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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.

Based on the English words holy and day, holidays originally represented special days of the Christian Church calendar. The word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day, or even non-special day on which school and/or offices are closed such as Sunday.

In late 20th century, Saturday has become increasingly considered holiday as well as Sunday.

In Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom; a holiday is also a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation (e.g. "I'm going on holiday to Majorca next week."), like an American "vacation".

Table of contents
1 Public Holiday
2 Consecutive holidays
3 Religious holidays
4 National holidays
5 Farmy Holiday
6 Others
7 Humorous, Entertaining Holidays
8 Related Topics
9 External links

Public Holiday

A public holiday or legal holiday is a holiday endorsed by the state. Public holidays can be either religious, in which case they reflect the dominant religion in a country, or secular, in which case they are usually political or historical in character.

Consecutive holidays

Consecutive holidays are a string of holidays taken together without working days in between. They tend to be considered a good chance to take short trips, for example. In late 1990s, the Japanese government passed a law that increases the likelihood of consecutive holidays by moving holidays fixed on certain day to a relative position in a month such as the second Monday. A well-known consecutive holiday in Japan is golden-week, roughly lasting a whole week. Similar phenomenon appears in Poland during holidays of 1st and 3rd of May, when taking few days of leaves can result in even 9 days long holidays. This is called The Picnic or (Majówka).

The US Congress changed the observance of Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, and Washington's Birthday from fixed dates to certain Monday's in 1968 (effective 1971). Several states had passed similar laws earlier.

Religious holidays

Jewish holidays

Main article: Jewish holidays

Christian holidays

See liturgical year for a detailed list.

Islamic/Muslim holidays

Hindu holidays

National holidays

Albania

Australia

For more information see Australian public holidays.

Belgium

See the list at Public holidays in Belgium for the names of the holidays in Flemish and Walloon.

Canada

See list at List of Public Holidays in Canada

China

Traditional holidays:

People's Republic of China: Republic of China (Taiwan): See also:

Cyprus

  • 1st January - First Day of January
  • 10th March - Green Monday
  • 25th March - Greek Independence Day
  • 1st April - Cyprus National Day
  • 25th April - Good Friday
  • 28th April - After Easter
  • 29th April - After Easter
  • 1st May - Labour Day
  • 16th June - Holy Spirit
  • 15th August - Assumption Day
  • 1st October - Cyprus Independence Day
  • 28th October - Greek National Day
  • 25th December - Christmas Day
  • 26th December - After Christmas Day

Denmark

See Holidays in Denmark.

Finland

See Holidays in Finland

France

Germany

See Holidays in Germany.

India

See Holidays in India.

Ireland

See Public Holidays in the Republic of Ireland.

Italy

Japan

See Japanese Holidays.

Latvia

See Holidays in Latvia.

Malaysia

Mexico

The Netherlands

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Party411
Food, decorating ideas and themes for major holidays.
http://www.party411.com/holidays.html

GMA Holiday Recipes from WCHS-TV8
Holiday entertaining recipes from Good Morning America.
http://www.wchstv.com:80/gmarecipes/holindex.html

Purim Recipes
Small collection from Mimi's Cyber Kitchen.
http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/holidays/purim/recipes.htm

Chocolate Heaven for Purim
Five recipes for chocolate sweets, exchanged during Purim.
http://www.ou.org/publications/ja/5758/slice.htm

Special Occasion
Vegetarian and vegan Christmas and Ramadan recipes from Amanda's Kitchen Recipe Archive.
http://www.colba.net/~ajstrong/Special.htm

Purim Recipes
Recipes for Hamantaschen, Kreplach, and other easy and gourmet menus served at Purim.
http://www.chabadonline.com/scripts/tgij/paper/indexPurim.asp?ColumnID=239&Cat=Recipes

Holiday Recipes
Information, crafts and recipes for Easter, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and other major holidays.
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/holidays.html

Razzle Dazzle Recipes
Holiday cooking and recipes. Menu plans are available also.
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com

Holiday Recipe Index
Holiday recipes listed by category for a variety of occasions. From CooksRecipes.com.
http://cooksrecipes.com/category/holiday.html

Theme Meals and Holidays
Includes recipes for a medieval dinner, a cajun meal, Christmas and Valentines dinners, and Halloween treats.
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/inthekitchen-theme.html

MarthaStewart.com
Decoration and holiday solutions discussed.
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=learn-cat&id=cat244&navLevel=2&navHistory=cat2

Holiday Recipes
Including Christmas and Jewish holiday recipes.
http://www.meals.com/HolidayRecipes.asp

