August

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Contents 1 Specific dates 2 Every year 2.1 Fixed dates 2.1.1 Global 2.1.2 Switzerland 2.1.3 United States of America 2.2 Movable dates 2.2.1 England 2.2.2 Scotland 2.2.3 Wales

Specific dates

• The city of Swansea, UK will host the 2006 annual eisteddfod (Europe's largest cultural festival). This week-long celebration of Welsh culture will be held at Felindre (on the outskirts of the city) and run from August 5 - 12, 2006. In addition to the performances, there will also be over three hundred stalls specializing in handicrafts and other Welsh cultural items.

Every year

Fixed dates

Global

• 3rd weekend in August: World Peace and Service Day (holiday) off for work for all business and service organisations across the globe and service activities like feeding cows milk to new born children in hospitals if mothers are incapable of feeding, new clothes, food offering to blind, deaf,spastic, mentally handicapped, physically handicapped, polio attacked patients, aids, cancer patients and dental, ortho, gynaec, opthamology patients, neuro, for all patients in hospital and other centres, food and clothing to be provided.

Switzerland

• 1st: First of August, National Day in Switzerland. Because day off work August 1st celebrations are often (for example in Basel) held 31st of July

United States of America

• Third weekend in August: Milwaukee Irish Fest, the world's largest festival celebrating Irish music and culture, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. (August 18-25 in 2005, 25th Anniversary)

Movable dates

England

• August Bank Holiday weekend (last weekend): Notting Hill Carnival [1], Notting Hill, London, England

Scotland

• Edinburgh Fringe Festival [2], Edinburgh, Scotland
• Edinbugh Military Tattoo [3], Edinburgh, Scotland

Wales

• MAS Carnival, Swansea, UK - the city's ethnic diversity is celebrated by a colorful parade that passes through the city center.

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