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Happy Boxing Day Canadians, Europeans, and Austrailians! Here’s what Boxing Day is if you don’t already know.

It is based on the tradition of giving gifts to the less fortunate members of society. Contemporary Boxing Day in many countries is now a “shopping holiday” associated with after-Christmas sales.

This day is historically England’s name for St Stephen’s Day – St. Stephen was one of the first Christian martyrs, being stoned to death in Jerusalem around A.D. 34-35 – the 26th December, which is a public holiday in many countries with predominantly Christian populations. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St Stephen’s Day is celebrated on the 27th of December, although in Greece the Greek Boxing Day (Synaxis Theotokou, Σύναξις Θεοτόκου) is also celebrated as a public holiday on the 26th of December and is not related to the English version.

In Ireland the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen’s Day as a non-moveable public holiday on December the 26th, although since partition the name “Boxing Day” is used by the authorities in Northern Ireland and it has become a moveable public holiday in line with the rest of the UK. The Banking and Financial Dealings Act of 1971 established “Boxing Day” as a public holiday in Scotland.

It is usually celebrated on the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day^[1][2]; however, unlike St Stephen’s Day, Boxing Day is not always on the 26th of December, its associated public holiday can be moved to the next weekday if the 26th of December is a Saturday or Sunday. The movement of Boxing Day varies between countries.

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day 

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Allright Mayors and Governors, you need to get your websites together so we can be organized. I’ve noticed we haven’t been doing anything with our servers, and it has caused us to lose some of the new servers. In fact, some of our servers have been having infestations of smaller armies. So, we need to get the sites together so we can get something done. If you have your website ready post it in the comments please. Thanks and I’ll add the websites to the blogroll as soon as I’m back to being an editor.

~Rapidy

PS: The Breeze Website is ready. Breeze is ACP’s capital server. You can view the website at www.breezecentral.wordpress.com and be sure to join our National Guard. (just look in the pages on the breeze site to join).

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