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Holiday
A holiday is day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity.

Religious Holidays
A list of the most well known religious holidays

Secular Holidays
Days marked to celebrate events or people, that are not strictly holidays as time off work is rarely given.

Holiday Stories
Stories and poems for the holidays and seasons of the year

Information about the most common holidays and celebrations, and their place in tradition, religion and history

New Year's Day
New Year's Day is the first day of the year, in the Gregorian calendar. In modern times, it is January 1. In most countries, it is a holiday. 

Valentine's Day
Information about Valentine's Day and its symbols, including cupids, cherubs and love-hearts.

Easter
The Christian celebration of Easter is a 'moveable feast', in that its date changes every year.  This means that all of the days and dates calculated in relation to Easter will change every year.  A Calendar of the Easter related dates & seasons follows, with links to information about each holy day.

Mother's Day
Mother's Day
is a holiday that commemorates mothers that is celebrated in many countries around the world, generally in the month of May. Mothers often receive gifts on this day. 

Independence Day
Celebrates American Declaration of Independence, usually called the Fourth of July.

Halloween
Celebrate Halloween, the most magical night of the year, when the spirits are abroad along with myriads of trick-or-treaters.  Time to decorate your home for a Halloween party and decorate your yard to spook your visitors!

Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest.

Christmas
The Christmas holiday season is the season of  Christian holy days related to the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. An enormous number of customs surround Christmas, and vary from country to country. In most Western countries, Christmas celebrations have both religious and secular aspects.  Since Christmas has become associated with the Northern Hemisphere winter, motifs of this season are prominent in Christmas decorations and in the Santa Claus myth. 

 


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