The day before Election Day, to which we are entitled as a legal holiday, we were informed to report to our respective polls to work as `` workers of the party ''.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '', `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '', `` a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and invention ''.

He followed this with the conquest of Minorca-until then, an autonomous Muslim state ( Manûrqa ) under the Kingdom of Majorca-on 17 January 1287, the anniversary of which now serves as Minorca's national holiday.

Arbor Day ( from the Latin arbor, meaning tree ) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees.

The Jewish holiday Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees, is on the 15th day of the month of Shvat, which usually falls in January or February.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

Boxing Day is a secular holiday that is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day, which is also St. Stephen's Day, a religious holiday.

In the UK, where Boxing Day is a bank holiday, if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, a substitute bank holiday is given on the following Monday, but if 26 December falls on a Sunday – which means that Christmas Day, another holiday, fell on a Saturday – then the Statutory Holiday for Christmas is moved to Monday 27 December and the Statutory Holiday for Boxing Day is moved to Tuesday 28 December.

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

Under the federal Holidays Act, Canada Day is observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case July 2 is the statutory holiday, although celebratory events generally take place on July 1 even though it is not the legal holiday.

His bill was passed quickly by the House of Commons but was stalled by the Senate, which returned the bill to the Commons with the recommendation that the holiday be renamed The National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.

* The name can be broken down into, " they rested on the twenty-fifth ", referring to the fact that the Jews ceased fighting on the 25th day of Kislev, the day on which the holiday begins.

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.

In Egypt, it's a tradition to decorate boiled eggs during Sham el-Nessim holiday, which falls every year after the Eastern Christian Easter.

In 1872, the Meiji government proclaimed 11 February 660 BC, in the Gregorian calendar the foundation day of Japan, which was then commemorated as the holiday Kigensetsu (" Era Day ") until 1948.

Emperor Wilhelm I declined this: " This was also the day of the first Prussian coronation of the king, which should not fall into the shadow of a united German holiday.

* Haman ( Bible ), appears in the Book of Esther and is the main antagonist in the Jewish holiday of Purim

In the latest instance of the dream prior to the holiday, Saskia explains that another golden egg, containing another person, appears, and the collision of the two eggs would signify the end of something.

Whenever Minderbinder appears in one of his cities, an impromptu holiday with parades forming around him is declared.

Wagg appears four times in The Calculus Affair, inviting himself inside Marlinspike Hall, interfering with a critical radio transmission, repeatedly interrupting Haddock's phone call to Nestor, and moving into the Marlinspike Hall with his family for a holiday while Tintin, Haddock, and Calculus are gone.

* Although Chrismukkah appears to be Seth's favorite holiday throughout the series, his favorite holiday is actually Thanksgiving, which he states in the 11th episode of the first season, The Homecoming.

It appears her favorite holiday is Christmas where she is always in a rather happy and festive mood and, as Martin says in disbelief, it looks like " M. O. M.

When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend, Michael ( Ian Hendry ), Carol appears distracted at work, refuses to leave her apartment, leaves a raw, skinned rabbit out to rot, and sees hallucinations, first of the walls cracking, then hands reaching out to grab and attack her, and repeated nightmares or hallucinations of a man breaking into her bedroom and raping her.

Marks ' holiday standard " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " appears as instrumental background music when Rudolph first arrives at the Reindeer Games and meets Fireball.

He appears in " Hogfather ", where, having been created mere hours ago, he decides to drop his duties as the Oh God of Hangovers-aided by a hangover cure created by Unseen University-and become holiday relief for other gods.

Zoë Ball now appears to be Bruce's regular stand-in, having covered the show during his holiday in April 2009, when Bruce was in Moscow for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and again in August 2009.

The name of the holiday appears in the medieval dictionary Divan-i Lughat-it-Turk by Mahmud Kashgari, written in the 1070s.

This, despite the fact that Henry appears barely tolerant of Bunny and that Bunny is unable to afford such a lavish holiday himself.

