132 Fun Facts About Mother's Day

Woodrow Wilson signed Mother's Day into a national holiday in what year?

Wilson's proclamation fixed it on the second Sunday in May, six years after the first church service in 1908.

Which woman is credited as the founder of the modern Mother's Day holiday in the United States?

She built the campaign around her own mother, who had wished aloud for such a day in a Sunday school lesson in 1876.

Which Egyptian journalist introduced Mother's Day to the Arab world?

Mustafa Amin floated the idea in his 1943 book Smiling America; Egypt first marked the day in 1956, and other Arab countries followed.

Which flower was chosen in 1907 as the official symbol of Mother's Day?

White was meant to stand for the purity of a mother's love.

Wilson's Mother's Day proclamation asked Americans to display what?

The national flag: the joint resolution Wilson proclaimed asked that the flag be flown on government buildings and homes as a public expression of love and reverence for the nation's mothers.

Traditionally, what does wearing a white flower on the day signify?

A white flower signifies that one's mother has died, a coloured one that she is living; florists pushed the colour code partly because white carnations kept selling out.

In which year did the United States issue its first Mother's Day postage stamp?

1934: the three-cent stamp issued on 2 May 1934 adapted Whistler's Mother, adding a vase of carnations in the corner.

How did the holiday's founder feel about it by the 1940s?

Anna Jarvis petitioned to have it rescinded after decades of fighting its commercialisation; in 1944 she was placed in a Pennsylvania sanitarium, where she died in 1948.

Critics of how commercial Mother's Day became file it under which dismissive label?

A Hallmark Holiday is the charge, yet the commercialisation may be exactly what kept the day alive while Children's Day and Temperance Sunday faded.

In Japan the day was first kept as the birthday of which empress?

Kōjun: from 1931 Japan marked the day on 6 March, the birthday of Empress Kōjun, consort of Emperor Shōwa; the second Sunday in May was adopted in 1949.

What is the name of the multi-day Ethiopian celebration that honors motherhood?

Antrosht is a three-day Ethiopian family feast held in autumn once the rains end, when children return home to cook a large meal and sing for their mothers.

On which Sunday in May does the U.S. celebrate Mother's Day?

Mother's Day in the United States falls on the second Sunday in May each year, meaning it can land on any date between May 8 and May 14.

What is Mother's Day called in France?

La Fête des Mères: a law of 24 May 1950 made it official, obliging the Republic to pay homage to French mothers on the last Sunday of May.

In Mexico, what song do mariachi bands traditionally play for mothers on the morning of Mother's Day?

Las Mañanitas, the traditional Mexican birthday song, is sung to mothers by mariachi bands on the morning of Mother's Day.

On what fixed date does Mexico celebrate Mother's Day each year?

May 10: Mexico first celebrated Mother's Day on 10 May 1922, promoted by a Mexico City newspaper with backing from Álvaro Obregón's government.

What is the British equivalent of Mother's Day called?

Mothering Sunday was originally unrelated to the American holiday; the British day is fixed to the church calendar, not to May.

The British mothers' day falls on the fourth Sunday of which season?

Because it is tied to Easter, the date moves between early March and early April.

Which marzipan-topped fruit loaf is traditional for Britain's mid-Lent Sunday?

Simnel cake, a light fruit cake topped with marzipan, is traditional for Mothering Sunday, a mid-Lent reprieve from fasting; its eleven marzipan balls represent the apostles minus Judas.

Julia Ward Howe's 1870 "Mother's Day Proclamation" was primarily a call for what?

International peace: Howe's 1870 appeal, written after the bloodshed of the Civil War and amid a new European war, urged women to unite against war, and she promoted an annual Mothers' Peace Day in the 1870s.

Which ancient civilization held a spring festival honoring Cybele, a mother goddess?

Historians of the modern holiday are firm that it grew from none of these older observances.

Russia celebrates Mother's Day on the last Sunday of which month?

November: a 1998 decree by President Boris Yeltsin set Russia's Mother's Day on the last Sunday of November.

Where does Mother's Day rank among card-sending holidays in the United States?

Third: by Hallmark's count Mother's Day trails only Christmas and Valentine's Day, with well over 100 million cards exchanged each year.

In which state was the founder of the American Mother's Day born?

She was the ninth of eleven children, seven of whom died in infancy or early childhood.

