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Thread #79456 Message #1445121
Posted By: Ebbie
27-Mar-05 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: St Georges Day What are you doing?
Subject: RE: St Georges Day What are you doing?
Seems like you in the UK have a great many more days that you commemorate that we do in the US. Why is that? Is it only because the US dropped those days in the 'new world' or does it mean that we somehow lost the figures for which they were named and commemorated?
(Incidentally, just what in mythology brought on the story of the Dragon?)
In Alaska USA we have some paid state holidays no one else has, namely Seward's Day (for when Alaska was purchased from Russia) and Alaska Day for when the US flag was first run up the pole in Sitka.
But I still envy you all those esoteric holidays...