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A happy holiday and blessed new year filled with joy and contentment. Peace be with your spirit on this night as you rejoice in the gift of the love of Christ.
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March Daily Holidays and Observances. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lover's Day, World Compliment Day, National Pig Day March 2: Dr. Seuss's Birthday, National Read Across America Day, Old Stuff ...
Other important holidays were the feasts of St Patrick (Gwyl Badric) on 17 March; St. Quiricus (Gwyl Giric) on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh Gwyl Ieuan y Moch – St. John of the Swine – as it was the day the pigs were turned out into the woods to forage through the winter [2]) on 29 August; St Michael (Gwyl ...
One of the most memorable images of the Christmas truce during World War I was the games of football played between the opposing sides on Christmas Day 1914. [ 190 ] More recently, in the United States, both NFL and NBA have held fixtures on Christmas Day.
Another example of a major secular holiday is the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated across East Asia and South East Asia. Many other days are marked to celebrate events or people, but are not strictly holidays as time off work is rarely given; examples include Arbor Day (originally U.S.), Labor Day (celebrated sometimes under different names ...
While most people know that the life of activist and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., is commemorated with a federal holiday on Jan. 15, it's not the only observance in January.
Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer. (Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer.) The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) advocated returning to the original date. The VFW stated in 2002: [68]