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3 unusual facts about The Holiday


Godalming railway station

In February 2006 Godalming station was renamed "Shere" for three days while filming took place for The Holiday, a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black and Kate Winslet.

Muhammad Siddiq Khan

Khan also wrote a number of books, as well as columns for The Holiday and Bangladesh Observer.

Sony Vaio FJ

In the 2006 movie The Holiday Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) Had a Sony Vaio FJ series laptop in Pearl White Color.


Meet cute

In the 2006 romantic American comedy The Holiday, one of the characters, Arthur, an elderly script writer (played by Eli Wallach), explains a meet cute with an example: "It's how two characters meet in a movie. Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in, and they both go to the same mens pajama department. And the man says to the salesman: 'I just need bottoms'. The woman says: 'I just need a top'. They look at each other, and that's the meet cute."


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2009 Holiday Bowl

On December 8, 2009, the Holiday Bowl committee announced a marketing campaign with fast food franchise Jack in the Box where Jack Box, the fictional Chairman and CEO of the company and star of its marketing campaigns, would be the Honorary Chairman of the game and the Grand Marshal of the Port of San Diego Big Bay Balloon Parade.

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!

Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Colbert is delightful, a few of the song parodies are clever, but over all, the show is too long and more than a little strained, much like the holiday specials it mocks".

A P Valentine

His named was derived by splicing the beginning of his sire's name "A P" with the holiday that he was born on, "Valentine's Day."

Amado Granell

After the liberation of Paris, The Nine was transferred to the German front, where Granell actively participated in taking the Eagle's Nest, the holiday retreat of Adolf Hitler in the Bavarian Alps.

Barton Mills

The village was once the holiday retreat for Alexander Fleming, and there is a plaque on the wall outside his country home, The Dhoon, in the main street.

Big Apple Chorus

For several years, the chorus has regularly participated in the holiday concert series at the South Street Seaport, including the Living Christmas Tree—a group of carolers arranged in a tree, accompanying the first public Christmas tree in the city to be lit during the winter holiday season.

Boston University Housing System

Students at the Holiday Inn are provided with a complimentary MBTA Subway pass, as the Green Line C passes nearby on Beacon Street.

Buddhist holidays

Bodhi Day: The holiday which commemorates the day that the historical Buddha experienced enlightenment.

Caesars Entertainment Corporation

Holiday Inn at the time had 1,600 hotels and interests in two casinos, a casino under construction in the marina district in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a 40 percent ownership interest in River Boat Casino, a casino adjacent to the Holiday Inn hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

Christmas at Maxwell's

Fearing that this may be their last Christmas together, husband Andrew Austin (Andrew May) takes Suzie and their two children, Chris (Charlie May) and Mary (Julia May) to the family's summer home on Lake Erie to celebrate the holiday.

CJGV-FM

On December 1, 2011, the station flipped to an all Christmas format for the holiday season, with announced plans to switch to adult contemporary after January 1, 2012.

Couldn't Get It Right

'Looking for a sign in the middle of the night' being about the old Holiday Inn signs, really, because the moment you saw the Holiday Inn sign, that meant you got a bed for the night.

Deniece Williams

In 2003, Williams appeared in the holiday movie Christmas Child.

DNA Productions

DNA wrote, directed and produced the 3D Christmas special, Santa vs. the Snowman for O Entertainment, which runs in IMAX theaters during the holiday season.

Dudu Aouate

In an interview with Spain's Diario AS, Aouate was asked about the significance of Yom Kippur and some general questions about the prohibitions of the holiday.

Fiesta Nacional de España

Other than this, however, the holiday is not widely or enthusiastically celebrated in Spain; there are no other large-scale patriotic parades, marches, or other events, and the observation is generally overshadowed by the feast day of Our Lady of the Pillar.

Firin' Squad

Recent international gigs have included Dubai, New York, Russia, Ukraine, MTV Block Parties in Lithuania, and through Summer 2008 they hit the holiday hotspots of Ibiza and Ayia Napa.

Friendship Village, Maryland

From 1971 to 1974, Erlebacher's ladies specialty store was located in the Holiday Inn Plaza shopping mall at 5512 Wisconsin Avenue.

Gas tax holiday

Clinton demurred when asked to name a single economist who supported the holiday, but libertarian George Mason professor Bryan Caplan wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that "we could do a lot worse than the gas tax holiday."

Hank Stuever

It centers around the lives of three different families in Frisco, Texas, during three consecutive Christmas seasons and the impact the holiday has on modern culture and the consumer economy.

Holiday Rambler

On March 4, 1996, the Monaco Coach Corporation acquired from Harley-Davidson, Inc. certain assets of Holiday Rambler (the "Holiday Acquisition") in exchange for $21.5 million in cash, 65,217 shares of Redeemable Preferred Stock (which was subsequently converted into 230,767 shares of Common Stock), and the assumption of most of the liabilities of Holiday Rambler.

