does anyone know what portuguese do during PORTUGAL DAY? [independence day]?
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In Portugal the national day isn't the independence day. The Portugal day is June 10th, which "celebrates" the death of the greatest poet in portuguese history, Luís de Camões, in 1580 - actually, the same year when Portugal lost its independence to Spain. Then the day when independence was restored, 1st December 1640, is also celebrated and called "the day of the independence restoration".\n\nThat said, there isn't much more to say. Neither of them are days when people drink and party. They are just holidays, which means they are like Sundays. You don't have to work so you can stay home and rest or go out with your family and friends or something. There are no great celebrations, fireworks or anything. The only people who actually celebrate it are the military and important political leaders like the President, who delivers a speech. The flag is displayed and the anthem is performed by the military band and it is all on tv, in the morning, but most people is sleeping. Nobody actually cares.\n\nI don't know how it works in other countries, but according to movies and tv shows in USA there are only a few holidays and most of them are heavily celebrated, like 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas. In Portugal it's not like that. We have 4 political holidays and 7 religious holidays, plus New Year's, Carnival and Labour day. The only ones that we actually celebrate are New Year's, Carnival, Easter and Christmas. All the others are like Sundays, just a day when we don't have to work.\n\nThose are national holidays only; then each town has its own local holiday on the day of the patron saint, and at least here in Porto that is the day when we do drink and party hard. Our saint is St. John. Although religious in origin, it is not celebrated as a religious holiday anymore, it's just great fun on the streets all night long. In other cities they celebrate other saints, like St. Anthony in Lisbon, but I'm not sure what they do.\n\nJune 10th is officially called "Day of Portugal, Camões and the portuguese communities", and large portuguese communities in foreign countries do celebrate it. I've seen it on tv, they go on the streets wearing the national colours, display flags, play portuguese folk music, eat and drink portuguese typical food and wine. It's probably a day when they feel closer to their home country.
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We celebrate it as Independence day because we declared our Independence from the King of Englands rule and not because the Declaration of Independence was written.  The Declaration was a tool for our Independence.  The military fighting men were what freed us from England.
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Are you referring to the song, "A Portuguesa"?  It's the National Anthem of Portugal.  It was written in 1890 and is a song about protesting the British.
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St George's day should DEFINATELY be a bank holiday! In america they have presidents day and I believe that we should have a day to celebrate being English. I am proud to be English and all that stands for. We are losing sight of our identity in this country thanks to strange thinking by the politicians. At some point we were made to feel ashamed of our Englishness and I think that is abysmal! Unfortunately ,idiots like the national front managed to hijack the english identity and tried to turn it into something grotesque but with the last few world cups we have taken back theSt George's Cross so the next logical step is to celebrate our Saint's day with a national holiday. Very good question!
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Here it goes:\n\n"At the beach" -> "Na praia";\n\n"ready - set - go" \nOption 1 -> "Um, dois, três," (literally "one, two, three" - that's how we start a race, on three. That's the most current expression.)\nOption 2 -> "Partida!" (which simply refers to the "goe" part)\n\nOh, I am talking about European Portuguese and not about Brazilian Portuguese. Oh, and I do know what I'm talking about, I'm Portuguese :p
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independence day... u had to use a lot of brains in the others
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I hope it is Portugal... cross fingers!
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Try here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
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first day-enjoy it fully, coz its freedom day!!!\nsecond day-plan what to do for the next two days!!!\nthird day-go out and enjoy\nlast day-finish up all your homework.\n\nhaha, hope it helps!
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Mexican Independence is in September\n\nCinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican win at the Battle of Puebla.  This battle was crucial to the independence of the country 4 months later.\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/10.html
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that was a weard game.I WAS FOR PORTUGAL!PORTUGAL!PORTUGAL!
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All major holidays, like today.  \n\nPresidents Day\nMemorial Day\n4th of July\nVeterans Day\nThanksgiving\nChristmas
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nao sei mas tenta ir ao google portuguese ou sapo.pt\ntranslation: i dont noe but try going to the portuguese google or sapo.pt(portuguese website)
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Independence / National Day of Canada:\n\nCanada Day celebrates the events that occurred on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act created the Canadian federal government. \n\nThe BNA Act proclaimed "one Dominion under the name of Canada," hence the original title of the holiday, "Dominion Day." Dominion Day was officially renamed "Canada Day" by an Act of Parliament on October 27, 1982. This change reflected the policy of successive governments to down play Canada's colonial origins. \n\nCanada's national celebration is always observed on July 1, unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case it is observed the following day.
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Luis Figo -THE PRIDE OF PORTUGAL - Happy Birthday to You!\n\nParabéns a você,\nNesta data querida.\nMuitas felicidades,\nMuitos anos de vida.\n\nHoje é dia de festa,\nCantam as nossas almas.\nPara o Senhor Figo,\nUma salva de palmas.\n=================\nFELIZ  ANIVERSÁRIO!
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No we dont. Infact we dont have a public holiday to celebrate the 'UK'....eg a national celebration day. There was recent discussion in paliment about this, but I have not heard anything more about it.\n Not like some sort of 'independence day' like the states have .
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DUH portugal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!