In Japan, May 5 is Children's Day, a time to pray for the health and happiness of the country's children and to give them special treats and gifts. If you find yourself spending more time ferrying...
May Day, celebrated on the first of May, heralds the return of sunlight and fertility after the cold gray of winter. Ancient Europeans knew it as Beltane and honored the occasion with rowdy...
The Russians started International Women's Day in 1909, and they're still the premier celebrators of the March 8 holiday. Around the world, the event is a way to honor women's contributions to...
A real-life bishop in what is now Turkey, Saint Nicholas earned his sainthood for numerous miracles, but his neighbors knew him best as a kind and generous man with a great fondness for children....
In Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, children receive Christmas gifts not from Santa, but from los reyes magos - the three wise men. This trio drops off treasures during the night of...
There's nothing wrong with one President's Day holiday in February, but our first President was born on February 22 and he deserves a day of his own - and you deserve another cause for a...
Banks no longer close on February 12, and you probably won't get the day off from work, but you can still celebrate the birth of the man who held the country together through its darkest hours.
In many parts of the world, Santa's equivalent makes his rounds on January 5, not December 24. Children open gifts the next morning, when tradition says the three wise men arrived in Bethlehem and...
In recent years Arbor Day's traditional spot on the calendar, April 22, has given way to Earth Day. But this day set aside for the planting of trees is just as important as it was when Nebraska...
President Harry Truman proclaimed the first Armed Forces Day (AFD) on May 20, 1950. Every year since then, on the third Saturday in May we've honored the men and women who have served in uniform -...
Unless you live in Pennsylvania, where it's an official holiday, you probably won't get the day off on June 14. But wherever you are, you can celebrate the day in 1777 when the Continental...
Bunker Hill Day, on June 17, is a legal holiday in Boston and surrounding Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Elsewhere you'll have to use your own time to celebrate the battle that launched America's...
In Utah, Pioneer Day on July 24 outshines the Fourth of July and makes Christmas seem like a blip on the calendar. It marks the day in 1847 when Brigham Young led his Mormon followers into what is...
Maybe you were out there dancing in the streets on August 15, 1945. Or maybe your parents hadn't even been born yet. Either way, you can celebrate the day the Emperor of Japan announced his...
While stories of the origins of Boxing Day sometimes conflict, the holiday (which falls on the first weekday after Christmas - usually December 26 - and coincides with the Feast of Saint Stephen)...
The Nazi slaughter of the Jews during World War II is probably the most chilling and brutal event in modern history. "Yom Hashoah" - Holocaust Remembrance Day - on the 27th day of the Hebrew month...
When holiday cheer is in the air, no space is safe! Create a unique yuletide atmosphere that includes a ceiling bedecked in color and light.
Of all the mythic figures of America's infancy, none has remained more intriguing than Ben Franklin. Of the founding fathers, only Thomas Jefferson can begin to match the breadth of Franklin's...
Franklin D. Roosevelt occupied the White House longer than any other President - three full terms and the start of a fourth. Those hallowed halls have seen more colorful characters than FDR, but...
Can you imagine a world in which women were not allowed to vote, much less attend college, own property, or even have legal custody of their own children? Susan B. Anthony could. It was the world...
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