Mountain Day
Mountain Day is
a traditional student celebration in which classes are cancelled without prior
notice, and the student body heads to the mountains or a park.
The
day chosen is often a beautiful, crisp day when the fall foliage is
in full color. Mountain Day is most commonly observed at educational
institutions in the Northeastern U.S.
International Mountain Day, held each year on 11 December, was established by the UN General Assembly
in 2003. The UN encourages events to be organized at all levels that day on
behalf of sustainable development in mountains.
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Mountain Day dates back to at least
1838, when the students of Mount Holyoke College headed off to Mount
Holyoke. Smith College declared its
Mountain Day in 1877. Juniata College established
its Mountain Day in 1896, and Williams
College students have been climbing Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts, to celebrate
Mountain Day since the 1800s. Colby-Sawyer
College's Mountain Day is stated to have started in
the 1850s although the first account of it in the student newspaper is not
listed until June 1893.
International Mountain Day is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.
ReplyDeleteMountains are crucial to life. Whether we live at sea level or the highest elevations, we are connected to mountains and affected by them in more ways than we can imagine. Mountains provide most of the world's freshwater, harbour a rich variety of plants and animals, and are home to one in ten people. Yet, each day, environmental degradation, the consequences of climate change, exploitative mining, armed conflict, poverty and hunger threaten the extraordinary web of life that the mountains support.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Mountains, the International Mountain Day strives to achieve a stronger engagement of actors/institutions and the civil society in sustainable mountain development. It is also a concrete opportunity to mobilize resources to improve the livelihoods of mountain communities. Special attention will be given to the involvement of youth in global sustainable development, as they will be the future actors. Additionally, the process will focus on the linkages between rural and urban development with an eye to the implementation of a green economy in line with the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
ReplyDeleteCommitment and will to advance this cause were strengthened during the International Year of Mountains in 2002, and mountains have gained an increasingly high profile on agendas at all levels.
The Year also led to the adoption of resolution 57/245, in which the General Assembly designated 11 December as International Mountain Day, and encouraged the international community to organize events at all levels on that day to highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development.
Also Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on 11 of December 1918. He was a Russian writer, dissident and activist. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote several books most notably The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. "For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature",Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.
ReplyDeleteAndrey Vadimovich Makarevich also was born on the 11 of December 1953. He is a Russian rock musician, founder of the Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). As a youth, Andrey was a big fan of English rock band The Beatles. In 1969 Makarevich founded Mashina Vremeni, a rock band largely inspired by western rock and blues of the time. He is the band's singer and guitarist. While music of Mashina Vremeni is written by all the members, Makarevich is the band's exclusive lyrics writer. Makarevich also released eight solo albums, participated in regular TV shows and assisted other groups and artists. He authored several poetry collections and two volumes of memoirs.
ReplyDeleteSolzhenitsyn's Unpublished Works: In '200 years Together' Chapter 20. In the Camps of Gulag, Solzhenitsyn describes his play 'Republic of Labour' describing the events that happened in the camp Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya 30. Solzhenitsyn goes on to describe the hostile antipathy the play aroused from his Jewish friends.
ReplyDeleteVladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko(December 11, 1858 - April 25, 1943, Moscow) was a Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre organizer, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavsky, in 1898.
ReplyDeleteGalina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (Russian: Гали́на Па́вловна Вишне́вская) (25 October 1926 – 11 December 2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was also the wife of world-famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
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