Holidays Around The World

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  1. 2. Celebration ending Ramadan where Muslims often donate to charity
  2. 5. Brazil celebrates this holiday the week before Lent with parades, costumes, and dancing.
  3. 7. Celebrated in Mexico by placing offerings like food and marigolds on an altar
  4. 8. The Hindu festival of lights where people eat dishes like samosas
  5. 12. Celebrated with festivities in China with parades, dances, and the color red
  6. 13. This holiday in the US marks the day when enslaved people learned on their freedom in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclomation.
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  1. 1. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar where Muslims abstain from food and drink
  2. 3. The Hindu "festival of colors," celebrated with colorful and energetic parties.
  3. 4. A holiday originated in Ireland where people light bonfires, wear costumes, and go door to door in hopes of getting candy
  4. 6. On this holiday in Japan, someone might give you "honmei choco" which means true love chocolate
  5. 9. Celebrated mainly in Sweden on the Summer Solstice with dancing and wearing flower crowns
  6. 10. Celebrated in the US by dyeing eggs
  7. 11. In Australia, this holiday is celebrated in Summertime. Australians sometimes decorate a bush instead of a tree