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Happy Mayday!!!

To foster loyalty and love of country, the Congress, by joint resolution approved July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369; 36 U.S.C. 162), has designated May 1 of each year as ``Loyalty Day.''
 
I just remember having to do the Maypole dance when I was little in school.
 
Waldorf schools get into May Day celebrations but here in Maine, they happen late in May because we don't get spring until then - there's a MayPole dance, making May flower baskets - it's a festival, lotsa fun!

growing up in Catholic School, May Day was all about which little girl would get to be Mary in church for it - big stakes in that one...:r:
 
Fat Cat

I remember the "May Pole" in grade school and the dancing around it:-D
Also the Russians May Day Parade display of "arms":-|
All in all, I suppose the May Pole would be preferable at an impressionistic age;)
 
I thought "may day" was some kind of distress code. After reading the descriptions, the most similar activity that I can recall is the crowning of the Blessed Mother. It's something that was always done during the month of May, but not necessarily on the first day.
 
I remember making a may basket (or something like that) when I was in elementary school and then deliviring it to the neighbor across the street and promptly running away (I think it was suppossed to be a surprise). I was probably only 5 or 6 at the time so the memories are vague, but I know I did something for May Day once.
 
Fidel was suspiciously absent at Cuba's Mayday celebrations, but the illegal immigrants were out in force today demonstrating in the US.
 
Speaking of May Day, I just cant help but think of this. :D
 

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May Day is Labor Day here... and in a whole bunch of other places... and IIRC it is celebrated on this date because of some bloody worker's protest that happened in Chicago on May 1st.... ironic to say the least....
 
That's right; it's unions/lavbor day (celebrated by all leftists), except in the US where they 'moved it' for political reasons (anti-communism).

Her ein london in the mid 1990s there were some fairly nasty little demos (Seattle-style stuff, rich 'anarchist' kids causing trouble) but it has really died down.
 
Workers of the world unite! I always think of large Soviet style military parade when I think of May Day.
 
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