Over the past 50 years, asthma and allergies have become the most common diseases on Earth. In order to convey information about the clinical manifestations of these diseases, the causes of their occurrence and methods of treatment, WHO established a holiday.

A person cannot be discriminated against based on race, gender or religion. Feminists have been fighting for equal rights for women for almost two hundred years. Their position is distinguished by social activity and categorical disagreement with gender discrimination, which is why one of the symbols of the movement became a woman warrior - Joan of Arc. Every year on May 30, the day of the execution of the national heroine of France, International Feminism Day is celebrated. The traditional color of the movement is purple. The symbol of feminism is the mirror of Venus and the clenched fist depicted against its background. The anti-sexism symbol appeared in 1969 and was first used during protests against the Miss America beauty pageant. The immediate creator and designer of the symbol is the famous radical feminist Robin Morgan, but her future husband Morgan drew the emblem. It is believed that the movement for social, political and economic rights of women appeared in the mid-19th - early 20th centuries. American women were among the first to make a breakthrough in this direction. In 1848, the US Women's Rights Congress signed the Declaration of Sentiments. It talked about the rights to education, property and marriage equality. The issue of equal economic rights for both sexes was raised long before the declaration was issued. In the XIV century. Women artisans rallied in Italy demanding wages commensurate with men. The first female writers appeared in the 19th century. Despite the fact that “women’s literature” was represented by sentimental novels, it is with its appearance that the beginning of the spread of feminist ideas is associated. Although a hundred years earlier, the question of the need to equalize the rights of the sexes was raised by great male thinkers and writers - Voltaire, Helvetius and Montesquieu. At the end of the 19th century. Feminists' demands for granting them the right to vote were heard in many countries around the world. The center of suffragism, the movement of women’s struggle for the opportunity to vote in elections, became England, and Emmeline Pankhurst is considered its founder. In France in the mid-twentieth century. Simone de Beauvoir was a prominent representative of feminism. The writer demanded recognition of a woman as a socially significant subject, which is necessary for her realization and the formation of her own individuality. The feminist movement came to Russia with the revolution of 1917 in the person of Alexandra Kollontai. The diplomat and public figure came up with the idea of ​​a “new woman” who should be a hard worker and a fighter, active in social life, independent and not dependent on a man. The followers of the theory of “Marxist feminism” were called Kollontaevkas in the Soviet Union. In the spirit of revolutionary times and the ideas of “free love,” they promoted women’s rights to “wingless eros”—having sex without mutual obligations. “Winged eros,” based on the emotional attachment of partners, was not condemned, but its time had to come after the construction of a new society where everyone would be equal. Sociologists distinguish three waves of feminism - the struggle of women for their rights, which has been going on since the end of the 19th century. to this day. Despite the successes achieved, representatives of the movement do not intend to stop there and advocate further positive changes in the position of women in society. International Feminism Day, which is celebrated annually by movement activists and those who consider gender discrimination a relic of the past, also calls for this.

Cold soup is present in the cuisines of different nations of the world. In Spain it is gazpacho made from grated fresh tomatoes, in Bulgaria it is kefir tarator, in Latvia it is vasara, in Uzbekistan it is chalopa, and in Belarus it is beetroot soup. One of the most popular first dishes in Russia, served cold, is okroshka. It is most often prepared in spring and summer, because with the arrival of warmth, fresh cucumbers, radishes, dill and green onions appear on the table. In honor of the popular dish, a gastronomic holiday was invented - Okroshka Day, which is celebrated on May 30. The recipe for cold soup goes back a long way. Since ancient times, peasants in Rus' ate simple dishes made from vegetables: radishes with onions on kvass, turyu made from crackers, bread crusts, vegetable oil and onions on sour milk. Over time, their recipe began to resemble a modern version of okroshka. They began to add turnips, potatoes, eggs, mushrooms, meat or fish to dishes. In the book “Russian Cookery,” published in 1816, it is recommended to use “house and wild birds” for cooking: chickens, black grouse, turkey, etc. The liquid base was not only kvass, but also whey, cucumber pickle, kefir, beet broth and diluted vinegar. To the traditional ingredients, vegetables and meat, salted plums and pickled apples, mushrooms, sturgeon and beluga were sometimes added. The dressing was vinegar, horseradish, pepper and vegetable oil. Most often, the basis was home-made white kvass. In order to make the taste of the drink more rich, it was seasoned with egg yolks, sour cream, mustard, sugar and salt. Our ancestors distinguished between meat (with beef), national team (with tongue and ham) and okroshka "kavardak" (with dried and smoked fish). The variety of recipes for this ancient dish is amazing. Game okroshka was prepared with the addition of partridge and hazel grouse meat, and seafood - squid and scallops. There were recipes according to which cold soup was prepared in a specific area. In the Urals, for example, fresh cucumbers were replaced with sauerkraut. In “Notes of a rifle hunter of the Orenburg province” S.T. Aksakov points out that crane meat is suitable for making okroshka. Today, traditional cold soup, whose name comes from the verb “to crumble” (finely cut food), is most often prepared from vegetables and meat, ham or sausage. The dish, mentioned in Domostroy, a literary monument of the 16th century, is no less popular today than it was hundreds of years ago. Therefore, gourmets and connoisseurs of national Russian cuisine annually celebrate Okroshka Day on May 30th.

