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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 ).
* Earliest date on which Whit Monday can fall, while June 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the day after Pentecost.
* Whit Monday or Pentecost Mondaythe day after Pentecost
* Yes BUT Nau in Le Pouliguen, France, held every year on the Pentecost / Whit Monday holiday ( May / June ), organized by the Frisbeurs Nantais
The feast is also called Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit, especially in England, where the following Monday was traditionally a holiday.
In the United Kingdom the day is known as Whit Monday, and was a bank holiday until 1967 when it was replaced by the Spring Bank Holiday.
* Whit Monday
Starting on Whit Monday, 29 May 1950, and continuing with five episodes through that week, a pilot series created by Godfrey Baseley was broadcast to the English Midlands in the Regional Home Service, as ' a farming Dick Barton '.
* Whit Monday
On Whit Monday 1916 Bonar Law discussed the succession to the job of Secretary of State for War ( Kitchener had just drowned on a trip to Russia ); he was irritated not only at having to travel to Asquith's home – the Wharf, at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire – but also, he claimed, finding Asquith playing bridge with three ladies.
Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May.
The following day is Whit Monday, a name coined to supersede the form Monday in Whitsun-week used by John Wycliffe and others.
On Whit Monday, in the morning, will be a punting match ... The first boat that comes in to receive a guinea ... In the afternoon a gold-laced hat, worth 30s.
* Nanteuil Church ( 12th, 13th, 15th centuries ), whose statue of the Virgin Mary is the object of a very ancient pilgrimage on Whit Monday.
The group gave its first concert on Whit Monday 1893 at the Winter Gardens, with its first classical concert in October that year.
" The referendum itself was enventually nicknamed le Raffarindum by its opponents while Journée de solidarité envers les personnes âgées ( Day of solidarity with the elderly ) is sometimes referred to as la Saint-Raffarin by discontented workers ( following a decision by Raffarin, French workers are supposed to work on Whit Monday for free ).
The railway re-opened under the control of the Society for the first time on the Whit Monday bank holiday, 14 May 1951, with trains running between Wharf and Rhydyronen stations.
In 2005 it became an official Swedish public holiday, replacing Whit Monday.

Whit and was
In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.
Later on actress Whit Anderson was mentioned to use a Buffy reboot as her writer's debut.
The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson.
At the time, the script was called Badge of Evil, after a Whit Masterson novel on which it was based.
Cora Hubbard, who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “ Whit ” Tennison robbed the Mcdonald County Bank stealing a total of $ 589. 23 ( the equivalent of $ 15, 700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale ).
Whit was the occasion for varied forms of celebration.
As the first holiday of the summer Whitsun was one of the favourite times in the traditional calendar and Whit Sunday or the following week was a time for celebration.
Cora Hubbard, who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “ Whit ” Tennison robbed the Mcdonald County Bank stealing a total of $ 589. 23 ( the equivalent of $ 15, 700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale ).
It is governed by Mayor Elbert L. " Whit " Whitley, Jr. ( who was re-elected in 2005 after a 28-year hiatus from the same position ) and a seven-member City Council.
With screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By, it was directed by Martin Ritt and stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal and Brandon deWilde and features Whit Bissell.
Thanks to such offensive linemen as Moe Racine and such wide receivers as Whit Tucker and Margene Adkins, Jackson was the dominant CFL quarterback of the 1960s.
This change led to fewer days off from work ( more working-days ) as the 6th of June will periodically fall on the weekend, unlike Whit Monday, which was always celebrated on a Monday.
It was under the command of Lt. General Heywood Kirk ( Whit Bissell ).

Whit and bank
Until 1973, Whit Monday was a public holiday in Ireland ( also called a bank holiday ).
While the Bill passed smoothly through the Lords in May — albeit with some revisions, most notably lowering the age of consent to fifteen — it again faced an uphill battle in the Commons, who were preparing to disband for the Whit Week bank holiday on 22 May 1884 and thus rather indifferent to the Bill.
As Parliament recessed for the Whit Week bank holiday on May 22, the next day Benjamin Scott, anti-vice campaigner and the chamberlain of the City of London, went to see W. T.

Whit and holiday
Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday ( also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit ) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a movable feast in the Christian calendar.
In Liechtenstein, Whit Monday is considered to be a " favorite holiday "; much like Christmas in many other countries.
In Sweden, Whit Monday was a public holiday until 2005 when it was replaced by the National Day of Sweden.
The municipal holiday is the Monday after the Whit Sunday.

Whit and when
Navy psychiatrist Dr. Dixon ( Whit Bissell ) testifies that Queeg is not mentally ill, but when Queeg is called to testify, he exhibits obvious paranoid behavior under Greenwald's tough cross-examination.
In Manchester during the 17th century the Kersal Moor Whit races were the great event of the year when large numbers of people turned the area into a giant fairground for several days.
He is mentioned in Whit Stillman's 1990 movie Metropolitan, when Nick Smith reads from the jacket copy of his book Girls and Sex.
Roy consigns burgled electronic equipment to Paul Reeves ( Whit Bissell ), and on his fifth sale is nearly caught when he shows up to collect on his property.
Lisa became very close to Whit's two sons, Brian and Kirk McColl, and when Whit was murdered in 1984, Lisa continued to serve as a mother figure to her stepsons Kirk ( Christian LeBlanc ) and Brian ( Mark Pinter ).

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