I founded a freaking National Holiday National Holiday (👑 Official Proclamation Above).
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The German markets will be shut for a national holiday.
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Japanese markets were closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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Japanese markets were closed for a national holiday on Monday.
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Japanese markets were closed on Wednesday for a national holiday.
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It will be closed on Friday for a national holiday.
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The United Arab Emirates was closed for a national holiday.
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Tokyo markets were closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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The market was closed on Thursday for a national holiday.
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It is now effectively a national holiday by internet standards.
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She even fought to repeal it as a national holiday.
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Japanese markets were closed on Friday for a national holiday.
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After a night of festivities, Tuesday is a national holiday.
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When the coronation comes around, we get another national holiday.
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The Shanghai stock exchange is closed for a national holiday.
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Here's a look into the history behind this national holiday.
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Japanese markets are closed on Friday for a national holiday.
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Swiss stock markets were closed due to a national holiday.
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Banks, stores and businesses shut down for the national holiday.
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France was hit hard on the day of its national holiday.
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The former North Korean leader's birthday is now a national holiday.
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Thanksgiving is celebrated as a national holiday in the United States.
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Friday is a national holiday in Venezuela for independence day celebrations.
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Germany's DAX index was closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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Investors returned to the market after a national holiday on Monday.
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Markets in Japan were closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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Can we please make the Super Bowl a national holiday here?
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Church bells rang in Berlin, German schoolchildren received a national holiday.
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The Tokyo market was closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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The Tokyo bourse was closed for a national holiday on Monday.
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Germany's stock exchanges, however, were closed Tuesday, for a national holiday.
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South Korean markets are closed on Friday for a national holiday.
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It was formally designated as a recurring national holiday on Oct.
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The U.S. market was closed on Thursday for a national holiday.
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He might change the way you think about the national holiday.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.
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Markets in Japan were closed on Thursday for a national holiday.
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The day isn't a national holiday, unlike his father's and grandfather's birthdays.
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It seems like we're celebrating a new obscure "national holiday" every week.
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Markets will be closed on Monday in Japan for a national holiday.
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Under Booker's proposal, Election Day would be designated as a national holiday.
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Shares in China were higher ahead of a week-long national holiday.
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Markets in Japan will be closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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The yen showed little movement ahead of a national holiday on Friday.
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Budapest's index fell 0.7%, while Warsaw was closed for a national holiday.
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There was no national holiday to mark the beginning of the uprising.
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"Our national holiday is on June 17," said Iceland coach Helmir Hallgrimsson.
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That's why the US government should make Election Day a national holiday.
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There should be a national holiday every time a clothing collaboration drops.
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Onshore markets had been closed Monday and Tuesday for a national holiday.
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Last Thursday was a national holiday in Uganda and markets were closed.
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The country's president gives everyone Wednesday off, declaring it a national holiday.
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Somehow, the 15th-century Italian explorer still got his own national holiday.
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In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.
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Three years later, Fat Tuesday was deemed a national holiday in Louisiana.
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Today is a national holiday in Hungary, honoring a 19th-century revolution.
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Singles Day is like if Amazon Prime Day was a real national holiday.
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Financial markets in Tokyo will be closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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The benchmark index lost ground on Tuesday after a national holiday on Monday.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, first celebrated in 20093.
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Like Leslie Knope said, "It's wonderful and it should be a national holiday."
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Notice the cynical symbolism of the chosen date -- July 14, France's national holiday.
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A national holiday was held in the South American nation of Venezuela yesterday.
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Falling on February 13th, this soon-to-be national holiday is officially here.
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Stock markets in Japan will be closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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Beijing (CNN)October 1 marks the start of China's week-long national holiday.
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They had reportedly been singing patriotic songs to honor the kingdom's national holiday.
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"France has been struck on the day of her national holiday," he said.
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With U.S. markets closed for a national holiday on Thursday, trading remained thin.
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It's a grim beginning to a story that would shape Ireland's national holiday.
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For Aboriginals, the national holiday marks the invasion of colonial settlers in 1788.
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The foiling of the plan was commemorated with a national holiday on Nov.
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E.T. Sadly for many of us, no one has declared a national holiday.
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German markets -- a weather vane for exports -- were closed for a national holiday.
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Today is a national holiday in Hungary, which honors a 19th-century revolution.
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His birthday, a national holiday, is called the Day of the Shining Star.
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With Monday a national holiday in Colombia, tourists flocked to the El Carmen preserve.
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"It's totally unnecessary to drag partisan politics into a national holiday," he told CNN.
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We're running this post in advance of the national holiday that honors the Rev.
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Both parties are to hold rallies on June 2nd, a national holiday in Italy.
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Stone said "lack of school breaks and national holiday periods" explain the fall struggles.
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Others suggest that a national holiday would be a bigger benefit to the economy.
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Today is Labor Day—and there is a reason it is a national holiday.
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It was only in 1870 that President Ulysses Grant declared it a national holiday.
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Monday is a national holiday in Japan and dollar-yen trading volumes were thin.
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This can be accomplished simply by moving an existing national holiday to Election Day.
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"I can't think of a better way to spend my national holiday," he said.
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Little French flags distributed for the national holiday lie abandoned on the sidewalks outside.
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King's memory is marked with a national holiday, which falls this year on Monday.
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The blast coincided with a national holiday marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
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But then that was also true when Lincoln first made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
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The company even filed a petition to make Super Bowl Monday a national holiday.
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"It's our national holiday, the biggest day of the year for Ireland," he said.
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"It is a day of Eid, a national holiday," said Abdel-Majid Ali, 46.
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The Twilight Zone has merch, board games, and even a national holiday on May 11.
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January 14 is a national holiday in Tunisia, when Tunisians celebrate Revolution and Youth Day.
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The cause of the later release is that Poland has a national holiday on Friday.
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The festival is also known as Duanwu Jie, and is a national holiday in China.
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Score. A three-day weekend due to a national holiday that you totally forgot about?
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The 35-year-old mother forgot people were off from work for the national holiday.
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So too would moving election day to the weekend, or declaring it a national holiday.
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That plan would mandate automatic voter registration nationwide and make Election Day a national holiday.
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Monday is a national holiday in Japan and dollar-yen trading volumes were very thin.
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A good start would be to revive proposals to make Election Day a national holiday.
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They go to stomp dances and pow wows, play stickball, celebrate the Cherokee National Holiday.
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It was made a public holiday in the state of Berlin, not a national holiday.
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So too would moving Election Day to the weekend, or declaring it a national holiday.
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Not even a national holiday could get Chipotle "guac is extra" Mexican Grill to budge.
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Another protest will be held on March 15, which is a national holiday in Hungary.
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China's yuan firmed in onshore and offshore trade on its return from the National Holiday.
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King's widow, Coretta Scott King, testified in Congress calling for a national holiday in 1979.
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But America's divisive politics threatened to overshadow what has traditionally been a nonpartisan national holiday.
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The food giant wants to the day after the big game to be a national holiday.
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This could delay any action to combat Zika until after next week's July 4th national holiday.
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He also introduced the bill establishing a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
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Even Karl can't get between a couple of all-American girls and their favorite national holiday.
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Cambodia is marking a national holiday from Monday to Wednesday this week with many offices closed.
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National Day is a national holiday in Saudi Arabia that commemorates the renaming of the kingdom.
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His December 5 birthday is a national holiday that was celebrated amid much pomp and ceremony.
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Hell, the president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, even declared today a national holiday in celebration.
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The market was thinned by a national holiday in Britain, which closed trading desks in London.
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An FBI spokesperson could not confirm nor deny the numbers as today was a national holiday.
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It would also make Election Day a national holiday and expand both early and absentee voting.
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The group appeared to be planning an action for Wednesday, a German national holiday, officials said.
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Mr. Navalny is hoping that pays off on Monday, which is Russia Day, a national holiday.
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But for the floral industry, it's essentially a national holiday -- and demand is higher than ever.
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Typically high-roller customers stay away during national holiday periods, leading to lower VIP gaming revenues.
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Tomorrow (Monday): This is why I'm an advocate for this Monday to be a national holiday.
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It's not a national holiday anywhere, but some people like to celebrate with a toga party.
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Martin Luther King Jr., Conyers introduced a resolution calling for a national holiday in his name.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called for a bill to make Election Day a national holiday.
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In no other country do the upper ranks of government mark the national holiday by flocking overseas.
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In 1971, Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be celebrated the last Monday in May.
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It is listed in Hong Kong, where financial markets are closed on Friday for a national holiday.
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The Turkish lira, with trading thin during a national holiday, rose slightly to 6.0566 lira per dollar.
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Road fatalities usually soar during the national holiday with drink-driving being one of the top causes.
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And if you do observe 4/20 as a national holiday, then trust me I'm not judging.
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It wasn't France's night—that's because it's likely a national holiday for Portugal from here on out.
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Lawmakers in Kansas are considering abolishing Columbus Day and replacing the national holiday with Indigenous People's Day.
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S'mores are so beloved that they've not only inspired innumerable snack mashups, but also a national holiday.
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Supporters had called for a huge protest march on police headquarters on June 12, Russia's national holiday.
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Monday was declared a national holiday, Victory Day, and a moment of silence was observed at noon.
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Not everyone confessed the Pilgrim creed at the first gathering of what would become our national holiday.
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The group appeared to be planning an action for Wednesday, a German national holiday, the authorities said.
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Officials in China, which is in the middle of a weeklong national holiday, had yet to comment.
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They married at Zahran Palace in Amman on June 20123, 1993, when a national holiday was declared.
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They say it's possible the regime could do the test on a national holiday such as Sept.
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Maybe by this time next year, you'll be celebrating France's national holiday in one of these destinations.
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The government declared Tuesday a national holiday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to attend the funeral.
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With U.S. financial markets closed for a national holiday on Thursday, trading will likely be thin, analysts said.
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On Wednesday, Heinz launched a petition to turn the Monday after the big game into a national holiday.
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Local security officials did not provide more information about the killings on Friday, a national holiday in Brazil.
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Confucianism's status has been restored, teaching Chinese is now legal and Chinese New Year is a national holiday.
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"We would obviously like it if Reformation day became a general national holiday," says Torsten Zugehör, Wittenberg's mayor.
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Prosecutors believe that assault was a practice run for a larger attack being planned for Wednesday's national holiday.
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Investors were reluctant to leave positions exposed with mainland share markets closed for a week-long national holiday.
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The agency was not available for comment late on the eve of a national holiday that starts Tuesday.
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AT 6PM on March 1st, a national holiday, parliamentarians' seats at South Korea's National Assembly were duly deserted.
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We need a four-day national holiday for voting, so all citizens can do so without missing work.
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The festival period includes Belgium's national holiday on July 21 and ends on the evening of July 23.
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Voting on Thursday appeared to go smoothly in the capital, Lusaka, where Election Day is a national holiday.
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A Russian helicopter, most likely the Mi-17, flies over St. Petersburg during rehearsals for a national holiday.
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Booker thinks Election Day should be a national holiday and has called for a new Voting Rights Act.
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The protests coincided with a national holiday celebrating the final Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula in 1982.
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Trump's decision to muscle his way into the national holiday reflected the raised political temperature of his presidency.
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It made it seem like Easter was this big national holiday we were all supposed to be celebrating.
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HTC helped kick off this important national holiday by announcing the upcoming release of the HTC Exodus 1s.
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This year, Saturday is both Canada Day, a national holiday, and the celebration of the country's 150th birthday.
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Nearly two-thirds, 2900 percent, said they would be more confident if Election Day were a national holiday.
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Desperate to slow the fast-moving virus, the Chinese authorities have extended the country's national holiday to Feb.
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Modi feted the Obamas at India's Republic Day parade, honoring them as special guests of the national holiday.
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In Baghdad, Christians celebrated mass on Tuesday morning — declared a national holiday by government — in churches decorated for Christmas.
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So I'm as stunned as you probably are as to why today, her 72nd birthday, isn't a national holiday.
