Arbor Day ( 植樹節 ) has been a traditional holiday in the Republic of China since 1927.

The Lodge has been in the news periodically since 2005, because the Queen often spends the first few days of her summer holiday in the lodge.

In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as an additional bank holiday since 1974, by Royal Proclamation under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

A quote from the Book of Esther, which says: " On the contrary " ( hebrew: ונהפוך הוא ) is the reason that wearing a costume has become so popular among the Jews on this holiday.

The Women's Mini Marathon has been run since 1983 on the first Monday in June, which is also a bank holiday in Ireland.

The island has significant populations of the collared dove, common swifts and several finch species especially in the vicinity of holiday developments.

The Day of German Unity on October 3 has been a German national holiday since the reunification in 1990, when the German reunification was brought out in full force.

John, by contrast, puts the Temple incident very early in Jesus ' ministry, has several trips to Jerusalem, and puts the crucifixion immediately before the Passover holiday, on the day when the lambs for the Passover meal were being sacrificed in Temple.

The Monday market day has for decades been considered as a holiday in the town.

A holiday does not necessarily exclude doing normal work: the relatively minor Jewish holiday of Chanukah has been described as a " working holiday " and those who celebrate a holiday such as Diwali may have to work a normal schedule in countries where it is not a public holiday.

A Viking longship is burnt during Edinburgh's annual Hogmanay celebrations ( though Edinburgh has no historical connection with the Norse invaders ). When Ne ' erday falls on a Sunday, 3 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Saturday, both 3 and 4 January will be public holidays in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Friday, 4 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland.

Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.

* The Torah reading on Shabbat has more sections of parshiot ( Torah readings ) than on Yom Kippur, the most of any Jewish holiday.

The first day of each month, as well as the thirtieth day of the preceding month, if it has thirty days, is a minor holiday or observance known as Rosh Chodesh ( lit., " head of the month ").

His favorite holiday place to do this was in Cadenabbia, Italy, in a rented villa overlooking Lake Como, which has since been acquired as a conference centre by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the political foundation established by Adenauers political party Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

The holiday has also spread to Canada, and is celebrated by Black Canadians in a similar fashion as in the United States.

In Have His Carcase, he finds Harriet is not in London, but learns from a reporter that she has discovered a corpse while on a walking holiday on England's coast.

Since then, Labour Day has been not only a public holiday but also a day of mass community involvement around the country.

Since 2006 it has been an official bank holiday.

Many old retired buses have also been converted into mobile holiday homes and campers.

Many of these barges have been renovated and are now used as luxury Hotel Barges carrying holiday makers along the same canals they once carried grain or coal.

In March 1967 Orton and Halliwell had intended another extended holiday in Libya, but they returned home after one day because the only hotel accommodation they could find was a boat that had been converted into a hotel / nightclub.

His assistant, Charles Chamberland ( of French origin ), had been instructed to inoculate the chickens after Pasteur went on holiday.

It has been declared an official national holiday in 2010

The couple's relationship with their neighbours begins badly after Victor mistakenly believes Patrick and Pippa are distant relations rather than the next-door neighbours who had been leaving for a lengthy holiday the day that Victor and Margaret moved in.

It had also been an unofficial international holiday before that.

On 4 June 1829, newly arriving British colonists had their first view of the mainland, and Western Australia's Foundation Day has since been recognised by a public holiday on the first Monday in June each year.

The castle has been the equivalent of a holiday residence for the Giudichessa Eleanor of Arborea, and was object of alternate possession by the Giudicato d ' Arborea and the Aragon, during the long fight before the Spanish conquest.

Ireland was brought to a standstill on the day, because the government had ordered schools, offices, and stores across the country closed because a public holiday as part of the national day of mourning had been declared.

North American almanacs of the late 18th and early 19th century give no indication that Halloween was recognized as a holiday.

May 1, called May Day or Labour Day, is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.

She then began a campaign to make " Mother's Day " a recognized holiday in the United States.

Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and is recognized as a state holiday or state holiday observance in 41 states of the United States.

As of June 2012, 41 states and the District of Columbia have recognized Juneteenth as either a state holiday or state holiday observance ; these are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

This date has been recognized as a state holiday in Slovenia since 2005.

The City Council then recognized the day as an official holiday with a resolution honoring Dr. King, read by then Mayor Joaquin Gonzales.

With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, Loyalty day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958.

In the United States, a federal holiday is a public holiday recognized by the United States federal government.

On May 12, 1907, two years after her mother's death, Anna held a memorial to her mother and thereafter embarked upon a campaign to make " Mother's Day " a recognized holiday.

The winner of this contest would wear the wreath as his crown, and would be recognized as the May Day King for the rest of the holiday.

Prominent Catholic and Orthodox countries in which Assumption day is an important festival but is not recognized by the state as a public holiday include Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines and Russia.

However, due to the many liturgical differences between the ordinary, day-to-day services and holiday services, the need for a specialized variation of the siddur was recognized by some of the earliest rabbinic authorities, and consequently, the first mahzorim were written incorporating these liturgical variations and additions.

The Druze annual pilgrimage continues to be held and was officially recognized as a religious holiday by the Israel in 1954.

Although September 2 is the designated V-J Day in the entire United States, the event is recognized as an official holiday only in the U. S. state of Rhode Island, where the holiday's official name is " Victory Day ", and it is observed on the second Monday of August.

Angam Day is a holiday recognized in the Republic of Nauru.

) Every year Transfer Day is recognized as a holiday, to celebrate the acquisition of the islands by the United States in 1917.

It is recognized as a distinctly ( if not quite exclusively ) Serbian custom, and today it is quite common for nonobservant Christians or even atheists to celebrate it in one form or another as a hereditary family holiday and a mark of ethnocultural identification.

The song interweaves an account from his youth of star-crossed lovers with the locally recognized holiday Casimir Pulaski Day as indicated by the lyric, "... in the morning, in the winter shade, on the first of March, on the holiday ..."

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.