Tereza Kopřivová, 4.A

 Halloween  Guy Fawkes Day  Rememberance Day

 31st October  Old Celts – last day of the year, beginning of winter – witches, ghosts  Christianized->Eve of All Saints´ Day – Christian Church honours the memory of the death  North Britain+Scotland, USA+ Canada  Costumes, “Trick or treat“

 Bonfire night  5th November  Gunpower plot in 1605  Guy Fawkes – conspirator who attempted to blow up James I. and Parliament

 11th November  Ceremony in Cenotaph in Whitehall – London  Two minutes´silence honours those killed in the two world wars

 Independence Day  Thanksgiving Day  Memorial Day  Martin Luther King Day

 4th July  1776 the United States proclaimed its freedom from Britain with the Declaration of Independence  Fireworks, music, flag (sometimes 13 stars)

 Last Thursday in November  1621 – Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth Colony on their first harvest  Now family holiday – together, turkey with cranberry sauce, pumpkin cake

 Last Monday in May  Honour those who died during the American Civil War ( )  Honour to all Americans killed in all past wars

 3rd Monday in January  M.L.King was a black leader who fought for civil rights for black people  Nobel Prize in1964  Assassinated in 1968

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