Catholic holidays - Feast of Saint Joan of Arc

National Potato Day in Peru (Dia Nacional de la Papa)

Catholics around the world celebrate the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ annually on Thursday, the eleventh day after the Feast of Pentecost. This holiday is also called Corpus Christi, which is translated from Latin as the Body of Christ. Corpus Christi was officially founded to commemorate the institution of the sacrament of communion, or Eucharist, by Jesus Christ. The holiday originated in the 13th century, was originally local, and was celebrated in the Belgian city of Liege. And in 1264, Pope Urban IV made it common to the church. He granted indulgence, or forgiveness of sins, to everyone who participated in the festive mass. Bread, called a wafer among Catholics, and wine symbolize the sacrifice made by Christ for the salvation of people, and believers, by receiving Holy Communion, participate in the sacrifice of Christ. The wafers, which are small unleavened wheat cakes, have on one side the obligatory image of a cross and the Latin letters J. N. K. I., which translated from English means Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Liturgies are celebrated not only in churches, but with a large number of believers, and in squares. The holiday includes the obligatory majestic procession with the Holy Gifts through the streets and around the temple. At the head of the procession are the priests carrying the Monstrance, which is a type of monstrance, followed by the parishioners. A monstrance is a ritual object in the shape of a sun with diverging rays and a cross at the top, in the central part of which the Holy Gifts are placed. With Monstrance, the Priest blesses the faithful and the altars installed on the street in all four directions of the world. And the liturgy ends with crowded pompous processions with the Holy Gifts, accompanied by prayers and chants. Among the traditions, such a beautiful one has been preserved as scattering flower petals during the procession. In some countries, in order to allow as many parishioners as possible to attend the procession, it is moved from Thursday to Sunday. In some countries professing Catholicism, this day is a non-working day. People vacation in Austria, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, and partially do not work on this day in Spain, Switzerland and Germany.

On May 30, the Catholic Church celebrates the Day of Saint Ferdinand, King of Castile. This Spanish ruler lived in the first half of the 13th century and became famous for liberating the kingdom from Moorish invaders. A successful marriage and diplomatic talent allowed Ferdinand to expand his possessions, uniting Leon and Castile. Feeling the strength of the united kingdom, the ruler began the gradual reconquest of the territories occupied by the Moors. It was not just a war of liberation, but more so a defense of the Christian faith on the Iberian Peninsula. Under the leadership of Ferdinand, the richest Spanish cities were besieged and recaptured: Cordoba and Seville. In luxurious Seville, the king spent the last few years of his life, taking care of strengthening Christianity in the former Moorish territories. Ferdinand allocates funds and personally oversees the construction of the Seville Cathedral, and also organizes the restoration of the cathedral in the city of Burgos. It was very important for the highly educated Ferdinand to provide the kingdom with learned, versatile personalities. One of his decrees was the development of higher universities. The king’s religiosity was not feigned; he religiously adhered to the tenets of Christianity, distinguished by his mercy even towards his enemies. At the end of his life, the saint accepted the rank of Franciscan tertiary, observing all the strictest vows of this monastic order. The monk-king died on May 30, he was buried in the Franciscan order in the Seville Cathedral he built. For the people of Castile, this was an irreparable loss. In Castile, immediately after his death, Ferdinand began to be revered as a saint. But officially the Catholic Church canonized the king only four hundred years later on the initiative of Pope Clement X. Today Ferdinand is one of the most revered saints in Spain. Large families, governors and prisoners are under his patronage.

On May 30 (May 17 is the date according to the old calendar style), people celebrate Evdokia Svistunya. The name of the national holiday is given in honor of Saint Euphrosyne of Moscow, revered by the church on this day. The history of Euphrosyne began in the 14th century, she was the daughter of the Suzdal prince, and was raised in Orthodoxy. The Moscow prince Dmitry Donskoy became her husband, thanks to which friendship was established between the two principalities. Euphrosyne raised children and organized the construction of churches and monasteries. In her old age, she became a nun under the name Evdokia, and a few months later her soul left the earthly world. Evdokia was popularly nicknamed the Whistler, since the winds became more frequent on that day. They were so sharp that it seemed like someone was whistling. By the day of Evdokia they judged the coming summer, what day it was, and so they expected the future summer season. On Evdokia Svistunya, residents went to their gardens to hill up potato bushes. Hilling was the name for weeding the beds of weeds, enriching the soil with oxygen and picking up fine soil to the trunk of grown bushes. After the lower stem was covered with soil, new shoots appeared on it, producing an additional row of root crops. Residents believed that hilling on this day would help rid potatoes of insects and increase yield. After a hard day's work, the owners prepared potato dishes for dinner. Eating it was considered a mandatory ritual to obtain a rich potato harvest. On this day, the people revered Saint Andronicus; he was also called Ondron. He was considered a protector against drought and a patron of rain. It was said that he opened the heavens for the sprinkling of water on the earth, so Ondron was prayed to, asking for good rains. They were highly anticipated during this period, because the crops had already been sown, the only thing missing was moisture. Special rituals were performed to attract rain. In some regions, residents tried to revive abandoned springs and wells: they cleaned them of pollution, removed stones and branches. There was a belief that by throwing poppies, grains or coins into a well and reading the spell, you could make it rain. Adult men also called for rain when they went out into the open field. They read the conspiracy, bowed to all directions and stuck an aspen branch into the ground, having previously torn off the leaves on it. If a wind from the north was observed on Evdokia Svistunya, then they were preparing for the cool summer season. Cold weather foreshadowed hail in the summer. Seeing the rain falling under the new moon, the inhabitants expected frequent rain in the summer. The flickering of skates on roofs, church domes or weather vanes predicted an impending thunderstorm.

Orthodox holidays on May 30:

Memorial Day of St. Euphrosyne of Moscow

Memorial Day of Saint Stephen of Constantinople