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International Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) Awareness Day raises awareness of this rare disease and its impact on families. Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) and mucolipidosis (ML) are genetic lysosomal storage diseases (LSD) caused by a missing or insufficient enzyme that prevents cells from recycling waste, causing it to be stored in the cells, leading to widespread damage throughout the body, affecting joints and organ systems. Of the 11 syndrome types, only four have treatments—none have a cure.

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May

Multiple Sclerosis Carnation Days (CA): May 10-11

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MS Carnation Days seeks to raise awareness about Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The carnation has long been associated with hope and finding a cure for MS. Canadians have one of the world's highest rates of multiple sclerosis. It is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada. Women are more than three times as likely to develop MS as men. MS can cause loss of balance, impaired speech, extreme fatigue, double vision, and paralysis. French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot first identified the disease in 1868. The cause of MS is still unknown.

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May

Multiple Sclerosis Day, World: May 30

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World MS Day is a global awareness campaign designed to unite the MS community, raise awareness of the effects of multiple sclerosis and support the families and loved ones of those afflicted. This event first ran in 2009.

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May

Museum Day, Intl.: May 18

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International Museum Day first ran in 1977 and has continued each year since. It is a day to celebrate the world's museums, no matter how big or small, and their contribution to science, culture, and heritage. Currently, over 30,000 museums in 120 countries participate in this event. ICOM Advisory Committee decides each year's theme.

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May

Music Week, Ntl.: May 4-11

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The National Federation of Music Clubs promotes National Music Week in the US in May. Here are some ideas to begin your celebration of National Music Week! Business Firms, Banks and Malls can: Sponsor noon concerts. Prepare unique Music Week displays. Mention National Music Week in advertising. ________ Public and Private Schools can: Plan choral, band, and orchestral concerts in schools or malls for all ages. Prepare brief special music during the lunch hour or opening announcements. Encourage student participation in the Essay Contest. Print or read the winner's composition. Plan poster displays or contests for all ages for the week. ________ Music Clubs can: Order supplies soon from National Headquarters and distribute them. Ask for Mayors' Proclamations of NMW and distribute them. Plan special programs for clubs, malls, nursing homes, etc. Inform Arts Councils and Chambers of Commerce about NMW dates and themes and ask that they list it in their calendars. Put announcements of NMW in a symphony or other musical programs. Invite all of the groups above to participate!

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May

Musical Instrument Day, Buy a: May 22

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Buy a Musical Instrument Day encourages people to get a musical instrument and learn to play. Whether you're the next Jimi Hendrix or just going to play for fun, the ability to play a musical instrument benefits your well-being and self-confidence and adds to the enjoyment of others. Championed by Gibson.

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May

Mystery Month: May

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Agatha Christie, Sherlock Homes, Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys, mysteries have been a favorite genre of literature for hundreds of years. If it's been a while since you've curled up with a good mystery, take this month to enjoy. Need more time to read? Try one of the audio mysteries instead. However you celebrate, this is a month to enjoy a good mystery. This event began in 2011.

