Holidays, festivals, and celebrations of the world dictionary : detailing more than 3,000 observances from all 50 states and more than 100 nations : a compendious reference guide to popular, ethnic, religious, national, and ancient holidays, festivals, and fasts, including contact information and web sites : 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 chronological, historic, ancient, folkoric, calendar, promotional, sports, and subject indexes / edited by Cherie D. Abbey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abbey, Cherie D., editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holidays--Dictionaries.

Holidays.

Festivals--Dictionaries.

Festivals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 1323 pages).

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Omnigraphics, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Detailing more than 3,000 observances from all 50 states and more than 100 nations.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Dedication to Leslie Shepard

Foreword to the Fourth Edition

Foreword to the Third Edition

Preface

Appendices

Indexes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612445057

9781282445055

1282445057

9781849727006

1849727007

9780780811669

0780811666

OCLC:

823177800