Holidays
What is up with holiday stress?
We are all familiar with the idea of holiday stress. That feeling that time is going by faster and faster from Autumn until New Years.
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Why is New Year just after the start of winter?
It seems strange that New Year is in the middle of the cold winter. Shouldn’t it be in spring time? Or winter equinox? Traditionally it
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Holidays
Why is Christmas in December?
Why We Celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 Is it Jesus’ birthday, an ancient marketing ploy, or something else? By Andrew Santella via Slate.com How did
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Holidays
Epiphany (holiday)
Epiphany (Greek for “to manifest” or “to show”), is a Christian feast day which celebrates the “shining forth” or revelation of God in human form
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Seasonality
Revisiting the “Christmas Holiday Effect” in the Southern Hemisphere
Journal of the American Heart Association Abstract Background A “Christmas holiday effect” showing elevated cardiovascular mortality over the Christmas holidays (December 25 to January 7)
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