Pi π Day

π  Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world  π

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The number π (/paɪ/) is a mathematical constant. Originally defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, it now has various equivalent definitions and appears in many formulas in all areas of mathematics and physics. 

It is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes spelled out as "pi". 
It is also called Archimedes' constant. 

   

Animation of the act of unrolling a circle's circumference, illustrating the ratio π

Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed as a common fraction (equivalently, its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanently repeating pattern). Still, fractions such as 22/7 and other rational numbers are commonly used to approximate π. 
The digits appear to be randomly distributed. In particular, the digit sequence of π is conjectured to satisfy a specific kind of statistical randomness, but to date, no proof of this has been discovered. Also, π is a transcendental number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial having rational coefficients. 
This transcendence of π implies that it is impossible to solve the ancient challenge of squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

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Tulip Day 🌷 NYC 🗽 Union Square 🌷

Tulip Day 🌷 NYC  🗽

Tulip Day is not returning to NYC in 2026 and has moved to Washington, D.C.. 😒
The annual tradition, which featured 170,000 free tulips in Union Square, has officially relocated for 2026. The 2025 event was held on March 30, but the event is not scheduled for New York this spring. 

 Key Details Regarding the Move:
    New Location: The event is moving to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for 2026.
    Date & Time (DC): March 15, 2026, from 11:15 AM to 4:15 PM.
    What Happened: The popular event, which allowed visitors to pick free bouquets, has left Union Square, according to Instagram posts from Feb 20, 2026 and Secret NYC.

170,000 tulips take over the park for Tulip Day.

NYC’s giant Tulip Day is back !

On Sunday March 30, 170,000 tulips will be taking over Union Square for the second year! You can pick a bouquet for free! 🌷🌷🌹🌷🌷🌹🌷🌷

Do you plan to go to Tulip Day this year?
You can sign up to pick your own bouquet of 10 Tulips for free from 11:30am - 4pm* @tulipdaynyc
Free tickets will be available March 17 at tulipday.eu. Will share more reminders closer to the date but want everyone to mark their calendars!

This spring, Union Square will be transformed into a floral wonderland with over 170,000 colorful tulips. Tulip Day, a longstanding tradition in San Francisco's Union Square, is crossing coasts for the second time this year. Visitors to the event can create their own bouquet of tulips to take home - and it's all free!

The one-day-only event will kick off on Sunday, March 30th, and run from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm at Union Square. Attendees can select up to ten tulips to make a bouquet and take with them. Advance reservations can be made starting in March, and spots are expected to fill up fast. Limited walk-ins will be accommodated on the day of the event on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free, along with the tulips you take with you.

Tulip Day is part of FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York that aims to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history with honesty and integrity. The tulips filling Union Square this spring are grown in America from flower bulbs imported from Europe.

https://bucketlisters.com/inspiration/nyc-tulip-day

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Tulip Day is made possible by Royal Anthos, an organization representing flower and tree agriculture worldwide, in collaboration with the NYC Parks, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York and Union Square Partnership.

The tulips are grown in America, but their bulbs originate from Europe, where they are cultivated and exported to more than 100 countries—with the U.S. being the largest market, importing over a billion tulip bulbs annually.
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Whether experiencing Tulip Day for the first time or returning for another bouquet, this event is a perfect way to welcome the new season with flowers and community. For more information or to register for the event, visit TulipDay.eu.

https://www.nlclub.nyc/about-1

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Dance 🎼 Waltz 🕺💃🏼History

🕺💃🏼 Waltz History 🕺💃🏼

The waltz (from German Walzer is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple time, performed primarily in closed position. 

The waltz is a romantic, progressive ballroom dance originating from 18th-century Europe, characterized by a, 3/4 time signature, and a "down-up-up" (rise and fall) motion. Key steps include the "box step" (forward-side-close, back-side-close) and "progressive steps" danced in close embrace. 

 

Waltz History

There are many references to a sliding or gliding dance that would evolve into the waltz that date from 16th century Europe, including the representations of the printmaker Hans Sebald Beham. The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw in 1580 in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that their faces touched. Kunz Haas (of approximately the same period) wrote, "Now they are dancing the godless Weller or Spinner."  "The vigorous peasant dancer, following an instinctive knowledge of the weight of fall, uses his surplus energy to press all his strength into the proper beat of the bar, thus intensifying his personal enjoyment in dancing."The peasants of Bavaria, Tyrol, and Styria began dancing a dance called Walzer, a dance for couples, around 1750. The Ländler, also known as the Schleifer, a country dance in ³

₄ time, was popular in Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria, and spread from the countryside to the suburbs of the city. While the eighteenth century upper classes continued to dance the minuets (such as those by Mozart, Haydn and Handel), bored noblemen slipped away to the balls of their servants.

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In the 1771 German novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, a high-minded character complains about the newly introduced waltz among aristocrats thus: "But when he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage."

