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Christmas
Its a good family holiday.All are giving presents and happiness to each other.Decorated Christmas tree makes celebrating mood and warm atmosphere.House and rooms must be decorated too and table must be full of delicious dishes.
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New Year's Day
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Independence Day
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Easter Sunday
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Spring Day
The eve of May 1st is celebrated by many, but especially students and fraternities. It's called witching night and is usually passed with drinking and partying. It's the one night of the year that 'civilians' are welcome to enter a fraternity house, after midnight, as long as they are wearing a necktie (girls excepted). The following day (still May 1t) is a public holiday like in the rest of Europe, and is moderately celebrated, in Estonia it's the first day of spring. -
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National Flag Day
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Victory Day
Celebrates the victory in the Battle of Võnnu during the Estonian War of Independence. -
Knowledge Day
The first day of school in Estonia is on Knowledge Day, September 1.Every student starts a new schoolyear -
Resistance Fighting Day
On 22 September 1944, Soviet troops conquered Tallinn. The Estonian national tricolour was torn from the flagstaff on Tallinn's Pikk Hermann Tower and was replaced by the symbol of the new occupation, the Soviet banner. -
Teacher's Day
In Estonia last class students grant leave to teachers by conducting lessons themselves.
