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Holi: A Festival of Colours Norooz: Iranian new year festival Newroz: Kurdish New Year in Hastings & Turkey THANKSGIVING DAY: Fourth Thursday in November http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThanksgivingTraditional_celebration Mehfil ki Raat NEW YEARS DAYand last day of KWANZAA Feast Imani ( faith): 1st of January    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Day   KWANZAA (African Cultural Celebration): celebrated from 26th of Dec. to 1st of January more information on http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/     CHRISTMAS DAY: 25th of December  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Day   HOLY NIGHT - CHRISTMAS EVE: 24th of December  http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/glossary/defchristeve.htm     ST NICHOLAS DAY: 6th of December http://www.wf-f.org/st.nicholas.html HANUKKA (The Jewish Festival of Lights): Celebrated for 8 days in December  http://www.sympatya.co.il/hanukka.htm YULE: midwinter Celebration  http://www.thefab.net/topics/culture_lang/cl08_yule_jul.htm WINTERSOLSTICE Celebration: 21st of December  http://www.tryskelion.com/yule7.htm Sylvesterabend  (Austrian) Ano Nuevo (Hispanic) Festival of Saint Basil  (Greek) Shougatsu  (Japanese) Diwali (India) New Year (American) Hogmanay (Scottish)  Rosh Hashanah  (Jewish) TENG CHIEN (The Chinese Lantern festival): Last Day of Yuan Tan Nos Galan (Welsh) Tet Nguryen Dan  (Vietnamese) Chaul Chnam Thmey  (Cambodian) Muharram (Moslem) YUAN TAN (The Chinese New Year): Celebrated for 15 days in January Japanese New Year http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2064.html http://jcult.com/festindex.html  http://tanutech.com/japan/newyear.html  http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2060/culture2.html http://www.zuzu.org/japan.html http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/~jclub/festival/newyear.htm Chinese New Year http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/ http://www.brokersys.com/~kcyong/cny.html http://www.alltel.net/~wildrose/NewYears/Chinese.html http://jasono.hypermart.net/main.htm http://www.indiana.edu/~chasso/newyear.html http://education-world.com/a_curr/curr116.shtml http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/html_/spring.htm  http://www.chinavoc.com/festivals/lantern.htm http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html Jewish New Year http://www.chabadcenters.com/high/tishrei-home.asp http://www.new-year.co.uk/jewish/history.htm American New Year http://recipes.wenzel.net/t/traditional_hopping_john.html http://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear.htm http://www4.district125.k12.il.us/faculty/mplank/newyear.html Islamic New Year http://www.indonet.com/HolidaysandFestivals.html http://www.indiatimes.com/festival/baisakhi.html http://enquirer.com/editions/1999/11/05/loc_hindus_to_light_up.htm http://noblenet.org/year/Hy10diw.htm Persian New Year http://www.payvand.com/ny/massoume.html http://persianoutpost.com/htdocs/nowrooz.html http:www.abadan.com/nowrouz.html http://Persia.ORG/Culture/nowruz.html http://farsinet.com/norooz/ Vietnamese Tet http://www.web-holidays.com/tet http://www.destinationvietname.com/dv/dv15/dv15e.htm htttp://www.saigon.com/~nguyent/tet.html http://familyculture.com/tet/htm Scottish New Year http://www.alltel.net/~wildrose/NewYears/hogmanay.html http://www.caithness-mm.co.uk/discover/essential/esshogm.html http://www.britannia.com/wales/culture2.html General Austrian New Year http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/silvestr.htm Hispanic New Year http://ipanema.com/pictours/newyears1.htm#ny    Information and Multicultural Sites http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/1502/newyrleg.html wysiwyg://2/http://www.alltel.net/~wildrose/NewYears/ny.html http://home.talkcity.com/BlabWay/^hera^/newyears.html http://www.coe.wayne.edu/~mpettap/lesson/newyr.htm http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7214/newyear.htm http://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear.htm http://www.celebrate.Y2K.com/ http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/newyear_1230/ http://members.tripod.com/~christmasangel_2/newyears.html http://mealtime.org/news/fact_newyears.html