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But Benalla was photographed by the president&aposs side as his bodyguard during France&aposs July 14 national holiday.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day was then finally observed as a national holiday for the first time on Jan.
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Fun fact: Today is Bastille Day, France's national holiday that celebrates the start of the French Revolution in 1789.
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The U.S. market was closed on Thursday for a national holiday, and WTI trade volumes remained light on Friday.
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The new outbreak also comes just weeks ahead of a national holiday, causing concern in Beijing about pork supplies.
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For most Germans, the chief consequence of the anniversary is that this year "Reformation Day" is a national holiday.
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The proposal is just the latest of many over the years to turn Election Day into a National holiday.
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But people were returning to their daily routines after the national holiday on Tuesday, and some businesses were open.
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The closure of the U.S. market for the 4 July national holiday also meant volumes were lower than usual.
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The closure of the U.S. market for the July 4 national holiday also meant volumes were lower than usual.
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Kyrgyz soldiers take part in a show during a parade devoted to the national holiday celebrations in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Australia Day is celebrated with a national holiday on January 19353 each year, typically with barbecues and Australian flags.
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The exact amount remains under discussion and will be defined by the government after a national holiday on Sept.
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Like that measure, O'Rourke's plan would make Election Day a national holiday and would mandate automatic voter registration nationwide.
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That the attack occurred at a mass gathering for Bastille Day, France's national holiday, had Israelis shaking their heads.
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It's the most important national holiday for North Korea and a day when the regime likes to show off.
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It was such an auspicious occasion for the country that the next day was immediately declared a national holiday.
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It had no wars or revolutions, and the only national holiday he could think of was Cinnamon Bun Day.
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Speaking while launching the notes during a national holiday celebration, Njoroge gave no more detail on the illicit flows.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 18 (Reuters) - South African financial markets will be closed for a national holiday on Monday, March 21.
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In January 2019, Democrats proposed a sweeping bill that would make Election Day a national holiday among other measures.
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The announcement seemed intended to dissuade North Korea from conducting a test to mark a national holiday this week.
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The hermit state will celebrate a national holiday on Saturday and experts believe it could launch another missile then.
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There will be no national holiday on March 12, the date generally recognized as the start of the uprising.
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In October the Zimbabwean government declared a national holiday in order to organise protests against sanctions on its members.
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Earlier this month, Maduro declared every Friday a national holiday for public sector workers for the following eight weeks.
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"On the evening of her national holiday, France suffered a terrorist attack in Nice," the Prince Albert wrote President Hollande.
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Japanese financial markets remain closed until Tuesday for a national holiday, but Nikkei 20.4 futures dropped 21 percent to 21.1180.65,085.
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Now if we could only come up with a national holiday for the quadratic formula, we'd probably remember that, too.
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About 40 percent of the West African country's population follow Voodoo, and Benin has a national holiday to celebrate it.
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It wasn't until years later that the internet got hold of the phrase and launched it into a national holiday.
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When the Patriots miss the playoffs this year, the following Monday should be a national holiday everywhere except New England.
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The Nikkei declined 13 percent to 22,428.83 in midmorning trade, after markets were closed for a national holiday on Thursday.
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Markets in Japan were closed for a national holiday so the impact of the news on Eisai will be delayed.
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They head abroad on promotional trips linked to St Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday that falls on March 17th.
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Following a national holiday on Monday, shares rose higher at the open on the German DAX but soon pared gains.
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Foreign dignitaries will be invited to celebrations on June 12, a national holiday, commemorating the 1999 return to civilian rule.
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Here are some wise ways you can use the national holiday for a little more than just a day off.
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For Mets fans, you might say, it was once almost like a national holiday — and on Monday, it actually is.
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Jennifer Linley Taylor, Mr. Taylor's granddaughter, was invited to Seoul in March for the uprising's anniversary, an important national holiday.
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Bosnian Serbs voted overwhelmingly for the national holiday in a referendum held last month in defiance of the court ban.
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Columbus Day became a national holiday in 1937 after much lobbying by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization.
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The events happened on a national holiday commemorating an uprising that led to a massacre of Taiwanese by Chiang's soldiers.
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Still, on the eve of Italy's April 25 national holiday marking the country's liberation, those raised right arms were shocking.
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There will be no national holiday on Sunday, March 12, the date generally recognized as the start of the uprising.
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It is more like a national holiday than a sporting event — one that involves watching, evaluating and discussing television commercials.
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The ideal solution is simple: Congress should make Election Day a national holiday, or move Election Day to the weekend.
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That week, he introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would make King's birthday, January 15th, a national holiday.
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Everyone knows that the day of the Superbowl is practically a national holiday, like the Melbourne Cup race in Australia.
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There will be no national holiday on Sunday, March 19173, the date generally recognized as the start of the uprising.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday; federal government employees, he said, already had enough days off.
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Two potential solutions to this problem are to either move voting day to a weekend or make it a national holiday.
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"It has sort of become kind of a national holiday," Rick Burton, professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University, told Reuters.
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Beliebers are basically trying to turn February 15th into a national holiday in light of Justin Bieber's Grammy win on Monday.
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It doesn't appear that the sanctions leveled against North Korea have affected the pomp and circumstance of its big national holiday.
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During an all-night conversation punctuated by cigars and rum, Navarro-Valls convinced Castro to restore Christmas as a national holiday.
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Montreal, the Canadian city that has deep ties to France, mourned the tragedy that unfolded during Bastille Day, France's national holiday.
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Today, Election Day is controversial because it falls in the middle of a work week, and is not a national holiday.
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Golden Week, the ongoing Chinese national holiday, is expected to result in an influx of tourist shoppers to London's West End.
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The Washington Post reports North Korea might be testing a new reentry vehicle around this Thursday, a North Korean national holiday.
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Hariri declared Wednesday and Thursday as official days of mourning and May 16 was also made a national holiday this year.
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In honor of the national holiday, here are some conversation starters for the cabernet/pinot gris/champage/all-loving wine enthusiasts.
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Japanese financial markets remain closed until Tuesday for a national holiday, but Nikkei 225 futures were down 2.3 percent at 23.1,260.44.
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No one was available for comment at a series of steelmakers in China, which was celebrating a week-long national holiday.
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The markets, which were closed on Thursday for a national holiday, appeared set for a roughly 1% loss for the week.
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Japanese financial markets remain closed until Tuesday for a national holiday, but Nikkei 225 futures were down 297.538 percent at 22.2,260.58.
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Trading had been expected to be limited on Wednesday by the U.S. national holiday, although the market has been more volatile.
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They are acting largely because a mishmash of state laws and the lack of a national holiday make voting a challenge.
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Statues and monuments are planned, and next July 15, the first anniversary of the failed coup, will be a national holiday.
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The number of visitors during the national holiday week rose 6.5 percent in the former Portuguese colony, preliminary government data showed.
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In 1894, the U.S. made Labor Day a national holiday, to be celebrated each year on the first Monday in September.
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Some have speculated that the North may conduct a nuclear test or a significant missile test on Saturday, a national holiday.
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During the crisis, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill into law on June 28, 1894, declaring Labor Day a national holiday.
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The following year she forgot my birthday, an event that, at least in her mind, was once a Major National Holiday.
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It's worth noting on a national holiday extolling the value and dignity of labor that Americans are uniquely obsessed with work.
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H.R. 1 addresses everything from redistricting and money in politics to voting reforms, such as making Election Day a national holiday.
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KAMPALA, March 7 (Reuters) - The Ugandan shilling was unchanged on Monday amidst subdued activity ahead of a national holiday on Tuesday.
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The plan also calls for making Election Day a national holiday, extending vote-by-mail periods and dismantling voter ID laws.
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Library of Congress When Woodrow Wilson declared Mother's Day a national holiday in 1914, he was leaping onto a national bandwagon.
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It's still unclear why Wednesday wasn't a national holiday, as it marked the heralded return of the CW's buzziest, darkest show, Riverdale.
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The victims were celebrating the French national holiday on July 14 on the promenade in Nice on the south coast of France.
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Thanksgiving, a national holiday of gratitude, togetherness and caloric excess, often gathers generations of relatives who have little in common besides blood.
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Japan's financial markets are closed for a long national holiday this week, but Nikkei 71.63 futures in Singapore were 271.6 percent higher.
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Japan's financial markets are closed for a long national holiday this week, but Nikkei 71.883 futures in Singapore were 271.88 percent higher.
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Once it became a national holiday in 1970, everything changed and pubs have become a go-to spot for many to celebrate.
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Boxing Day — 26 December — is a national holiday in the UK and in recent years the day has become associated with sales.
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The group was allegedly plotting an attack to take place on Wednesday, a national holiday in Germany that commemorates the country's reunification.
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Some end-of-quarter window dressing had also helped support prices ahead of the week-long Chinese national holiday from Oct. 1.
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Communist and socialist countries like North Korea, China and Cuba celebrated the day as a national holiday, paying tribute to their workers.
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And although Mother's Day was a federally recognized holiday in 1914, it wasn't 1972 until that Father's Day became a national holiday.
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The legislation aims to expand voting rights by creating automatic voter registration and making Election Day a national holiday for federal workers.
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He added that many investors did not want to take risks before markets close for a national holiday in Japan on Thursday.
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The New Mexico state Senate voted to approve legislation to abolish Columbus Day and replace the national holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
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The romance of King's legacy transcends the national holiday and extends throughout the year -- especially in black churches and on college campuses.
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Today, March 1 is a national holiday in South Korea, where the 100th anniversary of the movement will be commemorated next year.
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He would address voting rights by instituting automatic voter registration, expanding early voting and making Election Day a national holiday, he said.
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Australia Day is a national holiday at the height of the Australian summer that feels, to many, like a celebration of colonization.
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In France, the July 14 national holiday commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, as part of the French Revolution.
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In 1980, Wonder released the song "Happy Birthday" as a tribute, and spearheaded a campaign to make King's birthday a national holiday.
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Museveni, Besigye and a second major challenger, former prime minister Amama Mbabazi, all staged their final rallies on Tuesday, a national holiday.
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News of the outbreak comes as many Chinese citizens are celebrating the Lunar New Year, a national holiday that often involves travel.
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Jan. 20, 2020 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the only national holiday that is specifically designated as a day of service.
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Japan's financial markets are closed for a long national holiday this week, but Nikkei 20.61 futures in Singapore was 0.13 percent higher.
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A national holiday, it takes place on the last full moon day of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month, which is usually March.
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He cried when South Korea's exports exceeded $100m in 1964, declaring a national holiday known as "export day" (later renamed "trade day").
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We've collected a whole bunch of recipes you could knock off at midday on a national holiday, with a minimum of fuss.
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Schroeder has become a self-styled styling activist by establishing #OOTD Day (outfit of the day … day) as an actual national holiday.
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Now, despite being a national holiday in some countries, International Women's Day is not officially affiliated with a specific group, agency, or nation.
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The day has been a declared a national holiday and many businesses have announced they will shut all day or close at midday.
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It's started an online petition to essentially create a new national holiday it calls "Smunday," which extends Sunday's Super Bowl fun into Monday.
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" He continued, "It became a national holiday when he was around on set, up through this movie and an upcoming one as well.
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In America, people enjoy it so much that there is a push to make the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday.
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Investors around Asia will be keeping an eye on Chinese markets, which open at 0130 following a three-day national holiday last week.
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Japan's financial markets are closed for a long national holiday this week, but Nikkei 225 futures index in Singapore was 0.9 percent higher.
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In honour of the victory, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama not only declared a national holiday, he extended it so the celebrations could continue.
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And yet Thailand's military government is playing down the dry spell and says it is powerless to crimp such a popular national holiday.
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With Japanese markets closed for a national holiday on Wednesday, investors are expected to refrain from taking large positions on Tuesday, they added.
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That's surely the question that crosses every Kardashian-Jenner lady's mind upon the occasion of any national holiday, birthday, or impromptu gift exchange.
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The president, Abraham Lincoln, declared the day a national holiday after victories for the Unionist armies at Gettysburg and Vicksburg earlier that year.
