The world celebrates Wednesday, March 19, Father's Day , in honour of all breeders , in particular, and the strengthening of family ties and respect for parents in general.
The date has originated in ancient Babylon more than four thousand years, when a young man named Elmesu molded in clay the first card that wished luck, health and long life to his father. According to the history, in 1909 , in Washington , United States, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, the daughter of a war veteran, after she heard a sermon dedicated to the mothers had the idea of celebrating the Father 's Day
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