Jack Grassel

He became the guitarist for The Barnum and Bailey Circus band, The Holiday on Ice Orchestra in addition to performing with symphony orchestras conducted by Lukas Foss and Kenneth Schermerhorn.

Jan Lisa Huttner

Huttner’s admiration for Addams and avid support for the holiday came easily because, among many other achievements, Addams was one of the founding members of two organizations Huttner formerly belonged to: AAUW-Chicago Branch and IWPA (the Illinois Woman's Press Association).

John V. Kelly

As president of Nutley Savings Bank, Kelly was known for going out of his way to find a justification to fund a mortgage for a prospective customer and was likened to Jimmy Stewart's character George Bailey in the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life.

Jól á leið til jarðar

Two inexperienced angels from heaven must deliver a casket containing the holiday of Christmas to Earth in time for Christmas Eve, as the evil Öngull attempts to steal the casket, and sink it in the deepest black hole in space.

Kung Fu Panda Holiday

Although excited, Po also wishes to spend the holiday with his father Mr. Ping (James Hong), and rejects the finest chefs in China in an attempt to have him cater the event.

La Plata High School

Matt Dyson, football player Oakland Raiders 1995 (fifth round draft pick), Head Coach football George Mason University 2002–present, 1994 Defensive MVP of the Holiday Bowl in San Diego, California.

Laura Breckenridge

Later that year, she starred in the holiday film A Christmas Kiss, which first aired on December 11, 2011 on the Ion Television network.

Lulav

After the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai legislated a rabbinical enactment to take the four species for the entire seven days of the holiday in all locations as a commemoration of what was done in the Temple.

Merry F %$in' Christmas

Since the holiday season of 2005, Comedy Central has periodically aired Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas, an hour-long (with commercials) Christmas special featuring Leary and several celebrity guests, including Charlie Murphy, Carmen Electra, William Shatner, and the Barenaked Ladies.

MGM Animation/Visual Arts

The first was a 1966 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which has become a mainstay of the holiday season.

Nevada Day

Until 2000, Halloween was observed in Carson City, Douglas County, Lyon County, and Storey County on October 30, so as to not conflict with the holiday.

Oak Ridge, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

It is known as the location of the holiday home of former British prime minister Gordon Brown.

OPI Products

The reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E!, launched their first nail polish collection by Nicole by OPI for the holiday 2011 collection.

Ovacık, Fethiye

It is located next to the holiday resort of Hisarönü, consisting mainly of small hotels and private villas.

Paul Burling

Burling "worked the holiday parks and comedy circuit for 25 years" before attracting nationwide attention on the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent.

Pelince

This decision was brought due to the countinious refusals by the Serbian Orthodox Church authorities to allow Macedonian delegations to visit and celebrate the holiday in the actual venue of ASNOM, the Prohor Pčinjski monastery which is on Serbian territory near the Macedonian border and near the village of Pelince.

Sacring-Bell

The sacring bell, also known as the sanctus bell, is the bell which rings when the Host is elevated at the celebration of High Mass.

Santa Barbara County, California

It is generally believed that the inspiration for Earth Day was the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill; however, Gaylord Nelson, the senator who proposed the idea, has never directly cited any direct cause for the establishment of the holiday.

Sechseläuten

Following the parade of the Zünfte (guilds), the climax of the holiday is the burning of Winter in effigy, in the form of the Böögg, a figure of a snowman prepared with explosives.

SFM Holiday Network

Popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher hosted the show (his company was a main sponsor of the Holiday Network), in special segments with his grandson.

Shaved Fish

The compilation includes many of Lennon's most popular solo recordings, five of which had not yet appeared on an album: "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma!," "Power to the People," the holiday single "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," and "Give Peace a Chance."

Sigah

This maqam is linked to the holiday of Purim due to the abundance of pizmonim related to the holiday in this maqam (no doubt because the maqam is of Persian origin, and the events of the book of Esther take place in Persia).

Step into Christmas

"Step into Christmas" was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the holiday EP Bollocks to Christmas.

The Christmas Village in Philadelphia

Jay Leno scoffed: “The annual ‘Christmas Village’ in Philadelphia has been renamed the ‘Holiday Village.’ In fact, they’re not Santa’s reindeer anymore . . . They’re now ‘nondenominational venison.’” After three days of controversy Philadelphia’s Mayor Michael A. Nutter intervened and the name and signs were restored.

Unification Day

According to Nathan Fillion, the main actor in Firefly, the holiday is on September 20th.

Uniform Monday Holiday Act

Though the holiday was not in existence at the time, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (established 1983) is celebrated on the third Monday in January, instead of King's actual birth date, January 15, for the same reasons.

Veterans Day

U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress.

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder

The song has enjoyed some popularity with Irish-Americans and association with the Saint Patrick's Day holiday and is sometimes played during the holiday, sometimes edited to remove elements of the song that can be construed to disparage the Irish.

Yom HaShoah

In 1984, Conservative Rabbi David Golinkin wrote an article in the journal Conservative Judaism suggesting a program of observance for the holiday, including fasting.