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FCA declined to comment, while Shanghai Electric, Sinomach and Simee were not immediately available to comment due to a national holiday in China.
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You have not truly lived until you've visited Jalisco during Guadalupe Reyes, a month-long partying marathon and unofficial national holiday in Mexico.
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Democrats in Congress have accused Trump of using the over-the-top event to turn a national holiday into a makeshift MAGA rally.
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More than 220 million Chinese traveled abroad during the "Golden Week" national holiday in early October, according to state-backed media outlet Xinhua.
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Wednesday is a national holiday in Spain and government offices are closed, giving a brief respite in the crisis after a tumultuous month.
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The national holiday celebrating the civil rights leader occurs on the third Monday in January every year, near King's birthday of Jan. 15.
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It would also ensure the availability of ballots in different languages, restore voting rights to felons and make Election Day a national holiday.
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The House on Tuesday adjourned until Wednesday without taking action on the override resolutions, a result of diminished ranks on a national holiday.
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And yet when President Reagan signed a bill in 1983 declaring Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, Arizona was on board.
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Jinan was among more than two dozens Chinese cities that imposed policies to tame prices and reduce overheating during China's national holiday week.
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The state news media reported that so far, more than 170,000 people had visited the exhibit, which went up during a national holiday.
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He is to arrive here Saturday, under the current plan, just as many in Beijing are streaming out for a weeklong national holiday.
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A national holiday was declared, and travel agencies in Peru and FIFA's ticketing website were swamped by people wanting to go to Russia.
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The government has made the date a national holiday and dubbed it "victory day" but some Iraqis felt little cause for celebration, however.
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The Frenchman Warren Barguil won the stage on Bastille Day — the first French victory on the national holiday since David Moncoutie in 2005.
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The blackout also tends to be enforced during China's week-long Lunar New Year national holiday in the first half of the year.
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" Obama tweeted a message Thursday to mark the national holiday and his firstborn's birthday, calling the Fourth a "great day in the Obama family.
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But in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, a two-day national holiday is wrapping up that celebrates what would have been Kim's 75th year.
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Traders said that with Japanese markets closed for a national holiday on Wednesday, investors are likely to stay on the sidelines throughout the day.
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The driver reportedly shot pedestrians as he drove more than a mile through crowds that had gathered to watch fireworks on the national holiday.
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The statistics bureau attributed the slump in October's manufacturing activity to the impact from a week-long national holiday and the challenging external environment.
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The cremation day has been declared a national holiday, when banks will be closed and major shopping centers will be shut from 3 p.m.
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Kim Jong Il's birthday on February 16 is considered a national holiday in North Korea, and is called the "Day of the Shining Star".
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's economic growth is expected to have slowed significantly in the fourth quarter as October's national holiday weighed on factory output.
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The lovely Ellen DeGeneres turns 58 on Tuesday, and to celebrate this quasi-national holiday, we combed through her most prominent comedic works — a.k.a.
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Talos said the code overlap as well as the quickly approaching national holiday prompted them to release their findings before fully completing their research.
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The incident occurred on a warm summer's evening on the eve of a national holiday and witnesses said the outdoor eating area was busy.
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Talos warned that the botnet is increasingly attacking victims in Ukraine, infecting thousands of devices ahead of an upcoming national holiday in the country.
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The national holiday honors the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is considered to be the Queen of Mexico and the patron saint of the Americas.
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When the scientists first landed in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, It was the anniversary of the founding of the DPRK, a national holiday.
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The day of the funeral will be deemed a day of mourning and a national holiday, meaning the stock market and banks will close.
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The government has declared Friday a national holiday and urged the capital's residents to leave to avoid travel chaos caused by the security lockdown.
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Driscoll paid $37.35 AUD ($28.62) and assumed that his pizza would show up within the hour, even though it was a national holiday weekend.
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The Fifth of July is the national holiday of a parallel, cranky universe, in which all living things are nagged by an indescribable hum.
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The Nikkei share average ended 0.3% higher at 21,702.45 in thin trading as U.S. financial markets were closed for a national holiday on Thursday.
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Beijing released 20,000 tonnes of frozen pork from the reserves on Tuesday to increase supplies during the national holiday, when pork consumption typically spikes.
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While Beijing is expected to showcase its largest military parade yet, the special administrative region also has the day off as a national holiday.
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His dissatisfaction came as France prepared to host U.S. President Donald Trump and display its military might on the national holiday of Bastille Day.
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Panama qualified on a tense final day in Concacaf; Roman Torres's winning goal against Costa Rica was rewarded with a national holiday as celebration.
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Mr. Buhari announced a drop in the price of fuel to encourage voters to travel again to vote and declared Friday a national holiday.
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Some have speculated that a kind of dramatic test is coming this weekend in time for Founding Day, which is a major national holiday.
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Christmas has become increasingly popular over the years in South Korea, which is the only East Asian country to recognize Christmas as a national holiday.
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His birthday is a major national holiday called Gandhi Jayanti, and it is marked with a prayer for peace, ceremonies and events throughout the country.
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Internet regulator the Cyberspace Administration of China also did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment on Monday, which is a national holiday.
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But anyway the idea picked up steam and in 1894 President Grover Cleveland and Congress worked out a deal to make it a national holiday.
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It had been part of a display to celebrate China's Mid-Autumn Festival, an important national holiday where traditionally offerings are made to the moon.
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It was the day before Ukraine's Constitution Day, a national holiday, and most of his coworkers were either planning their vacations or already taking them.
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For our pals over in the UK, it's a national holiday on Monday;sadly for the rest of us,we still have work on Monday.
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In July, an assailant drove a truck into crowds celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday on July 14 in the city of Nice, killing 86.
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The measure, among other things, aims to expand voting rights by creating automatic voter registration and making Election Day a national holiday for federal workers.
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The jet had been taking part in a military parade to commemorate Spain's national holiday and crashed on its return, a defence ministry spokesman said.
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Critics will likely further seize on the fact that Trump would be using a national holiday to deliver a speech during a presidential campaign year.
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Gandhi's birthday — October 2, 1869 — is a national holiday in India called Gandhi Jayanti, where events and prayers are taking place all over the country.
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The emperor's birthday is traditionally marked by a national holiday and an address at the Imperial Palace, which opens to the public on the day.
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According to 2012 figures from the Centre for Economics and Business Research, each national holiday costs the UK economy about $2.8 billion in lost productivity.
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Brazil's main stock exchange was closed on Thursday for a national holiday, but the company's ADRs were trading up 4.7 percent in the early afternoon.
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It has a national holiday in honor of them and horses and riders perform daring tricks in year-round shows across the country, as below.
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They included clerics and religious scholars along with others who had gathered to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, a national holiday in Afghanistan.
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They are acting largely because a jumble of state laws and the lack of a national holiday will make voting a challenge for many workers.
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Watch this one-minute video from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, about President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 declaration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
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On Saturday, during a national holiday marking Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule, students from Papua were accused of throwing the Indonesian flag into a ditch.
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In Congress, he supported President Reagan's agenda of tax cuts and smaller government, voted in 1983 against a national holiday in honor of the Rev.
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Now, as Chinese people start to prepare food to celebrate the biggest national holiday, the Spring Festival, demand for pork could be higher than ever.
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Their terror comes from the element of surprise, from turning a pop concert, a national holiday, a Christmas market, into its own peculiar Western Front.
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The surge in pork prices slowed in the weeks ahead of the October national holiday, with Beijing releasing 30,000 tonnes of frozen pork from reserves.
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In Georgia, he unveiled a voting rights plan, vowing to make Election Day a national holiday and talked about restoring voting rights to ex-felons.
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Amazon doesn't release sales figures for July's Prime Day, but it's pretty safe to assume the not-quite-national-holiday doesn't come close to $25 billion. Â
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The US Senate passed a resolution last year recognizing "Juneteenth Independence Day" as a national holiday, but it has not yet been approved in the House.
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The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, an organization based in Mississippi, has worked for years to get Juneteenth recognized or observed as a national holiday for years.
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If the petition were to go through, it would not be the first time a national holiday has moved its date to accommodate the general public.
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Get the VICE App on iOS and Android Among my online circle, Style Savvy: Fashion Forward's release date may as well have been a national holiday.
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If you don't have every random national holiday synched to your iCloud, you may not know that today, July 29th, is National Lipstick Day in America.
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These are healthy ways to spend your extra hour of Daylight Saving Time Come on, Daylight Saving Time is like a national holiday for sleeping in.
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In January, gambling revenue rose 3.1 percent to 19.3 billion patacas ($2.4 billion), getting a boost from a national holiday at the end of that month.
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But uniquely, the reality star celebrated the national holiday on Monday with an adorable video of husband Kanye West honoring the humanitarian and civil rights leader.
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France was already in a state of emergency, Nice had been on alert on that particular day -- a national holiday -- and police were present and armed.
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Amid concerns about China's economic slowdown, data show tourism during a week-long national holiday grew and even saw sharp increases from relatively less affluent areas.
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Indeed, it appears the gaming revenue in Macau slowed in second half of October after Golden Week, a national holiday period celebrated in China from Oct.
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The first bill House Democrats introduced this January included a wide range of anti-corruption measures—and a proposal to make Election Day a national holiday.
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The city removed Olu Oguibe's "Monument to Strangers and Refugees," at dawn on the national holiday celebrating Germany's reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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On this very special weekend, not only do Passover and Easter coincide, but there's also a new national holiday we must all celebrate: Luna Legend's birthday.
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Cybersecurity experts are warning that hackers are ramping up malware attacks against Ukraine, infecting thousands of devices ahead of an upcoming national holiday in the country.
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Meanwhile shares in China were higher ahead of a week-long national holiday with blue-chips stocks and the Shanghai Composite index gaining around 0.8 percent.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians are expected to protest on Saturday as a national holiday intended to celebrate the birth of modern Australia divides the country.
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Get the VICE App on iOS and Android Among my online circle, Style Savvy: Fashion Forward's release date may as well have been a national holiday.
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Investors returned from a long weekend to find overseas developments had benefited Japanese stocks while markets in Japan were closed on Monday for a national holiday.
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Costa Rica did not explode with joy, or Panama declare a national holiday, or Egyptians flood the streets because they expect to win the World Cup.
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His government declared a two-day national holiday for the Kurdish new year, a tradition that predates Islam and is not celebrated by Iraq's Arab majority.
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Panama qualified on a tense final day in Concacaf's Hexagonal tournament; Roman Torres's winning goal against Costa Rica was rewarded with a national holiday as celebration.
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Because of an editing error, an earlier version of a picture caption with this article misstated the year that Labor Day was made a national holiday.
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In her endorsement, she said President Donald Trump poses the biggest threat to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose national holiday is Monday.
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China was celebrating a national holiday Friday and did not immediately announce any concrete action against the president's threat of an additional $100 billion in tariffs.
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The question came to mind when, on the Friday before the national holiday that is the Oscars, Tom Ford held his 2020 show in Los Angeles.
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Retailers are now rethinking whether the potential benefits outweigh other headaches, like the negative publicity that comes with forcing employees to work on a national holiday.
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The prime minister, once again, declared victory in Mosul, saying, "Iraq is now more united than ever," and he declared Tuesday a national holiday of celebration.
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In Iran, the idea of "spring cleaning" isn't just a seasonal excuse to gut your closet; it's the basis of a national holiday dating back millennia.
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Bosnia's Serb Republic held a referendum in September on a national holiday despite a ruling by the Constitutional Court that it discriminated against the region's non-Serbs.
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Here's a brief history and facts about the national holiday Look out for the red, white and blue this week as the United States celebrates Flag Day.
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So it makes sense that Liberia is, according to PRI's The World, the only other country in the world to celebrate American Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
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On July 14 of this year, I was among the 30,000 people gathered on the promenade in Nice, France, to celebrate the French national holiday Bastille Day.
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The authorities also extended the national holiday due to the outbreak, instructing non-essential industries (coffee shops, restaurants, gyms, bookstores, bars) to remain closed until February 10.
