What holidays does Poland Celebrate?
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As of this year:\nJanuary 1 - New Year's Day - off work\nFebruary 14 - St Valentine's Day - though it's not that popular here yet\nFebruary 28 - Shrove Tuesday - not a day off work, but a religious holiday\nMarch 1 - Ash Wednesday - same as above\nMarch 8 - International Women's Day - still more popular than Valentines\nApril 9 - Palm Sunday - religious holiday\nApril 16-17 - Easter - Monday off work\nMay 1 - May Day (former International Workers' Day) - a day off work\nMay 3 - Constitution Day - day off (May 2 is usually also a day off work, there were plans to call it "Polish Flag Day", but I don't really know if they made it official)\nMay 26 - Mother's Day\nJune 1 - Children's Day\nJune 15 - Corpus Christi - religious holiday as well as a day off\nJune 23 - Father's Day\nAugust 15 - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a national holiday (sort of second Independence Day), day off\nNovember 1 - All Saints' Day - day off work\nNovember 11 - Independence Day - day off\nDecember 24 - Christmas Eve - the biggest Xmas celebrations, but not a day off\nDecember 25-26 - Christmas - days off\nDecember 31 - New Year's Eve
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Armed Forces Day, third Saturday in May for USA.  Other countries celebrate it too - see this link.
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An original American Festival is the 4th- of July! Celebrating independence with food, fireworks, song and dance. The second, but most popular summer celebration. Labor Day more or less ends the summer season…but fall and winter are Great celebrations
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http://www.southtravels.com/europe/netherlands/holidays.html\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_Netherlands\n\nwww.qppstudio.net/bankholidays2005/netherlands.htm
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Catholic religious holidays and feast days are pretty spread out throughout the year, not just in or near winter.\n\nI believe Jewish holidays are too.  Two of the major ones, Yom Kippur and Roshashana, are in the early fall.
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Just like Polish and Poland
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Karnawal,Paczki Day and Dozynki. For more info. follow the links below!
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Yes, I celebrate it. While it's not an officially recognized holiday in the US, it is celebrated by pagans here. We refer to it as Beltane more often than May Day.
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Almost all of the Christian Holidays are on top of Pagan Holidays. Easter is on top of Ostera. Bunnies and eggs are pagan symbols of spring and fertility. \n\nHallowe'en is a Pagan holiday, but most people don't know where the holiday origins are from. Pagans call the day Samhain. The old God dies on this day, and the Goddess mourns him until his rebirth at Yule (Christmas - Winter Solstice). The Catholic Church created All Saint's Day (November 1) as a holy day to recognize all the Catholic saints. But it wasn't a powerful enough idea to wipe out the traditional Hallowe'en celebrattions. Ironically, many Christians don't approve of the celebration of Halloween because of its Pagan origins, not realizing that almost all of the holidays they observe had Pagan beginnings.\n\nChristmas is on the Winter Solstice. Even non-Pagans use the term "Yule" around the Christmas holidays. Yule is celebrated on the Winter Solstice (December 22nd), on the shortest day of the year. Since the days get longer from this point in the year, Yule is a celebration of the returning sun and the rebirth of the Pagan God who died at Hallowe'en. As with Easter, the Christian story of the birth of Jesus fits nicely with the Pagan mythology of a "God" reborn. Traditions such as wreaths and Yule logs are remnants of the original beliefs. Gifts were exchanged at Yule long before the Wise Men offered their gifts to the baby Jesus.\n\nGroundhogs Day, although not specifically a Christian holiday, is on the day of the Pagan Holiday called Candlemas (or Imbolc) that is celebrated on February 2nd. Because spring is just starting to show itself at this time of year, there were various superstitions about predicting the weather, and how long it would be until the end of winter. The original idea was to watch for a hedgehog, but as people immigrated to North America, the tradition changed to a ground hog, since we didn't have hedgehogs here.\n\nThe reasons Christian holidays are celebrated on the Pagan holidays is because in the early era of the Christian Church in Europe they were having trouble getting the peasants and simple folk to accept the Christian faith, so they placed the Christian Holidays at the same time as the Pagan Celebrations for that everyone would be happy. By blending the two together it was easier to convert the people to Christianity.
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These are the recognized "day off" holidays...\n\nMonday, January 2* New Year's Day  \nMonday, January 16 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. \nMonday, February 20** Washington's Birthday \nMonday, May 29 Memorial Day \nTuesday, July 4 Independence Day \nMonday, September 4 Labor Day \nMonday, October 9 Columbus Day \nFriday, November 10*** Veterans Day \nThursday, November 23 Thanksgiving Day \nMonday, December 25 Christmas Day \n\nSee the site for more info...\nhttp://www.opm.gov/fedhol/2006.asp\n\nWikipedia has one of the most comprehensive lists of holidays that I have found so far...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holiday#National_holidays
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Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday known as Floralia as their spring celebration. This eventually involved into May Day, a time for fertility and renewal. Fertility was very important for people, livestock and crops, and so fertility celebrations tend to be the most important celebrations in the ancient world and this was the most active of the Fertility holidays in Europe. People danced around a May-pole (a symbol of masculine fertility) wrapping it with ribbons (symbolizing the poles entrance into the female fertility symbol). It was also a very popular night for maidens to lose their virginity. Today Pagans still celebrate the holiday, calling it Beltane\n\nIt is also International Workers day, commemorating a labor riot in Chicago
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Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Mexican Independence holiday(that is in September).  It is celebrated because that day marked the defeat of French forces against the Mexican Army.
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It depeneds what is interesting for you:)\n-In Poland people wear wedding ring on the rigt hand\n-Goverment is silly ( it's hard to explain, you must live here to understand) and \n-Sallary is low, and a lot of people are looking for work abroad\n-They have wonderful sights and cities( Kraków rules:)\n-They are really easy-going\n-They drink a lot of voodka ( Polish voodka is really good;)\n-Now they don't steel cars(it's unreal stereotype), they buy them on the West
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it is a day which is celebrated by nation \non this day some historic event had happened\nmight be country got independence,might be country'e constistution is made on this day, or anyother thing that changed the fate of the country.
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Veterans Day, this year and every year, is November 11.  It commemorates the signing of the peace treaty in World War One, which was signed at 11:00 on November 11, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.\n\nHowever, the *celebration* of the holiday will be on Friday, November 10, in order to give people a three-day weekend.\n\nGood luck!!
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My guess is that  National Day Fri Sep 8, 2006 is a Macedonian only holiday.\n\nNot sure about the others Macedonina holidays listed  at
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We celebrate it with picnics and parades, and fireworks displays at night.\n\nFirst, the picnic.  Hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, macoroni salad, potato chips, water mellon, and a whole lot more food.\n\nParades, they have marching bands from a lot of schools, flags waving, floats and banners.\n\nFireworks are done at night when it gets dark. They usually last a half hour to an hour, depends on how much they spend on the pyrotechnics.\n\nI wish you well...\n\nJesse