What did the holiday's founder insist about the apostrophe in its name?

It belongs before the s: Jarvis wanted 'Mother's Day' as a singular possessive, each family honouring its own mother, and she trademarked that spelling.

Which industries quietly paid the founder's sanitarium bills?

Florists and card makers: people from the floral and greeting-card trades paid for her care at the Marshall Square Sanitarium, the very businesses she had spent her fortune fighting.

Which country marks Mother's Day as a public holiday on 16 November?

Russia, by contrast, inherited a March celebration of International Women's Day from the Soviet Union.

On what date do most Arab countries celebrate Mother's Day?

March 21, the first day of spring: Egypt first marked the day in 1956 and most Arab countries adopted the same date.

Which country wrote its Mother's Day into law in 1927 under Hernando Siles Reyes?

The date chosen commemorates a battle in which women fought.

What did Ann Jarvis organise in 1868, three years after the Civil War?

Mother's Friendship Day: in 1868 Ann Jarvis brought together families from the Union and Confederate sides in West Virginia to promote reconciliation after the war.

Anna Jarvis said a printed Mother's Day card proved its sender was what?

Too lazy to write a letter: Jarvis complained that a printed card meant only that the sender was too lazy to write to the woman who had done more for them than anyone in the world.

For what offence was Anna Jarvis arrested while protesting the holiday's commercialisation?

Disturbing the peace: Jarvis was arrested in 1925 after protesting at a Philadelphia convention of the American War Mothers, which sold carnations to raise funds.

Ancient Greek spring rites honoured which goddess as mother of the gods?

Rhea, wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, was honoured as mother of the gods, and her cult merged with that of Phrygian Cybele.

Which ancient festival honoured the mother goddess Cybele at the March equinox?

Hilaria: Rome's day of rejoicing for Cybele fell on 25 March, the equinox, closing the rites that mourned and then celebrated her consort Attis; the name shares a root with 'hilarity'.

How many white flowers were delivered to the first Mother's Day celebration in 1908?

500: Anna Jarvis sent five hundred white carnations, her mother's favourite flower, for the church service of 10 May 1908.

What type of flower do Japanese children traditionally give their mothers on Mother's Day?

Red carnations are the standard Mother's Day gift in Japan, a custom adopted along with the American May date after the Second World War.

In several Balkan and Eastern European countries, Mother's Day on March 8 coincides with which observance?

International Women's Day: 8 March doubles as Mother's Day in countries such as Albania and Bulgaria; Ukraine added a separate May Mother's Day in 1999.

If Pentecost falls on the last Sunday in May, what does France do with its mothers' day?

Switzerland has a similar rule, but pushes the day a week later instead.

Why did France originally establish a national day honoring mothers?

To push up the birth rate: after the First World War's losses, France's official day for mothers of large families was a pro-natalist measure honouring women with many children.

At Ethiopia's three-day motherhood feast, what do the daughters bring?

Spices, vegetables and dairy: daughters bring butter, cheese, vegetables and spices while sons bring a lamb or bull, and the mother cooks a hash for the three-day feast.

In the medieval practice behind the British holiday, which 'mother' was visited?

The day was known as Laetare Sunday, at the midpoint of Lent.

What famous song is Julia Ward Howe best known for writing, aside from her Mother's Day Proclamation?

Julia Ward Howe is best known as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," the iconic Civil War-era anthem. She later channeled her influence into advocating for peace through her 1870 Mother's Day Proclamation.

Which Philadelphia merchant helped establish the holiday in its present form?

The first official service in 1908 was matched by a much larger ceremony in his store's auditorium.

How many children did the founder of the American Mother's Day have?

None: Anna Jarvis never married and had no children, devoting her adult life and inheritance to founding and then fighting for the holiday.

In which Pennsylvania town was the holiday's founder placed in a sanitarium?

West Chester: she was placed in the Marshall Square Sanitarium there in 1944 and died in November 1948, to be buried beside her mother at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Which is the most popular restaurant day of the year in the United States?

It also produces a large slice of the American jewellery trade's yearly revenue, much of it in mother's rings.

Which building was incorporated in 1962 as the International Mother's Day Shrine?

Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, site of the 1908 service, was incorporated as the International Mother's Day Shrine in 1962 and named a National Historic Landmark in 1992.

