Contains entries on more than 2,000 special days commemorated by people of various countries, cultures, and religions around the world.

"A compendious reference guide to popular, ethnic, religious, national, and ancient holidays, festivals, celebrations, commemorations, holy days, feasts, and fasts; supplemented by a special section on calendar systems, the millenium, Presidents of the United States, admission days in the United States; tourism information sources and web sites; special indexes of chronological, ethnic and geographic, historical, religious, ancient, folkloric, calendar, promotional and sports holidays, state and national legal holidays, general (alphabetical by name and by keyword) and subject indexes." "New to this ed.: contact information source material and special section on the upcoming millenium."