* Only month without a US holiday

Such preparations are traditionally served with roast turkey, as a staple of English Christmas dinners, and the Canadian and US holiday Thanksgiving.

* Kamehameha Day, on June 11, is a state holiday in Hawaii, US, honoring the first ruler of the one-time kingdom.

Maulana Karenga of the US Organization created Kwanzaa in 1966 as the first specifically African American holiday.

* Labor Day, a federal holiday in the US

The album also included the controversial song and video " By the Time I Get to Arizona ," which chronicled the black community's frustration that some US states did not recognize Martin Luther King Jr .' s birthday as a national holiday.

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the US ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";

There were other persons in the US who independently thought of " Father's Day ", but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd, who was the driving force behind its establishment.

It was released during the 2006 holiday season, retailing at US $ 39. 99.

Bliss and his family attended the performance and then stayed on in the US for a holiday.

She is best known for her 1960 hit " I'm Sorry ", and 1958's " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree ", a US holiday standard for more than 50 years.

In addition, it was looking to expand into new holiday markets in the US and the Caribbean.

On 28 November 2008, Harney defended her use of expenses while on a FÁS trip to the US, saying that she was " not on holiday ", had not used public taxes for her own personal grooming, said the use of the government jet for the trip was made by the Taoiseach, and had followed advice in claiming her expenses.

From April 1968, all non-scheduled services, i. e. primarily the rapidly growing number of IT holiday flights that several UK independent airlines as well as a number of US supplemental carriers had mainly operated from Tempelhof since the early 1960s under contract to West Berlin's leading package tour operators, were concentrated at Tegel.

* In 2010 a CNN story featuring Jerry Stiller detailed the increasing popularity of the holiday, including US Representative Eric Cantor's Festivus fundraiser.

A holiday staple, many television stations in the US showed this film near Thanksgiving time each year during the 1960s and 1970s.

Her first album released on the label, The First Lady ( 2005 ) became her highest-charting album then, reaching the top of the US Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart, while the holiday album A Faithful Christmas, released the same year, would became her last release on the album as the company was bought during 2007.

Five Red Herrings, a whodunit by Dorothy L. Sayers published in the US as Suspicious Characters, sees Lord Peter Wimsey, on holiday in Kirkcudbright, investigating the death of an artist living in Gatehouse of Fleet ; the book contains some remarkable descriptions of the countryside.

P-Orridge claimed initially that he was deported, although later admitted that he decided not to return to England from Kathmandu, where he and his family had been on holiday after selling an Austin Osman Spare painting to Chris Stein from Blondie for $ 10, 000 US dollars which financed the trip.

The US outbound holiday market is sensitive in the short term, but possibly one of the most surprising results from the September 11, 2001 attacks was that by February 2002 it had bounced back for overseas travel, especially to destinations like New Zealand.

Soon after the VFT project ended, he went for a holiday in the US and took with him the address of an old colleague in radiophysics – only to find that he had recently died.

Originally scheduled for a September 13, 2005 release in North America and a September 14, 2005 release in Japan, Square Enix changed the US release date to a tentative November 2005 date, a move many felt was an attempt on the part of the company to capitalise on the lucrative holiday market, although the website The Digital Bits stated that the delays were due to the extra time required to complete the bonus supplements on the special edition DVD.

Christmas lights ( also called twinkle lights, holiday lights, and mini lights in the US and fairy lights in the UK ), that are strands of electric lights used to decorate homes, public / commercial buildings and Christmas trees during the Christmas season are amongst the most recognized form of Christmas lighting.

With encouraging sales over the holiday season, Nintendo added Los Angeles as a test market in February 1986, followed by Chicago and San Francisco, progressively spreading out into the top 12 US markets, finally going nationwide in September.

With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

About 28 of the former US military bases in Vietnam where the herbicides were stored and loaded onto airplanes may still have high level of dioxins in the soil, posing a health threat to the surrounding communities.

Other than liver cancer, these are the same conditions the US Veteran's Administration has determined may be associated with exposure to Agent Orange / dioxin, and are on the list of conditions eligible for compensation and treatment .< ref name =" va-03-2010 ">

Some of these products may have been exported and used in bubble tea shops in the US and around the world.

For example, in the mid-Atlantic US, the X-Acto name is likelier to evoke only a specific subset of these knives ( the pencil-shaped hobby knife ), which may explain why the " utility knife " name, with its specificity, is more common there for the larger type.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

Craig Etcheson agreed that it was " untenable " to assert that US intervention caused the Khmer Rouge victory while acknowledging that it may have played a small role in boosting recruitment for the insurgents.

