Mauritius is tolerant, colourful, cosmopolitan, and its calendar is filled with a huge array of festivals, rites and observances.
With the holiday itself falling on a Sunday, many observances were scheduled instead for Saturday because of religious observances.
Today is Veteran's Day - observances continue with a parade here in New York and other events across the country.
The least gratuitous observances of the great milestone may be scattered efforts to rehabilitate three early operas Wagner excluded from his canon.
The state funeral and burial will be preceded by five days of observances beginning Monday with a private family service at the library.
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The observances are to come a day after President Barack Obama's administration put into motion an effort to change U.S. gun laws, less than a week after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings.
The spur for the special observances was a call by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, which was publicised only some six weeks earlier, at an international UNESCO meeting in Paris on March 26th.
So we opted for a sombre burial in the Greenhouse, under the shade of the tallest of the mangroves, though in truth it meant a slightly watery grave after all, stuff seeping up through the muck to swallow the foot, bubbles of mud detaching and floating among us during our tiny, foot-size ritual observances.
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