11.   Flush with cash from the booming economy, some companies are going all-out to celebrate the holidays, and not just with parties.

12.   For example, from the turn of the century until World War II, the holiday was mainly celebrated with in-home parties.

13.   Glover and Dorsett had picked the Fourth of July because the base would be open and filled with families celebrating the holiday.

14.   Giles, who is an Episcopalian, wanted a tree to celebrate the holiday.

15.   Gabriel Grub, a nasty, friendless man, spends this particular Christmas Eve digging a grave and chastising anyone, especially children, trying to celebrate the holiday.

16.   He was the heir apparent to the Spartans starting tailback job the following year, as he drove to Bakersfield to celebrate the holiday.

17.   In Puebla, the holiday is celebrated more than in other areas of Mexico.

18.   Like many of those celebrating the holiday, Jill Kelly was disappointed that the Fourth of July fell in the middle of the week this year.

19.   Muslims, like Jews, celebrate their holidays according to the phases of the moon.

20.   Officials in Connecticut, where state government celebrated a holiday, were unavailable for comment.