Celebrity Birthdays
We take birthdays pretty much for granted. When it is someone's birthday we often have a birthday
party for them, with a birthday cake and presents and sing Happy Birthday To You and have all sorts of
fun. But when did the custom of...
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Celebrity Birthdays
We take birthdays pretty much for granted. When it is someone's birthday we often have a birthday
party for them, with a birthday cake and presents and sing Happy Birthday To You and have all sorts of
fun. But when did the custom of celebrating one's date of birth start to become important?
We have to go back thousands of years to possibly find an answer. Back during Roman Empire days,
people did not know about astronomy and the titling of the Earth on it's axis and stuff like that. They just
knew that as winter approached, the days got shorter and shorter as the sun spent less time in the sky,
and it was scary to them. They felt the sun was dying and at some point the sun would disappear
altogether Celebrity Birthdays in January.
But around middle December, the days would start getting longer again. The sun got higher in the sky
and so appeared reborn. This bought great relief and joy to the Romans, so much so that they created a
festival to honor this day. The fes
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