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May

Nakba Day (PS/IL)(1948): May 15

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Al Nakba, or The Catastrophe in English, is the Palestinian parallel to the Trail of Tears (1838-39) in America. The Trail of Tears represented the rounding up and forced ethnic cleansing of Native Americans off their land and homes onto federally designated reservations for containment and control by a federal military. It continues to be, with slavery and the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, one of the most shameful events in American history. With the advent of the Geneva Conventions, Hague Conventions, Rome Statutes, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other agreements, the Trail of Tears would be prosecuted as Crime Against Humanity, with the United States as the defendant today. It would also be a war crime if it occurred during a war or military occupation. Fortunately for the US, these international agreements did not exist in 1838. However, in the wake of the Holocaust, they do today, which is Nakba's irony. What the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe, forcing them out of their homes and businesses, relocating and interning them in walled ghettos, and stripping them of their citizenship, rights, and dignity while extracting them through laws and customs from everyday life, is precisely what the Zionists did to the Arabs of Palestine just eighteen months later and continue doing today. The Nakba, or Al Nakba, is the forced expulsion of 750,000 people from their homes, lands, and businesses. It includes ongoing discrimination, prohibition from returning to their homes, and confiscation of their property without compensation. Al Nakba didn't happen 150 years ago. Al Nakba began on November 30, 1947, and continues today. It is the reason Israel has security issues, not because its people are predominantly of the Jewish faith, as Israeli advocates portend. Isreal has security issues because of how it took over and expanded its statehood and continues to enforce it as an ethnocentric, exclusionary, and violent vision at the expense of those not classified as Jewish. It agreed to be a nation-state of all its people living within defined boards and as a culture informed by Judaism, its customs, and holidays. As a nation-state, it has yet to honor that agreement. NAKBA HISTORY Al Nakba is the culmination of events in Europe in the 1860s through a political ethno-supremacist nationalist movement later known as Zionism. The people who support this political ideology are called Zionists and can be of any faith. However, roughly 350 million, most Zionists, are Dispensationalist Christians, sometimes called Evangelicals, with an additional ten million identifying as Jewish. The Zionist ideals received codification in 1897 and came to fruition on November 29, 1947, when the United Nations agreed to partition Palestine into an Israeli and Palestinian state. In Christianity, Zionist ideology was written into the 1908 "Scofield Reference Bible" footnotes and has evolved into the defining belief system for Dispensationalist Christianity's End Times theology, which is not shared by the majority of global Christians. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, the new nation-state's boundaries didn't match the aspirations of those petitioning. The Zionists wanted it all, and they wanted it all without the people. Over the next year and a half, Jewish terrorists, who later became the Israeli army, expanded the land given to them by the United Nations by 300 percent through terror, death, and destruction, egregiously violating the agreement which granted them statehood. On November 30, 1947, the massacres and raids by Jewish gangs commenced against the indigenous population (Palestinians). Still in control of Palestine, the British turned a blind eye and let it happen. By the time Israel became a state on May 15, 1948, hundreds of thousands of Christians and Muslims were forced to flee their homes and businesses ahead of these gangs, the most notorious being the Lehi, Stern, and Irgun gangs. Most of Israel's future leaders would come from these groups. Thousands of Christian and Muslim men, women, and children were slaughtered in dozens of massacres leading up to and after the creation of Israel, the most notorious being at the village of Deir Yassin in April 1948. The Palestinians were alone from November 30, 1947, to May 14, 1948. They had no military. In fact, they have never had a military. Instead, the Palestinians expected a peaceful transition of power, similar to the Ottomans, British, and Romans. To Palestinians, the Zionists were just the next group in charge, they thought. This time was different. THE DEFENSELESS MYTH What about the other countries in the region? Wasn't defenseless Israel under attack? No. The Arab armies would not defend the Palestinians between November 20, 1947, and May 14, 1948, because doing so would require attacking Britain and thus declaring war on it. Once Israel was declared a state on May 15, 1948, these armies did engage but would not cross the border of the new state defined by the United Nations. They had agreed with the rest of the world to give the land, within the boundaries defined, to the Jewish people after the Holocaust, provided the Zionists did not discriminate against the indigenous people, created a constitution, and stayed within their borders. The Arab nations would not violate that agreement. The Zionists, however, never honored the conditions of statehood and continue to thwart them to this day. In the battles after statehood, the Zionists possessed superior weaponry and numbers. They had been planning for this battle, collecting weapons for over ten years by smuggling them into the region. The end of World War II