Bella's Holiday and Seasonal Recipe Collection
Holiday and seasonal recipes are featured year-round.
http://holidayandseasonalcooking.bellaonline.com

Holiday Recipes Posted on All Easy Cooking Message Board
Includes turkey, stuffing, pie, and tree ornament recipes.
http://www.aliciasrecipes.com/holiday_recipes_2002.htm

Holiday And Special Occasion
Collection of holiday and special occasion recipes from AbsolutelyCooking.com.
http://www.absolutelycooking.com/holiday-and-special-occasion/index-1.html

Fruit Group
Recipe for Turkey-Noodle Soup Mix as part of an article on winter, Christmas presents and how to increase fruit intake. Also recipe for apple and peanut butter and a few tips to use fruit for snacks.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/foodforthought/0212.html

Kraft Foods
A searchable index of holiday recipes and special occasions.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/html/subsearch/holiday.html

Coffeerooms
Message boards for women to discuss holiday issues. Mainly cooking and food related.
http://www.coffeerooms.com/features/holidays/index.html

Holiday Recipes.com
Offers a database of recipes, as well as the opportunity for you to submit your own recipes, request recipes, and read helpful cooking tips.
http://holidayrecipe.com

A Holiday Cookbook
Recipes from net-surfers all over the world.
http://www.usacitylink.com/xmas/cookbook.html

Kitchen Talk
Kitchen Talk provides recipes for holidays, as well as tips and tidbits to help the novice and professional cook.
http://www.kitchentalk.com

The Virtual Caterer
Miss TVC provides hints, ideas and recipes for home entertaining-dinner parties, barbeques, pool parties, holiday celebrations.
http://www.geocities.com/misstvc/

Holiday Pecans with a Purpose
Recipes for toasted pecans, cheese pecan crispies, and Southern pecan pie.
http://www.glenwood.org/pecan_recipes.htm

Party Planning from Reader's Digest
Provides information, and recipes, for planning the various holiday festivities.
http://christmas.readersdigest.com/recipes_party/

Let's Talk About Food
Getting into the mood for all those holiday feasts with recipes from those wonderful Talk Show chefs.
http://talkshows.about.com/library/weekly/aa112398.htm

Holiday Recipes from Recipezaar
Browse holiday recipes by holiday, course, cuisine, main ingredient, preparation style. Each with complete nutritional information.
http://www.recipezaar.com/browse/index.zsp?path=0110A0

fat gOOse
A search engine to locate holiday recipes.
http://fatgoose.hypermart.net/

Festive Food
Guide to some of the most mouth watering recipes on Halloweens day, Easters, Christmas, St. Patriks Day, and Thanksgiving.
http://www.123christians.com/christians/recipes/index.html

Holiday Recipes from RecipeSource.com
Large collection of recipes for a variety of holidays.
http://www.recipesource.com/holiday/

Bastille Day
Drinks with a French flair for July 14th celebrations, featuring amongst others a Champagne based Marie Antoinette, a Parisian martini, and a brandy based French Revolution.
http://www.nextdrink.com/bastille.asp

Holiday Cook
Holiday recipes, party and dinner suggestions, menus, and bulletin board.
http://www.holidaycook.com/

Holiday Menus
Menu ideas for different types of gatherings - from a holiday brunch to an eclectic potluck to a traditional feast.
http://chefmom.com/holidaymenus/

Festivals Recipes
Offers Onam and Vishu festival recipes.
http://www.malayalifestivals.com/malayalifestivals/recipes/index.html

Cook's Guide to Spring Holidays
iVillage Food channel presents recipes and features. Includes information on menus and recipes Easter, Passover, and Mothers Day.
http://www.ivillage.com/food/features/foodspringguide/articles/0,5370,65558,00.html

Holiday
Small collection of recipes for special occasions.
http://www.greatrecipesonline.com/dir/Holiday/

Quick and Easy Holiday Leftover Recipes
Recipes include ham, turkey and chicken casseroles, enchiladas, soups, and salads.
http://www.aliciasrecipes.com/leftover_turkey_recipes.htm

Baisakhi Delights
Offers wide range of festival recipes from 123baisakhi.com.
http://www.123baisakhi.com/baisakhi/delights/index.html

Recipes from Blessingsonthenet
Indian recipes for the various festivals.
http://www.blessingsonthenet.com/temple/newshowrecipie.asp

Hamantashen Cookies
Recipe for the filled, traditional Purim pastry.
http://biblicalholidays.com/purim_recipes.htm

Hamantaschen
Recipe for the Purim filled pastry.
http://www.everythingjewish.com/Purim/Purim_Recipes.htm


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