the Tudor and Stuart royal courts in Britain it was traditional to give gifts on New Year's Day, on 1 January. Records of these gift exchanges survive,...
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midnight following New Year's Eve as the new year starts in each time zone. Other global New Year's Day traditions include making New Year's resolutions and...
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volume 12, Part 7 (London, 1890), pp. 9-10. Jane Lawson, 'Ritual of the New Year's Gift', Valerie Schutte & Jessica S. Hower, Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature...
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Times Square Ball (redirect from New york new year's eve)
"Waterford and Times Square New Year's Eve Reveal "Gift of Imagination" Crystal Design as Part of New 10-Year "Greatest Gifts" Series". Business Wire (Press...
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Valentine's Day and White Day are all celebrated. However, the situation is the reverse of Japan's. Men give gifts to women on Valentine's Day, and women...
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Nowruz (redirect from Persian New Year)
celebrated as the most important day of the year. Most royal traditions of Nowruz, such as royal audiences with the public, cash gifts, and the pardoning of prisoners...
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Real tennis (redirect from Royal tennis)
Palace London courts: Lord's Middlesex Queen's Royal Tennis Court Oxfordshire courts: Hardwick Oratory Oxford Radley Royal Tennis Court Middlesex Queen's...
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Royal Maundy (/ˈmɔːndi/) is a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. At the service, the British...
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of hanboks and introduced new colors. Gong-jin falls in love with the Queen at first sight and uses his extraordinary gift as a tailor to save the dress...
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"Strategic Command personnel recognised in New Year's Honours List 2024". Gov.UK. Retrieved 3 January 2024. "New Year Honours 2024: Army Commendations and Awards"...
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as servants of Margaret Tudor. Ellen More was given clothes and gifts on New Year's Day like other courtiers. Ellen More has been identified with the part...
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Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary is a poem written by Alexander Scott (1520?-1582/1583) in 1562, as a New Year's gift to Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary had...
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Epiphany (holiday) (redirect from Twelfth day)
coincided with the day he and his two companions searched for, and found, an ideal location for a new capital. Even more popular in Peru than gift giving is the...
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Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with honours within his own gift or upon the advice of his Government for other honours. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro...
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Puthandu (redirect from Tamil New Year's Day)
(Tamil: புத்தாண்டு, romanized: Puttāṇṭu, lit. 'new year'), also known as Tamil New Year, is the first day of year on the Tamil calendar that is traditionally...
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Monarchy of Canada (redirect from Canadian Royal Family)
general, grants new coats of arms, flags, and badges in Canada. Use of the royal crown in such symbols is a gift from the monarch showing royal support and/or...
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Jewels of Anne of Denmark (category Material culture of royal courts)
may have given the remaining collar to the Duchess of Lennox as a New Year's Day gift in 1622. In 1603, the French ambassador the Marquis de Rosny arranged...
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New Year's Day. Although Christmas was re-established as a holiday in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is still eclipsed by New Year's...
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Stockholm Palace (redirect from Royal Castle in Stockholm)
familjeboks förl. p. 1158. Retrieved 30 November 2014. "The Royal Gift Shop". www.kungahuset.se. Royal Court of Sweden. Retrieved 30 November 2014. Malmborg & Palmstierna...
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Hogmanay (category Infobox holiday fixed day (2))
manner. It is normally followed by further celebration on the morning of New Year's Day (1 January) and, in some cases, 2 January—a Scottish bank holiday. In...
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Queen Camilla (category Dames Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
deputised for him in his absence at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey and at the Royal Maundy at Worcester Cathedral, making her the first...
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father's custody, remaining in royal custody instead. Margaret gave Princess Mary gifts on New Year's Day, in 1543 her gift was a satin gown of carnation...
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Christmas (redirect from Christmas day)
important aspect of the festival. In England, gifts were exchanged on New Year's Day (a custom at the royal court), and there was special Christmas ale. Christmas...
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together in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre 1999 production of King Lear. James's other theatre work includes Blood and Gifts (2010) and Much Ado About...
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of the Supreme Court, but may be designated for temporary assignments to sit on lower federal courts, usually the United States Courts of Appeals. Such...
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regime." Royal family guidelines and procedures relating to gifts, published by the government in 2003, state that "before accepting any gift, careful...
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Elizabeth Sinclair (courtier) (section Life at court)
and Margaret Hepburn. The royal treasurer's accounts describe her as Lord Sinclair's daughter. Gift giving on New Year's Day was highly ritualised. Elizabeth...
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glass on the Royal Gold Cup. British Museum. Accessed June 16, 2010 Buettner, Brigitte. Past Presents: New Year's Gifts at the Valois Courts, Ca. 1400....
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During her New Year's Eve address on 31 December 2023, Margrethe II announced that she would step down as Queen of Denmark, being the first voluntary abdication...
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF; Māori: Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa) is the aerial service branch of the New Zealand Defence Force. It was formed initially...
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