his best-known work, Scienza nuova (New Science, 1725), was of importance to Joyce in the composition of Finnegans Wake. Vico claims that history begins in a barbarism of sense and ends in a barbarism of reflection. The barbarism of reflection is a returned barbarism in which the common sense established by religion through poetic wisdom holding a society together has been broken down by individual interests. Hence, nobody of us accepts all the wisdom one is getting by world sentences in the world history of any time. Therefore, there are chaos in the beginning and the end of our lives, since there is not always clear structures for how to think and why believing and thinking as one is doing.
So, there are several reasons for celebrating the 23 June, but most people associate it with the Midsummer, and that we are coming in the middle of the year and in the summer, and we also have a marathon for this in Norway, The Midnight Sun Marathon is an arctic adventure for running people. The life and the light in the northern part of the world are characterized by strong contrasts and intense experiences. In the summer, the city Tromsoe has midnight summer, with long and bright days and nights where the sun never sets. So, we are here to love life and to offer people, organizations and humanity good solutions on the problems.
The Midsummer's Eve bonfire is one of the oldest known bonfire celebrations in Norway. In older times, people also used to light bonfires at other Church festivals such as Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. The flames were believed to guard against evil spirits, which, according to old folklore were particularly active on Midsummer's Eve.
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