Holidays Michelle Zheng

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  1. 2. day- a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan.
  2. 4. Nicholas Day- also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, observed on 5 December or on 6 December in Western Christian countries, and on 19 December in Eastern Christian countries using the old church Calendar.
  3. 5. Lucia’s Day-called the Feast of Saint Lucy, is a Christian feast day observed on 13 December.Las Posadas - It is celebrated chiefly in Latin America, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Spain, and by Hispanics in the United States.
  4. 7. eve-he evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.
  5. 8. Day - a holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide. Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor
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  1. 1. Day-an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. Kwanzaa- an annual celebration of African-American culture.
  2. 3. day- a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans of the United States Armed Forces.
  3. 6. -known as the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.