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Did you know that New Year was celebrated on Christmas day in medieval times? Read all the history behind New Year
Gregorian calendar is the most widely accepted date sheet across the world today. Celebrating New Y…
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Hanukkah And Thanksgiving Fall On The Same Day This Year - The Next Time It Will Happen Will Be In 77,798 Years
Because the Jewish calendar is very slowly getting out of sync with the solar calendar, at a rate o…
Steven Perlberg
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17 Unusual Ways People Around The World Celebrate The New Year
January 1st may be the de facto beginning of the New Year in the Western hemisphere thanks to the G…
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17 Unusual Ways People Ring In The New Year Around The World
January 1st may be the de facto beginning of the New Year in the Western hemisphere thanks to the G…
Megan Willett
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Saudi Religious Police Warn Against New Year's Celebrations
The Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known unofficially as Mutawaa…
Agence France Presse
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New Year Festivities Not Over Yet; Here Is How India Celebrates
The year 2014 is
just a day old, marking the beginning of yet another Gregorian calendar year. But
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We're about to experience the earliest spring since 1896 because of something unusual that happened in 2000
"Our calendar system is set up in a 400 year cycle so that it makes up for all the little fractions…
Jessica Orwig
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His Controversial Christmas Day Tweet
One last bit of historical fact. All of England was celebrating Christmas the day Newton was …
Caroline Moss
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Zelenskyy says Russia rejected an Easter truce with Ukraine and that it shows how Russian leaders regard the Orthodox faith
UN Chief Antonio Guterres had called for a four-day ceasefire during the Orthodox Christian Easter …
Matthew Loh
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GOLDMAN: December's Ugly Wage Stats Can Be Blamed On A Calendar Quirk
"In months when the Saturday of the reference week falls on the 13th of the month, as was this case…
Myles Udland
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What Christmas is like on a remote Scottish island where residents celebrate the holiday 12 days after the rest of the world
On the island of Foula, Christmas and New Year's come in January. The island's 30 or so residents f…
Geoff Weiss
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10 things you need to know before European markets open
Bosnian Serbs carry oak and pray near burning Yule logs in front of the Church of the Holy Prophet …
Ben Moshinsky
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The full moon has different names for each month. Here's the meaning and origin for the whole lunar calendar.
The full moon goes by many names each month, like the worm moon in March or the harvest moon in Sep…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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Krishna Janmashtami 2024: Date, puja timings, fasting dos and don’ts, and mantras
Krishna Janmashtami, a major Hindu festival, will be celebrated on August 26 this year, commemorati…
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Trump may be in trouble this year, according to the Chinese Zodiac
But a popular belief in Chinese culture is that people are often less lucky when they are in the sa…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Ukrainian refugees who fled the war to the US are trying to recreate Christmas traditions far from home
One woman told Insider she misses holiday donuts made by her grandma, who's in Ukraine. Another man…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Hariyali Teej 2024: Everything you need to know about date, timing, puja vidhi and history
Hariyali Teej 2024, also called Shravana Teej, is a significant Hindu festival dedicated to Goddess…