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Japan's financial markets remain closed for a national holiday as Japanese Emperor Akihito prepares to abdicate on Tuesday in favour of his elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Conyers began a long and ultimately successful effort to make Dr. King's birthday a national holiday, which was declared in 1983.
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Japan's financial markets remain closed for a national holiday as Japanese Emperor Akihito prepares to abdicate on Tuesday in favor of his elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito.
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GoldenEye was spread, in part, through Ukrainian tax accounting software, Symantec reports, adding that it's "interesting" that the attack began on a Ukrainian national holiday, Constitution Day.
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For instance, weekday voting is disproportionately difficult for single parents and those who work multiple jobs, according to those who support making Election Day a national holiday.
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Yet they, too, will pause on the King national holiday and say they loved the man and his ideals, when we know that is not the truth.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, which is celebrated as a national holiday honoring the man who fought for civil rights before he was assassinated in 22017.
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The current Shanghai race weekend coincides with China's Qingming three-day national holiday, also known as the Tomb Sweeping Festival, when families pay respects to their ancestors.
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"That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday," Bouhlel's brother Jabeur told Reuters in their native Tunisia.
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Last week 6 million Chinese tourists traveled abroad during a national holiday, and that likely meant big paydays for traditional tourist destinations, such as London or Paris.
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To mark Naruhito's enthronement, the Japanese government created a national holiday on Tuesday and pardoned 550,000 people guilty of petty crimes like traffic violations, the AP reported.
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Moore, in celebration of either her move or our weekly national holiday, decided to post a couple of gems that only real early '00s kids will remember.
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Women's Day on March 225Â was a national holiday in communist times, and women would traditionally receive a carnation and a pair of stockings on that day.
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On Monday, the day the new economic plan was rolled out, streets were quiet and most shops were closed, as Mr. Maduro had decreed a national holiday.
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In 1907, her daughter, Anna Jarvis, began lobbying to make Mother's Day a national holiday, flooding Washington with letters until Woodrow Wilson formally established it in 1914.
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President Bill Clinton designated MLK Day as a national holiday in 1994, marking it as a day of service in honor of the slain civil rights leader.
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Do check out this 2014 blog post, written by Kenneth C. Davis, for the full story of how the Civil War turned Thanksgiving into a national holiday.
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The country's leader, Kim Jong-un, celebrated the national holiday on Saturday by bringing his nuclear scientists and engineers to Pyongyang, the capital, and holding a banquet.
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In addition to its status as secular national holiday, Super Bowl Sunday is an advertising bonanza, a day when commercials are not only tolerated, but sought out.
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France's interior ministry said more than 130,000 security personnel and emergency service workers will protect people around the country during the celebrations, a national holiday in France.
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The Diamond Princess is already preparing to set sail again before Japan's bustling "Golden Week," a string of national holiday celebrations in late April and early May.
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"You know the attack was carried out on Friday, which is a national holiday, in the afternoon, which is the time of Friday Prayer," Mr. Kohistani said.
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Passed by the House as H.R. 1, the Act would also make Election Day a national holiday and limit the process of purging voters from voter rolls.
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Gambling revenue in January rose to 19.3 billion patacas ($2.4 billion), government data showed on Wednesday, getting a boost from a national holiday at the end of January.
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Memorial Day as a national holiday did not pass into common usage until after World War II, and wasn't even designated as the holiday's official name until 20003.
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The consulate general in Istanbul said earlier that there was information suggesting a "serious threat against plans for the celebration of the July 14 national holiday in Turkey".
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Doug Brinkley, historian As president would you promote the idea of a new national holiday -- Cesar Chavez Day -- to honor Latino contributions to American history, culture and identity?
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What is more notable is that ordinary Russians have turned their team's fairy-tale run into a grassroots national holiday that has unified people across the political spectrum.
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Panama's first-ever qualification for the finals prompted President Juan Carlos Varela to declare a national holiday, describing it on Twitter as an "historic day for the country".
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Quite a few European countries — including Germany, Finland, and Sweden — have declared May Day a national holiday, and communities often hold their own festivals, complete with maypole dances.
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It may sound redundant, but it's a little different: It's a national holiday that encourages organizations and governments to support the role of parents in raising their children.
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On Saturday, a national holiday celebrating the referendum that unified Cameroon, the streets of Bamenda were virtually deserted aside from one parade of students bussed in from outside.
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THIS week millions of people in the Netherlands celebrated the national holiday by getting up at dawn, staking out a patch of pavement and selling off their junk.
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The planned protests, which coincided with Russia Day, a national holiday, were arranged by Navalny as part of on-going rallies against the Russian government over corruption allegations.
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Democrats urged bipartisan talks, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said lawmakers would address the matter again sometime after the July 4 national holiday next week.
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Canada will hit the U.S. with a broad range of tariffs on $2628 billion of U.S. products on Sunday, which also marks the country's national holiday Canada Day.
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Their government has declared today's gameday a national holiday—even though the match has absolutely no consequence on St. Vincent and the Grenadines' already-failed World Cup bid.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnian Serbs on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to keep their national holiday in a referendum held despite ethnically divided Bosnia's highest court ruling it illegal.
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Henry A. from The Moon stated that acts of violence should not be celebrated: Considering Columbus committed genocide, he should not have a national holiday named after him.
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I woke up early that February day because a cardinal was singing "Birdy-birdy-birdy-birdy" so loudly there was no sleeping in, even on a national holiday.
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A massive infusion of federal dollars to the communities and lands of each group would be a start, coupled, perhaps, with a national holiday of remembrance for each.
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For Trump, everything — a national holiday, America itself — is an opportunity for brand enhancement, another tall building on which to slap the letters of his name in gold.
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When Panama qualified for the first time last year (at the expense of the United States), the country erupted in festivities and its president declared a national holiday.
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About 2,000 organizations there were hit on the eve of Constitution Day, a Ukrainian national holiday commemorating the country's first constitution after breaking away from the Soviet Union.
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"Foodborne illness is definitely a concern ahead of a national holiday that largely celebrates eating," said Dr. Michael Ben-Aderet, associate director of Hospital Epidemiology at Cedars-Sinai.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange will be closed for a national holiday on Friday and the benchmark Nikkei index is on track to end the shortened trading week flat.
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The notion that we should keep politics away from Thanksgiving is also at odds with the motivation for why it became a national holiday in the first place.
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In Atlanta nearly 60,000 people gathered Thursday morning to celebrate the national holiday by running the annual AJC Peachtree Road Race, which is marking its 50th birthday this year.
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The attempt to humiliate people with unpaid debts was done at peak traffic hours during the national holiday in order to expose them to as many people as possible.
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Djokovic has played five and had already booked a place in his sixth when the traditional festive fireworks lit up the skies over Melbourne to celebrate the national holiday.
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Saturday was the start of the three-day Qingming festival national holiday for China, where people travel across the nation to pay respects to their ancestors at grave sites.
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Before you get your panties in a bunch (sorry, had to) about celebrating yet another made-up national holiday — in your skivvies, no less — we're here to say relax.
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This was aided in part by a week-long national holiday when most of Macau's hotels operated at close to maximum capacity and visitation jumped 7 percent on year.
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Last year nearly three-quarters said that Reformation Day should be made a permanent national holiday; 61% wanted the entire country to get the equivalent of Bavaria's 13 days.
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According to Chinese financial services firm Wind Information, the Shanghai composite has closed higher on the first day of trading after the national holiday for the past five years.
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Activity in much of Baghdad crawled to a halt overnight as security forces deployed ahead of the demonstration, following a military parade in central Baghdad marking a national holiday.
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Election day isn't a national holiday, and for those with multiple jobs and families to take care of, finding time to stand in line and vote simply doesn't happen.
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He accepted an invitation from the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, to be on hand for Bastille Day, the national holiday that commemorates the start of the French Revolution.
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On a humid Sunday night, easily one thousand Santiagueros gathered in the city's central Plaza Marte to wile away the remaining hours of May Day, the biggest national holiday.
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No. 2628: Primaries Every state shall have its primary on the same spring day and election day should either become a national holiday or take place on a weekend.
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Sick Journalism Trump on Sunday said a "National Holiday would be immediately declared" if former President Obama had made the deals he has on the economy and the border.
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The bill includes provisions enable automatic automatic voter registration, strengthen resources to stave off foreign threats on elections and would make Election Day a national holiday for federal workers.
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For many stores, it's just too much of a headache, with online shopping draining customers and the potential for negative publicity for making employees work on a national holiday.
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Though Christmas isn't a national holiday in Thailand, spending time in the vibrant city of Bangkok over the holidays is nevertheless a fun and exciting experience you'll remember forever.
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Part of the slowdown from September was seasonal, with factories shut for a week-long national holiday and cutting output ahead of the Communist Party Congress earlier this month.
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And whether you're spending it inside by the AC or outside by the pool, one thing's for sure: The national holiday will afford you some extra time to read.
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But many Aboriginal people say that date marks a legacy of dispossession and a destruction of their culture, and the designation of the national holiday continues to be contested.
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Seeing that Fred died in Cherry Creek and with the national holiday around the corner, his body won't be transported back to Riverdale until after the Fourth of July.
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Martin Luther King Jr. As the nation celebrates King's national holiday Monday, it's easy to freeze-frame him as the benevolent dreamer carved in stone on the Washington Mall.
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The man drove a 19-tonne truck at high speed into crowds as a fireworks show to mark France's Bastille Day national holiday came to an end on Thursday.
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Baked ziti's terrific on a national holiday: a vat of deliciousness you can consume after a day spent outside, patrolling empty streets on a bike or in a car.
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In an answer to a question, she said she would support changes in voting laws that would allow for same-day registration and make Election Day a national holiday.
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Against her parents' advice, she had answered Mr Navalny's call to attend a rally on Russia's national holiday against corruption, and for his campaign for the presidential election in 212.
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The Pilgrims didn't arrive at Plymouth until 1621, but American Thanksgiving became a national holiday nearly a century before its Canadian counterpart did in 1879, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia.
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In a document filed late on Thursday, before a national holiday in Brazil, a technical board of the Cade antitrust authority approved the $11 billion transaction without imposing any restrictions.
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Local markets reopened after a national holiday the previous day, giving investors their first opportunity to react to the Brazilian and U.S. central banks' rate decisions and statements on Wednesday.
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We need people to be able to vote," Baker wrote, adding, "The fact that Election Day isn't a national holiday is in and of itself an act of voter suppression.
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Most recently, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation last year that would make Election Day a national holiday — but GovTrack rates the bill as having a zero percent chance of success.
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"I remember having [Stevie Wonder's] record 'Happy Birthday,' which was dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, and it helped get Dr. King's birthday to be a national holiday," Common shared.
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Dozens of people were killed on Thursday when a gunman drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd in Nice who were celebrating Bastille Day, France's national holiday.
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By the middle of the 19th century, most states had followed New York's lead, and in 0003, President Abraham Lincoln denoted the last Thursday of November as the national holiday.
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But Bastille day is so much more than a national holiday -- it fostered a culture of civil disobedience in France that inspired countless revolts, uprising, and demonstrations for centuries afterward.
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Turkish police on Monday issued a nationwide warning about possible Islamic State (IS) attacks on Thursday, a national holiday, after the army stepped up attacks on the militants in Syria.
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"The language around even establishing a decree... to make these birthdays a national holiday, requires that you have a certain number of accomplishments or achievements," Lee told VICE News Tonight.
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The rain-soaked rally, staged on a national holiday, also drew support from some healthcare workers and dozens of civil groups, organisers said on the Facebook page of the event.
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Within days of Mr Baghdadi's death, dozens of alleged IS sympathisers were detained, including three men suspected of planning a big attack in Istanbul on October 29th, a national holiday.
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Pagedale also made it a crime to have a basketball hoop or to host a barbecue in front of your house on any day that is not a national holiday.
