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Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated
on 14 July each year. In French, it is formally called Fête nationale ( "National Celebration") and
commonly and legally le 14 juillet ("the 14th of July").

The French National Day is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789,[1][2] a major event of the
French Revolution, as well as the Fête de la Fédération that celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790.
Celebrations are held throughout France. One that has been reported as "the oldest and largest military parade in Europe"
is held on 14 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, along with other French
officials and foreign guests.

The day of the festival, the National Guard assembled and proceeded along the boulevard du Temple in the pouring rain, and
were met by an estimated 260,000 Parisian citizens at the Champ de Mars. A mass was celebrated by Talleyrand, bishop
of Autun. The popular General Lafayette, as captain of the National Guard of Paris and a confidant of the king, took his
oath to the constitution, followed by King Louis XVI. After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge
four-day popular feast, and people celebrated with fireworks, as well as fine wine and running n**e through the streets in
order to display their great freedom.

But France is not the only country that celebrates Bastille day, plenty of other countries celebrates it as well, some of
them are:

Belgium
Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion
d'Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.celebrations of Bastille Day have been known to be
bigger than the celebrations of the Belgian National holiday.

Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia holds a celebration featuring exhibits, food and entertainment. The Toronto Bastille Day
festival is also celebrated in Toronto, Ontario. The festival is organized by the French community in Toronto and sponsored
by the Consulate General of France.

Czech Republic
Since 2008, Prague has hosted a French market "Le marché du 14 juillet" ("Fourteenth of July Market") offering traditional
French food and wine as well as music. The market takes place on Kampa Island, it is usually between 11 and 14 July. It
acts as an event that marks the relinquish of the EU presidency from France to the Czech Republic.

Hungary
Budapest's two-day celebration is sponsored by the Institut de France. The festival is hosted along the Danube River, with
streets filled with music and dancing. There are also local markets dedicated to French foods and wine, mixed with some
traditional Hungarian specialties. At the end of the celebration, a fireworks show is held on the river banks.

India
Bastille Day is celebrated with great festivity in Pondicherry, a former French colony, every year. On the eve of the
Bastille Day, retired soldiers parade and celebrate the day with Indian and French National Anthems, honoring the French
soldiers who were killed in the battles. Throughout the celebration, French and Indian flags fly alongside each other,
projecting the mingling of cultures and heritages.

French Polynesia
Following colonial rule, France annexed a large portion of what is now French Polynesia. Under French rule, Tahitians were
permitted to participate in sport, singing, and dancing competitions one day a year: Bastille Day. The single day of
celebration evolved into the major Heiva i Tahiti festival in Papeete Tahiti, where traditional events such as canoe races,
tattooing, and fire walks are held.

United Kingdom
Within England, London has a large French contingent, and celebrates Bastille Day at various locations across the city
including Battersea Park, Camden Town and Kentish Town. Live entertainment is performed at Canary Wharf, with weeklong
performances of French theatre at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town. Restaurants feature cabarets and special
menus across the city, and other celebrations include garden parties and sports tournaments.

United States
The United States has over 20 cities that conduct annual celebrations of Bastille Day. The different cities celebrate with
many French staples such as food, music, games, and sometimes the recreation of famous French landmarks.

A spontaneous popular uprising in Petrograd, in response to the wartime decay of Russia's economy and morale, culminated
in the February Revolution and the toppling of Nicholas II and the imperial government in March 1917. The tsarist autocracy
was replaced by the Russian Provisional Government, which intended to conduct elections to the Russian Constituent
Assembly and to continue fighting on the side of the Entente in World War I.

At the same time, workers' councils, known in Russian as "Soviets", sprang up across the country. The Bolsheviks, led by
Vladimir Lenin, pushed for socialist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets. On 7 November 1917, the Red Guards
stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, ending the rule of the Provisional Government and leaving all political power to
the Soviets. This event would later be officially known in Soviet bibliographies as the Great October Socialist
Revolution. In December, the Bolsheviks signed an armistice with the Central Powers, though by February 1918, fighting had
resumed. In March, the Soviets ended involvement in the war and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

A long and bloody Civil War ensued between the Reds and the Whites, starting in 1917 and ending in 1923 with the Reds'
victory. It included foreign intervention, the ex*****on of the former tsar and his family, and the famine of 1921, which
killed about five million people. In March 1921, during a related conflict with Poland, the Peace of Riga was signed,
splitting disputed territories in Belarus and Ukraine between the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia had
to resolve similar conflicts with the newly established republics of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania.

