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The Twelve Days of Christmas is the festive Christian season beginning on Christmas Day (25 December) that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. This period […]

National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an internationally observed civil awareness day celebrating individuals who publicly identify as a gender or sexual minority. The day is observed annually by members […]

Patriots’ Day (officially Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts and Wisconsin and Patriot’s Day in Maine ) is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on […]

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November) often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years […]

The Jidai Matsuri (時代祭り) Festival of the Ages is a traditional Japanese festival (also called the matsuri) held on October 22 annually in Kyoto Japan. It is one of Kyoto’s […]

For Victory over Japan Day in the U.S. see Victory Day (United States)Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day V-J Day or V-P Day) is […]

Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى‎ ʿīd al-aḍḥā [ʕiːd ælˈʔɑdˤħæ] meaning Festival of the sacrifice) also called the Feast of the Sacrifice the Major Festival the Greater Eid Kurban Bayram (Turkish: […]

The Dormition of the Mother of God (Greek: Κοίμησις Θεοτόκου Koímēsis Theotokou often anglicized as Kimisis Slavonic: Успение Пресвятия Богородици Uspenie Presvetia Bogoroditsi) is a Great Feast of the Eastern […]

In Roman religion Meditrinalia was an obscure festival celebrated on October 11 in honor of the new vintage which was offered as libations to the gods for the first time […]

Not to be confused with Victory in Europe DayVictory Day or 9 May marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known […]