In Scotland, the New Year is a higher profile holiday than Christmas.
New Year's Eve is called Hogmanay and the 1st and 2nd of January are Bank Holidays.
There is no special name for the New year in Scotland or for the first Monday.
(When dates scheduled for Bank Holidays fall on Saturday or Sunday the actual Bank Holiday is usually deferred to the Monday.)
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Princess Anne.
Handsel is the name given to the first Monday in the year, in the case of 2009 Monday the 5th of January.
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Cyber Monday became used as a marketing term on November 8, 2005 as a way to help online retailers compete with brick and mortar stores after Black Friday. The website Shop was the site where the phrase was first coined.
Rick Monday's birth name is Monday, Robert James.
The name of the person that invented the first calendar is not known. The first calendar was invented in Scotland.
James I (who was also James VI of Scotland).
James I (who was also James VI of Scotland).
the name of the first cloned sheep is Dolly