Holidays

Hyperlinked encyclopedia article includes the day's origin and information on its customs in many countries.

The Library of Congress presents a brief history of the first Arbor Day.

Free printable monthly calendars with color photographs and poems of wisdom.

History and traditions of the most important festivities in English-speaking countries.

Free printable monthly and yearly calendars in Adobe PDF format.

Holidays and celebrations around the world. Includes extra content for international holidays.

An online calendar with international holidays, commemoration days, popular events. Additionally, moon phases, eclipses and clock changes.

Offers cards, wallpapers, screensavers, carols, music, chat, message board, recipes, stories, celebrations and recipes.

Features stories, holiday movie reviews, advice column and emails to Santa.

Includes games, arts and crafts, songs, fingerplays, discussion topics, and language activities.

Offers a history of the holiday along with printable crossword puzzles and word searches.

Describes the event replacing Columbus Day in some parts of the United States and explains the rationale behind it.

Offers a variety of resources for the classroom teacher, including stories, poems, a skit, coloring pages, and craft ideas.

Offers historical facts and cultural information about this Latin American observance.

The official site of the organization that lobbied for Constitution Day to be made a national holiday. Includes a Constitution study guide with 200+ questions/answers.

Explains what the festival signifies and what each day means. From Hindunet.org.

Includes list of year-round programs and links to sales sites.

Includes history of the celebration, listing of EPA-sponsored events, and other resources.

Offers an extensive history of the holiday, complete with chronologies, an overview of oral traditions, historic speeches, legislation, and stories.

The history of how Groundhog Day started and what it means.

Haunted attractions, pumpkin 101, and horror cards.

Spooky music midis, links, games and photographs. [English and German]

Features chilling stories of King X pumpkin and his disciples illustrated with colorful graphics.

Includes history, facts, timeline, Halloween birthdays, links.

Crowd-sourced encyclopedia article about the history, principles, symbols and observance of the holiday.

Festival history, events, photo gallery and suggestions to visitors on sightseeing.

Some history behind this holiday.

Guide to Mardi Gras in Mobile and south Alabama.

Held in Port Arthur, Texas. Features calendar, photographs, attractions, dates, and krewes.

Includes historical information and a tribute to fallen comrades of Company B-2/501st Infantry.

Many may say that today the Scottish Hogmanay traditions are vanishing, but there are some areas of Scotland where even in these modern times, old traditions die hard.

New Year's customs from many countries, calendars, free e-cards, and links.

Tells how cartoonist Al Capp created this unofficial holiday that turned into a traditional girl-ask-boy dance.

Includes information related to Irish politics and culture, seasonal crossword, and online quizzes.

Information about St Patrick's Day.

Humorous online greeting and links.

Offers virtual cards, wallpapers, screensaves, tips, and recipes.

Primarily a shopping site that also has historical information, articles about love and romance, and other miscellaneous information about Valentine's Day.

G-rated sites.

Article from AskMen.com offers singles several ideas for enjoying this day that is generally reserved for couples.

History, legends, customs, quotations, recipes, gift ideas, and love tunes.

Department of Veterans Affairs web site lists Veterans Day celebrations throughout country, relates history of Veterans Day, and provides downloadable resources for teachers.

Briefly gives meaning of the bar and bat mitzvah, and why they are celebrated.

Holiday search engine that features visitor reviews and ratings.

Reviews the Internet for the holidays.

Christmas events in Bregenz (Vorarlberg), Austria, at and on the Bodensee for families and cultural visitors. Christmas market and a ship on the lake.

Counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until Christmas.

Display illustrates the Christmas story in a 3 dimensional reproduction of the environs of Bethlehem. Located in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. [German, English and French]

A poem about a lonely soldier on Christmas Eve. Author unknown.

Large collection of Christmas quotes sorted by topic.