May 1, 2025

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Don’t forget to wash your face with morning dew on May 1 for good luck. 
May Day has its roots in astronomy. Traditionally, it was the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. This is one of the Celtic ‘cross quarter days’, which mark the midway points between the solstices and equinoxes of the year.
In the Middle Ages, the Gaelic people celebrated the festival of Beltane, which means “Day of Fire.” People created large bonfires and danced at night to celebrate.

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Communists appropriated the day.
In 1901, The Second International Socialist Congress proclaimed that proletariat groups “energetically celebrate the advent of the eight-hour work day.” The former medieval holiday was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool