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Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collop Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is a Christian observance falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday every year. A part of the English traditional Shrovetide celebrations of the week before Lent, the Monday precedes Shrove Tuesday.

Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession and absolution, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms, finalizing one's Lenten sacrifice, as well as eating pancakes and other sweets.

Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer and fasting. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and falls on the first day of Lent

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on March 8. A national Women's Day was first held in the United States in 1909, while an international day was adopted the following year at the Socialist International's conference in Copenhagen, in which over 100 women from 17 different countries participated. The day was established to honor the movement for women's rights, and to build support for universal suffrage for women.

Since the UN International Year of Women in 1975, the day has also been marked annually by the UN.

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