Keep the Tradition
Every year, you can celebrate the first day of May by watching dancers weave ribbons around this.
Maypole
These animals can have dog-like personalities and even learn tricks, especially if they are handled a lot by humans when they are lambs.
Sheep
500 million of these tasty treats are produced every year.
Cadbury Creme Eggs
This film follows a young rabbit, E.B., who would rather drum in a band than succeed his father as the Easter Bunny.
Hop
This holiday is a time to reflect on the Hebrew people’s freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt.
Passover
In the United Kingdom, people from all over the world congregate at dawn to see the sun rise over these stones.
Stonehenge
Peonies come in every color except for this one.
Blue
Children of this country get involved in the spring equinox celebrations by decorating eggs and making them "stand up" or balance on their ends.
China
Easter takes place on a Sunday, after the 40-day period called this.
Lent
This spring fertility festival honors Eostre, goddess of the dawn.
Ostara
Dyngus Day, an Easter Monday tradition of this country, is total anarchy for neighborhood children, who drench one another with buckets of water (often while the victim is still asleep in bed).
Poland
These animals are also known as woodchucks, whistle-pigs and land-beavers.
Groundhogs
The twists of this salty treat resemble arms crossing in prayer, leading to replace eggs as the essential Easter item!
Pretzel
At the Temple of Kukulkan on this Mayan site, a play of light and shadow during the equinox creates the illusion of a snake rippling down the northern staircase, symbolizing the return of an ancient god to earth, said to bring hope for spring.
The Yucatán
The Persian New Year, also known as this holiday, involves gathering with family members, setting up a holiday table known as a haft-sin, and jumping over fire.
Nowruz
Songkran, a Thai holiday, involves sprinkling water on these statues at the temple to represent purification.
Buddha
These lovely floral arrangements are the official 10th wedding anniversary flower.
Daffodils
Immigrants of this country popularized pysankas, ornate eggs made and decorated with wax and dyes, across the United States.
Ukraine
Holy Week is the celebrated during the week leading up to Easter. It begins on this day, continues on to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and then finally, Easter Sunday.
Palm Sunday
The main attractions of this Spanish holiday are the ninots and fallas, which are intricate cardboard, wood, and papier-mâché sculptures and scenes.
Las Fallas
Sechseläuten, the longstanding holiday of this country has involved the ceremonial burning of the Böögg—a life-sized cotton snowman packed with fireworks—as a testament to the transition from cold to warmth.
Sweden
These flowers are named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
Iris
The earliest known reference to the egg dance, in which participants scatter basketfuls of eggs as they dance jubilantly around them, hoping to destroy as few eggs as possible, may have taken place in this year.
1498
The term Easter gets its name from this goddess, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolizes the hare and the egg.
Eastre
Known as the festival of colors, this Indian holiday is celebrated on the last full moon in the lunar month of Phalguna.
Holi