Portal:Holidays
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An index of texts related to the celebration of specific holidays, which are listed alphabetically.
Arbor Day
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- Arbour Day Forestry Announcement, 1958 by Haile Selassie
- Proclamation 5804, 1988 by Ronald Reagan
- "Arbor Day," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
Bird Day
[edit]- "Suggestions for Bird-Day Programs" in Bird-Lore, 01 (2)
- "A Bird-Day Program" in Bird-Lore, 01 (2)
- Bird Day; How to prepare for it by C. A. Babcock Project Gutenberg IA
Christmas
[edit]See Portal:Christmas.
Easter
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- Easter on wikipedia
- "Easter," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Easter Eve" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1715), 1877 poem that appeared in Littell's Living Age
- The Easter Egg, 1911 short story by Saki
- Easter Day, poem by Oscar Wilde
- An Easter Flower Gift, poem by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, early Easter hymn
- The Meaning of Easter Eggs
Eid ul-Adha
[edit]- Festivals, as it appeared in the 1922 The Handbook of Palestine
- Id ul-Azha, as it appeared in the 1894 Notes on Muhammadanism
- The Festival of Sacrifices, 1916 Eid al-Adha sermon by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din
- Mecca in the Days of Pilgrimage — Prayer of Abraham and its Fulfillment, 1917 Eid al-Adha sermon by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din
- Sacrifice and Righteousness, 1918 Eid al-Adha sermon by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din
- Sacrifice as Practiced Among the Shi'ahs of Khorasan, 1921
- Congratulations on the Eid to the Ummah of Tawhid, by Ayman al-Zawahiri
- 2002 Commemoration of Eid al-Adha, by George W. Bush
- Team Donates Goats to Afghan Camp , 2005
- Celebration of Eid al-Adha at the Islamic Society of Frederick, Maryland, 2006 by Karen Hughes
Halloween
[edit]See Portal:Halloween.
Labor Day
[edit]- "With the Bohemian National Alliance" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (9) (1917)
Memorial Day
[edit]- Ode for Memorial Day, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Memorial Day in Suggestive programs for special day exercises (1898)
Solstice
[edit]- The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo, 1899 by Jesse Walter Fewkes[1]
- There came a Day at Summer's full,, by Emily Dickinson
St. John's Eve
[edit]- St. John's Eve, short story by Nikolai Gogol
- St John's Eve, poem by Charles J. Kickham
- St. John's Eve, play by Henrik Ibsen
- St. John's Eve, 16th-century poem by Jan Kochanowski
St. Patrick's Day
[edit]- St. Patrick's Day, 1900 poem by Rudyard Kipling
Thanksgiving
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- Thanksgiving on wikipedia
- Thanksgiving Day as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
- Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings, 1892 short story by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
- Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, short story by O. Henry
- Thubway Tham's Thanksgiving Dinner, 1918 short story by Johnston McCulley
- Signs Of The Times, poem from "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
St. Valentines Day
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- The Parliament of Fowles, by Geoffrey Chaucer
- "St. Valentine," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- "Valentine's Day, 1873" by in Littell's Living Age, 136 (1753)
- A Valentine, 1846 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
- A Valentine, by Lewis Carroll
- "A Valentine" by in Littell's Living Age, 143 (1852)
- That Valentine, by Benjamin Franklin King
- Saint Valentine's Day, Coventry Patmore
- A Valentine to my Family, February 14 2007 by Larry Craig
- Valentines and STI/Condom Week, February 9 2003 speech by Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
- A Farewell to Love, earliest surviving "Valentine", by Charles
- The Choise of Valentines, ~1590 erotica by Thomas Nashe
- Old Valentines, 1914 by Munson Aldrich Havens
- "Valentine," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- St. Valentines Day, by Walter Scott
Yom Kippur
[edit]- Day of Atonement, as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
- Atonement, Day of, as it appeared in the 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia
- Mercy and Pardon, hymn
- Afternoon Service for the Eve of the Day of Atonement, 1917
- The Altars Rebuilt, 1890 sermon by Isaac S. Moses
- The Day of Atonement, short story by Vladimir Korolenko
- Hymn for Atonement Day, poem by Judah Halevi
- Hamavdil, a medieval hymn