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Lee, the director of "Do the Right Thing" and 2015's "Chi-Raq," said he had timed his announcement with the national holiday commemorating slain civil rights leader the Rev.
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No one here appreciates the American thrill I get from overspending, any more than they understand why we have a national holiday (Thanksgiving) during which you're practically obliged to overeat.
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The next debate aired Sunday night debate on NBC, a day before Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday and on the same day as two National Football League playoff games.
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Now, in honor of a less hyped but certainly just as important, national holiday — National Self Love Day — Activia is debuting the latest edition of its "It Starts Inside" campaign.
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This moment of serendipity is partly what prompted Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, co-founder of music distributor and site Weird Canada, to build a national holiday around the genre in 2014.
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Over the weekend, Beyoncé celebrated her birthday—the national holiday otherwise known as Bey Day—in Philadelphia at the Made in America music festival, founded by her husband, Jay-Z.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia postponed a referendum on a constitutional change to term limits and ordered a weeklong national holiday to help halt the spread of the coronavirus.
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Japan's benchmark index was on course to gain 1.5 percent for the week, which was shortened to four days of trading in Japan due to a national holiday on Monday.
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During that time, North Korea celebrated a national holiday — the birth of founding father Kim Il-Sung on April 15 — and hosted a marathon that includes hundreds of international competitors.
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Russian military intelligence, which tends to harass Ukraine, used EnternalBlue to build a crude ransomware worm called "NotPetya," designed to lock up Ukrainian government computers the day before a national holiday.
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For one, his birthday is marked as a normal weekday, and hasn't been declared a national holiday, unlike Kim Il-sung's on April 20123 and Kim Jong-il's on Feb. 16.
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It did this just days before a major national holiday in the United States, and is giving the public just three weeks to react before the rollback will be voted on.
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Japanese markets reopened after a three-day weekend due to a national holiday on Monday, with the Nikkei ending 2.63 percent higher to 22.6,211, the highest closing level since June 24.4.
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A Japanese government source gave no comment on whether Tokyo had intervened in the middle of a national holiday and dealers said trading volumes were too low to suggest it had.
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Today is the 206th celebration of the national holiday, and to honor the occasion we're highlighting six Mexican artists continuing the tradition of independence by making beautiful loops for the internet.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs voted overwhelmingly in a referendum on Sunday to keep their national holiday despite a ruling by Bosnia's highest court that the vote was illegal.
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"Martin Luther King Jr. would say, 'Love, not hate, will make America great,' " added Martin Luther King III, who was in Washington, D.C., to mark the national holiday celebrating his father.
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Just before a weeklong national holiday in October, local officials told the farm's owners that they needed to get rid of all of their animals within five days, Ms. Chen said.
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Frank: I'm going to be a glutton (which is, admittedly, my default setting) and say that I want early voting and the national holiday, but I'm not meaning to be gluttonous.
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The attack that started in Ukraine appeared to have been timed to hit the day before a national holiday celebrating the country's first constitution after breaking away from the Soviet Union.
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Mr. Lewis said Martin Luther King Jr. Day was especially poignant this year because America's first black president, Barack Obama, will leave office on the same week as the national holiday.
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Thanksgiving is basically the national holiday on which we all stuff our faces with turkey and pie until we can barely move, and roll ourselves onto the couch for a nap.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange will be closed for a national holiday on Friday and the benchmark Nikkei index is now on track to end the shortened trading week 4.7 percent lower.
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With an act of Congress in 1971, the day was proclaimed a national holiday for the last Monday in May and expanded to honor all who have died in American wars.
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DC's tourist population balloons around the national holiday, and the introduction of new entertainment paired with Trump's address could congest the National Mall even further and prevent tourists from utilizing certain locations.
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I attended a Fourth of July celebration in Moscow a number of years ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how many Russians had come to congratulate us on our national holiday.
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Maduro had decreed a national holiday for the first day of a plan that will slash five zeros from prices in a bid to tame hyperinflation, as part of his economic package.
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Of course, that's not surprising given the many parties thrown around the event and the fact that 32% of workers believe the day after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday.
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The biggest talking point in the market was what North Korea will do on its national holiday on Saturday given it has tended to conduct missile tests on the country's important holidays.
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In Mexico, Mother's Day is celebrated on May 10 and it is a near-national holiday, where many businesses let employees leave at midday and restaurants overflow with families honoring their matriarchs.
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She explains how France's national holiday became a day of national mourning after after a truck drove into a large crowd celebrating Bastille Day, killing at least 84 and injuring dozens more.
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More than 230 people have died in militant attacks in France during the past two years, including 86 in last year's July 14 national holiday celebrations in the Riviera resort of Nice.
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Nations marching side-by-side On Friday, Trump will be the guest of honor at a military parade marking Bastille Day, the national holiday that commemorates the start of the French Revolution.
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A week-long national holiday in China is providing a much-needed boost for the entertainment and retail industry in London, with Chinese tourists taking advantage of the dip in exchange rates.
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The greenback rose to a seven-week high Monday and the yield on the two-year Treasury note rose to levels not seen since 2008 on Monday ahead of the national holiday.
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" Apparently, the contrast was clear to MLK's son as well, who spoke out on his father's national holiday, saying: "Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.
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Then, Benbow hypothesized, the rich would elect a more worker-friendly congress who would, in turn, grant the citizens a national holiday of rest, debt-forgiveness, and even freedom for some prisoners.
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This distance from Buenos Aires is expected to ease the tension of his visit to the country on this important anniversary and national holiday, the National Day for Memory,Truth, and Justice.
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King's life achievements have been honored with a national holiday (January 15), public buildings named after him and the first memorial on the National Mall in Washington dedicated to an African-American.
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But the observance of his birthday as a national holiday isn't so much about feasting as, increasingly, it is about service — a day "on," they say, rather than a simple day off.
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James DeMonaco's "Purge" films centered on the 12-hour period when all crime is legal in a near-future dystopian America, a national holiday celebrated as an extreme exercise in stress relief.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb leaders commemorated their autonomous republic's national holiday in freezing cold on Monday, defying a Constitutional Court ban and stoking the ethnic tensions that drove Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
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MĂ©lanie Joly, the federal minister of Canadian heritage who, among other things, oversees the national holiday decorations in Ottawa, tweeted that she loved the Montreal tree, but she added a winking emoji.
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One more week 'til we can enjoy the unofficial national holiday that is Super Bowl LII ... but until then, enjoy these pics of famous fanatics reppin' their favorite teams on the sidelines.
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BEIJING, Feb 20930 (Reuters) - Shanghai zinc fell more than 20930 percent on Monday, the first trading session after a week-long national holiday, tracking a drop in London prices in the previous session.
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Video of the prank showed the comedian, Shady Abu Zaid, and a young actor, Ahmed Malek, pretending to celebrate a national holiday in honor of Egypt's police by giving unwitting officers the balloons.
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The two hulking celebrities got a sweaty start to the national holiday Wednesday and Jackman could not help but snap a selfie with the former Govenator at the original Gold's Gym in Venice.
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" He also suggests that opening day will be declared a "national holiday," which isn't so far-fetched, considering he says the film's director, James Gunn, will soon be elected "president of the world.
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More than 27 people have been killed in militant attacks in France over the past two years, including 853 during last year's July 285 national holiday celebrations in the Riviera resort of Nice.
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There aren't too many foods that are simultaneously the basis for a juice we give to children, a dish we fetishize on a national holiday, and the antidote for a really painful illness.
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Paris authorities had banned 'yellow vest' demonstrations near the parade but several groups linked to the movement had called for gatherings around the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day, a national holiday in France.
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More than 230 people have been killed in militant attacks in France over the past two years, including 86 during this year's July 14 national holiday celebrations in the Riviera resort of Nice.
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" Lee accompanied his statement with a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., writing that it was "no coincidence" that his post falls on the national holiday celebrating the civil rights leader. "Dr.
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Chinese investors, returning after a week-long national holiday, seemed to focus more on downbeat news than optimism China expressed on Monday about a new round of trade talks with the United States.
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Authorities are on high alert before a national holiday on Thursday, which police fear could be a target after last week's attack on crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French resort of Nice.
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Chinese blue-chips lost more than 6 percent at one point in the morning session, having closed higher before a three-day national holiday amid expectations that pressures on China's economy were easing.
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Pedro Pardal Henriques, vice president of the National Hazardous Materials Drivers' Union that called the strike, told journalists he was ready to sit down with employer association ANTRAM on Thursday, a national holiday.
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Chinese blue-chips lost more than 20183 percent at one point in the morning session, having closed higher before a three-day national holiday amid expectations that pressures on China's economy were easing.
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Friday is the birthday of the queen, Sirikit, a national holiday, and some of the bombs were reported to have gone off after the national anthem, which is customarily played at 8 a.m.
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Moulton's campaign has unveiled a similar plan — one that would implement automatic voter registration, make Election Day a national holiday, restore felons' voting rights, and grant statehood to Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.
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We felt lucky to be there during Throne Day, a national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the accession of the current King Mohammed VI, and to see fireworks light up the entire medina.
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Short on specifics, the president's missive suggested that the incident happened at some point during the long weekend and that it represented the moral rot at the heart of a beloved national holiday.
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The award, handed out on the eve of the Australia Day national holiday, was also won by Lleyton Hewitt in 2003 - the year after he won his second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon.
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Lopez Obrador said it was very likely the government would make an announcement about tenders for the refinery on March 18, a national holiday that celebrates the 1938 nationalization of Mexico's oil industry.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian top seed Ash Barty said she was proud of her indigenous heritage but deflected questions about a contentious national holiday after advancing to the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday.
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Trump are in France to celebrate Bastille Day, the French national holiday, and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the American entry into World War I, a conflict largely fought on French soil.
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In Japan, the first three days of the year, a national holiday called Oshogatsu, are spent with family eating an elaborate array of New Year's food, called osechi ryori, from large lacquerware boxes.
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To the Editor: Re "Squalor Pervasive in Detention Centers" (front page, July 3): The Fourth of July is our national holiday to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and the birth of our nation.
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Bath & Body Works fans celebrate Candle Day like a national holiday: This past Saturday, every small-town mall in America was mobbed by fans trying to get in on the $9 candle action.
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A truck drove into a crowd and killed dozens of people on a beach in Nice, France, who had gathered there to watch fireworks for the national holiday Bastille Day late Thursday night.
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While the China national holiday and the planned maintenance will slow its deliveries for October, it remained on track to achieve delivery goal of 10,000 ES8s for the second half of 2018, NIO said.
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"Due to storms in Porto (13 Oct) a number of flights diverted to Malaga and as this was a Spanish national holiday, hotels were fully booked," Ryanair previously said, according to the Irish Times.
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Trump made a brief stop at the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in downtown Cairo, driving through streets nearly deserted because of a national holiday marking the 45th anniversary of Egypt's 1973 war with Israel.
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Calls to change the date of Australia's national holiday are not new, but the vandalism of Captain Cook's statue has renewed the debate about the day and how the country remembers its colonial past.
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In a decree signed by Argentinian President Mauricio Macri, the government declared Friday a national holiday, and encouraged anyone not involved in the G20 to get out of the city for a long weekend.
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An accident of timing, the article ran on the front page of the paper on Canada Day, a national holiday in that country, and incited a giant response from readers all over the globe.
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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) on Thursday introduced a resolution to make "El DĂa de los Niños," or Children's Day, a national holiday in the U.S. to be celebrated on April 30.
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Many things that King may never have envisioned—the celebration of his birth as a national holiday, the explosive growth in black political representation, particularly the election of Barack Obama—have come to pass.
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While the government that removed him with military assistance had declared his birthday as a national holiday, his successor and former deputy Mnangagwa did not mention him in a televised speech on the day.
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Lee, the director of such films as "Do the Right Thing" and 2015's "Chi-Raq," said he was coinciding his boycott announcement with the national holiday commemorating slain civil rights leader the Rev.
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On Thursday, a national holiday in India, adults and children carry bags or buckets of brightly colored powder, as well as bottles and water guns, to spray, smear and drench one another with color.
