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The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. <p> As with many other Christian dates, the celebration of Easter extends beyond the church. Since its origins, it has been a time of celebration and feasting and many Traditional Easter games and customs developed, such as Egg rolling, Egg tapping, Pace egging and Egg decorating. The egg became important in many of these traditions as a pagan symbol of rebirth used in spring festivals. It was later adopted by the early Christian Church as a symbol of the rebirth of Christ. Similarly the spring Hare was the animal of the goddess Eostre which developed into the tradition of the Easter bunny. Today Easter is commercially important, seeing wide sales of greeting cards and confectionery such as chocolate Easter eggs, marshmallow bunnies, Peeps, and jelly beans. </div></div> <div id='tab8'><div style="padding:10px;"><h2>Movies</h2><div align="center" style="margin:10px;"> </div></div></div> <div id='tab9'><div style="padding:10px;"><h2>Pictures</h2></div></div> </div>   <div id="resize_new" class="resize"><div class="rightboxcontent2"> <center> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://lapi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?EKServer&ai=fqv%7Ctqv%7Fk&bdrcolor=FFCC00&cid=0&eksize=9&encode=UTF-8&endcolor=FF0000&endtime=y&fbgcolor=FFFFFF&fntcolor=000000&fs=0&hdrcolor=FFFFCC&hdrimage=1&hdrsrch=n&img=y&lnkcolor=0000FF&logo=3&num=25&numbid=y&paypal=n&popup=n&prvd=9&query=easter+antique&r0=4&shipcost=n&siteid=0&sort=MetaEndSort&sortby=endtime&sortdir=asc&srchdesc=n&tbgcolor=FFFFFF&tlecolor=FFCE63&tlefs=0&tlfcolor=000000&toolid=10004&track=5335911963&width=570"></script> </center> </div></div></div> <div id="resize_news" class="resize"><div class="rightboxcontent2"><div style="padding:2px;"> <center><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></center> </div> </div></div> <div id="resize_pop" class="resize"><div class="rightboxcontent2"><div style="padding:5px;"> <center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></center> </div></div></div> <div id="resize_etmb" class="resize"> <div class="rightboxcontent2"><div style="padding:5px;"> Throughout North America and Australia the Easter holiday has been partially secularized, so that some families participate only in the attendant revelry, central to which is (traditionally) decorating Easter eggs on Saturday evening and hunting for them Sunday morning, by which time they have been mysteriously hidden all over the house and garden. Chocolate eggs have largely supplanted decorated eggs in Australia. <p> In North America, parents tell their children that eggs and other treats have been delivered and hidden by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket which children find waiting for them when they wake up. Many families in America will attend Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participate in a feast or party in the afternoon. <p> In the UK children still decorate eggs, but most British people simply exchange chocolate eggs on the Sunday. Chocolate Easter Bunnies can be found in shops. Many families have a traditional Sunday roast, particularly roast lamb, and eat foods like Simnel cake, a fruit cake with eleven marzipan balls representing the eleven faithful apostles. Hot cross buns, spiced buns with a cross on top, are traditionally associated with Good Friday, but today are eaten through Holy Week and the Easter period. In the north of England and the north of Ireland, the traditions of rolling decorated eggs down steep hills and pace egging are still adhered to. <p> In the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, the most notable feature of the Easter celebration is the flying of kites to symbolize Christ's ascent. Traditional Bermuda kites are constructed by Bermudians of all ages as Easter approaches, and are normally only flown at Easter. 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