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1. ^ Note: The definition of 'eve' is not identical to 'evening'. In the OED, eve is defined as "The evening, and hence usually the day before a Saint's day or other church festival. Hence gen. the evening, or the day, before any date or event.", Oxford English Dictionary, Second Ed. (1989)
2. ^ Cuban Christmas Traditions
3. ^ Bulgarian Main Courses
4. ^ Réveillon
5. ^ German Christmas Vocabulary
6. ^ Stephen Fry revealed this during a discussion of Christmas traditions during an edition of QI
7. ^ Day-by-Day Guide to Christmas & New Year in Spain
8. ^ Christmas Traditions and Holiday Cookies
9. ^ Eugene Fodor, Fodor's South 1980: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Lousiana, 1979, at p. 87, available at Google Books
10. ^ Gary Sigley, A Chinese Christmas Story, in Shi-xu, ed., Discourse as Cultural Struggle, 2007, at p. 99, available at Google Books
11. ^ Adebayo Oyebade, Culture and Customs of Angola, 2007, at pp. 103, 140, available at Google Books
12. ^ See, e.g., Clubzone, Twas the Night Before Christmas @ Tonic @ Tonic Nightclub Vancouver BC, 2009
13. ^ See, e.g., Upcoming.org, The College Night Out, 2009
14. ^ Brenda Lane Richardson, Deciding to Celebrate Christmas, or Not, New York Times, December 16, 1987
15. ^ Christmas Eve parties now a Jewish tradition, Associated Press (MSNBC), December 23, 2006