print email comment close Winter Holiday Roundup URL: http://www.factmonster.com/spot/winterholidays1.html Description: Collection of material about major winter seasonal holidays, including Diwali, Ramadan, Advent, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year. Includes a discussion of why each holiday is celebrated and holiday traditions such as clean homes for Diwali, wreaths and calendars for Advent, the dreidel and foods cooked in oil for Hanukkah, and resolutions and fireworks for New Year. Also includes links to information about different religions. From Pearson Education, publishing as Fact Monster. Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc. LII Database Information: Record 24955 created by Maria Brandt on 11/19/2007 Last modification on 11/29/2007 Published: 11/29/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24955