* In episode 3, William Russell appears only in a pre-filmed insert as he was on holiday.

Initially more upfront about the situation, Susan invites Mark to join her on holiday in Maui, Hawaii, but is embarrassed when he appears hesitant, and later retracts the offer, feeling she overstepped a boundary.

Pinnick appears on the 2008 holiday album We Wish You A Metal XMas ..., a compilation album featuring many hard rock musicians collaborating on popular Christmas songs.

* The device also appears in Agatha Christie's Poirot short story The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan ( 1924 ), as the main character, Hercule Poirot, is mistaken for the man in the newspaper contest, " Lucky Len ", while he's on holiday at the seaside.

Although Meg claims that her house is a " boarding house ," her husband, Petey, who was confronted by " two men " who " wanted to know if we could put them up for a couple of nights " is surprised that Meg already has " got a room ready " ( 23 ), and, Stanley ( being the only supposed boarder ), also responds to what appears to him to be the sudden appearance of Goldberg and McCann as prospective guests on a supposed " short holiday ," flat out denies that it is a boarding house: " This is a ridiculous house to pick on.

In some books, the children go camping in the countryside, on a hike or holiday together elsewhere.

* Mexican Odyssey: The Brothers holiday in Mexico, are thrown in jail and escape with the help of shaman Don Longjuan, in a partial spoof of the Carlos Castaneda books.

Variety store products include cooking supplies, small tools, personal hygiene supplies, kitchen supplies, organizational supplies, small office supplies, holiday decorations, electronics supplies, gardening supplies, home decor, novelties, toys, pet supplies, out of print books, DVDs and VHS tapes, food products, automotive supplies, among other products.

It is, however, just possible that she may have first read the Alice books in print while on holiday in the town.

These can include the sale of in-house insurance, travel guide books and timetables, car rentals, and the services of an on-site Bureau de change, dealing in the most popular holiday currencies.

Supplementing the relief supplied by the army, by UNRRA, and by UNRRA ’ s successor agency — the International Refugee Organization — JDC distributed emergency aid, but also fed the educational and cultural needs of the displaced, providing typewriters, books, Torah scrolls, ritual articles, and holiday provisions.

The writer Susan Cooper based two of her books ( Over Sea, Under Stone and Greenwitch ) from her awarded The Dark Is Rising series in Mevagissey, where she used to holiday as a child.

A number of books on the history of bunads recount the story of how once when on holiday in Hardanger with her Danish husband the British Princess Maud of Wales thought that the Hardanger bunads worn by the women in Hardanger were so beautiful that she had one made for her.

In this final sequel, a compilation of stories about the Wishing Chair from other books ( The Adventures of the Wishing Chair, Enid Blyton's Omnibus and the Enid Blyton Annuals ), More Wishing Chair Stories Mollie and Peter are home for the half-term holiday and Chinky and the Wishing-Chair are ready to fly away with them to magical lands.

According to the books, Quirm is a quiet and peaceful town, and for this reason is a popular holiday destination, as well as where Morporkians go when they retire ( including Lord Vetinari's aunt, Lady Roberta Meserole ).

Students use it to produce their own books, broadsides, holiday cards and ephemera, and a regular Apprentice Course introduces newcomers into the art.

Maftir ( Hebrew: מפטיר, " concluder ") properly refers to the last person called to the Torah on Shabbat and holiday mornings: this person also reads the haftarah portion from a related section of the Nevi ' im ( prophetic books ).

On the lower slopes of the fell above Derwent Water stands Brackenburn Lodge, now holiday accommodation but formerly the home of Hugh Walpole who wrote the Herries series of books when he lived here from 1924 to his death in 1941.

He had also previously written and illustrated four books about a small child on holiday: Fenella in Ireland, Greece, Spain and the South of France.

" One of their most beautiful books was the was the Hindu Love Manual which they first found while on holiday in Damascus.