Some of the framers of the US Constitution may have conceived of the president as being an elected constitutional monarch, as the term was understood in their time, following Montesquieu's account of the separation of powers.

To some US observers these networks may appear to operate as commuter / metro hybrids, however, they are simply the result of full utilisation of the available track capacity in the core of the suburban rail network, this being fed from multiple feeder lines.

Furthermore, PCCs may not be as legally restricted as comparable handguns, depending on the jurisdiction ( for example, you need only be 18 in the US to purchase a rifle, but you must be at least 21 to purchase a handgun ).

In the city, BUS US 131 is named Mitchell Street, after George Mitchell, but may be referred to as main street.

Notably since US courts are reluctant to take up class actions brought on behalf of injured parties not residing in the US who have suffered damages due to acts or omissions committed outside the US, it may be interesting to combine a US class action and a Dutch collective action to be able come to a settlement that covers plaintiffs worldwide.

* 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.

In industry, other larger or smaller units of mass and or volume are often more practical and US customary units may be used.

* Frequency: in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Latin America and in the US and Canada, and products may NOT be used in the UK or Ireland as they cause and suffer from interference with the UK and Ireland cellular networks with illegal use of such products being prohibited by UK agencies, and UK and Ireland DECT and products may NOT be used in the US and Canada as they cause and suffer from interference with US and Canada cellular networks and aircraft and for that reason is deemed illegal to use by US and Canadian agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission and Industry Canada.

Finally, in the 2004 edition of the Factbook, the name of the entry was changed back to Macedonia, following a November 2004 US decision to refer to the country using this name, even though the official appelation of the republic within the UN remains FYROM.

Similarly, in US slang, " meat-wagon " is used to refer to an ambulance

These reports are made available to US criminal investigators, as well as other FIU ’ s around the globe, and FinCEN will conduct computer assisted analyses of these reports to determine trends and refer investigations.

Since the launch of the third generation MX-5, Mazda consolidated worldwide marketing using the MX-5 name, though enthusiasts in the US still refer to it as Miata, a name that means " reward " in Old High German, and the vehicle in 2012 was still marketed by Mazda in the US as the MX-5 Miata.

In 20th century US popular music, the term " vocal quartet " is used to refer to ensembles of four singers, usually of the same sex.

During the US Civil War, the term " torpedo " was also used to refer to various types of bombs and boobytraps.

In the US, the recurrent ( reading curricula ) controversy about the vocabulary of the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1885 ), by Mark Twain — American literature ( usually ) taught in US schools – about the slave South, risks censorship because of 215 ( counted ) occurrences of the word nigger, most refer to Jim, Huckleberry's escaped-slave raft-mate.

Outside the US it is used to refer to people from the US in general.

In 1758, British General James Wolfe made the earliest recorded use of the word Yankee to refer to people from what was to become the US, referring to the New England soldiers under his command as Yankees: " I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance.

In Spain, however, just as in Great Britain or other English-speaking areas, the term ( yanqui in Spanish spelling ) is simply used to refer to someone from the US, whether colloquially, playfully or derogatively, with no particular emphasis on the latter use.

In Finland, the word jenkki ( yank ) is sometimes used to refer to any US citizen, and with the same group of people Jenkkilä ( Yankeeland ) refers to the US itself.

In Polish, the word jankes can refer to any US citizen, has little pejorative connotation if at all, and its use is somewhat obscure ( it is mainly used to translate the English word Yankee in a less formal context, e. g. in a movie about the American Civil War ).

In Australia, grilling can refer to cooking food directly under a source of direct heat or with heat from below, as in the US.

In the US, networks that compete with Fox refer to American Idol as the Death Star due to its destructive effects on their schedules and ratings.

In the US, however, the term is most commonly employed to refer to registered nurses who have completed specialized education and training in anesthesia to become certified registered nurse anesthetists ( CRNAs ).

While the term was used in the early 1960s and 70s in the US to refer to value-added resellers, OEM is currently defined by IBM to refer to " a manufacturer of equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer ".

The latter term is also sometimes used by Washington residents to refer to the Washington section of the Cascades in addition to North Cascades, the more usual US term, as in North Cascades National Park.

The antiquated English term of Testatrix was used to refer to a female and is still in use in the US.

In the US, governmental entities refer to the process as continuity of operations planning ( COOP ).