Link One Topic to Several

Here’s the situation: We have a couple of topics that
have a list of holidays and the dates they fall on. Is there some
way to update these lists from some single topic, so that, instead
of going to two or more topics holding holiday lists, we might go
to the one topic and update them all from there?
For instance, say we have as topics Backup Schedule,
Production Schedule, Holiday Production Schedule and Regular
Schedule. It would be a time-consuming task with the potential for
error to update each of these topics individually. However, if
there were some Holiday List topic that the schedule topics could
draw from, we would only have to update the one topic. Is this
possible?
Thanks,
Lon

"...but if you have a good idea fo the size of the topic you
want to insert, ..."
Uh-oh. I think I've confused everyone, and, consequently,
everyone is confusing me.
What I'm looking for is some central point (i.e., topic)
where I can have a list of dates from which I can update holiday
dates in other topics, along the line of:
in Date Topic, have <July 4 = Monday>
then, in Other Topic, a line would read: "Production for
Monday, July 4"
BTW, Peter: Went to your website and searched for "inline
frame" but got no results. Likewise with RH.
Lon

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