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The National Mahjong Day has been celebrated yearly every 30th of April. Mahjong is the tile-based game which has been around ever since its advent in China during the 19th century and it remains its fame from across the world, but particularly in Asian countries. By custom, it is a 4-player game, although there are the 3-player dissimilarities in China, Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea. The game is being played with the set of a hundred and 44 tiles initially from Chinese symbols and characters. During the beginning, every player is provided with 13 tiles, and the objective is by drawing and discarding tiles until they completed the legal hand, using a 14th drawn tile in forming 4 sets and the pair (called as the ‘melds’ and the ‘eye’), respectively. NATIONAL MAHJONG DAY HISTORY Mahjong is from the famous card games in the 18th & the 19th centuries in China, such as Pènghú and Khanhoo, which are mahjong’s probable ancestors. They have been compared with those western card ga...

This is the 9th month in the Islamic calendar and this is being observed by many Muslims worldwide as the month of sawm or fasting, prayer, reflection, and the community. This is a commemoration of the first revelation of Muhammad. This yearly observance of Ramadan has been regarded as included in the 5 Pillars of Islam that will last for 29-30 days, from a sighting of a crescent moon up to the next. The fasting from sunrise to sunset is obligatory or fard for every adult Muslim who aren’t chronically or acutely ill, diabetic, menstruating, travelling, elderly, or breastfeeding. The Muslim predawn meal is being referred to as the “suhur”, and their evening nightly feast which will break their fast is known as iftar. Even though “fatwas” had been issued which declares that Muslims who dwells in the areas with a polar night or a midnight sun must follow the Mecca’s timetable, it is a common practice to go after the closest country’s timetable wherein night will be identified from day. Th...

This day is being observed annually. Provided the proper encouragement and the right platform, these deaf kids can will be able to achieve anything. It is meant to recognize and to give honor to the hearing-impaired infants from across the US. Children with impairments had been frequently overlooked, with the victories and accomplishments are going unnoticed. A day such as this day will pave the way to take their strength and struggles to the front, then makes awareness about the plentiful of potentials with deaf kids. This day is a date that will empower the youngsters and will remind them that they’ll be able to achieve anything! Deafness It has a variable definition in the medical and the cultural contexts . In the medical contexts, it means that deafness is a hearing loss that precluded an individual from comprehending spoken languages and this is a very audiological situation. In this frame, it is written with the lower case d. This later came to become used in the cultural conte...