Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Potter and Warne may have hoped that Hill Top Farm would be their holiday home, but after Warne's death Potter went ahead with its purchase as she had always wanted to own that farm and live in " that charming village ".

The demand worried a part of the population because of discontent for an increased working hours would be seen as a provocation and devaluing the national holiday.

Since the Celtic year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is most likely that the holiday would be celebrated on the full moon nearest the midpoint between the winter solstice and vernal equinox, or when the primroses, dandelions, or other spring flowers rise up through the snow, or when the sun aligned with the passage tombs in the pre-Celtic megaliths.

In 1965, the Toronto City Council declared the holiday would henceforth be known as Simcoe Day within Toronto.

However, as Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so that practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, " Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday.

In 1910 the government stipulated that the holiday would be observed on the same day throughout the nation.

Finally, in 1990, the day was declared to be a national holiday, when the liberation would be commemorated and celebrated every year.

In 1956 Mervyn and Maeve visited Spain, financed by a friend who hoped that Peake's health, which was already declining, would be improved by the holiday.

She would often bore the Meldrews by showing them her complete collection of holiday pictures at the most unwelcome times.

In a now-famous letter written to his wife on the following day, John Adams predicted that July 2 would become a great American holiday.

However Thanksgiving would not become established as a national holiday until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that it would be celebrated on the final Thursday in November.

She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers.

Some of the athletes would take part in the Games because they happened to be in Athens at the time the Games were held, either on holiday or for work ( e. g., some of the British competitors worked for the British embassy ).

National, regional or municipal taxes are often deployed to provide a network that is socially acceptable ( e. g. extending timetables through the daytime, weekend, holiday or evening periods and intensifying the mesh of routes beyond that which a lightly regulated market would probably provide ).

Believe me, when we first agreed to work together, we never thought their first movie would be our 1995 holiday feature, or that they could go public on the strength of it.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

In 1954, Walter Neumark predicted ( in an article in Flight magazine ) a time when a glider pilot would be “ able to launch himself by running over the edge of a cliff or down a slope ... whether on a rock-climbing holiday in Skye or ski-ing in the Alps ”.

Many futurologists around the middle of the 20th century speculated that the average family of the early 21st century would be able to enjoy a holiday on the Moon.

The U. S. and South Vietnamese expected that an announced seven-day truce would be observed during Vietnam's main holiday. A U. S. propaganda leaflet urges Viet Cong to defect using the Chiêu Hồi Program.

In the 1995 study Klimafolgen für Mensch und Küste am Beispiel der Nordseeinsel Sylt ( Climate impact for Man and Shores as seen on the North Sea island Sylt ) it reads: " Hätte Sylt nicht das Image einer attraktiven Ferieninsel, gäbe es den Küstenschutz in der bestehenden Form gewiss nicht " ( If Sylt did not have the image of an attractive holiday island, coastal management in its current form would certainly not exist ).

After the county was named, Collier was quoted as saying " When I first came here on holiday with Juliet, I never expected that I would buy a whole region of it, nor did I expect to pay for the new Tamiami Trail, or half the things I've done.

Require each employee to work his last shift both before and after the holiday to be eligible for pay.

That is, while the events may not be historically accurate the book itself was written to tell a story of a time in history, in this case the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

The holiday was initially not dominant in the national calendar ; up to the early 20th century, Canadians thought themselves to be primarily British, being thus less interested in celebrating distinctly Canadian forms of patriotism.

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.

However, the scare taught the industry that they could not be completely dependent on the holiday market for their products: they had to find year-round markets for their fruit.

* 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.

Around holiday developments such as Caleta de Fuste, water is relatively abundant, and dragonfly species including the Blue Emperor, Anax imperator and the Scarlet Darter, Crocothemis erythraea can be found.

In the strip, a spider who is about to be squashed by Garfield boasts that if he is squished, he will get a holiday in his remembrance.

# Public holiday, a day decreed by government as a day when the bulk of the population is not normally expected to be at work, such as Australia Day, Anzac Day, bank holidays or Christmas Day.

The term " holiday " is also commonly used as a direct euphemism for Christmas ; businesses may announce, for example, that a product will be available " for Holiday ", meaning that it will be available in time for the Christmas shopping season.

A honeymoon can also be the first moments a newly-wed couple spend together, or the first holiday they spend together to celebrate their marriage.

In Europe Center Parcs might be considered a chain of resort hotels, since the sites are largely man-made ( though set in natural surroundings such as country parks ) with captive trade, whereas holiday camps such as Butlins and Pontin's are probably not considered as resort hotels, since they are set at traditional holiday destinations which existed before the camps.

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.

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are technically considered to be a separate holiday and not a part of Sukkot.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

On July 23, 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday.

In New Zealand, Labour Day is a public holiday held on the fourth Monday in October.

* May 1 in the Irish calendar is Beltane ( Bealtaine ), the first day of Summer, and a public holiday is held on the first Monday in May.

* May 1 is May Day in the United Kingdom, however the public holiday is held on the first Monday in May.

Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.

They are typically large events, such as holiday events held at the White House.

* 30 April: " Koninginnedag " (" Queen's Day ") is a Dutch national holiday held on the birthday of former Queen Juliana.

* Yes BUT Nau in Le Pouliguen, France, held every year on the Pentecost / Whit Monday holiday ( May / June ), organized by the Frisbeurs Nantais

" In time, Haakon had a law passed that established that Yule celebrations were to take place at the same time as when the Christians held their celebrations, " and at that time everyone was to have ale for the celebration with a measure of grain, or else pay fines, and had to keep the holiday while the ale lasted.

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.

Stacksteads is home to the World Gravy Wrestling Championships held on the late August bank holiday.

Since 1977, this day has not been a public holiday ; now, many services are held on the first Sunday in November.

It replaced the previous national holiday held in West Germany on 17 June commemorating the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany and the national holiday on 7 October in the GDR.

The festival, usually held in late January, debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney, Australia, and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by the following year ; the Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994.

Following a second decree ( decreto legge luogotenenziale 16 marzo 1946, n. 98 ), during the government of De Gasperi, a referendum was held on 2 June and 3 June 1946 ( 2 June later was named as a national holiday ).

Her birthday became a public holiday, which had yearly games and public sacrifices held.

" The holiday was held sacred and associated with the gods Miķelis and Jumis.

Early Christians had probably originally celebrated Easter concurrent with the Jewish Passover ( see Passover, Christian holiday ), which was held on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month of the Jewish year, called Nisan, the day of the crucifixion according to.

Mayor of Waitakere City Bob Harvey supported the call to make Matariki a public holiday to replace Queen's Birthday, along with the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand, which found none of New Zealand's local authorities held celebrations for Queen's Birthday, but many held celebrations for Matariki.

A traditional Labor Day Parade & Family Festival held the Saturday before the official holiday pays homage to the significant military history of the town.