 

Describing life in Vienna (dated at either 1776 or 1786), Don Curzio wrote, "The people were dancing mad ... The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire." There is a waltz in the second act finale of the 1786 opera Una Cosa Rara by Martin y Soler. Soler's waltz was marked andante con moto, or "at a walking pace with motion", but the flow of the dance was sped-up in Vienna leading to the Geschwindwalzer, and the Galloppwalzer.

 

In the transition from country to town, the hopping of the Ländler, a dance known as Langaus, became a sliding step, and gliding rotation replaced stamping rotation.

In the 19th century, the word primarily indicated that the dance was a turning one; one would "waltz" in the polka to indicate rotating rather than going straight forward without turning. 

 

The Viennese custom is to anticipate slightly the second beat of each bar, making it sound as if the third is late and creating a certain buoyancy. The younger Strauss (Johann Strauss II) would sometimes break up the one-two-three of the melody with a one-two pattern in the accompaniment along with other rhythms, maintaining the ³
₄ time while causing the dancers to dance a two-step waltz. The metronome speed for a full bar varies between 60 and 70, with the waltzes of the first Strauss (Johann Strauss I) often played faster than those of his sons.

Shocking many when it was first introduced, the waltz became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading to many other countries in the years to follow. According to contemporary singer Michael Kelly, it reached England in 1791. During the Napoleonic Wars, infantry soldiers of the King's German Legion introduced the dance to the people of Bexhill, Sussex from 1804.

 

It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, having been made respectable by the endorsement of Dorothea Lieven, wife of the Russian ambassador.^[11] Diarist Thomas Raikes later recounted that "No event ever produced so great a sensation in English society as the introduction of the waltz in 1813." In the same year, a sardonic tribute to the dance by Lord Byron was anonymously published (written the previous autumn). Influential dance master and author of instruction manuals, Thomas Wilson published A Description of the Correct Method of Waltzing in 1816. Almack's, the most exclusive club in London, permitted the waltz, though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered "riotous and indecent" as late as 1825. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë, in a scene set in 1827, the local vicar Reverend Milward tolerates quadrilles and country dances but intervenes decisively when a waltz is called for, declaring "No, no, I don't allow that! Come, it's time to be going home."

The waltz, especially its closed position, became the example for the creation of many other ballroom dances. Subsequently, new types of waltz have developed, including many folk and several ballroom dances.

 

Man and woman dancing a waltz by Eadweard Muybridge. 1887

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltz

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Women’s 🙋🏻🙋🏽🙋🏼International Day

International Women’s Day

Around the World

 

Jessica Lindsay 🙋🏼 8 March

Happy International Women's Day!!!

Today is observed across the world, with different countries celebrating in many different ways. In some countries, though, it’s a public holiday and people get the day off work, and in others there are specific traditions upheld.

The countries that have a public holiday on IWD are:
Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia
In some parts of Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe, it isn’t a holiday but gifts and cards are given to the women in people’s lives that have shaped and inspired them

In Italy, it’s tradition for men to give women yellow mimosa flowers, and women are given free entry to various museums and exhibitions. 

In France, the symbols of IWD are violets and lilies of the valley.

In China, while women have the day off and men have to go to work, shops have sales and discounts

Have a woman friend in different country. Wondering how to greet her in a foreign language on women's day? 

Worry not... 

Here's a look at How to Say Happy Women's Day in Different Languages on March 8th

1. Alles Gute zum Tag der Frauen – German
2. Bonne Journée de la Femme – French
3. Felice Giorno delle Donne – Italian
4. Feliz Dia Da Mulher – Portuguese
5. Feliz Día de la Mujer – Spanish
6. Glad kvinnors dag – Swedish
7. Kadınlar günün kutlu olsun! – Turkish
8. Khuśa mahilā divasa – Gujarati
9. Kokusai josei day – Japanese
10. mahila divas kee shubhakaamanae – Hindi
11. szczęśliwy Dzień Kobiet – Polish
12. yeoseong-ui nal-eul chugha haeyo – Korean
13. Поздравляю тебя с восьмым марта – Ukranian
14. С Международным женским днем [S Mezhdunarodnym zhenskim dnem] – Russian
15. وم المرأة العالمي – Arabic
16. 妇女节快乐 [fù nǚ jié kuài lè] – Chinese

http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/08/international-womens-day-around-world-16-different-languages-7371085

Why do we Celebrate
International Women's Day?

International Women's Day is also referred to as the UN Day for Women's Rights and International Peace. 

The primary intent behind marking the day is to celebrate achievements of women till date.

Why is women's day celebrated on 8th march?
The history of first women's empowerment dates back to 1908 in NYC when women numbering 15000 marched demanding the right to vote and better pay and work hours. The first women' day was announced in 1909 by the Socialist Party of America. 

But the proposal to mark it as International Women's Day was made by Clara Zetkin the following year at Copenhagen in an International Conference of Working Women which got unanimous nod from the participants and delegates. However, it was in 1975 that the United Nations decided to make March 8 the official day to stir women’s movement and emphasize parity. 

The theme based women's day celebrations was first initiated in 1996 with the topic "Celebrating the past, Planning for the Future."