1.

UK

1.1	New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day

1.2	Valentine’s day

1.3

Lent

1.4

Easter

1.5

May Day

1.6

Halloween

1.7	Guy Fawkes Night

1.8	Remembrance Sunday

1.9

Christmas

1.10	Some other special days

1.11	Special local feasts

2.

USA

2.1	New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day

2.2

Lent

2.3	Remembrance Sunday

2.4

Christmas

2.5	Special American holidays

3.

ČR

3.1	New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day

3.2	Valentine’s day

3.3

Lent

3.4

Easter

3.5

May Day

3.6

Halloween

3.7	Guy Fawkes Night

3.8	Remembrance Sunday

3.9

Christmas

3.10	Some other holidays

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"2. USA
Habits in USA came from UK so they are in some things similar, but the most of people in USA celebrate all festivals in private in their homes. Each of holidays is in American opportunity for inviting a lot of friends, but also strangers, to your hose, which undergoes a thorough cleaning and is decorated, before the party, in keeping with the celebration. At the party, people leave behind their feeling of loneliness and forget about the usual worries, however boring party may be.
Here is the list of holidays, that are different from celebration in UK and some holidays, that are originally American.

2.1	New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day

• almost the same, but no swimming in fountains on Trafalgar square

2.2

Lent

• is not usually held

2.3	Remembrance Sunday

• in USA is this called Veterans Day

2.4

Christmas

• in America Christmas are more commercial than all over the world
• Santa Claus is modern - so he can use a helicopter and land before supermarket
• small children can carry cans of food to the zoo, for a change, which advertised a project “Christmas Also for Animals”
• the fairy-tale atmosphere which all Americans, irrespective of age, love so much is created by thousand of electric lights - people use them to decorate houses on the outside. They make glittering coloured gables , paths and streets

2.5	Special American holidays

In the USA there are some holidays, that are only “American”

2.5.1

Independence Day

• celebrated till Declaration of Independence on 4th July 1776
• marks the birth of a free and independent United States of America
• each city organises its own ceremony - parades and festivals of all kinds - outdoor stage shows, boat races, various funny competitions (three-legged races - a race between pairs in which each contestant has 1 leg tied to 1 of his/her partner’s leg, water-melon eating contests, etc.), folk dancing and lively music everywhere
• in the evening, there are fireworks to illuminate the skies

2.5.2

Thanksgiving Day

• first celebrated in 1621 by those of Pilgrim Fathers (English colonists who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620), who survived hard winter of 1620-1621 and they wanted to thank the God
• until 1863 celebrated irregularly and on the regional basis, but President Lincoln’s National Thanksgiving Proclamation made it a part of American tradition
• today it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November
• on this day is big family dinner consists of roast turkey with dressing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, milk and coffee

2.5.3

Other American holidays

• Martin Luther King Day
• President’s Day
• Memorial Day
• Labour Day - a first Monday in September observed as a public holiday
• Columbus Day"

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