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NEW YORK

• HOLIDAYS

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Abstract

• 1. Calendar
• 2. St.Patricks Day
• 3. Independence Day
• 4. Columbus Day
• 5. Thanksgiving Day
• 6 .Christmas Eve
• 7. New Years Eve
• 8. Summary
• 9. Sources

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CALENDAR

• New Years Day 1.January
• Martin Luther King Day 2nd Monday of January
• Groundhog Day 2.February
• Lincolns Birthday 12.February
• Valentines Day 14.February
• Presidents Day 3rd Monday of February
• St.Patricks Day 17.March
• Easter 16.April
• Mothers Day 2nd Sunday of May
• Memorial Day 4th Monday of May
• Flag Day 14. June
• Fathers Day 3rd Sunday of June
• Independence Day 4 July
• Labour Day 1st MOnday of September
• Columbus Day 2nd Monday of October
• Halloweeen 31 October
• Election Day 1st Tuesday of November
• Veterans Day 11.November
• Thanksgiving 23.November

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St. Patricks Day

• -celebrates Saint Patrick,the patron saint of
  Ireland
• -a holiday in Ireland too
• -Irish-American immigrants brought it to the US
• -first celebration in NYC in 1756
• -General George Washington allowed his troops a
  holiday on March 17
• -St. Patricks Day Encampment of 1780
• -today celebrated by Irish an non-Irish people
• -wear green clothes , because the ethnic
  backround
• -NYC parade , largest of the world,outside
  ireland
• bands, firefighters, military and police groups,
  county associations, emigrant societies, and
  social and cultural clubs
• Parade marches up 5th Avenue
• Led by U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment

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Independence Day

• A national holiday
• Celebrates the adoption of the Decleration of
  Independence on 4July 1776
• Declaring Independence from the Kingdom of Great
  Britain
• celebrates in fireworks, concerts, family
  reunions, barbecues, picnics, baseball games and
  parades
• Today fireworks often are accomponied by
  patriotic songs by a pop orchestra
• Some lyrics includes recall images of the
  revolutionary war of 1812

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Columbus Day

• Historical holiday
• commemorates Christopher Columbus
• New World on October 12, 1492.
• President Roosevelt set aside Columbus Day as a
  Holiday in US
• today celebrated on 2nd Monday in October
• a large parade in NYC

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Thanksgiving Day

• Cultural holiday
• Indians celebrated the first TD on 23rd May 1541
• Like German Erntedankfest
• Related to christmas an New Years Day
• 3rd Oct.1863 Abraham Lincoln fix TD on 4th
  Thursday in November
• celebrated in parades, spending time with family,
  eating large dinners, Football (canada an USA)
  games

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Christmas Eve

• Big Christmas tree in front of the Rockefeller
  Center

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SUMMARY

• A lot of Feast days
• Many different kinds of Holidays
• Cultural, historical, national, ethnic and
  christian
• A lot of parades

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Sources

• www.wikipedia.org
• www.google.com
• And its links)