Denmark celebrates its Mors dag on which fixed date?

5 May: Denmark keeps its Mors dag on a fixed date, unlike the movable Sunday used by Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Which Brazilian president made Mother's Day official by decree in 1932?

Getúlio Vargas: his decree of 5 May 1932 fixed Brazil's Dia das Mães on the second Sunday of May, fourteen years after the country's first celebration in 1918.

Which African country keeps Mother's Day as a public holiday on 15 October?

Malawi: 15 October is a national public holiday there, listed as Mother's Day alongside Kamuzu Day and Independence Day in the country's holiday calendar.

Which US president personally sketched the first Mother's Day postage stamp?

Franklin D. Roosevelt, a lifelong stamp collector, drew the rough design for the three-cent Mother's Day stamp, based on Whistler's Mother, soon after taking office.

Anna Jarvis likened the holiday's profiteers to which insects?

Termites: Jarvis denounced the holiday's profiteers as 'charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and termites' who would undermine her movement with their greed.

Serbia's Materice, a mothers' day, falls on the second Sunday before which feast?

Christmas: Materice is the second Sunday before Orthodox Christmas, when children tie up their mother until she pays a ransom of sweets and small gifts.

Armenia's 7 April holiday honours motherhood together with what?

Beauty: Armenia's Day of Motherhood and Beauty falls on 7 April, the feast of the Annunciation, a month after the 8 March women's holiday it also keeps.

In which country is Mother's Day uniquely celebrated on the third Sunday of October?

It was originally held on 11 October, the old feast of the Maternity of the Virgin Mary; when Vatican II moved that feast to 1 January, Argentines kept the October habit.

Ann Reeves Jarvis's 1850s 'Mothers' Day Work Clubs' focused on what?

Public health and sanitation: the clubs taught mothers hygiene and child care to curb infant mortality, and during the Civil War nursed typhoid-stricken soldiers from both sides.

Which women's-movement founder introduced Mother's Day to Austria in 1924?

Marianne Hainisch, founder of Austria's women's movement, promoted the first Austrian Muttertag in 1924, modelled on the American day.

Mongolia celebrates a joint Mothers' and Children's Day on which date?

1 June: Mongolia marks Mothers' and Children's Day as a public holiday, combining International Children's Day with a celebration of mothers.

Bolivia's Mother's Day, 27 May, commemorates what 1812 event from its war of independence?

The Battle of La Coronilla took place in what is now Cochabamba, and the holiday was written into law in 1927.

Which flower is traditional for Mother's Day in Australia, where the day falls in autumn?

White chrysanthemum: the flower blooms in the southern autumn when the day falls, and its nickname 'mum' made it the natural Australian choice.

Which Sydney woman started Australia's Mother's Day gift tradition in 1924?

Janet Heyden of Leichhardt began the custom in 1924 by collecting gifts for the lonely, forgotten mothers she found at the Newington State Home for Women.

Norway's first Mother's Day was held on 9 February of which year?

1919: Norway's first Morsdag was held on 9 February 1919, organised by Christian groups, and the day has since been kept on the second Sunday of February.

Which country celebrates Hari Ibu, its Mother's Day, on 22 December?

President Sukarno made it official on the 25th anniversary of the 1928 Indonesian Women Congress.

Which Georgian president declared 3 March Mother's Day in 1991 to replace Women's Day?

Zviad Gamsakhurdia declared 3 March Mother's Day in 1991 to supplant the Soviet-era 8 March; Georgia later kept both dates as holidays.

Spain celebrates Día de la Madre on which day?

Portugal and Hungary also use the first Sunday of May.

Nepal's Mata Tirtha Aunsi involves a pilgrimage to ponds 6 km from which city?

Kathmandu: the Mata Tirtha ponds lie about 6 km south-west of the capital, and the name means 'mother pilgrimage new moon'.

Panama's Mother's Day on 8 December coincides with which Catholic feast?

The Immaculate Conception: Panama's 8 December Mother's Day was fixed by a 1930 law to coincide with the Marian feast, which falls nine months before the Nativity of Mary.

On which fixed date does Poland celebrate Mother's Day?

26 May: Polish Dzień Matki falls on a fixed date regardless of weekday, whereas neighbouring Czechia uses the second Sunday of May.

Which organization first celebrated Mother's Day in Hungary in 1925?

