Few things about august
First week of august is celebrated as a “Friendship day”.
Early roman used to call it as “Sextilis”.Later it was renamed to Augustus to honor the Roman Emperor.
The Anglo-Saxons name of august is Weod monath Literal meaning is weed month. In Britain, 1st August was celebrated as “Lammas day”. It’s a month of harvesting.
Things to know about August
August is a month of art appreciation. It is also known as golf month, National inventor’s month and food health month.
Americans used to name every week of august. First week is national clown week, second week of celebration is for Elvis week and it’s also a national apple week. Third week is fully dedicated for dancing.
National smile week: second week of august
Smile is a great tool to win million of hearts. If you see from the physical point or and emotional view you can better understand what the smile is. You believe it or not studies shows there are nearly 18 kinds of smile exists. All are used in completely different situation. If a person smiles naturally it means he is utilizing nearly fifty muscles at the same instant.
If anyone tries to fake a smile you can easily identify them by just look in to their eyes.So smile naturally. It’s a boon given to human than any other creature in the world. By just celebrating the smile week it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t smile beyond.
Everlasting Smile is a precious thing to carry everywhere.So keeps smiling!
National Inventors month
Needs are the essential things that makes us to invent the new things. Just imagine what if edition didn’t invent the power? What if graham bell didn’t invent the phone? Our life might not be easy. Thinking is the ingredient that helps us to stand unique from the animals. To appreciate such inventors who made our life easy we celebrate this august as inventor’s month.
Let’s now looking into some important observances of august
| Day | observance |
| August 1 | Respect your parent’s daySports day |
| August 3 | Watermelon day |
| August 5 | Family day (US)Friendship day(every first Sunday of august)
Neil Armstrong’s Birthday |
| August 6 | Picnic day (Australia) |
| August 8 | National Dollar day (America) |
| August 9 | Reader’s day |
| August 13 | Left hander people day |
| August 15 | Stay cool day |
| August 22 | Angel day |
| August 24 | Peculiar music day |
| August 28 | Day of dream |
Fantasy Festival of the month: Hungry Ghost Festival
It is one of the superstition festivals, celebrated all over the china. There is a belief among them on this ghost month pathway of hell will be wide open and activities like shouting , whistling all will drag you to the underworld.
Rakhi/Raksha Bandhan
Raksha Bandhan is an Indian festival that assists the families to come together. On this day girl’s used to tie a beautifully designed threads namely rakhi on their brother’s or neighbor’s hands as a sign of love and protection. In turn brothers vows to the sister’s life.
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