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On March 22, Puerto Rico celebrates the annual holiday, Emancipation Day, commemorating the abolition of slavery from its island in 1873. Slaver... read more

The theme for World Water Day 2019 is "Leaving no one behind". This is an adaptation of the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sus... read more

Our climate is changing. This is not just a future scenario. It is happening now. The climate will continue to change over the coming decades as... read more

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is one of five inhabited American insular area... read more

In a study conducted in 2006 the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded that the right to the truth about gross human rig... read more

Facts about tuberculosis: HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria kill 6 million people every year; nearly 2 million deaths are caused by TB; TB is curable, bu... read more

The feast of the Annunciation is usually held on March 25. It is moved in the Catholic Church, Anglican and Lutheran liturgical calendars when t... read more

For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest ch... read more

Beirut (AFP) - More than 50 UN staff members have been killed, imprisoned or gone missing in war-wracked Syria, the UN Office for the Coordinati... read more

Maryland is famous for great seafood, especially crabs. Maryland Day commemorates March 25, 1634. On that day, settlers disembarked from two s... read more

Prince Kalanianaole was a prince indeed – a prince of good fellows and a man among men. A man of sterling sincerity and strong convictions – he ... read more

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, ... read more

National Doctors’ Day in the United States was established to recognize physicians, their work, and their contributions to society and the commu... read more

The Alaska Purchase was the United States’ acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire by a treaty ratified by the United States Senate. Sewa... read more

Spring break is a U.S. phenomenon and an academic tradition which started in the United States and is observed in some other western countries. ... read more

Hundreds of thousands of Ohio citizens answered the call to serve our nation during the Vietnam War. Of those Ohioans who served in Vietnam, app... read more

The Vietnam War was fought in Vietnam from 1961 to 1975, and involved North Vietnam and Viet Cong in conflict with the United States and South V... read more

During a 25-day fast in 1972, Chavez and Huerta coined the slogan "Si, se puede," Spanish for "Yes, it can be done." It beca... read more

Transfer Day recognizes the historic significance of the territory’s transfer of ownership from Denmark to the United States of America on March... read more

Why can’t you tickle yourself? Scientists have discovered that the feeling experienced when we are tickled causes us to panic and is a natural d... read more

Confederate History Month and related celebrations have been controversial due to the contentious place of slavery in the history of the United ... read more

’Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and the other few to be chewed and digested’ - said Sir Francis Bacon. Seems like some peo... read more