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Holiday Authenticity
EXPLANATION
for
Crazy, Unknown, Bizarre, Goofy, Silly, Odd, Wacky, Wild and Respected and
Traditional, Holidays and Observances Listing
2010
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Rather than put this
on every monthly page, I made a link to this page to save clutter.
All listings on our site are validated through
printed ( copyrighted) material only (shown at the bottom of
every page) and
not from other sites who list holidays.
The links I have on some observances to other sites
are explained below.
I will not list an observance I can't prove exists . This is done
by knowing its source most of the time.
I will not fill in a blank day with a fake holiday like some sites.
We
don't have observations for every single day of the year!
If you find a site that does, well...
I'd be suspicious of them making stuff up to fill in the blanks.
I do
not consider famous people's births/deaths as a holiday or observance--Unless
it's been established as holiday (i.e. Washington's Birthday). I made an
exception on the military branches and a few other nationally known
organizations because I felt they deserved recognition. My choice!
I don't normally list anniversaries of things invented or started either,
unless it's an observance to honor it.
Nor do I list "on this day 100 yrs. ago" items.
Visit the
History Channel for "On
This Day" Information.
Want to know if anyone famous
was born today? Visit Famous Birthdays!
So what is an
official validated holiday other than a legally declared one by the government?
An observance MUST have a validated origin source and/or an official
sponsor (meaning someone who actually takes responsibility for following
through on observing this on a national or state level, and not just the
"creator" of the idea of it) and have it registered in Chase's
Calendar of Events, or run a website dedicated to the observance (not a blog!).
Otherwise, it's just a funny, goofy holiday created by someone for
attention or whatever reason.. I find sites claiming to validate
their sources and yet do not list them so people can check their references.
Hmmm? My sources are listed below and at the bottom of every monthly page.
Or, they are validated via website links if not in Chase's Calendar of Events.
Remember, the internet is a field for fraud! Just because a site may sound
official, doesn't mean it is. Just because it's website design is
technically sophisticated, doesn't mean the information on it is valid, accurate
or up-to-date either. I've spotted websites with out-dated holiday
information.
Maybe your family has created a "National Strawberry Shortcake Day"
and you all go out and have one?
That's nice. But that doesn't make it an OFFICIAL celebration because it's
done in your house and you put it on your personal homepage as such. Do you
understand?
Kids, please, don't e-mail if you find a holiday on some other site and it's not
here.
I can't validate some of their holidays. I hope they can. You decide
for yourself for school work etc.!
I'm doing my best to get visitors to avoid being gullible to "official
illusions" and believing because it's on the net.
I'm not calling other sites liars. They could have books I don't. But they
should list them on their site for people, who want to check, to go
to the library and validate, or buy the books. (I bought mine!)
I make no claims to be the official final authority of holiday information (for
the US) on the net.
I just make a promise to never make anything up and will update when I get the
latest data. How's that? ;)
I apologize for all this wordiness, but in the long run it saves me repeating it
in emails
About the dates...
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Some
celebrations are for WEEKENDS ONLY!
I decided they're more noticed if done in the Days area, rather than Weeks.
Some holidays listed as "Monthly Observances" start in one month and
go into another to cover their 30 days. For example: An observance begins
on May 15 and goes to June 15.
I listed this for May, the starting month. I do not list for both months.
By request, I've now included some of the traditional observances that you see on your average calendar, along with the lesser known ones under the Days area.
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Some
Observances Listed For 2009
DO NOT
appear in 2010 Book.
Now What?
To me it's
over! And, most of you feel the same. This is why I've removed the holiday
archives listing of the old observances. Those were hardly visited. It's a
waste of space to keep old and undesired information on my site. If other sites
want to keep listing a holiday that's a few years old, that's their right.
There is
no more, for example: Clown Month, Beauty Pageant Month, Cable TV
Month, Junk Food Month, or Pessimistic Day for
example. Some observances get reworked from say a daily observance to a
weekly one. Others go from a Month to a Day. (These are done by their sponsors).
Question: Does
removal of a sponsor and not being published in the 2010 book mean official
removal of the celebration?
To me, it sure does,
unless there's an on-line website that validates it instead. Because, once
they are cancelled, well that's it. I can't stop others from listing out-dated
material. But, I won't list old stuff not supported (or can't prove a
source.) And to repeat, I won't make stuff up either.
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Some
listings have a link at the end.
Why don't they all have a link?
My reference book apparently has missed some observances that are valid and that people have been nice enough to write me and let me know about. Because I do not have any information on these holidays in my published source, I put a link to them to prove they are real, valid and who is sponsoring them. (Or an observance's origin or source of establishment.) This also helps me when it's time to update. I'll see a listing with a link and know it's not in the new book with a current date, so I won't waste my time trying to find it.
Note: In the case of links as validation or information, I might not know the date of next year's events until that website gets updated. I did put in the 2010 date if the website offered it. In other cases, I "assumed" the 2010 date based on the 2009 date. If I am wrong, please let me know.
I have also removed observances that have been validated through website links if those websites no longer exist.
Why
provide links to all the listings? It's too much work to do this.
And, in many cases the websites either will no longer exist or change
their URL.
It's simply too hard to baby-sit all the links and make sure they are constantly
accurate. I just expect my visitors to do their own search engine checks
for further information on a holiday; or, they write me if they can't find
anything.
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Here are word links
back to each of our 2010
Current Monthly Listings.
Since we are not sure which month you came from to view this.
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