increased weapons quality and availability and the number of immigrants—drafted soldiers—to the area. STRATEGIC PLANNING The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, or Al Nakba, was planned beginning in the 1920s. Zionists vigorously researched and tactically mapped out each village and its demographics starting in 1938 according to the diaries, speeches, and public records of Zionist leaders David Ben-Gurion, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann, and others. Dr. Illan Pappe fully maps this out in his book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." During Nakba, the Zionists systematically razed whole villages to prevent their owners' return. Political leaders then added laws declaring Palestinian villages "military zones" to prevent their owners from returning, a tactic that continues today inside Area C. After three years of military zoning to prevent Palestinians from returning to their homes, businesses, and lands, Zionist politicians added more laws declaring that any land not occupied for three years became the property of the state of Israel. Laws, terror, and guns are how the people of Palestine became refugees in their own country. Today, as a policy of cultural erasure, many razed villages are covered with pine trees and turned into Jewish-only parks, many of which are accessible on Jewish-only roads from Jewish-only housing developments. In a uniquely devious twist, various pro-Zionist organizations use tree planting on these destroyed villages as fundraisers in the West under cover of environmental causes. Al NAKBA—A UNIQUE EVENT IN MODERN HISTORY What makes the Nakba unique is not that it happened. Wars happen, and people get displaced. International law provides for the repatriation of civilians fleeing war or turmoil. International law says people who flee during conflict may return; if that is not possible, they must be compensated. How Israel prevented the Palestinians from doing this is explained above. What makes Nakba unique is that it continues. Palestinians were and are prevented from returning to their homes and property because they are of the wrong religions under Israeli law. They are Christian or Muslim predominantly, but also Druze, atheist, Buddhist, and other faiths. Faith. That's it, and that's the primary reason Palestinians are discriminated against. Over 90 laws on Israel's books explicitly discriminate against non-Jewish persons in all areas of life. If Palestinians were Jewish (and many are. Palestine is a region, not a race), they would be given their property back and, in many cases, large living subsidies. But most are not Jewish, and those that are Mizrahi and Sephardic—Semitic Jews— face racial discrimination in the Israeli system, favoring Askanazi—Caucasian Jews—similar to people of color in the US today. ___________ Note: Semitic is a language group that includes ancient Aramaic, ancient Hebrew, Arabic, and two other extinct languages. In Europe, "Semitic" or "Semite" became a derogatory term for persons of Arab ancestry and color, often Jewish or Muslim, beginning in the 19th century. Zionists adopted the word to elevate racism against Jewish people to a higher level in the 1880s. In reality, being anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim, or anti-Jewish are all equal forms of antisemitism. It is not exclusive to faith, but a language group and culture. ___________ Another difference between Nakba and other historical genocides, holocausts, and ethnic cleansing campaigns is accountability. Unlike Germany, Israel has yet to admit what it has done, pay reparations, or make any overture to replace the personal, business, and community property of those it dispossessed in 1948, in 1967, and continuing through today. Instead, the destruction continues and escalates, and the rest of the world continues to pay for Israel's discriminatory practices and occupation. Nakba continues through the use of siege, displacement, occupation, and apartheid. This situation is over seventy years old, five times longer than the Nazi party ruled Germany and 11 times longer than the Holocaust. MARKING THE EVENT The tradition for Al Nakba is to hold marches in the streets where Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim, carry the deeds to the property they still own but are prohibited from returning to because they are of the wrong faith. Each year the international community of support has grown to the point where Nakba events are held in major cities worldwide, including the United States. WHAT YOU CAN DO Nakba Day is a day to insist upon ending racism directed at people because of their faith in all areas of the world. It is a time to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, confront racism on this issue and look at hard truths. It is a day of mourning for the catastrophe which created the strife, violence, and unrest the world lives with today. The best thing you can do for Nakba is learn. Make sure your friends know about it and why it must end. The only reason it continues is that the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and European Union, continue to provide public relations, diplomatic, financial, and military cover for the state of Israel. These nations all hold civil rights in esteem, and covering this up is contrary to the values of each. Your religion, or lack of one, shouldn't determine your value. When the people of the enabling nations insist Israel uphold its pledge of November 29, 1947, to the United Nations, the conditions of its statehood, including: 1) Treat everyone equally and respectfully, regardless of faith, origin, or race. 2) Create and ratify a constitution guaranteeing those rights, and 3) Live within its borders. Policies will change. Al Nakba will end, and Israel will no longer have a security problem of its own making.

