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Every year, you can celebrate the first day of May by watching dancers weave ribbons around this.

Maypole

100

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

100

500 million of these tasty treats are produced every year.

Cadbury Creme Eggs

100

This film follows a young rabbit, E.B., who would rather drum in a band than succeed his father as the Easter Bunny.

Hop

100

This holiday is a time to reflect on the Hebrew people’s freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. 

Passover

200

In the United Kingdom, people from all over the world congregate at dawn to see the sun rise over these stones. 

Stonehenge

200

Peonies come in every color except for this one.

Blue

200

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

200

Easter takes place on a Sunday, after the 40-day period called this.

Lent

200

This spring fertility festival honors Eostre, goddess of the dawn.

Ostara

300

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

300

These animals are also known as woodchucks, whistle-pigs and land-beavers.

Groundhogs

300

The twists of this salty treat resemble arms crossing in prayer, leading to replace eggs as the essential Easter item!

Pretzel

300

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

300

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

400

Songkran, a Thai holiday, involves sprinkling water on these statues at the temple to represent purification. 

Buddha

400

These lovely floral arrangements are the official 10th wedding anniversary flower.

Daffodils

400

Immigrants of this country popularized pysankas, ornate eggs made and decorated with wax and dyes, across the United States.

Ukraine

400

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

400

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

500

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

500

These flowers are named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.

Iris

500

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

500

The term Easter gets its name from this goddess, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolizes the hare and the egg.

Eastre

500

Known as the festival of colors, this Indian holiday is celebrated on the last full moon in the lunar month of Phalguna.

Holi