March is considered the Month of Women. In Poland, Women's Day was celebrated on March 8th. Sadly, the traditions of Women's Day, when all women were given some extra favors from men and beautiful flowers, are fading away. Women's Day is now considered to be a part of the communist tradition because it was celebrated in the majority of Eastern European countries, especially in Soviet Union.

Read more: Women in Poland's Early History

International Women's Day which is celebrated on March 8th, was a big feast as far as I remember in Poland and in all other Eastern European countries as well as in Russia. It is also known in other countries around the world (Canada, USA, Israel and Western Europe) but it is not celebrated in the same way as in Eastern Europe were women are given flowers and other gifts.

Read more: International Women's Day: A History

I belong to the generation born in 60-es, so for me International Women's Day, in Polish: Miedzynarodowy Dzien Kobiet, was celebrated as long as I remember. I always thought that women have their day everywhere around the world - at least once a year, just on the 8th of March! Later, I realized that this was not a case and in many countries this day is not observed. Either women there have their feast the whole year or no any day at all! Rather this second is true!

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    Rose Kowal recalled taking her young son Charles to the Museum of Science in Buffalo, N.Y. where he attended programs about the night sky. She also remembered him building home-made telescopes and using them to peer at the heavens in the backyard of their home.

    Charles T. Kowal graduated from high school at age sixteen in 1957 and moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the University of Southern California and received a bachelor's degree in astronomy. He was hired by the California Institute of Technology to look for supernovae, or exploding stars. From 1961 to 1984, he discovered eighty-one of them, second only to one other astronomer. Kowal's access to the giant telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Mt. Palomar allowed him to search for other objects as well. He discovered many asteroids. Several comets that he found bear his name. In September 1974 he discovered the thirteenth moon of Jupiter, which he named Leda. The following year he found the giant planet's fourteenth moon, Themisto. Since then dozens of more moons have been found.

Read more: Charles Kowal’s Comets, Moons and Centaurs

Easter Lent in Polish is called "Wielki Post", which literally means "Great Fast" to distinguish it from the Advent season proceeding Christmas. Easter is called "Wielkanoc", which means "Great Night." So the origin of the Polish word for Easter has only religious connotation unlike its English equivalent which originates from Eostre, a pagan goddess of dawn, spring and fertility.

Read more: Tradition of Suffering (Lent) and Resurrection (Easter)