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Solve it! Here are clues to one of Ms. Hylands postcards.
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Mystery Postcard # 9
15 minute drive south of Fairbanks
Named by a development company hoping to attract a toy manufacturer
A December Ice Contest attracts ice sculptors from around the world.
400,000 pieces of mail arrive to the post office without a specific address
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Holidays Around the World
Winter
Hanukkah For eight days each November or December, Jews light a special candleholder called a HYPERLINK "http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/menorah.html" \t "1" menorah. They do it to remember an ancient miracle in which one day's worth of oil burned for eight days in their temple. On Hanukkah, many Jews also eat special potato pancakes called latkes, sing songs, and spin a top called a dreidel to win chocolate coins, nuts, or raisins.
St. Lucia Day To honor this third-century saint on December 13, many girls in Sweden dress up as "Lucia brides" in long white gowns with red sashes, and a wreath of burning candles on their heads. They wake up their families by singing songs and bringing them coffee and twisted saffron buns called "Lucia cats."
Christmas People celebrate this Christian holiday by going to church, giving gifts, and sharing the day with their families. In some parts of Europe, "star singers" go caroling singing special Christmas songs as they walk behind a huge star on a pole.
Kwanzaa HYPERLINK "http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/kwanzaa/" Kwanzaa, which means "First Fruits," is based on ancient African harvest festivals and celebrates ideals such as family life and unity. During this spiritual holiday, celebrated from December 26 to January 1, millions of African Americans dress in special clothes, decorate their homes with fruits and vegetables, and light a candleholder called a kinara.
HYPERLINK "http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/holidays/ashura.htm" \t "_blank" Ashura Ashura, one of the major holidays of Islam, is a time of fasting and of inner thoughts. It is celebrated on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic Calendar.
HYPERLINK "http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5071" \t "_blank" Pancha Ganapati This is the winter solstice holiday of Hindus with five days of gifts for kids. Each of the five days is something special and one food is a spicy donut called Vadai,.
New Year New Year celebrations are held around the world. In Ecuador, families dress a straw man in old clothes on December 31. The straw man represents the old year. The family members make a will for the straw man that lists all of their faults. At midnight, they burn the straw man, in hopes that their faults will disappear with him.
Pongal
This is the only festival of Hindu that follows a solar calendar and is celebrated on the fourteenth of January every year. It signals the end of the traditional farming season, giving farmers a break. In Hindu temples bells, drums, clarinets and conch shells herald the joyous occasion of Pongal.
Chinese New Year Many Chinese children dress in new clothes to celebrate Chinese New Year. People carry lanterns and join in a huge parade led by a silk dragon, the Chinese symbol of strength. According to legend, the dragon hibernates most of the year, so people throw firecrackers to keep the dragon awake.
Mardi Gras The time of Lent is a solemn one of reflection for Christians, so the Tuesday before Lent begins is a time of merry-making for many people around the world. In New Orleans, people wear costumes and attend huge parades for the festival of Mardi Gras. Brazil's HYPERLINK "http://ipanema.com/carnival/home.htm" \t "1" Carnaval also features parades, costumes, and music. This day is also known as Shrove Tuesday. In England, some towns have pancake contests in which women run a race while flipping a pancake at least three times.
Spring
Basanth In Pakistan, boys celebrate the first day of spring in the Muslim calendar with exciting kite-fighting contests. After putting powdered glass on their strings, they use the strings to try to cut off each other's kites. Whoever keeps his kite the longest wins.
Holi For this Hindu spring festival, people dress in green. Children then squirt each other with water pistols filled with yellow- or red-colored liquid. They also blow colored powder on each other through bamboo pipes. Everyone gets soaked and colorful to celebrate spring.
Songkran In Thailand, a special three-day water festival on April 13-15 marks Songkran, the Buddhists' celebration of the new year. Parades feature huge statues of Buddha that spray water on passersby. In small villages, young people throw water at each other for fun. People also release fish into rivers as an act of kindness.
Aboakyere The Effutu people of Ghana make a special offer to the god Panche Otu each spring with the deer-hunting festival. Two teams of men and boys, dressed in bright costumes, compete to be the first to bring back a live deer to present to the chief. Then they all dance together.
Easter On Easter, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. People attend church and also enjoy different Easter customs. In Germany, people make "egg trees" that are decorated like Christmas trees. In Hungary, boys sprinkle girls with perfumed water and in return, girls prepare a holiday dinner for them.
Passover The highlight of this major Jewish holiday is the Passover seder. During these two special dinners, families read from a book called the Haggadah about the ancient Israelites' exodus, or flight, from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. As they honor their ancestors, Jews reaffirm the importance of freedom.
May Day To celebrate the return of spring, children in England dance around tall poles decorated with ribbons, called maypoles. Their dancing wraps the ribbons tightly around the pole.
Summer
Midsummer Day The sun continues to shine long after midnight in Scandinavia when Midsummer Day is celebrated in late June. To celebrate, Swedish villagers decorate a spruce trunk called a najstang like a maypole. In Norway, families light bonfires along the fjords.
O-Bon Japanese people keep the memory of their ancestors alive with a festival held during the summer called O-Bon. People put lit candles in lanterns and float them on rivers and seas. They also visit and clean the graves of those who have died. In the ancient city of Kyoto, people light giant bonfires.
Arapaho Sun Dance A religious festival centering on the sun dance takes place during summer in Wyoming. Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshone, and members of other Plains Indians tribes dance around a pole topped by a buffalo's head. The buffalo is a symbol of plenty, and dancers wish for good fortune in the year ahead.
Ramadan During this holy time, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar year, Muslims do not eat, drink, or smoke from sunrise to sunset for an entire month. Instead, they spend their days in worship, praying in mosques. At the end of HYPERLINK "http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/" \t "1" Ramadan, people celebrate with a festival known as Id-ul-Fitr.
Autumn
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur In September or October, Jews believe that God opens the Book of Life for ten days, starting with Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and ending with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). During these days, the holiest in the Jewish year, Jews try to atone for any wrongdoing and to forgive others. A ram's horn trumpet, known as the HYPERLINK "http://www.holidays.net/highholydays/shofar.htm" \t "1" shofar, is blown before and during Rosh Hashanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
Labor Day In 66 countries, the contributions of workers are honored on Labor Day. In New Zealand, Labour Day is marked on the fourth Monday of October and celebrates the campaign for the eight-hour workday. Now, New Zealanders have a extra day of rest from work and a three-day weekend for picnics and other activities.
Diwali,
In October or November, according to the cycle of the moon is the most well-known of the Hindu festivals, the 'festival of lights'. Houses, shops and public places are decorated with small earthenware oil lamps called diyas. It is a time for spring-cleaning, wearing new clothes, feasts, and gifts. It lasts 5 days.
Day of the Dead On November 1 called Da de Los Muertos Mexicans remember their loved ones who have died by visiting them and having a meal right in the graveyard. Stores sell sugar-candy caskets, breads decorated with "bone" shapes, and toy skeletons.
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