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"My mother was grateful for being the instrument God used to honor Dr. King with a national holiday," said attorney Junifer Hall, founder and CEO of the Katie Hall Educational Foundation in Gary, Ind.
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Which brings me to today, Valentine's Day, the day of love and also objectively the shittest national holiday because nobody gets time off and all the basic couples in your life are even worse.
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But this attack seemed to have a more specific purpose: Targeting computers in Ukraine ahead of a national holiday celebrating the creation of the country's first Constitution after breaking away from the Soviet Union.
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President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill creating a national holiday in King's name in 1983, and King's vision remains the foundational lexicon of the fight for racial equality in the United States.
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"The North Koreans love to put on a big show for their big national holiday," Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the U.S.-based Center for the National Interest, told CNBC on Monday.
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It won't be long until "Love Island" fills every month on the calendar, with a national holiday to mark the final and a mandatory period of mourning for the two-day break between series.
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"France was hit on the day of her national holiday, the 14th of July, symbol of liberty, because the rights of man are denied by fanatics and France is inevitably their target," Hollande said.
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TEHRAN — Iran marked its national holiday on Friday with nationwide rallies with far less of the usual vitriol for the United States, in what seemed a move calculated to avoid further inciting President Trump.
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Five years ago, the arrival of Monaco's royal twins — Prince Jacques Honore Rainier, Marquis of Baux and Princess Gabriella Therese Marie, Countess of Carlades — resulted in a national holiday, complete with a cannon salute.
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Just as with Santa Claus, children write letters to the Magi asking for gifts which are left for them on January 6, a national holiday in Spain, and the celebration is more popular than Christmas.
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In addition to pointing to still robust demand, some of the surge in September imports may be due to companies "front loading" supplies ahead of a week-long national holiday in early October, analysts said.
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At least 80 people are dead after a truck plowed on Thursday night into a crowd assembled in the Southern French city of Nice to watch fireworks for July 14, Bastille Day, France's national holiday.
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At least 103 people are dead after a truck plowed on Thursday night into a crowd assembled in the Southern French city of Nice to watch fireworks for July 14, Bastille Day, France's national holiday.
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The ad from Petronas, a Malaysian oil and gas company, comes just in time for the weekend's Hindu Festival of Lights, Diwali, celebrated as a national holiday in India and in many parts of Asia.
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Thanksgiving, a national holiday of reconciliation, took on greater significance in America this year as families tried to put political differences aside and find common ground in their love of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie.
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At around 11:30 pm local time, a truck drove into a crowd of people watching fireworks on the beach for Bastille Day, France's national holiday, crushing revelers over a stretch of approximately 1.2 miles.
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In addition to pointing to buoyant demand, some of the surge in September imports may have been due to companies "front loading" supplies ahead of a week-long national holiday in early October, analysts said.
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Mayor Robert F. Wagner made him an honorary New Yorker in 1964, and the city began recognizing a day in his honor in 1970, 16 years before it would be observed as a national holiday.
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This is a group that celebrates PRIDE like a national holiday, and a handful of the stars on Vanderpump Rules identify as LGBTQ+, including Ariana Madix who officially came out as bisexual publicly this year.
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BEIJING — China's top trade negotiator, Liu He, will lead the country's delegation to the U.S. for the next round of discussions one week after China's National Holiday, Commerce Ministry Vice Minister Wang Shouwen said Sunday.
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Moon said during a speech marking a national holiday commemorating Korean resistance to Japanese occupation - his first since taking office last year - that Japan was in no position to declare the emotionally charged issue settled.
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This was the AFL-NFL World Championship, the 21967 origin of the Super Bowl, an event that has become a virtual national holiday in the United States and is celebrating its 285th anniversary game on Feb.
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Major national holiday though it may be, Thanksgiving lacks the endless narrative possibilities of Halloween, the romance of New Year's Eve, and the built-in soundtrack, palette, and characters that come with the expertly branded Christmas.
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During China's week-long "Golden Week" national holiday in October, Japan leapfrogged Thailand for the first time to become the most popular destination for Chinese tourists, according to a report from Chinese online travel agency Ctrip.
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The moves were seen by some analysts as pre-emptive ahead of the week-long National Holiday starting on Sunday, which is usually considered a peak sales window as migrant workers head home to purchase properties.
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For Jews in Israel, where many Moroccans immigrated in the decades after its founding in 1948, Mimouna is now practically a national holiday, as Jews of all backgrounds break the bread that has been temporarily forbidden.
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The long-planned celebrations, for which Japan declared a national holiday, were tempered following Typhoon Hagibis, which killed at least 82 people when it tore through Japan 10 days ago, and pouring rain early on Tuesday.
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In addition to her work on the museum, Roberts-Joseph was one of the leading voices in the fight to recognize Juneteenth, the unofficial holiday commemorating the abolishment of slavery in America, as a national holiday.
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Japanese markets will be closed for a national holiday on Friday, with many investors in Tokyo positioning ahead of that, market participants said, though most were wary of taking aggressive bets before the U.S. jobs data.
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In my homeland, Gandhi's day of birth is a national holiday, and across the world it is a day of commemoration -- a time reserved to celebrate the principles Gandhi espoused, especially his steadfast commitment to nonviolence.
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Japanese markets were closed for a national holiday on Wednesday, and investors returned to the market on Thursday to see that the dollar rose as high as 213 yen on Wednesday, its loftiest peak since March.
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Among them were Voinovich Park, considered a prime spot for firework viewing and on July 4 is usually bustling with families enjoying the national holiday, and the U.S. Coast Guard Station, also located in downtown Cleveland.
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In what seemed to be a bid to create a safer environment for the event, Mr. Ghani on short notice declared Tuesday a national holiday, with the police blocking all except official traffic from the roads.
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Editorial Observer On this St. Patrick's Day, the closest thing America has to a national holiday of immigration, unless you count Thanksgiving, feast of the undocumented Pilgrim, let us pause to honor the immigrants everybody loves.
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Booker's voting rights proposal — which would make Election Day a national holiday and expand voting by mail, among other things — "is a glimpse at the activist spirit of his candidacy," Darren Sands of BuzzFeed News writes.
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He also wants to make U.S. voting day a national holiday, making it easier for people to get to the polls, expand voting by mail, extend early voting and place polling stations in easily accessible, "iconic" locations.
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The plan from the Democratic former congressman from Texas also seeks to dramatically increase voting access through steps that include automatic and same-day registration and expanded early voting -- and turning Election Day into a national holiday.
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SYDNEY — A teenager was charged with plotting a terrorist attack on an Australian veteran's day ceremony, police said Monday, the second year in a row authorities say they have thwarted an attack linked to the national holiday.
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For the vast majority of the American population not close enough to Swift's thumping heart to garner an invitation, ogling her guests, their matching bathing suits, and their nearly identical figures became part of the national holiday.
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Without giving details, Lopez Obrador said new plans for the company would be announced on March 18, a national holiday in Mexico that commemorates the 1938 nationalization of the country's oil industry and the birth of Pemex.
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Trump has made a number of incendiary comments about Mexicans, including calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, and tweeting a photo of himself eating a taco bowl as a celebration of Mexican national holiday Cinco de Mayo.
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For the twin Presidential visit coming on the eve of France's national holiday, in a restaurant which offers gold dust on its Valentine's Day desserts, guests can expect something tweaked with shades of red, white and blue.
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" Slate advice columnist Mallory Ortberg offers some great words of wisdom nearly every time a birthday or national holiday rolls around that essentially boils down to "you are not obligated to attend should you not feel comfortable.
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And that's why it's good and necessary to insist that some of the world's top engineering talent work around the clock on a national holiday and weekend to create an extremely niche and timely piece of technology.
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Larger policies that could be considered are measures to hold voting on weekends when many people's schedules are more flexible, making Election Day a national holiday, or encouraging businesses to give employees the day off to vote.
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It might not be the typical way to celebrate the American national holiday dedicated to the leader of the civil rights movement, but for some sororities and fraternities in the Pacific Northwest, it's a long-running tradition.
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"From co-founding the Congressional Black Caucus to leading the fight in Congress to enshrine Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday, John Conyers' impact on our city and nation will never be forgotten," Duggan said.
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Australian Teenager Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail for Anzac Day Terror Plot Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, planned to run over and behead a police officer during a parade in Melbourne for the national holiday in 2015.
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Experts at Cisco's threat intelligence arm Talos on Wednesday first called attention to VPNFilter, warning that hackers are ramping up malware attacks against Ukraine, infecting thousands of devices ahead of an upcoming national holiday in the country.
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Supporters of the reporter, Ivan Golunov, have held round-the-clock protests outside Police Headquarters in central Moscow and have called for a march on the building on Wednesday, which is Russia Day, the country's national holiday.
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He wants to appoint a White House psychologist, "make taxes fun" by turning April 15 into a national holiday and put into effect "digital social credits," a kind of gamified reward system to encourage socially productive behavior.
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One is that Mother's Day has just been around longer — as Edwards explains, the mother of Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, created the holiday in 1908, and President Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday six years later.
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Few expect football to change politics quickly, but musings on the future were especially pointed on Wednesday as the Dutch-speaking half of the country marked its own "national" holiday, commemorating a 14th-century victory — over the French.
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SARAJEVO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Bosnia's top court upheld a ban on a national holiday in the autonomous Serb Republic, saying its date, which coincides with an Orthodox Christian holiday, discriminated against the region's Muslims Bosniaks and Catholic Croatians.
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This week, President Nicolás Maduro declared that every Friday for the next two months will be a national holiday, a desperate move to conserve power as water levels at the country's hydroelectric dams fall to perilously low levels.
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While it's become increasingly accepted that Amazon putting up some sales in the middle of summer is some kind of new national holiday, it's getting harder to separate the standard crap from the top-of-the-line bullshit.
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After a cold morning ceremony in the palace courtyard and a cathedral mass (which the children did not attend), the principality's national holiday turned to the palace balcony where Monaco has been saluting its Sovereign's Day since 1857.
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Japanese markets reopened after a three-day weekend due to a national holiday on Monday, with the Nikkei gaining 23.8 percent to 22020,24.4 in midmorning trade, after rising as high as 22,752.03, the highest point since June 21.
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The March 18 anniversary of President Lazaro Cardenas' expropriation of U.S. and British oil companies, a national holiday in Mexico, is typically a day when a wide range of political, industry and labor officials heap praise on Pemex.
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The Japanese financial markets were closed on Monday for a national holiday and had their first chance to react to the robust U.S. wages data on Tuesday, with the Nikkei climbing to its highest level since August 2015.
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In addition to declaring Election Day a national holiday, which, to be sure, has its own complexities, such as potentially harming hourly employees, the law would also expand early voting and vote-by-mail/vote-at-home opportunities.
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None will have the seniority and influence of Mr. Conyers, whose signature legislative legacy includes helping found the Congressional Black Caucus and being the first lawmaker to propose the establishment of a Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.
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Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly made the announcement Monday during a ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday commemorating the life of the slain civil rights leader.
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BEIJING, Feb 21 (Reuters) - China's industrial metals mostly went up on Friday ahead of the week-long national holiday, as expectations of progress in high-level trade talks between China and the United States shored up market sentiment.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of Islamic State celebrated on social media an attack in France by a truck that ran into crowds watching a fireworks display on the Bastille Day national holiday, killing at least 73 people and injuring 100.
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But those behind the attack in Cairo timed it to coincide with Sunday Mass for the Coptic Christians, next to their most important cathedral, on the eve of a national holiday marking the birth of the Islamic prophet Muhammed.
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Coming together under the hashtags #Nice06 and #RechercheNice (#SearchNice) users have posted photos and descriptions of their friends, sisters, brothers and other relatives who were in Nice when a truck drove into the massive crowds celebrating the National holiday.
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LONDON — It was one of the most celebrated Twitter posts in British political memory, one that has been retweeted tens of thousands of times, spawned an unofficial national holiday and inspired tributes in everything from verse to baked goods.
