Official Holiday Policy

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Ubiquitous Holidays and Occasions
Ubiquitous holidays and occasions that most people know will be given honor that may include parties, special levels, free items, and whatever else that the management may deem correct.
These include:

New Year's Day (January 1)
Equinoxes and Solstices (as listed at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html)
Halloween (October 31)

Anniversaries and Observances


The second class of observances is the class of Graal holidays. These include, at this time:

The anniversary of the creation of Graal - January 17
The anniversary of the release of newmain - February 28
Loriel's Birthday - March 12
Stefan's birthday - May 8
Unixmad's birthday - July 19
Antago's Birthday - August 31


Due to contraversy, national and religion-based holidays will not be officially supported. However, official holidays often fall near ones that cannot be supported (i.e. Unixmad's birthday near Independence Day and the Winter Solstice near Christmas). This may result in similar observances, i.e. fireworks for Unixmad's birthday and gralats being strewn about on the winter solstice.