The Hungarian Red Cross Youth organised Hungary's first Mother's Day in 1925; the observance later settled on the first Sunday of May.

Sweden's first Mother's Day in 1919 was the initiative of which author?

Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg, an author and translator, launched Sweden's first Mors dag in 1919, modelled on the American holiday.

Israel's Mother's Day was set on the date of the death of which Zionist leader, in 1945?

Szold was seen as the 'mother' of the children rescued through Youth Aliyah.

Which trade group's head introduced Mother's Day to Germany in the 1920s?

The Association of German Florists: its chairman launched Muttertag in 1923, citing 'the inner conflict of our Volk and the loosening of the family'.

Which Dutch organisation introduced Mother's Day to the Netherlands as early as 1910?

The Salvation Army brought the day to the Netherlands around 1910, and Dutch florists took it up in the 1920s hoping to copy American commercial success.

Iran's Mother's Day, 20 Jumada II, marks the birthday of which figure?

Fatimah, Muhammad's daughter: Iran moved Mother's Day to her birthday, 20 Jumada II, after the 1979 revolution, so it shifts each year with the Islamic lunar calendar.

Bhutan's Mother's Day on 8 May was introduced by which national body?

The Tourism Council of Bhutan introduced Mother's Day on 8 May, the same date South Korea marks as Parents' Day.

People around which Belgian city celebrate Mother's Day on the Assumption instead of May?

Antwerp: in and around Antwerp, Mother's Day is kept on 15 August, the Assumption, which locals regard as the true, non-commercial date.

Costa Rica celebrates Mother's Day in which month, on the Assumption?

August: Costa Rica's Día de la Madre is 15 August, the Assumption, and a national public holiday.

Belarus marks its 14 October observance alongside which Orthodox feast of the Virgin?

Protection (Pokrov): Belarus set its Mother's Day in 1996 on 14 October, when the Orthodox Church keeps the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God.

Japan held its first 'Praise Mothers' meeting on 8 May of which year?

1937: on 8 May 1937 a national women's federation staged the first 'Praise Mothers' meeting, twelve years before Japan adopted the second Sunday of May in 1949.

Paraguay's Mother's Day on 15 May coincides with which national celebration?

Independence Day: Paraguay won independence on 14–15 May 1811, and Mother's Day shares 15 May in honour of Juana María de Lara, a heroine of those events.

Taiwan's Mother's Day coincides with which religious observance since 1999?

Buddha's Birthday: in 1999 Taiwan's government set the national Buddha's Birthday celebration on the second Sunday of May, the same day as Mother's Day.

Which Pacific nation makes the Monday after Mother's Day a national holiday?

Samoa: the Monday after the second Sunday in May is a national public holiday there, giving families a long weekend for church services and feasts.

Brazil's first Mother's Day was promoted in 1918 by the YMCA of which city?

Porto Alegre: the city's YMCA, the Associação Cristã de Moços, staged Brazil's first Mother's Day on 12 May 1918, fourteen years before the holiday was made official.

Nicaragua's Mother's Day date was chosen by Anastasio Somoza García as whose birthday?

Casimira Sacasa was his wife's mother.

Germany made Muttertag an official holiday in which year?

1933: the Nazi government declared Muttertag an official day of honour for German mothers, ten years after its commercial launch in 1923.

In which year did Romania first mark its official Mother's Day?

2010: Romania first marked its official Mother's Day on the first Sunday of May 2010, under Law 319/2009, which also created Father's Day a week later.

Who promoted Czechoslovakia's first Mother's Day in 1923?

Alice Masaryková, daughter of President Tomáš Masaryk and head of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, promoted the first Czechoslovak Mother's Day in 1923.

Which Philippine president moved Mother's Day to the first Monday of December in 1998?

Joseph Estrada's Proclamation No. 58 of 1998 moved Mother's Day and Father's Day to the first Monday of December; a later proclamation returned Mother's Day to May.

Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 as which of her parents' eleven children?

The ninth: Anna was the ninth of Ann and Granville Jarvis's eleven children, born on 1 May 1864.

Anna Jarvis incorporated the Mother's Day International Association in which year?

1912: Jarvis incorporated the Mother's Day International Association that year and trademarked the phrases 'second Sunday in May' and 'Mother's Day'.

Anna Jarvis's mother Ann bore between 11 and 13 children; how many survived to adulthood?

