| Edition |
6th edition. |
| Description |
viii, 1514 pages ; 29 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
A compendious reference guide to popular, ethnic, religious, national, and ancient holidays, festivals, celebrations, commemorations, holy days, feasts, and fasts, including contact information and websites. Supplemented by special sections on words relating to time, calendar systems, phases of the moon, the world's major living religions, facts about the U.S. States and territories, legal holidays by state, facts about the U.S. presidents, facts about countries around the world, legal holidays by country, tourism information sources; and by an annotated bibliography and chronology, historic, folkloric, calendar, promotional, sports, and subject indexes. |
| Subject |
Holidays -- Dictionaries.
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Festivals -- Dictionaries.
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Festivals. (OCoLC)fst00923329
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Holidays. (OCoLC)fst00958730
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst01423826
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Dictionaries.
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| ISBN |
9780780816190 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0780816196 |
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9780780816589 (ebook) |
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