Heroes' Day in Cape Verde
Heroes' Day is a public holiday in Cape Verde on January 20. It commemorates the 1973 assassination of AmÃlcar Cabral, who is remembered as a hero for fighting western colonialism and exploitation.
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Famous quotes containing the words day and/or cape:
“O mud
For watermelons gutted to the crust,
Mud for the mole-tide harbor, mud for mouse,
Mud for the armored Diesel fishing tubs that thud
A year and a day to wind and tide; the dust
Is on this skipping heart that shakes my house,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)