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In Southern California and across the country on Monday, dozens of businesses nationwide closed, schools reported lower attendance and families put off trips to the grocery store in observance of “A day without immigrants.”

November is Native American Heritage Month, a national observance since 1990.

But eating meat was associated with religious observance too and there was a sophisticated debate between philosophers about eating animals.

Faithful observance of the Sabbath, or Lord's Day, is embedded in the culture of Lewis and Harris.

“Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public-school classroom—rendering them unavoidable—unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption of the state’s favored religious scripture,” the parents wrote in their court filing.