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New Year's Day (January 1) On January first, Americans visit friends, relatives and neighbors. There is plenty to eat and drink when you just drop in to wish your loved ones and friends the best for the year ahead. Many families and friends watch television together enjoying the Tournament of Roses parade preceding the Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena California. In the warmer regions all around the country there are other games whose names are characteristic of the state. People watch the Orange Bowl game in Florida, the Cotton Bowl in Texas, and the Sugar Bowl in Louisiana. In most cultures, people promise to better themselves in the following year. Americans have inherited the tradition and even write down their New Year's resolutions. Whatever the resolution, most of them are broken or forgotten by February! ESC

Presidents' Day is celebrated in February to honor two of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The holiday is celebrated in the United States on the third Monday in February . George Washington Born : February 22, 1732 at Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia Died: December 14, 1799 at Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia President: April 30,1789 to March 4, 1797 Abraham Lincoln Born: February 12, 1809 in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky Died: April 15, 1865 in Washington, District of Columbia Pres i dent: March 4th, 1861 to April 15, 1865 ESC

Religious holidays Native American Pow-Wows ESC

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Ethnic and regional holidays ESC

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1. Who said this famous words: „I have a dream…”? Dr. Martin Luther King ESC

2.When do Americans celebrate Arbor Day? On the last Friday in April ESC

7. When did the tradition of Halloween c o me and by whom? When millions of Irish people immigrated to the United States in the 1840s the tradition came with them. ESC

3. Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May. What was it formerly known as? The Decoration Day ESC

4. When was signed The Declaration of Independence? July 4th 1776 ESC

6.What does the prankster yell if the innocent victim falls for the joke on April Fool's Day?? "April Fool! " ESC