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Five Egg-Cellent Easter Traditions

Easter is both a secular and religious holiday, a moveable feast whose date varies each year. In 2013, Easter falls on Sunday, March 31. Some traditions are universal, such as attending Mass or a religious service, while other Easter traditions reflect the rich cultural heritage of individual nations. Here are five Easter traditions from the global community that go beyond chocolate bunnies and jelly beans. Red Eggs in Greece: Holy Week – the period from Palm Sunday to Easter, is the most important time in the Greek Orthodox Church’s calendar. While eggs are dyed, the only color used is red to symbolize the blood of Christ. Red is also the color Click to Read more…

Mindy

Design of the Month Contest

Greeting Card Universe is holding a Design of the Month contest! Each day, Team GCU chooses a Design of the Day – a greeting card we believe shows professionalism, creativity, imagination, and exemplifies our philosophy of “any card imaginable.” In March, each winner of the Design of the Day is automatically entered into our Design of the Month contest, and you can help your favorite artist win an iPad Mini! First, make sure to Like Greeting Card Universe on Facebook to become a fan. Check out the contest and view the entries on the Voting Page. Voting is simple and easy – just click on your favorite card to cast Click to Read more…

Mindy

Spring Into Norooz!

Persian New Year, also called Norooz or Nowruz, was originally a Zoroastrian festival, is today celebrated by Iranian people around the world and marks the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring. and the beginning of the new year. In 2013, Norooz falls on March 20. Norooz is a joyous occasion filled with activities including spring cleaning, coloring eggs, new clothes, the Haft Sin table containing symbolic items, prayers, greetings, gifts, and delicacies of sweets and special New Year’s dishes. Norooz is an important holiday in the Iranian calendar. Greeting Card Universe offers traditional and modern Norooz greeting cards to exchange with your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and anyone else you want Click to Read more…

Mindy

3.14159 Reasons to Celebrate Pi Day

Pi Day occurs annually on March 14, which also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. On this day, math geeks, mathletes, professors, teachers, students, and anyone interested in celebrating mathematics come together to eat pie and pizza (and have pie eating contests), play games, party, sing songs, and tell jokes and stories about pi – the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day showcases the humorous side of math, often with tongue-in-cheek word play. The celebration has become an international sensation. Greeting Card Universe offers unusual and unique Pi Day cards to send to your family and friends so they can join in the fun Click to Read more…

Mindy

Open Wide and Say Ahh for Doctors’ Day

National Doctors’ Day was proclaimed an official holiday by U.S. President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and is observed annually on March 30. Doctors’ Day honors all physicians who make a difference in the lives of their patients every day. The date of the observance – March 30 – is the date the first general anesthetic was used in surgery by Dr. Crawford Long, who removed a tumor from his patient’s neck. The first unofficial Doctors’ Day celebration was held in 1933 in Windor, Georgia, and included both sending greeting cards and laying flowers – particularly red carnations – on the graves of deceased doctors. In the United States alone, Click to Read more…

Mindy

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