Diana Cochran
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What Do Your Flowers Say On Mother's Day?
The custom of celebrating mothers goes as far back as the 1600s when in England there was a holiday called Mothering Sunday, celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent. In America, the celebration of Mother's Day was created in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe the woman who wrote the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; but the idea didn't catch on widely until 1907. That year, Anna Jarvis began a campaign to... (posted by Diana 5 years 40 days ago.)
The custom of celebrating mothers goes as far back as the 1600s when in England there was a holiday called Mothering Sunday, celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent. In America, the celebration of Mother's Day was created in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe the woman who wrote the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; but the idea didn't catch on widely until 1907. That year, Anna Jarvis began a campaign to... (posted by Diana 5 years 40 days ago.)
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