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"Contrive" means to invent.  All holidays are human inventions.  Even in its original meaning as sacred time, a holiday is the product of human invention, not divine.

I fail to see the point you are making.  The "holidays" below--if indeed they are sacred days at all, which I find doubtful--are all invented.

>Not all holidays are "contrived".  Consider the following:
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Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
Department of History
James Madison University

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