Holidays come about in many different ways. Religious observances and cultural traditions are two major ones, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. Holidays come about in other ways ...

Thanks to the "intelligent design" movement, Charles Darwin's birthday is evolving into everything from a badminton party to church sermons this weekend. Defenders of Darwin's theory of natural ...

A group of British lawmakers says naturalist Charles Darwin's work should be marked by an annual public holiday in his honor. Lawmaker Ashok Kumar is one of 10 legislators backing a campaign to make ...