Monday, February 21 is a chance for our country and our environment to celebrate in a unique way. Many schools and businesses closed in the region. Why, you ask? It is President's Day! This holiday always falls on the third Monday in February.
It was the anniversary of George Washington, the first time February 22, 1732 has been honored. Well, it is also reminiscent of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, on 12 February 1809 Occurred.
Learn more about the history of the holiday region below, but first I want to take as little space and offers a touch of green to the federal holiday.
learn with the closure of local schools, why not take the time to celebrate the world around you? Visit your local library or search the Internet for information on presidential history and the environment. Then look at the Morton Arboretum, a walk in the neighborhood, go for a hike or a bike ride, fishing in a local forest preserves, or try bird watching for the first time.
You could buy a book for sale to help identify our feathered friends. It should be relatively easy to find a sale, because one aspect of the President's Day, is that as an excuse for three days, sales will be used this weekend, some of them have even been extended to two anniversaries Lincoln and Washington owned.
It is possible that even the cherry on the sale of organic food in a relative world. The cherries are used for Washington's birthday because of the history in which, as he asked if he had shot down a cherry tree, the father of our country "could not lie" and admitted that to celebrate this action. Learn more about the history here.
Another possibility is the product Venture Center Burr Ridge Village, buy natural works, including those available from Aveda Salon Efthimia or Bath & Body Shop, or equip your home with Kohler fixtures that use small amounts of water the.
Back to the history of the festival. Washington Federal birthday party was her real birthday in 1885, when he became a federal holiday until 1971, when the U.S. Congress passed a new law allows the national observation of the changes implemented this day and three other holidays until Monday, according to instead of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
The goal was to create a unified national guard Monday holiday workers create holiday at home to minimize absences. Changes included moving Memorial Day, last Monday in May through Columbus Day in the calendar on the second Monday of October and exchange Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October (it is recovered to its original November 11 was modified, date).
Congressman Robert McClory (R-Illinois) has proposed changing the date for the celebration of Washington's birthday on the third Monday in February, because it was closer to the anniversary of President Lincoln by the likelihood that the party would be used for Lincoln, a president from Illinois to commemorate Besides the father of our country.
This federal holiday is a great opportunity to learn about our early presidents, and honor. Furthermore, why does not remember the day in our world by the natural beauty it offers and to ensure, through the commitment, but the honor? Think Monday, a time to learn more about our CEO and our environment, past and with this know-how that you appreciate the legacy of those who came before us to move left.
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