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In the United States, the legal holiday is January first, but Americans begin celebrating on December 31. Sometimes people have masquerade balls, where guests dress up in costumes and cover their faces with masks. According to an old tradition, guests unmasks at midnight.
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In 1983, the Congress of USA has announced third Monday of January by a national holiday in honour of birthday Martin Luther King. This day the schools, offices, mail and banks are closed. All telechannels broadcast rollers of performances from 60 years. On Monday pass memorial services and refined ceremonies reminding of life
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Three hundred years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Roman emperors still demanded that everyone believe in the Roman gods. Valentine, a Christian priest, had been thrown in prison for his teachings.
On February 14, Valentine was beheaded, not only because he was a
Christian, but also because he had performed a miracle. He
supposedly cured the jailer’s daughter of her blindness. The night before he was executed, he wrote the jailer’s daughter a farewell letter, signing it, “ From Your Valentine.”
Another legend tell us that this same Valentine, well-loved by all, wrote notes from his jail cell to children and friends who missed him.
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St. Valentine’s Day is now a day for sweethearts. It is the day that you show your friend or loved one that you care. You can send candy to someone you think is special. Or you can send roses, the flower of love. Most people send “valentines,” a greeting card named after the notes that St. Valentine wrote from jail.
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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Kentucky .
Lincoln began a long road to become the sixteenth president of the United States. He practiced law all across the state for the next few years, traveling far on horseback to different counties.
Per 70 years the Congress has announced about establishment of a uniform holiday in honour of all former presidents of USA. The day of the presidents is marked on third Monday of February.
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It is a day of picnics, parades and flying the flag, which has a special importance to Americans. At night there are parties, barbecues, concerts and spectacular firework displays.
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Most Americans consider Labor day the end of the summer, and the beaches and other popular resort areas are packed with people enjoying one last three-day weekend.
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HALLOWEEN
On this day, ghosts walked and mingled with the living, or so the Celts thought. The townspeople baked foot all that day, and when night fell, they dressed up and tried to resemble the soul of the dead. Hoping that the ghosts would leave peacefully before midnight of the new year, the people carried the food to the edge of town and left it for them.
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In the weeks before October 31, Americans decorate widows of houses and schools with silhouettes of witches and black cats. Pumpkins are also symbol of Halloween
No Halloween party is complete without at least one scary story. Usually one person talks in a low voice while everyone else crowds together on the floor or around a fire. The following is a retelling is a retelling of a tale told in Britain and in North Carolina and Virginia.
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Veterans` Day
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The holiday dates back to 1621, the year after the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts, in their search for religious freedom. After a terrible winter, in which nearly half of the Pilgrims died, they turned for help to the Native Americans, who taught them how to plant corn and other crops. The next autumn’s harvest was wonderful, and the Pilgrims gave thanks by having a feast.
Thanksgiving dinners always include some of the foods served at the first feast: roast turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, pumpkin pie. Before the meal begins, families or friends usually pause to give thanks for their good fortune, and for being together for the occasion.
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A line of traditions is connected to Thanksgiving, which Americans store and observe. Family necessarily should go in church, and after a service to be going behind a celebratory table.
Attribute of Thanksgiving - turkey. On the first holiday colonists and Indians have fried and in common ate of four turkeys. Since turkey and Thanksgiving became synonyms. The turkey hardly was did not become a national symbol of USA, however has lost competition predatory eagle.
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Christmas is a joyful religious holiday when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The Christmas story comes from the Bible.
In 1924 in Washington the first national Christmas tree was brought up.
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Today on Easter Sunday, children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods and organizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize
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Where origin custom to joke in this
day?
Today Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the first of April
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On Mother’s day morning, some American children follow the tradition of serving their mothers breakfast in bed. Other children will give their mothers gifts which they have made themselves, or bought in stores. Adults give their mothers red carnations, the official Mother’s Day flower. In this day Americans go to restaurants, because Mom not want to cook dinner.
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Children read poems and sang civil war songs, and veterans came to school wearing their medals and uniforms to tell students about the Civil War. Then the veterans marched through their home towns, followed by the townspeople to the cemetery. They decorated graves and took photographs of soldiers next to American flags. Rifles were shot in the air as a salute to the northern soldiers who had given their lives to keep the United States together.
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Flag Day
On June 14,1777, Congress proposed that the United States have a national flag instead of the British Union Jack. The thirteen stars of the flag represented the thirteen new states.
The first official Flag Day was observed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1893.
In August 1949, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed June 14 as Flag Day.
Schools had unfurled American flags over their doors or outside the buildings long before this. All Americans in the country to display the Stars and Stripes outside their homes and businesses.
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The origin of Father’s Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908. Others say the first Father’s Day ceremony was held in Vancouver, Washington.
Children made special desserts, or visited their fathers if they lived apart. When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental. Most greeting cards are whimsical so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.
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