"The Holidays.." It has almost a certain ring to it. A holiday is a certain date that is set aside to be noticed and celebrated. A time when family travels to be together again, a time when stores and business are closed, a time when people all gather together and catch up on life. In America, living in the fast lane is what people dream to do, we go by as fast as we can hoping to accomplish everything we set out to do. In the mist of racing through life, we forget that simple things. For the reason of forgetting about eachother, we celebrate holidays. A time to slow down and relearn what it means to live. Holidays were also created to mark time in our countries history, a time to remember and come together and take notice. This website we clearly define some holidays most Americans celebrate and some of the traditions that go along with each holiday.
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Holiday Facts
- The United States has eleven federal holidays, ten annual holdays and one quadrennial holiday
- On Valentines day twenty-five percent of adults purchased flowers as gifts; of those, 60% were men and 40% were women.
- Gift giving around the holiday season has said have orginated from the wise men when they brought gifts to baby Jesus.
- During the Christmas season Visa Cards alone are recored to be used on average 5,340 times every minute in the United States.
- Traditions on Halloween such as bobbing for apples and lighting candles inside craved pumkins all came from the Romans