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