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After Japan's national holiday on Monday, investors returned to the market to see the yen had weakened over the weekend as U.S. wage data from the September labour market report was seen as a sign of potentially improving inflation.
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On the road back to Macerata and the Fascist-era monument where Mr. Traini had been arrested, she responded to a question about what she was doing for the national holiday the following day, marking Italy's liberation from Fascism.
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In a televised address to the nation from his country residence outside Moscow, Mr. Putin stopped short of imposing a nationwide lockdown — as India and several European countries have done — but ordered a weeklong national holiday starting on Saturday.
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On the national holiday itself, Matteo Salvini, Italy's rightist anti-immigrant deputy prime minister and interior minister, chose not to participate in the commemoration, dismissing it as a "Fascist-Communist derby," a meaningless confrontation of the right and left.
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Chinese face mask manufacturers are reopening factories shut for a national holiday, promising workers up to four times their normal wages as consumers emptied out stock in stores in a race to protect themselves from the new coronavirus infection.
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Christian Estrosi, regional government head in the greater Nice area, said policing was lighter than Prime Minister Manuel Valls claimed, and that concrete blocks were not deployed to seal roads off during the national holiday festivities of July 14.
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The day had been declared a national holiday "to free resources" for victims of the earlier attacks, though many suggested that the main motive was to shut down the city for security reasons to make the Indonesian's visit possible.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's imports of iron ore fell to a 10-month low in February, customs data showed on Friday, curbed by a slowdown in trade during a week-long national holiday and a steep run-up in prices.
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For some of us, the first Monday in May is an unspoken national holiday, where we take a break from working around 5 PM to bear witness to all the lewks being served up on the Met Gala's pink carpet.
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Hong Kong-listed gaming stocks rose after Macau casino revenue rose 16.1 percent in September from a year earlier, heading into a bumper National Holiday week which is expected to see strong visitor traffic to the world's biggest casino hub.
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"If President Obama made the deals that I have made, both at the Border and for the Economy, the Corrupt Media would be hailing them as Incredible, & a National Holiday would be immediately declared," Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) who has been a prominent member of the leave campaign, claimed victory, saying June 23 would become known as the U.K.'s "Independence Day" and should be declared a national holiday.
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Warren also aims to expand voter registration and participation, including by requiring automatic registration at government offices, same-day registration at polling places, 15-day early voting, and vote by mail, as well as by making Election Day a national holiday.
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For one thing, it's not a designated national holiday, and as a kid, I didn't understand why it would be a "real" New Year if you didn't get a day to stay home and celebrate like you would on January 1.
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Why it matters: Officials said that the fire spread more easily through the centuries-old, winding district of Chawkbazar due to routine flouting of building regulations — and the response was compounded by road closures for Bangladesh's national holiday commemorations on Thursday.
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Law enforcement authorities in the States and other Western countries will have to consider the vulnerabilities to vehicular attacks of large, packed crowds of the kind that we saw jamming the waterfront in Nice celebrating their national holiday on Thursday.
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But, says Jean H. Lee, director of the Korea program at Wilson Center, it's most likely that it's just too early in the development of Kim Jong Un's personality cult to see the establishment of a national holiday on his birthday.
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Today in Whistler, BC and Banff, Alberta, two of Canada's most picturesque, prominent ski towns, thousands of Australians have collectively taken to the mountains to snowboard, smoke weed, do coke, and drink excessively for Australia Day, their home country's national holiday.
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The party could push a fair elections package, including greater access to the polls, making Election Day a national holiday, and legislation creating bipartisan or nonpartisan commissions to set boundaries for seats in state legislatures and the House of Representatives.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Gambling revenue in Macau jumped 16.53 percent in October, beating expectations to hit a three-year high as a national holiday week saw visitors stream into the world's biggest casino hub and big bets from VIP punters.
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The spike in the Shanghai premium may have included an element of panic buying ahead of the Golden Week national holiday but it's noticeable that the premium has fallen only as far as $200, matching its previous high in 2017.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's vehicles sales in March rose 245.19 percent from a year earlier to 22017 million, an industry body said on Wednesday, strengthening after a week-long national holiday led to a steep drop in sales a month earlier.
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Investors returned from Japan's national holiday on Monday to see the yen had weakened over the weekend as strong U.S. wage data was seen as a sign of potentially rising inflation, hinting at Federal Reserve rate hikes and a strengthening dollar.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb lawmakers voted on Tuesday to make a national holiday a purely secular event in a bid to heed a court ruling that it was an act of religious discrimination against the region's non-Serb inhabitants.
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When all is said and done, everyone is performatively regretful of how much they ate, but low-key very smugly happy with themselves because it's a goddamn national holiday and they have tradition as an excuse for their bad choices.
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Al Sharpton and James Brown visit the White House to lobby for a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. February 221, 22851: "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC with Bill Murray as the first guest.
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Crime It's Thanksgiving Day in Richard Lange's latest novel, THE SMACK (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $26), and Rowan Petty is doing what he always does on a national holiday and every other day — swindling gullible people out of their hard-earned cash.
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On Thursday, as university officials strategized on how to handle Ms. Coulter's demands, thousands of students lounged on a lawn outside a library building and smoked pot in celebration of April 20, a kind of national holiday for marijuana lovers.
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The Super Bowl has come to represent a lot of things, but stripped to its core, it's effectively a national holiday celebrating two American traditions that have gone hand in hand since the mid-20th century, pro football and watching television.
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El Mundo newspaper reported 65,000 turned out on Thursday, at least 10 times more than on last year's national holiday, but only a fifth of the crowd that turned out to oppose independence last weekend, calling themselves the "silent majority".
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U.S. Cyber Command released samples of North Korea's government-funded malware to researchers during the early hours of North Korea's Day of the Foundation of the Republic — a move seemingly timed to unnerve the hermit nation during a national holiday.
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North Korea's "Day of the Sun" is a national holiday marking the birthday of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of Kim Jong Un. The occasion is used to parade North Korea's highly synchronized soldiers and latest weaponry.
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The 31-year-old leader said the anti-establishment group would organize peaceful walks and rallies in all Italian cities, including an event in Rome on June 2 - a national holiday celebrating when the country became a republic in 1946.
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When confronted with too much of a good thing, our strategy is to find some outside inspiration to channel into the decision-making process, and we couldn't but think of a certain upcoming national holiday with a particular, tried-and-true color scheme.
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But for others, the national holiday is best spent shimmying through the New York streets at the West Indian Day Carnival parade decked out in head to toe feathers and rhinestones, as Danielle Brooks so perfectly illustrated in her latest Instagram post.
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It's remarkable to see these waves of people who are coming here, all of them carrying flowers, all of them to pay their respects to the late leader on this national holiday, what would have been 75th birthday of Kim Jong-Il.
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"Cuba roundly rejects such insinuation and claims absolute respect for the sovereignty and the self-determination of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Communist Party, said in a speech to mark a Cuban national holiday.
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DĂa De Los Muertos was also not a national holiday in Mexico for some time, and actually wasn't celebrated by certain parts of the country early on — they preferred to hold onto the Catholic holidays of All Saints' and All Souls' Day.
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That is why I think it does us some good as a nation of millions to not just say we love King on his birthday, to not just honor him with the national holiday, or even by doing service on that day.
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The share market re-opened after a national holiday in Japan on Thursday, when the dollar tumbled to a nearly four-week low of 20.2 yen in reaction to the U.S. Federal Reserve paring its longer-term expectations for interest rate increases.
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SHANGHAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - China's central bank on Monday set the midpoint for the yuan currency weaker than the psychological 6.7 yuan per dollar level after a week-long national holiday during which offshore yuan touched nine-month lows against the dollar.
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I must, however, point out that he is a civil rights legend who was closely associated with Dr. Martin Luther King, cofounded the Congressional Black Caucus, led the campaign to make MLK Day a national holiday, and employed Rosa Parks for two decades.
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Martin Luther King Jr., once dubbed the "most dangerous negro," has a national holiday in his honor; explicit segregation and overt discrimination are universally condemned (but nevertheless ubiquitous); Black Panther destroyed the box office last year; and heck, we had a black president.
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PARIS (Reuters) - There is no hostage situation in Nice where dozens of people were killed in the French Riviera city when a truck ploughed into a crowd on France's Bastille Day national holiday, a spokesman for the French interior ministry said on Thursday.
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In 2007, Soma and a former partner founded the Back to the City Festival, an event dedicated to breaking South African hip-hop artists that takes place every year on April 27, Freedom Day, a national holiday to commemorate the 1994 election.
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ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's parliament called on Wednesday for the capital city to be renamed after President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a week ahead of a national holiday dedicated to the 76-year-old leader who has the power to accept or reject the proposal.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese face mask manufacturers are reopening factories shut for a national holiday, promising workers up to four times their normal wages as consumers emptied out stock in stores in a race to protect themselves from the new coronavirus infection.
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"Pollutant emissions from heavy industry and residential heating, which account for two-thirds of the total in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, did not decline during the national holiday," said the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) in a statement on Thursday.
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HONG KONG — Antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong rallied in a downtown park, occupied a major road and blanketed several neighborhoods with pro-democracy artwork on Saturday, days before a sensitive national holiday that will commemorate 70 years of Communist rule in China.
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Friday's national holiday, much like the U.S. Fourth of July, marks the beginning of republican democracy in the country, and will be a symbolic day for the two men who have fought hard to eradicate establishment politics and to represent the average man.
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"Pollutant emissions from heavy industry and residential heating, which account for two-thirds of the total in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, did not decline during the national holiday," said the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) in a statement on Thursday.
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BRASILIA, June 21 (Reuters) - Brazilian stocks surged to a fresh all-time high on Friday, with markets reopening after a national holiday the previous day and sentiment boosted by the increasing likelihood of interest rate cuts at home and abroad later this year.
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Streets were quiet and shops were closed due to a national holiday that Maduro decreed for the first day of the new pricing plan for the stricken economy, which the International Monetary Fund has estimated will have 963 million percent inflation by year end.
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In Israel, where officials have lobbied countries for years to move their diplomatic missions to Jerusalem, which Israel claims as its capital, there is speculation a US announcement could be made as early as May 24 -- "Jerusalem Day" in Israel, a celebratory national holiday.
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The protest Navalny was due to attend took place on Tverskaya Street leading up to the Kremlin and Red Square, which was hosting historical re-enactments of Russian military achievements to mark Russia Day, the national holiday dedicated to the 1990 declaration of sovereignty.
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The millennium-old art of falconry has an advantage over gun use, he said, in cases where large crowds are present, such as during annual street parades where thousands turn out to see fireworks shows or the country's president on July 14, a national holiday.
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In honor of the King national holiday, we visited his Atlanta boyhood home; historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he began his ministry; his gravesite; and the Center for Civil and Human Rights to ask people what the day, and King's legacy, means to them.
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It marks the second time North Korea has been unsuccessful in an attempt to launch a missile on April 5 — known as Day of the Sun and the most important national holiday on the North Korean calendar — after a similar attempt failed in 363.
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It marks the second time North Korea has been unsuccessful in an attempt to launch a missile on April 5 — known as Day of the Sun and the most important national holiday on the North Korean calendar — after a similar attempt failed in 2012.
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Because his state doesn't have early voting, and because our country puts Election Day on a Tuesday and doesn't make it a national holiday, he had to make a special plan to fit voting around getting his kids ready for school and going to work.
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While some believe making Election Day a national holiday could transform voting culture in the U.S., more research is needed to truly understand the impact, as Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law recently told USA Today.
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You sit around working inside on a national holiday while the rest of the country is out having fun making sure they have an extremely terrible day back at work on Tuesday, and all you want is to find some interesting news or stories.
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Worthwhile reforms like automatic voter registration (now limited to Vermont, Oregon, California and West Virginia), online voting, and voting on weekends or a special national holiday instead of on Tuesdays would not necessarily increase voter turnout much, if many continue to see voting as ineffectual.
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The national holiday fell on the last Tuesday of the month, and a sizable portion of the country's work force opted to take a four-day weekend, leaving few hands on deck during Monday morning business hours at a shipping company in this port city.
