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Boxing Day

December 26

The term "Boxing Day" comes from the little earthenware boxes that servants, tradespeople, and others who rendered services to the public used to carry around on the day after Christmas to collect tips and year-end bonuses. Although the custom of distributing gifts (usually money) to public servants and employees has continued, it often takes place before Christmas rather than after, and boxes have nothing to do with it. But the name has remained, and Boxing Day is still observed in England, Canada, Australia, and many other nations. In South Africa, it is known as the Day of Good Will . If December 26 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday or Tuesday is usually observed as a public or Bank Holiday.

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BkDays-1864, vol. II, p. 764
BkHolWrld-1986, Dec 26
DaysCustFaith-1957, p. 322
EncyChristmas-2003, p. 79
FolkWrldHol-1999, p. 765
NatlHolWrld-1968, p. 79
OxYear-1999, p. 534

Celebration day: Dec 26

Celebrated in: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, England and Wales, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Iceland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Malawi, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Scotland, Sierra Leone, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Zimbabwe

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The 25th is the second day of Christmas and it seemed like a normal day.

Question Time by The Mirror (London, England)

While I might be able to gleefully anticipate the receipt of two turtle doves, not to mention a partridge in a pear tree, on this supposed second day of Christmas, poor old Woolworth workers await their P45S.

You'll be going down in history Darling by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

In front of nearly 90,000 supporters they lost 1-0 to Portsmouth) 2 On the second day of Christmas the Bluebirds gave to me - Twowise men (Chairman Peter Ridsdale and manager Dave Jones have their critics, but they have both stuck to their jobs and are looking to have City in the Premiership next season) 3 On the third day of Christmas the Bluebirds gave to me - Three Scottish caps (Three Cardiff players earned caps for Scotland this year.

Football: Twelve months full of drama for Bluebirds; What a year for ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Peasants Deputies

Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers and Soldiers

Second Athenian League

Second Baku

second boiling point