should st georges day be a bank holliday?
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St George's day should DEFINATELY be a bank holiday! In america they have presidents day and I believe that we should have a day to celebrate being English. I am proud to be English and all that stands for. We are losing sight of our identity in this country thanks to strange thinking by the politicians. At some point we were made to feel ashamed of our Englishness and I think that is abysmal! Unfortunately ,idiots like the national front managed to hijack the english identity and tried to turn it into something grotesque but with the last few world cups we have taken back theSt George's Cross so the next logical step is to celebrate our Saint's day with a national holiday. Very good question!
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Hi full list of dates for you:-\ngood friday      6th april\neaster sunday  8th april\neaster monday 9th april\nmay day          1st may\nearly may day  7th may\nspring bank     28th may\nsummer bank  27th august
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You would have to check with your local school district. It is not a national holiday.
418648
I'm working today, just as I have every day of the week for the last 3 1/2 months.\nI do not think Good Friday should be declared a holiday (no pun intended).  The USA is basically a secular nation, as it should be.  Look around the world and see what kind of life people lead in theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and even in places like the Philippines where the church greatly influences government policy.\nPeople like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, though they were Christians and deists, recognized the importance of separating church and state; Jefferson created the concept for us.  They would blanch at the thought of making religious festivities into official holidays.\nThe last time religion played a major role in the politics of the West, it was known as the "Dark Ages."
206741
Work unfortunately...though St Patricks day will always remind me of having the three most fantastic days, helping my Irish housemate to celebrate in an Irish bar in the UK while we at uni :)
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The public face of the banking system (branches and so on) are closed today to recognize the holiday.  Some behind the scenes processes, such as check processing and online activity is still being done, though they may not post until tomorrow.
907358
boxing day is called boxing day as churched opened up the day after christmas so those who recieved presents could go around the back of the church and donate their unwanted gifts into the boxes so the church could then distribute them to the poor and use the money to refurbish the church...\n\nyou put as much as you wanted in to these boxes as it was always anonymous-only "god" judged you for your generosity\n\nhope that helps\n\nx
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31st march technically. But 30th is a likely strike by union and 31st is a bank holiday so do it TOMORROW.
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Currency exchange: Service Banks provide standard services nationwide, Monday through Friday, except public and bank holidays
227882
No we dont. Infact we dont have a public holiday to celebrate the 'UK'....eg a national celebration day. There was recent discussion in paliment about this, but I have not heard anything more about it.\n Not like some sort of 'independence day' like the states have .
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I think that there should be a day of the year made for men.  I mean it's rather unfair for us to have to deal with Valentine's without any day set aside for us.  I say we get "Steak & BJ day" put onto every calendar in the U.S.  Trust me, the men would finally be grateful, and we may even be a little more enthusiastic when Valentine's rolls around.
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There is no reason it cannot be on another day. We made the calendar, and we named the days. Whatever day it should be cannot be determined unless God opens up the sky and yells out "The sabath should be on this day!" Conclusion:We don't know when it should be, so we put it on sunday.
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You think that they would trade Christmas for NATIONAL WHINING DAY.  \n\nOr trade Easter for stand in line for FREE CHEESE day.\n\nThey don't celebrate Christmas, so I guess they should work.
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Only if I get Columbus day off.
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Yup.  Banks that have FDIC-insured accounts are closed today in observance of Veteran's Day.\n\nGood luck.
456006
I think he would be cool with it. Just not on Saturday. Do you think is Jerusalem Express Card would be declined?
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Back in medieval times the king's income was collected by the Exchequer. It was their decision to divide the year into four parts so that sheriffs could travel to deliver the money without having to carry such large amounts. The dates were chosen as the main feasts closest to each of the quarter year days.\n\nThe accounting periods then ended on Lady Day (March 25), on Midsummer's Day (June 24), on Michaelmas (Sept 29) and Christmas Day (Dec 25). It was tradition that the books would be balanced on 29 September.\n\nMost of Europe changed from the Julian to the new, more accurate, Gregorian calendar in 1582, but Great Britain continued with the old one system until September 1752. By this time the difference had increased to 11 days because the Romans had miscalculated the length of a year from the solar cycle.\n\nThese 11 days were 'caught up' by being removed from the calendar altogether in 1752 when 2 September was followed directly by 14 September. In order not to lose 11 days' tax revenue in that tax year, the tax authorities then decided to tack them on at the end of the Christmas period, changing the collection date to 5 January. 80 years later, in 1842 the beginning of the tax year was moved to Lady Day, 6 April and has not changed since.