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Japanese markets will be closed on Friday due to a national holiday, with investors carefully awaiting the outcome of Black Friday sales that follow Thursday's U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday, at a time when wages are rising and consumer confidence is high in the United States.
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From its humble beginnings in 1967 under the unwieldy label of NFL-AFL World Championship in Los Angeles, to its status as a quasi U.S. national holiday and money-making machine, these 16 have gone to 15 different locales over five decades of football.
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Streets were quiet and shops were closed due to a national holiday that Maduro decreed for the first day of the new pricing plan for the stricken economy, which the International Monetary Fund has estimated will have 1 million percent inflation by year end.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Chinese face mask manufacturers are reopening factories shut for a national holiday, promising workers up to four times their normal wages as consumers emptied out stock in stores in a race to protect themselves from the new coronavirus infection.
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A woman based in China who works with an airline running international flights said by telephone that local governments around Xinjiang, especially in the southern part, where there are Uighur oasis towns, have imposed the passport restrictions since a weeklong national holiday in early October.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Casinos in the world's biggest casino hub of Macau extended a 14 month winning streak in September with revenue up 16.1 percent, priming for a bumper national holiday week which is expected to see strong visitor traffic in the southern Chinese territory.
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The initial call for a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader came from union leaders as a part of contract negotiations, though Representative John Conyers first introduced a bill in Congress to make the leader's birthday a national holiday shortly after King's death in 1968.
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It's happened countless times: I buy a plane ticket to a foreign country and then discover I've scheduled my trip during a national holiday, or the first week of school vacation or some other time where hotels may be overbooked, local flights pricey, restaurants closed, streets deserted.
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Ford's sluggish run comes as China's overall vehicles sales in March strengthened after a week-long national holiday - which saw sales drop steeply a month earlier - growing 4.7 percent from a year earlier to 217 million, according to data released earlier this week by an industry body.
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"Japanese commercial orders should keep the dollar in check today, as some players cover positions ahead of the long weekend," said a strategist at a foreign exchange research firm in Tokyo, referring to the fact that Japanese markets will be closed for a national holiday on Friday.
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"By pursuing the Euphrates Shield operation, which is crucial for our national security and for our neighbors' security, the Turkish Armed Forces are showing they have lost none of their strength," Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar said in a statement to mark a national holiday.
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You see, that's the funny thing — really why it became remembered is because the government made it a national holiday so every Catholic in the land, and everyone thinking about treason, would remember the 5th of November and why they shouldn't do what they're thinking of doing.
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The protest against Mr. Maduro on May Day, a national holiday for workers in Venezuela, was a test for Mr. GuaidĂł in his ambition to claim the leadership of a country suffering from a crumbling economy that has left the population lacking food and medical care.
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A woman answering the phones on Tuesday night at the Ganzhou Public Security Bureau, the municipal unit of the Jiangxi Province Public Security Bureau, said that an official statement, if any, would have to wait until Wednesday, after the end of a three-day, national holiday.
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I'll fight to make Election Day a national holiday, require all federal elections to have a minimum of 15 days of early voting, expand voting hours, allow the option to vote with a sworn statement of identity instead of an ID, and offer voting by mail.
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When a truck plowed into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, late Thursday night, killing at least 70, it destroyed what was otherwise a joyous scene: residents and tourists gathered along a popular stretch of beach to celebrate the national holiday with fireworks.
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Amid all the anxieties, Thursday felt like a national holiday for Muslim America, or at least Muslim Twitter, where supporters posted emotional tributes to Omar and Tlaib, and marveled at the sight of black-and-white Palestinian keffiyehs and brightly colored Somali scarves in the halls of Congress.
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A veteran civil rights activist who founded the Odell S. Williams Now and Then African-American History Museum in 2001, she organized the annual Juneteenth festival to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the US and pushed for the day to be celebrated as a state and national holiday.
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She mercifully omits the period during which their birthday was declared a national holiday by a horde of lecherous sexual deviants or when Mary-Kate battled anorexia and alleged heroin addiction and was the first person Heath Ledger's masseuse called when he died of an overdose in 2008.
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John Lewis, the civil-rights leader who marched and fought alongside King's late father, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Things get said on both sides in the heat of emotion," said King on the national holiday celebrating his slain father and the civil rights movement he led.
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Questions continued to be raised about security measures in Nice on the night of the attack, which killed not only French citizens who had been celebrating their national holiday, but also people of 19 other nationalities, including citizens of Algeria, Brazil, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Madagascar and the United States.
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My modest proposal on this, America's great national holiday weekend, is that you choose an Uncle Sam or Aunt Samantha by lottery (which is all the birth of a monarch is) and give this person the powers of a constitutional sovereign, with precedence of state over the elected president.
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But if I may speak plainly on the cusp of a national holiday that marks the unofficial end of summer and the start of a long run of work and activity that will take us through the end of the year: It's time to get your larder in shape.
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A group of left-wing city council members in Barcelona called for the city to remove a 196-foot statue of Christopher Columbus in one of its most heavily trafficked intersections as part of a proposal to strike the October 12 national holiday and return it to a regular working day.
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So in honor of today's national holiday, we polled some of our favorite selectors like Seth Troxler, J-Cush, and Blondtron, and a few other THUMP friends on not their highest moments with Mary Jane, but the dark, the tragic, and kind of awful things that occasionally lurk beneath the green.
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Since it was a national holiday, there must have been thousands of picnickers in the park, and this particular group were laughing when a man in a neighboring gathering, who had evidently had one soju too many, stood up and began swaying in the breeze while singing painfully out of tune.
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Now if the teen would just finally answer the people's prayers and release a matte white gloss, we could all finally really enjoy this national holiday in true patriotic fashion by creating our own Kylie-themed red, white and blue (yes, she makes blue, where have you been) flag lips.
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On March 15th—a national holiday commemorating the failed 1848 uprising against the Habsburgs who ruled Hungary for centuries—Mr Orban (pictured) issued a rousing battle-cry to defend the Magyar homeland from waves of migrants; militant Islam; plans in Brussels for enforced migrant quotas; and a United States of Europe.
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"The fascinating vapor of Juche satellite trailing in the clear and blue sky in spring of February on the threshold of the Day of the Shining Star, the greatest national holiday of Kim Il Sung's Korea, is a gift of most intense loyalty..." she said, after announcing details of the launch.
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The national holiday, which commemorates veterans, corresponds with the anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps' 1915 landing at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during World War I. The New South Wales police commissioner, Andrew Scipione, said the arrest should not affect plans for Anzac Day in Sydney.
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While the deal is limited to one slice per guest, there is nothing stopping you from rounding up a group of friends and sharing several of their more than 30 unique flavors, which now also includes Cinnabon Cinnamon Swirl and Very Cherry Ghirardelli Chocolate in honor of the national holiday.
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The fight, on Saturday night at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington, will take place less than 24 hours after Mexican Independence Day, and that convergence of a national holiday and a popular Mexican fighter in a big fight has set up what amounts to a perfect boxing storm.
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We did not intend to publish it on the front page on Canada Day, a national holiday, or in the same week that President Barack Obama spoke in Ottawa about refugees — that was an accident of timing, with the publication of the article delayed a few times because of other news.
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Despite warnings from the international community, and in violation of a ruling from Bosnia's highest court, he pressed for a referendum in 5003 on whether to celebrate Jan 9 as a national holiday, the day in 1992 Mr. Karadzic declared a Serb-only state in Bosnia, unleashing a genocidal war.
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — A raucous crowd, encouraged by the declaration of a national holiday and the not-so-remote possibility of a World Cup berth, will not be all that greets the United States soccer team when it steps into Estadio OlĂmpico for a World Cup qualifying match on Tuesday.
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It's also close to the Feast of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, or St. John the Baptist, a day that was historically marked by a major celebration in France (and is still a national holiday in Quebec), and which itself was partly chosen by the church to coincide with summer solstice celebrations.
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As part of the platform, O'Rourke would also restore the ability to vote to felons who have served their sentences and push for a wish list of other Democratic voting rights priorities — including making Election Day a national holiday and using the federal government's power to fight gerrymandering and voter ID laws.
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I was born and raised in Memphis -- home to barbecue, Elvis, the blues, and the place where, on April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray took the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On January 17, 1998 the Ku Klux Klan came to downtown Memphis to protest naming a national holiday for King.
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A couple of decades later, Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey's Lady's Book , proposed a day of unity and remembrance to counter the trauma of the Civil War, and in 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be that national holiday, following Young's lead in calling it Thanksgiving.
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It includes Frank Bruni on his family's Italian-American celebration; Jennifer Finney Boylan on her first Thanksgiving away from home; a 2014 blog post on how the Civil War created the national holiday; and two pieces from the latest Sunday Review: one on intuitive eating and one on staying on campus during break.
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Warren also addressed accessibility issues that may interfere with voting rights as they pertain to disabled voters, telling activist Sarah Blahovec that as president she would work to ensure polling locations and ballot machines are accessible in addition to making Election Day a national holiday and expanding voting hours and voting by mail.
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Critics of Columbus Day, proclaimed a national holiday in the 1930s, say it has perpetuated a false historical narrative surrounding Christopher Columbus, the Italian-born explorer credited with "discovering America" when the first of his four trans-Atlantic voyages for the Spanish crown landed on an inhabited island of the Bahamas in 1492.
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Here at PeopleStyle we're treating Kylie's birthday like the national holiday it should be, so follow our ultimate Kylie Jenner style guide, swipe on your favorite Kylie LipKit color and wear your most colorful wig for your own Snapchat story (she even has her own birthday-theme filter, as if you expected anything less).
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While it seems each day is being declared a new "national holiday" — national nail polish day, national rotisserie chicken day and national yo-yo day are just a few being celebrated in the first week of June alone — one day we (and these celebs) can certainly get behind National Wine Day on May 25.
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And all we know after this week's episode is that Selina's political career is in a holding pattern, hundreds of people have gotten sick to their stomachs on a national holiday, and, as usual, the people who work in the White House are spending that holiday mired in the nonstop absurdity of the political game.
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Who knows what'll happen abroad, with the weather or horrible happenstance, but for many of us this should shape up as a fairly slow week, what with the national holiday on Thursday and the tendency of the American worker to interpret a Thursday day off as the start of a four-day weekend, at least.
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The U.S. players indeed looked in need of help near the end of an exhausting afternoon, playing under 91-degree heat and stifling humidity, in which the home team — with World Cup designs of its own — was urged on by a fervent crowd that packed Estadio Olimpico on what had been declared a national holiday.
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To express her support for the national holiday and equality movement, Khloé donned a bright red asymmetrical bandage dress with a deep plunging V-neck and choker collar from House of CB. She paired the pro-lady ensemble with tousled blonde hair and some subtly bronzed makeup, captioning the shot simply with the hashtag #InternationalWomensDay and a heart.
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There have even been larger scale protests, like the University of Missouri's football team threatening to boycott games in the fall of 53 over racism on campus and the NFL's decision in 25 to take the Super Bowl away from Arizona over the state's vote to refuse acknowledgement of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a national holiday.
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Michelle Lujan GrishamMichelle Lynn Lujan GrishamNew Mexico says EPA abandoned state in fight against toxic 'forever chemicals' Walmart to stop selling guns in New Mexico New Mexico governor to Nike after Arizona snub: 'Let's talk' MORE (D) on Tuesday signed legislation into law that abolishes Columbus Day and replaces the national holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
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A series of reform policies can and should be enacted at the federal level to apply equality and fairness across our elections: eliminate strict voter ID laws that discriminate against the working class and minorities; make election-day a national holiday; extend voting hours and increase the number of early voting days; and automatically register all eligible voters.
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The fact that Martin Luther King has a national holiday and Rosa Parks has a medal of honor might give us the feeling of progress, but what the Poor People's Campaign has shown me, like #BlackLivesMatter in recent years, is that the civil rights movement is not over and never ended—nor did opposition to it.
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