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Narada Jayanti (H): May 13

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The sun transitions from Mesha Rashi to Vrishabha Rashi during Vrishabha Sankranti. Giving cows as a gift is considered auspicious on this day. Devotees visit Vishnu temples and pray that Lord Vishnu grants them the wisdom to choose between good and evil. PLEASE NOTE: We use the Indian civil calendar, the official holiday calendar in India. The Hindu faith has many calendars, each specific to different regions and tribes, with dates and celebrations marked by differing positions of the sun, moon, and stars. Names of months and holidays and the corresponding dates in the Gregorian calendar may vary widely from one calendar to the next. Determine the proper calendar before attending local events.

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Narasimha Jayanti (H): May 11

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Narasimha Jayanti is a celebration of the triumph of good over evil. In the Hindu faith, Narasimha Jayanti marks the fourth reincarnation of Lord Vishnu into half man and half lion. By becoming half man and half lion, Lord Vishnu could end the tyranny of Hiranyakashipu and redirect all people on the path to Dharma. Devotes of Lord Vishnu often observed this day with fasts, prayers, pumas, and offerings of gram sprouts to the god. PLEASE NOTE: We use the Indian civil calendar, the official holiday calendar in India. The Hindu faith has many calendars, each specific to different regions and tribes, with dates and celebrations marked by differing positions of the sun, moon, and stars. Names of months and holidays and the corresponding dates in the Gregorian calendar may vary widely from one calendar to the next. Determine the proper calendar before attending local events.

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May

National Day (AZ)(1918): May 28

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Azerbaijan's National Day, also known as Republic Day, is celebrated annually on May 28th. This public holiday commemorates the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) on May 28, 1918. The ADR was the first democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world, marking a significant milestone in Azerbaijan's history. The ADR was short-lived, as it was occupied by the Soviet Red Army on April 28, 1920, and subsequently incorporated into the Soviet Union. Azerbaijan regained its independence from the Soviet Union on October 18, 1991, and the legacy of the ADR was revived, with May 28th becoming a symbol of national pride and unity. On National Day, Azerbaijanis celebrate with various activities, including flag-raising ceremonies, parades, cultural events, and concerts. The day is an opportunity for people to express their national identity, pay tribute to the nation's founders, and remember the struggle for independence and freedom.

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May

National Day (YE)(1990): May 22

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The Republic of Yemen was created on this day in 1990 with the reunification of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Yemen is the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula and has had a few years of peace. In 2015, civil war again erupted in the tiny nation between Houthi separatists and the ruling government. It quickly became a regional conflict with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, backed by the United States, attacking the country. The battle continues as of this writing, though without US support since February 2021. The Saudi Coalition blames its rival Iran and positions this as a proxy war; an investigative report by PBS Newshour in 2018 interviewed Houthi rebels and found no such material support. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/american-made-bombs-in-yemen-are-killing-civilians-destroying-infrastructure-and-fueling-anger-at-the-u-s Instead, it illustrated the humanitarian disaster unfolding in which over one million people have been diagnosed with cholera, million more are starving, and the majority of aid is cut off. Human Rights Watch calls it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and it continues to be largely ignored by the Western media. Though this is Yemen's national day, the ongoing war leaves little room to celebrate.

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May

Naturopathic Medicine Week (US/CA): May 4-10

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Initiated in 2012, Naturopathic Medicine Week is an opportunity for natural healers to showcase the value of what they do with patients, prospective patients, reporters, and community leaders through a variety of creative activities, events, and messages.

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May

Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month, Ntl.: May

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Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month is sponsored by the Children's Tumor Foundation. Neurofibromatosis is a group of genetic disorders that causes tumors to grow along various types of nerves. NF can also affect the development of non-nervous tissues such as bones and skin. Neurofibromatosis causes tumors to grow anywhere on or in the body. Types Of Neurofibromatosis: Neurofibromatosis (NF) has three distinct types: NF1, NF2, and Schwannomatosis. You can participate in the various events of the Children's Tumor Foundation.

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May

Neuropathy Awareness Week, Peripheral, Ntl.: May 4-10

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Created by the Neuropathy Association in 2014, National Neuropathy Awareness Week focuses on patient care, research, and cures. Peripheral neuropathy, or peripheral nerve damage, impacts over 20 million Americans, making it one of the most common chronic diseases and a leading cause of adult disability. Neuropathy disrupts the body’s communication with its muscles, organs, and tissues. Symptoms can include numbness, tingling, weakness, and pain, often beginning in the hands and feet. With early diagnosis, quality of life can be restored. If ignored, symptoms can intensify to loss of sensation, weakness, unremitting pain, or disability.

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