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From early June in the Scottish Borders
The Riding of the Marches, or Common
Riding, takes place throughout the summer
in major Scottish Borders towns. Like many
Scottish festivals, it has ancient traditions,
dating back to the Middle Ages, when
riders would be sent to the town boundary
to check on the common lands. In those
dark days of brigands, rogues and
highwaymen, the young riders faced many
perils including clashes with incursive neighbouring settlements
5 June 2015, BBC Music Day aims to bring people together across
generations and communities through their love of music on BBC Radio 2,
BBC Radio 3, BBC 6 Music, Asian Network, BBC Local Radio, plus BBC
One’s The One Show will be broadcasting live from the Music Day event in
Glasgow.
7 June 2015, Sunday following Corpus Christi in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos,
Spain.
Grown men dress up in red and yellow costumes and leap over babies.
8 June 2015, World Oceans Day 2015 Celebration
In honour of the United Nations World Oceans Day, celebrated each year on
8 June, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
(IOC-UNESCO) will organize a full day dedicated to the ocean and its link to
the climate system. This event will lead up to the 2015 Paris Climate
Conference (COP21).
20 June 2015, fifth day of the fifth lunar
month Dragon Boat Festival in Hunan
province,
China’s rivers fill with colourful crafts decked
out to look like dragons, from fearsome snout
to scaly tail. The boat races are a lot of fun
but the festival’s roots lie in tragedy.
21 June 2015, 'Solstice' (Latin: 'solstitium') means 'sun-stopping'.
Although the June solstice marks the first day of astronomical summer, it's
more common to use meteorological definitions of seasons, making the
solstice midsummer or midwinter. One of the world's oldest evidence of the
Summer Solstice's importance in culture is Stonehenge in England, a
megalithic structure which clearly marks the moment of the June Solstice.
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