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WHAT IS DYNGUS DAY AND HOW SHOULD I CELEBRATE?
Newsweak ^ | 4/13/20 | JORGE SOLIS

Posted on 04/13/2020 6:19:57 PM PDT by fhayek

yngus Day is a Polish-American holiday celebrated after Easter Sunday in Buffalo, New York and elsewhere. To mark the end of Lent, the joyful celebration consists of delicious food, entertaining parades, and wonderful music. This year, due to the pandemic, organizers behind the city's Dyngus Day celebrations had to come up with creative ideas to keep the festivities alive.

In 966 A.C.E., on Easter Monday, Prince Mieszko I of Poland was baptized. Mieszko converted to Christianity because of the marriage agreement he made with his wife, Princess Dobrawa of Bohemia. By accepting Christianity as his religion, the first king of Poland was also baptizing the whole Polish nation, according to Polish News.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That is a dingleberry.


21 posted on 04/14/2020 5:57:51 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
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To: fhayek

Na zdrowie and Sto Lat!


22 posted on 04/14/2020 6:06:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fhayek

Huh, and all these years I thought it was named after that famous outlaw Dirty Dyngus McGee......


23 posted on 04/14/2020 6:27:09 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (How did I survive the Swine flu and the killer flu of 2017-18 without govt. help?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No...that is a dingle berry...and The Greatest Fraud Ever .


24 posted on 04/14/2020 2:43:13 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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