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4 unusual facts about summer vacation


School holidays in the United States

Summer break - About 10 – 11 weeks (either from end of May to end of August, or early June to the day after Labor Day in early September - depending on region and state).

Summer holiday

Summer vacation, a holiday in the summertime between school years

Summer vacation

Other holidays include around two weeks for Easter and around another two weeks for Christmas and New Year, as well as two midterms with one in October/November during the week of Halloween and one usually in the month of February.

In Sweden, students end their term, either at a church or in their school, singing traditional summer songs like Den blomstertid nu kommer (normally only the first 2 verses).


Andrea Davis Pinkney

Her parents were also very involved in the civil rights movement and exposed Andrea to the cause from early on, even taking her to the annual conference of the National Urban League during many of her summer vacations.

Balestrand

Kviknes Hotel was made popular for European visitors in the early part of the 20th century by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who often visited there during his summer vacations prior to World War I.

Lam Zhi Gin

When he was young, he often went back to Hong Kong with his family in summer holidays and was playing football in Sheung Shui, challenging some adult footballers.


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Edmondson railway ticket

In Poland alternative (less popular) destinations were printed there (e.g. "albo Polish for 'or' Lucynów, albo Mienia" for a ticket from Warsaw to a then-popular summer vacation village, Urle).

Hamana High School

The Japanese school year begins near the beginning of April and ends in mid-March, with 5–6 weeks of summer vacation from the last week of July to the end of August and about 2 weeks of winter vacation around the New Year's holiday.

James Mates

During that time he had spent his 1981 summer vacation working as a researcher for John Tower on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Koizora

When summer vacation starts, one day, Nozomu drunkenly phones her, but his friend Hiro confiscates the phone and converses with her instead.

Komikwerks

Titles include The Forest King by Dan Mishkin and Tom Mandrake, What I did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation by Adam Beechen and Dan Hipp, Heir to Fire by Rob M. Worley and Mike Dubisch, Spirit of the Samurai by Gary Reed and Rick Hoberg and The Anubis Tapestry by Bruce Zick, Blackfoot Braves Society by Christopher E. Long and Michael Geiger.

Kuroshio, Kōchi

Every year in late August, during the summer vacation, twelve third year students chosen from Kuroshio's two junior high schools travel to Hamilton, New Zealand.

Ludwig Boltzmann

On September 5, 1906, while on a summer vacation in Duino, near Trieste, Boltzmann hanged himself during an attack of depression.

Mattapoisett, Massachusetts

With the decline of whaling and associated shipbuilding, Mattapoisett transitioned into a popular summer vacation spot for prominent New York and Boston residents, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Today, the town is largely a suburban community, with most residents commuting to jobs in greater New Bedford, Providence or Boston, or operating businesses targeting summer tourism.

Montxo Armendáriz

The film, starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà as two close friends filling their summer vacation with sex, drugs and rock, became emblematic of the Spanish young generation of the 1990s.

Phineas and Ferb: Quest for Cool Stuff

The game's plot and gameplay is as follows: It is the last week of summer vacation, Phineas and Ferb waste no time as they create, travel and explore in a quest to find hidden treasures to fill out their Museum of Cool.

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the day of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence.

Southwest Harbor, Maine

In the novel Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume, the main character and his family spend their summer vacation at a house in Southwest Harbor, sharing it with his archenemy.

Summer Interlude

During a problem-filled dress rehearsal day for a production of the ballet Swan Lake she is unexpectedly sent the diary of her first love; a college-boy called Henrik (Malmsten) whom she met and fell in love with while visiting her Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Erland's house on a summer vacation thirteen years before.

The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour

In 1937, at Vallée's insistence, Louis Armstrong hosted the show during Vallée's summer vacation.

Thomas J. Surpless

During a summer vacation in 1911, he took part in the rescue of several young women who had fallen into the Delaware River, and thereby contracted malaria.

Thomas no Shinzō

In 1992, the musician Momus wrote the song "Summer Holiday 1999," which was inspired by Summer Vacation 1999.

Valarie Rae Miller

On summer vacation in Los Angeles, she took a course in stand-up comedy and went on to perform at such well-known clubs as The Improv and The Comedy Store.

Worth Hamilton Weller

During the summer vacation between his sophomore and junior years at Walnut Hills High School he visited Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina with Dury, where he discovered the first specimens of Weller's Salamander (Plethodon welleri).