On 28 December 1922, a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the
Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the
Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. These two documents were confirmed by the first
Congress of Soviets of the USSR and signed by the heads of the delegations, Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Tskhakaya,
Mikhail Frunze, Grigory Petrovsky, and Alexander Chervyakov, on 30 December 1922.

The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. The declaration was signed by representatives from New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

The Lee Resolution for independence was passed by the Second Continental Congress on July 2 with no opposing votes. The Committee of Five had drafted the Declaration to be ready when
Congress voted on independence. John Adams, a leader in pushing for independence, had persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which Congress edited to produce the final version. The Declaration was a formal explanation of why Congress had voted to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America"- although Independence Day is actually celebrated on July 4, the date that the wording of the Declaration of Independence was approved.

After ratifying the text on July 4, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms. It was initially published as the printed Dunlap broadside that was widely distributed and read to the public. The source copy used for this printing has been lost and
may have been a copy in Thomas Jefferson's hand. Jefferson's original draft is preserved at the Library of Congress, complete with changes made by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, as well as Jefferson's notes of changes made by Congress. The best-known version of the Declaration is a signed copy that is displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and which is popularly regarded as the official document. This engrossed copy (finalized, calligraphic copy) was ordered by Congress on July 19 and signed primarily on August 2.

The Lonnie Zamora Incident.

On the 24th of April, 1964, at approximately 5pm, Sergeant Lonnie Zamora was pursuing a speeding car south of the small town of Socorro, New Mexico.

Zamora was in the middle of the chase when he "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to the southwest some distance away, possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." He halted his pursuit and went to investigate, as he feared a nearby dynamite warehouse had exploded.

As he approached the site, he saw a silver object and what he first thought was a "overturned white car ... up on radiator or on trunk". Standing near the object, were two humanoid figures in white suits, they resembled "small adults or large kids" in size.

"The object was like aluminum—it was whitish against the mesa background, but not chrome, and shaped like the letter "O", Zamora would later claim.

While he was on his radio to police dispatcher, Nep Lopez, trying to describe what he was seeing, he heard a metallic door closing and realised the two figures had vanished. The object then let off a small rumble before a bright flame propelled the craft about 20 feet off the ground, hovering, then slowly disappeared into the heavens.

Within 90 minutes, U.S Army officials from the nearby White Sands Missile Range came to investigate. No human tracks were seen by anyone, only perfect circles dented into the ground where the craft had been. Government agencies, including Project Blue Book, investigated the incident also and officially labelled it as "unknown". Though, ufologists claim it to be "one of the most credible [extraterrestrial] encounters on record."

The incident sparked immense national and international coverage, and Zamora became so tired of the subject that he eventually avoided both ufologists and the Air Force altogether, and took a job managing a gasoline station. He died on the 2nd of November, 2009, in Socorro from a heart attack. He was 76 years old.

Canada Day! Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the Constitution Act, 1867 where the three separate colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada. Originally called Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), the holiday was renamed in 1982 when the Canadian Constitution was patriated by the Canada
Act 1982. Canada Day celebrations take place throughout the country.

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A 15th century painting depicting the skinning of corrupt judge Sisamnes in the year 500 BC.

Sisamnes was a corrupt royal judge from the time of Cambyses II in Persia.

It was discovered that he took a bribe in court and passed an unfair sentence.

As a consequence, the king ordered him to be arrested as a prevaricator and ordered that he'll be skinned alive.

His skin was used to upholster the seat in which he had presided over the trials, and in which his son, Otanes, had to sit, whom Sisamnes chose to replace him.

Otanes was forced to remember the origin of leather so that he would take it into account in his hearings, deliberations and sentences.

In 1867, a group of hunters prowling the Indian jungle of Uttar Pradesh spotted a wolf den and cautiously began to approach it. But, to their shock, they found that one member of the pack was a little boy of about six years old. The hunters decided to take the child away, smoking the pack out of the cave and killing the mother wolf in the process. They named the boy Dina Sanichar and brought him to a nearby orphanage in hopes of civilizing him.

But Sanichar could never be civilized. The boy continued to walk on all fours while eating only raw meat and even chewing on bones just to sharpen his teeth. Meanwhile, he communicated solely in wolf-like grunts and howls, and never learned a human language. Eventually, Sanichar's story inspired one of the most enduring works of Western literature, Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" — though the real story is even more unusual than the novel could ever capture. Learn the tragic story of the real-life Mowgli who inspired "The Jungle Book": https://bit.ly/3iplZjA

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