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Commonwealth Day

Commonwealth: Association of states
Written by: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica

Last Updated 7-20-2014

Alternate title: British Commonwealth of Nations

"Commonwealth", also called "Commonwealth of Nations", formerly (1931-49) "British Commonwealth of Nations", a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association. In 1965 the Commonwealth Secretariat was established in London to organize and coordinate Commonwealth activities.
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Members of the Commonwealth

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Australia
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belize
• Botswana
• Brunei
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cyprus
• Dominica
• Fiji
• Ghana
• Grenada
• Guyana
• India
• Jamaica
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Malaysia (formerly Malaya)
• Maldives
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Papua New Guinea
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• The Bahamas
• The Gambia
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• United Kingdom
• Vanuatu
• Zambia

Commonwealth Day

In 1973 the National Council in Canada of the Royal Commonwealth Society in a letter to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau suggested that the idea of Commonwealth Day to be observed simultaneously throughout the Commonwealth be included on the agenda for the Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Ottawa that year. The proposal was not included in the agenda of that meeting but did appear as a Canadian item on the agenda of the 1975 meeting.
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Commonwealth Day is celebrated by young people, schools, communities and civil society organisations every year on the second Monday in March.
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Commonwealth Day - British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth

Commonwealth Day

Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations held on the second Monday in March, and marked by a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey, normally attended by Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth, with the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth High Commissioners in London. The Queen delivers an address to the Commonwealth, broadcast throughout the world.
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Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Observance
• 2.1 Australia
• 2.2 Canada
• 2.3 United Kingdom
• 2.4 Gibraltar
• 2.5 Other Commonwealth countries
• 3 Other related holidays
• 4 Commonwealth Day Themes
• 5 See also
• 6 Footnotes
• 7 External links

History

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"Empire Day" was introduced in the UK in 1904 by Reginald Brabazon, the 7th Earl of Meath, 'to nurture a sense of collective identity and imperial responsibility among young empire citizens'. In schools, morning lessons were devoted to "exercises calculated to remind (the children) of their mighty heritage". The centrepiece of the day was an organised and ritualistic veneration of the Union flag. Then, schoolchildren were given the afternoon off, and further events were usually held in their local community. "Empire Day" became more of a sombre commemoration in the aftermath of World War I, and politically partisan as the Labour Party passed a resolution in 1926 to prevent the further celebration of "Empire Day". After World War II, the event fell into rapid decline, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan bowed to the inevitable on 18 December 1958, when he announced in Parliament that the name of "Empire Day" would be changed forthwith to "Commonwealth Day".

The Union Flag is flown from public buildings on the second Monday in March to mark "Commonwealth Day". The Scottish Parliament Building also flies the Commonwealth flag from the fourth flagpole.
The Queen, and other members of the Royal family, attend a special service at Westminster Abbey.
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Ides of March

• The Cabala - Roman (1926)
• The Angel that Troubled the Waters - Drama (1928)
• The Woman of Andros - Drama (1930)
• The Long Christmas Dinner - Drama (1931)
• Heaven's My Destination ("Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren") - Roman (1934 (deutsch: 1935))
• Our Town ("Unsere kleine Stadt") - Drama (1938 (deutsch: 1959))
• The Merchant of Yonkers - Drama (1938)
• The Skin of Our Teeth - Drama (1942)
• The Ides of March ("Die Ideen des März") - Roman (1948 (deutsch: 1948))
• The Matchmaker - Drama (1954)

Ides of March - Named after a line in the William Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar", in which a sooth-sayer warns "Beware, the Ides of March".

Ides of March: Why worrry?

Forget Friday the 13th. Ignore ladders, black cats, broken mirrors and spilt salt. Think instead of today, March 15, and beware.
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And furthermore, the system lasted 2,000 years, well into the Renaissance, he wrote. This meant Shakespeare could include the line, and expect his audience to know what he meant.
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What Are the Ides in the Ides of March?

Death of Ceasar

March 15th marks a very inauspicious anniversary. Like a black cat crossing your path, the Ides of March has become a metaphor for impending doom. How did a day that was once celebrated by the Romans become so heavily cloaked in superstition?
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• Ides of March - Edited 30%
• Roman Dates - Edited 6%
• Julius Caesar - Roman Dictator - Edited 3%
• 'Asterix at the Olympic Games' - The Film - Edited 2%
• The h2g2 Calendar - 3 - March - Edited 2%
• 'Carry On Cleo' - the Film - Edited 1%
• Augustus - Roman Emperor (63 BC - 14 AD) - Edited 1%
• Vestal Virgins - Edited 1%
• Quintus Sertorius - Roman General - Edited 1%
• Major Roman Deities - Edited 1%

Ides of March

Roman Dates

The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
... The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.
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March 15 - Ides of March

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The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15."
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Monday, 15 March 2010

Inconstant as the Northern Star

Posted by M.H. Forsyth

Gordon Brown has just said that he will remain leader of the Labour Party no matter what, which is a clever, clever thing to announce on the "Ides of March", which is today. Every month has ides but March's may not be the one on which a leader should announce his plans for permanence. It took me right back to what dear old Julius said 2053* years ago today:

But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there's but one in all doth hold his place:
So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,
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Ides of March...

Ides of March Marked Murder of Julius Caesar
Jennifer Vernon
for National Geographic News
March 12, 2004

Julius Caesar's bloody assassination on March 15, 44 B.C., forever marked March 15, or the "Ides of March", as a day of infamy. It has fascinated scholars and writers ever since.
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Beware the Ides of March

Origin

From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, 1601. "Beware the Ides of March" is the soothsayer's message to Julius Caesar, warning of his death.
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"Ides" comes from Latin "idus", probably from an Etruscan word meaning "division of a month".

Vehicle - by The Ides Of March

The Ides of March is a epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar’s Rome. Thornton Wilder called it “a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic.” Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history’s most magnetic, elusive personalities.
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Words and Their Stories

"Beware the Ides of March"
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First, what exactly is an "ides"? The Latin root of "ides", a singular word, means "to divide". So, the "ides" of any month falls in its middle. The Roman calendar set "ides" on the 15th in March, May, July and October or on the 13th in the other months. The "ides" of a month usually falls on the first day of a full moon.

In Roman times, the "Ides of March" was known as a date for paying off debts. But this connection was quickly lost because of different timing between calendar months and changes in the moon’s appearance. The "Ides of March" was also a time people celebrated Mars, the god of war.
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The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. It is, in the author's words, 'a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic... Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work'. The novel deals with the characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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