Cmdr. Warren Taylor, USN., and Mrs. Taylor, of E. Greenwich, R. I., will have with them for the Easter holidays the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Walbridge, of Drexel Hill.

She was thinking of Paul a few weeks ago, in the Easter holidays, with her at one of those awful Friday Evening Dancing Class parties her mother had made her attend.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

The wearing of costumes has become an important part of such holidays and festivals as Mardi Gras and Halloween ( see Halloween costume for more information ), and ( to a lesser extent ) people may also wear costumes in conjunction with other holidays, such as Christmas and Easter.

The Gregorian calculation of Easter was based on a method devised by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius ( or Lilio ) for adjusting the epacts of the moon, and has been adopted by almost all Western Christians and by Western countries who celebrate national holidays at Easter.

The UK and Australia also refer to School holidays ( typically Christmas, Easter, and Summer ) for the periods between School terms when children are not required to go to school, and Half-term holidays for the short break ( usually one week ) part-way through each School term.

Christian holidays are defined as part of the liturgical year, the chief ones being Easter and Christmas.

As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day.

The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time.

Many countries can have public holidays around Easter weekend.

Some Humanists celebrate official religion-based public holidays, such as Christmas or Easter, but as secular holidays rather than religious ones.

Heyerdahl died on April 18, 2002, in Colla Micheri in Italy where he had gone to spend the Easter holidays with some of his closest family members.

Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the limited-edition creche collections ( featuring such characters as the three kings, baby Jesus, and assorted barnyard animals ) found around Christmas, and the huge ones found at Easter ( extremely popular in Italy ).

Even for Easter, however, there is no agreement among the various Christian traditions regarding the date or manner of the observance, less for Christmas, Pentecost, or various other holidays.

Despite the principles of laïcité and the separation of church from state, public and school holidays in France generally follow the Roman Catholic religious calendar ( including Easter, Christmas, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Assumption of Mary, All Saints Day, etc .).

However, the celebration of Christmas and Easter were important holidays among the South Slavs in Midvale, as elsewhere.

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

Jesus ' death and resurrection are commemorated by Christians in all worship services, with special emphasis during Holy Week which includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

There are only 14 different calendars when Easter Sunday is not involved.

However, when Easter Sunday is included, there are 70 different calendars ( two for each date of Easter ).

Easter Island and Juan Fernández Archipelago, including Robinson Crusoe Island, are also major attractions.

Easter eggs are special eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or springtime.

Easter eggs are common during Eastertide as they symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus.

In Hungary, eggs are used sliced in potato casseroles around the Easter period.

In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross, and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ — the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead.

Easter eggs are blessed by the priest at the end of the Paschal Vigil ( which is equivalent to Holy Saturday ), and distributed to the faithful.

Each household also brings an Easter basket to church, filled not only with Easter eggs but also with other Paschal foods such as paskha, kulich or Easter breads, and these are blessed by the priest as well.

Easter eggs are a widely popular symbol of new life in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and other Central European countries ' folk traditions.

An Easter egg hunt is a common festive activity, where eggs are hidden outdoors ( or indoors if in bad weather ) for children to run around and find.

Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany.

The eggs are hidden in a similar tradition to the American Easter egg hunt and when found the children ( and adults ) break them over each other's heads.

Beeping Easter eggs are Easter eggs that emit various clicks and noises so that the visually impaired children can easily hunt for Easter eggs.

* Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest ; celebrated 40 days after Easter ( Christianity ), and its related observances

Since the focus of his book was calculation, Bede gave instructions for computing the date of Easter and the related time of the Easter Full Moon, for calculating the motion of the Sun and Moon through the zodiac, and for many other calculations related to the calendar.

In many languages, the words for " Easter " and " Passover " are etymologically related or homonymous.

The reported expulsion of Ionan monks and clergy by Nechtan in 717 may have been related to the controversy over the dating of Easter, and the manner of tonsure, where Nechtan appears to have supported the Roman usages, but may equally have been intended to increase royal power over the church.

The city is renowned for its Easter related Holy Week activities and traditions, culminating between Good Friday and Holy Saturday in the Processione dei Misteri di Trapani, colloquially simply the Misteri di Trapani ( in English the Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani or the Mysteries of Trapani ), a day long passion procession organized and sponsored by the city's guilds, featuring twenty floats of lifelike wood, canvas and glue sculptures, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.

Peck was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917, through his Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe.

They also worked in California and Chile ( see Easter Island and Rapanui people as related subjects ).

Like in all other Romance languages, the basic Romanian words related to Christianity are inherited from Latin, such as God (" Dumnezeu " < Domine Deus ), church (" biserică " < basilica ), cross (" cruce " < crux ,-cis ), angel (" înger " < angelus ), saint ( regional: " sân ( t )" < sanctus ), Christmas (" Crăciun " < creatio ,-onis ), Christian (" creştin " < christianus ), Easter (" paşte " < paschae ), sin (" păcat " < peccatum ), to baptize (" a boteza " < batizare ), priest (" preot " < presbiterum ), to pray (" a ruga " < rogare ), faith ( " credinţă " < credentia ), and so on.

This ceremony being ended, the young girls who had attained the ceremony were baking a special cake called " ghismán " or " ghizman "( from Ghetsemane, as this ritual was often related to the Easter period ) which was shared with the rest of the children.

Many traditions about witches related to specific days of the year, especially the eves of certain Christian holidays and saint's days ; witches were also said to be very powerful during Lent, which is, in a sense, the eve of Easter.

Many of the differences related to disputes over the dating of Easter and the cut of the monastic tonsure, which were markedly and notoriously different in the local churches from those in Rome.

All words related to Christianity are Armenian: terter ( priest, instead of Persian kešiš ), zam ( church, instead of Persian kilse ), knunk ( christening, instead of Persian ghosl ta ’ mid ), zatik ( Easter, instead of Persian fesh ), pas ( Lent, instead of Persian ruze ) etc.

This rather tenuous connection created a whole new set of related words, including aurum meaning " gold " ( hence the elemental symbol Au ), the English word aureole from the diminutive of " a golden crown ," meaning " radiant energy " or " halo ," and the Germanic goddess Eastre whose feast was celebrated at the Spring equinox and therefore gives us " Easter ".

To raise money and increase awareness of conservation efforts, bilby-shaped chocolates and related merchandise are sold within many stores throughout Australia as an alternative to Easter bunnies.

He composed it for Easter, probably in 1707, and it is likely related to his move from Arnstadt to Mühlhausen.

Nechtan was convinced by Ceolfrid, and the expulsion of clergy associated with Iona in 717 may be related to the controversy over Easter and the manner of tonsures ; equally it may have been entirely unrelated.

The Dumb Bunnies are preparing for Easter ( which appears to be more related to Christmas ) and set up the decorations ( including putting an " Easter Tree " upside down ).