EASTER BUNNY ORIGIN

In the Easter bunny origin legend, he is the one that brings decorated eggs and candies to the children's home the night before Easter. He would hide them somewhere in the house or garden for the kids to find them in the morning. But the bunny as a symbol of Easter is traced a long time ago, even before Christ was born:

The Egyptians are believed to be the first ones to recognize the rabbit as a symbol of fertility (for being a prolific animal) and life, later on this belief spread to Greece and Rome.

Also among the Celtics during the celebration of the Festival of Eoster (Goddess of Spring) used the rabbit as her symbol.

The Easter Bunny origin its found on Germany, first found on literature of the 1500's under the name of "Oschter Haws", a rabbit that deposit eggs, among other candies on children's shoes. Also Germany was the one that introduce the chocolate bunny on the 1800's.

The Easter Bunny was first introduce to America thanks to the Germans that arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch during the 1800's. Every year on Easter kids would wait for Oschter Haws' visit to lay eggs on their homes.

As time passed by and the amount of eggs and candies grew, and they could not fit on the shoes anymore, the kids started to build nests for the Easter Bunny eggs, and after some years, the nest were substituted by baskets.

But not in all the countries that celebrate Easter have the bunny as symbol, Australia considers bunnies and rabbits a pest and instead of a bunny, a Bilby is the one that lay the eggs on Easter for the children.

Taken from: http://www.read-legends-and-myths.com/easter-bunny-origin.html

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JUNE 15TH BOOK DAY

This celebration began in Argentina on June 15, 1908 as "Book Festival" . That day, prizes were awarded a literary competition organized by the National Council of Women. In 1924, Decree No. 1038 of the national government declared the official "Book Festival" . On June 11, 1941, a Ministerial resolution proposed to call the commemoration "Book Day" on the same date, an expression that remains today.

On the other hand, the World Book Day is a commemoration held at the international level in order to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. At the international level is enacted by UNESCO , which began to enact the first time in 1995 . In several Spanish-speaking countries this day is celebrated as the Day of the language , unlike the International Day of the mother tongue is held on February 21 .


April 23 was chosen as World Book Day and Copyright Day, because it corresponds to the death of the writer Miguel de Cervantes , William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega on the same date in the year 1616 (although it is not this way actually : Cervantes died on 22 and was buried on 23, while Shakespeare died on April 23 of the Julian calendar , which corresponds to May 3 of the Gregorian calendar ). On this date also William Wordsworth (in 1850 ) and Josep Pla (in 1981 ) died.