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		<title>Epiphany</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany, meaning &#8220;to show,&#8221; &#8220;to make known,&#8221; or &#8220;to reveal,&#8221; is also known as Twelfth Night, Three Kings Day, or Little Christmas. It marks the end of the Christmas Season. Epiphany is also the feast of the Baptism of Christ. Epiphany is celebrated in many countries as the day the Three Wise Men or Magi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Facts about Mardi Gras</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Ronnie Tanner Mardi Gras actually has its beginnings in the medieval time period of Western Europe, France in particular. For hundreds of years European Christians have celebrated both the 12 days of Christmas and indulged in feasting before fasting began for the Lenten season. It was the combination of both events that ultimately led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Menorah</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The menorah is used during the eight day celebration of Hanukkah. The Hebrew word for menorah is Hanukiyah. Some people also call it a candelabra or candelabrum. Hanukkah is celebrated each year on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev. Depending on when that date falls, Hanukkah is celebrated in late November or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanukkah &#8211; The Dreidel Game, Hanukkah Crafts &amp; Fun for Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Adam Barnett Children, as well as adults, love to play the Dreidel Game during Hanukkah (also spelt Chanukah), and a wide range of dreidels can easily be purchased online at judaica shops. The selection and variation of styles available can be overwhelming, but the game played with them is always the same! A dreidel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanukkah &#8211; The Festival of Lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Adam Barnett Hanukkah (also spelt Chanukah) is a huge annual Jewish religious event that celebrates the reclamation and rededication of the Holy Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after it was forcefully taken back from the Greco-Syrian monarch, Antiochus Epiphanes, by a small group of Jewish freedom fighters called the Maccabees, and the miracle of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Similarities between Kwanzaa and Hanukkah Celebrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YesindeedyBob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kwanzaa and Hanukkah, celebrated by African-Americans and Jewish people respectively, are observed during the Christmas season. The celebrations are separate from activities related to Christmas however. The observances of Kwanzaa and Hanukkah are also one reason that people also give wishes of Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas during the season. Although both activities are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eid-ul-Fitr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Dr. Ashiq Hussain EID-UL-FITR is celebrated on the first day of Shaw&#8217;waal, at the completion of the holy month Ramadan (the ninth month of the Muslim year),. In fact it is the &#8216;festival of fast breaking&#8217; and is most celebratory of all Muslim festivals. The festival is significant as much for its timing, as [...]]]></description>
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