public holiday

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Due to a South African public holiday on Friday, court was adjourned early and will resume on Monday, 24 March at 3:30am ET.

Calling the wedding a “happy and momentous occasion,” Prime Minister David Cameron said the event would be a public holiday.

He was condemned as a punishment to be torn to pieces by wild beasts on the first public holiday, in the great circus at Rome.

This was the first public holiday ever observed at the station, for it was still very young.

Every public holiday also was a family affair to be observed with the rigours of the family feast.

And in Germany this nearly always happens in civil life; while even on a Sunday or a public holiday the mob behaves itself.

The good people of Stockholm have a public holiday in honour of Bellman, a Swedish poet, who died forty years ago.

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