Ann Reeves Jarvis married Granville Jarvis in 1850.

Anna Jarvis protested at a convention of which trade in Philadelphia in 1923?

Candy makers: in 1923 Jarvis crashed a confectioners' convention in Philadelphia to denounce the trade's Mother's Day profiteering.

Which Notre Dame administrator called for a national Mother's Day in 1904, before Jarvis?

Frank E. Hering, a Notre Dame instructor and former football coach, urged a national day for mothers in a 1904 speech in Indianapolis, four years before Anna Jarvis's first service.

Ann Jarvis, mother of the holiday's founder, died on which date in 1905?

May 9: Ann Reeves Jarvis died on 9 May 1905 in Philadelphia, and her daughter chose the Sunday nearest that anniversary for the first memorial service in 1908.

Anna Jarvis worked in Philadelphia for what kind of company?

A life insurance company: Jarvis worked at the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company in Philadelphia, becoming its first female literary and advertising editor.

Mothering Sunday coincides with which church day, also called Refreshment Sunday?

Also called Refreshment Sunday, it offered respite from Lenten fasting.

Mothering Sunday later became a day off for which workers to visit their mother church?

They usually went with their own mothers and families.

Constance Adelaide Smith revived Mothering Sunday in 1913 in reaction to which campaign?

The American Mother's Day push: after reading of Anna Jarvis's 1913 campaign, Smith argued that England already had Mothering Sunday and published a booklet reviving it.

Which other country keeps Mother's Day on Britain's fourth Sunday of Lent?

Ireland keeps Mother's Day on Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, as the United Kingdom does.

The gold class of Nazi Germany's Mother's Cross required at least how many children?

Eight: the Mother's Cross came in bronze for four or five children, silver for six or seven and gold for eight or more, first awarded on Mother's Day, 21 May 1939.

France's Medal of the French Family for mothers of large families dates from which year?

1920: the Médaille de la Famille française was created by a decree of 26 May 1920 to honour mothers who had raised large families, eighteen years before Germany's Mother's Cross.

The Soviet title 'Mother Heroine' honoured women who raised how many children?

10 or more: the Soviet order Mother Heroine, created in 1944, went to women who bore and raised ten or more children; Russia revived the title in 2022.

Whistler's Mother, painted in 1871, is held by which museum?

Musée d'Orsay, Paris: the French state bought the painting in 1891, and it passed from the Luxembourg and the Louvre to the Orsay when that museum opened in 1986.

What is the formal title of the painting known as Whistler's Mother?

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Whistler's 1871 title stressed form over subject, and the portrait of Anna Whistler has been called a Victorian Mona Lisa.

South Korea replaced its 8 May Mother's Day with Parents' Day in which year?

1973: South Korea had marked 8 May as Mother's Day since 1956 and renamed it Parents' Day (Eobeoinal) in 1973 to honour fathers too.

Congress rejected a 1908 Mother's Day bill, joking a day for whom would follow?

Mothers-in-law: when a Mother's Day resolution reached Congress in 1908 it was rejected amid jokes that a Mother-in-law's Day would have to follow.

Anna Jarvis said she wanted Mother's Day to be a day of sentiment, not what?

Profit: 'I wanted it to be a day of sentiment, not profit,' Jarvis said as merchants turned her memorial into a sales event.

Which April games honoured the mother goddess Cybele in ancient Rome?

Megalesia: the Ludi Megalenses, held 4–10 April, celebrated the arrival of Cybele's cult stone in Rome in 204 BC with games and theatre.

The 2016 ensemble comedy Mother's Day was the final film directed by whom?

Garry Marshall directed Mother's Day (2016), starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts, and died in July 2016, making it his last film.

In Freaky Friday (2003), what causes the mother and daughter to switch bodies?

Chinese fortune cookies: a restaurant owner's mother hands Tess and Anna matching fortune cookies, and the swap lasts until they show selfless love; Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan star.

2Pac's 'Dear Mama' (1995) is dedicated to his mother, named what?

In 2009 it entered the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.

'Dear Mama' became the first solo hip-hop track inducted into what in 2009?

The National Recording Registry: the Library of Congress added 'Dear Mama' in its 2009 selections, calling it a moving tribute to mothers; the single peaked at nine on the Hot 100.

