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Suicide risk on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveHolidays are times of celebration of family and loved ones which can be difficult for some people. This study assessed the risk of suicide on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day.MethodsWe searched four major ...
Ta-Chuan Yeh   +21 more
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Is "Happy New Year and Marry Christmas!": For everyone?: How we are in the mood during the holidays [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2023
The festive atmosphere that abounds at the end of one year and the beginning of another is inevitably associated with happiness, joy, excitement and other positive emotions.
Stanojević Dragana Z.   +1 more
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The lost lizards of Christmas Island: A retrospective assessment of factors driving the collapse of a native reptile community

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2021
Until recently, the reptile fauna of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean comprised five endemic species (two skinks, two geckos, and one snake) and one native, non‐endemic skink.
Jon‐Paul Emery   +18 more
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Christmas and new Year celebration in Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s — mid-1950s (based on the Rudé Právo newspaper)

open access: yesЦентральноевропейские исследования, 2022
The article deals with the process of creating a new festive culture in Czechoslovakia after the communist coup d’état. The analysis of the topics presented on the pages of Rudé právo helps to show how Christmas celebrations, which had a long ...
Natallia N. Prystupa
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Dostoevsky’s Ambivalent Reception of a Lutheran Tradition: The Christmas Tree and Christmas Party as a Motif in the Writer’s Stories [PDF]

open access: yesДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019
This essay is dedicated to F.M. Dostoevsky’s reception of the Lutheran “Christmas tree”, particularly in the short stories “A Christmas Tree and a Wedding” (1848) and “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree” (“The Heavenly Christmas Tree”, 1876 ...
Stephan Lipke
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The Box of Delights and The Chronicles of Narnia

open access: yesLinguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2021
The present paper will consider the influence of Masefield’s The Box of Delights on Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis himself openly acknowledged his admiration for and indebtedness to Masefield’s work, and the influence of the earlier novel is clearly ...
Alice Edna Spencer
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Impact of motivations to buy and offer gifts in consumerism at Christmas

open access: yesScientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2021
This article aims to analyze a conceptual model composed of the variables motivation to buy, motivation to offer gifts and compulsive consumerism at Christmas time.
Eulália Santos   +3 more
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Cereals in the Agrarian Rites of the Don Cossacks

open access: yesЖурнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2022
The article is an ethnographic study of the Don region, which for a long time retained the status of a border territory. The issues of estate interaction and the formation of a hierarchy of economy types and their ritual comprehension remained relevant ...
Nina A. Vlaskina
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“DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?” Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition

open access: yesHungarian Studies Yearbook, 2020
In this paper the author argues that the Christmas holidays, notwithstanding their international standing as a religious and commercial season, are most productively understood as a glocal phenomena, a concept intended to link the local with the global ...
Kürti László
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Modern Dünyada Kültürel Bir İnşa Olarak Noel

open access: yesEskiyeni, 2021
Tarihin en eski çağlarında insanın kendi varlığını ve evreni anlama çabasının ürünü olarak ortaya çıkan mitler, modern dönemde arkaik bir dünyanın parçası olarak ele alınmıştır.
Hicret K. Toprak
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