[LMB] OT: Happy Thanksgiving

[Katrina Allis]

On 08/12/06, Peter H. Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote:
>
> At 09:31 PM 12/6/2006, Tzivia Adler wrote:
>
> >five?  this was november - two weeks and several hundred posts ago,
> >but what five holidays are withing three months from end of november ?
>
> Thanksgiving                    Fourth Thursday in November
> Christmas                       December 25
> New Year's Day          January 1
> Martin Luther King Day          Third Monday in January
> President's Day         Third Monday in February
>
> Note also that Veteran's Day (Armistice Day, November 11) had just
> occurred, so it could have been 6 holidays in four months.


Well, we could also try adding in the other holidays celebrated in the world
at this time.  We don't celebrate three of your five in New Zealand (1) but
add Boxing Day (Dec. 26), various regional anniversay days throughout
December/January (2) and Waitangi day on Febuary 6.

A brief glance at my calender for December also yields Hanukkah (Dec. 15),
The Emperor's Birthday (Dec. 23) and Kwanzaa (Dec. 26).

Five holidays?  I think you were underestimating there.

Katrina

1. Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Day and President's Day
2. Wellington's, for those of you interested is the third weekend in January
and a local RPG convention called Kapcon is always on then