The Spice Girls' 'Mama' single was timed for Comic Relief and which March observance?

The UK's Mothers' Day: 'Mama', released in March 1997 as a Comic Relief double A-side, was timed for Mothering Sunday and became the group's fourth straight UK number one, a chart first.

Kanye West's 2005 song 'Hey Mama' pays tribute to his mother, whose first name was what?

Donda West is the mother honoured on 'Hey Mama', from Kanye's 2005 album Late Registration.

Lennon's 1970 song 'Mother' opens which album, his first solo studio LP?

Plastic Ono Band: 'Mother', with its tolling bells, opens John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970); his mother Julia was killed by a car in 1958, when he was 17.

After an elephant gives birth, roughly how long is it before she can give birth again?

At least four years: with a 22-month gestation and two or more years of nursing, elephant cows typically calve only every four to five years.

What happens to a female octopus after her eggs hatch?

She guards the clutch in her den until it hatches, then dies; the male went senescent and died soon after mating.

Which great ape has the longest interval between births, six to nine years?

Orangutan: mothers nurse their young for up to eight years and give birth only every six to nine years, the longest interval of any great ape.

Valentina Vassilyeva, an 18th-century Russian, is said to have borne how many children?

69: the wife of Feodor Vassilyev of Shuya is recorded as bearing 69 children in 27 confinements — 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Queen Victoria's nine children married royalty across the continent, earning her what nickname?

Victoria became the grandmother of Europe as her children married into royal houses across the continent, which also spread haemophilia through several of them.

Which fraternal order hosted the 1904 Indianapolis speech calling for a national Mother's Day?

Fraternal Order of Eagles: the 1904 call for a day honouring mothers came in an address by a Notre Dame instructor to the Eagles' meeting in Indianapolis.

Mitochondrial Eve is humanity's most recent common ancestor traced through which parent?

Mothers only: mitochondrial DNA passes from mother to child, so Mitochondrial Eve is the matrilineal ancestor of all living humans, dated to roughly 150,000–200,000 years ago.

The CBS sitcom Mom, about a mother and daughter in recovery, is set in which city?

Napa: the Plunketts live in Napa, California, where Christy (Anna Faris) and her mother Bonnie (Allison Janney) work through recovery.

Which two actresses played mother and daughter in Terms of Endearment (1983)?

Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger played Aurora and Emma Greenway; MacLaine won the Best Actress Oscar, and James L. Brooks adapted Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel.

Mamma Mia! (2008) was filmed mainly on which Greek island?

Skopelos: the island stood in for fictional Kalokairi, its clifftop Agios Ioannis chapel used for the wedding, with Skiathos and Pelion supplying other locations.

A 1909 Mother's Day sermon in Spokane inspired Sonora Smart Dodd to found which holiday?

Father's Day: Dodd, raised by her widowed father, heard a Mother's Day sermon in 1909 and organised the first Father's Day in Spokane on 19 June 1910.

Luxembourg celebrates Mother's Day on the second Sunday of which month?

June: Luxembourg keeps its Mammendag on the second Sunday of June, a month after most of its neighbours.

In Finland, Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May is also an official what?

Flag-flying day: Finland lists Mother's Day among its official flag days, and the president awards decorations to distinguished mothers that morning.

Slovenia celebrates its Materinski dan on which fixed date?

25 March: Slovenia's Materinski dan falls on the feast of the Annunciation, nine months before Christmas, alongside the 8 March Women's Day it also keeps.

The name chrysanthemum comes from Greek words meaning what?

The genus was described by Linnaeus in 1753.

Indonesia's Hari Ibu, 22 December, marks the opening of which 1928 gathering?

The Indonesian Women Congress: the first Kongres Perempuan Indonesia opened in Yogyakarta on 22 December 1928, and Sukarno's 1959 decree fixed Hari Ibu on its anniversary.

What did Egypt's government try to rename Mother's Day after its founder was imprisoned?

Family Day: after its founder's 1965 imprisonment the government tried to rename the holiday Family Day to erase his memory, but public protest forced it to drop the idea.

Which Mexican paper hyped the holiday Obregón’s government brought from the US in 1922?

Excélsior: the Mexico City daily and its owner Rafael Alducin promoted Mexico's first Mother's Day in 1922, with backing from Catholic and conservative groups alarmed by Yucatán's socialist feminist congress.