Norooz|نوروز

A Voice from Iran

“83rd story”

First published: March.21.2019

Happy Persian New Year.❤️❤️❤️

 

The exact moment that the sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated each year which marks the beginning of the Persian New Year.

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Millions of people celebrate the Persian new year all over the world at the exact time no matter what time zone they are in.

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Norooz goes back thousands of years to when Persia was a great empire that covered a huge part portion of the map, which nowadays has been divided into many different countries.

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Many of those countries still celebrate some of the old Persian traditions. Back in Iran, Norooz is an important holiday where all the schools are closed for two weeks.

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Norooz started with the Zoroastrians but is now celebrated by many different religious. The Iranian calendar starts from the first day of spring which is March 21

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Thoughtless Commentary Thursdays -La Casa de Papel, aka Money Heist: part 1, ep. 4 — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This reaction tries not to spoil the episode, and gives random reactions in the original Spanish, and in English, for the majority of my current readers: — Si, Berlin es un cabron de mierda!  Pero cómo es que no se dió cuenta?  …  Berlin, yes, is a, but how did he not spot that? […]

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« Non vedo delega per tutte e quattro le gambe. Non vedo un posto per le aquile. Dimentichiamo e ci consideriamo superiori. Ma dopo tutto, siamo solo una parte della creazione. E dobbiamo tenerne conto per capire a che punto siamo. E siamo da qualche parte tra la montagna e la formica. Da qualche parte e […]

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Research shows that people in wealthier, high-consuming countries can help avert climate breakdown by making six relatively straightforward lifestyle changes, creating a society of “less stuff and more joy.” Experts say if enacted these “shifts” would account for a quarter of… Six […]

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Filosofa's Word

Y’know … lately I’ve begun to feel very much a persona non grata in the nation I was born in and have lived in for all of my 70 years.  Why?  Comments like this one from Florida governor Ron DeSantis …

“We want people that are going to fight the left, and that’s what we need to do in this country. That’s what we’re doing in Florida, standing up for people’s freedoms. We’re opposing wokeness. We’re opposing all these things.”

So, to be clear, DeSantis says ‘they’ (whoever ‘they’ are) oppose equal rights for Blacks, LGBTQ people, women, Latinos, atheists, Jews, Muslims, and anyone who doesn’t meet DeSantis’ approval, for that is what “wokeness” is, as defined by the narrow-minded conservatives who see white, Christian males as superior to all others.  And ‘they’ oppose helping people in need, oppose international alliances and trade, and oppose basically anything that is supported…

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Berlin train station turns into refugee town for Ukrainians | AP News

BERLIN (AP) — Every other hour, another packed train from Poland arrives at Berlin’s main train station filled with hundreds of Ukrainian refugees, mostly mothers and their children looking for a safe place away from the brutal war in their home country.
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