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Muharram
MUHARRAM first month of the islamic lunar calendar, containing thirty days. The events that took place on the tenth of Muharram in the year 680 changed forever the character of this month by making it a month of mourning, at least for the Shi Read more |
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event stratigraphy
event stratigraphy Event stratigraphy is a comparative latecomer to the Earth sciences, but is proving to be a useful and interesting concept. Extraordinary or singular widespread geological events of very short duration may leave an impression in the stratigraphical record. Fixing the order and... Read more |
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Randomness
Randomness RANDOMNESS AND RANDOM DISTRIBUTIONS STATISTICS AND RANDOMNESS BIBLIOGRAPHY Randomness is a term used in the social sciences and mathematics to refer to chance factors occurring in a manner that the individual events in a series of events or outcomes do not exhibit a connection to... Read more |
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Almanacs
ALMANACS ALMANACS. One of the first publications to issue from the press in British North America was An Almanack for New England for 1639, printed by Stephen Daye in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Almanacs have been part of American culture ever since, adapting themselves to changing times while... Read more |
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Rates
RATES A rate is a measure of the frequency of an event or phenomenon. In public health, vital statistics, epidemiology, and other aspects of the health sciences and health care, events of interest include birth, deaths (so-called vital events), outbreaks of disease, spells of sickness,... Read more |
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calendar
calendar [Lat., from Kalends], system of reckoning time for the practical purpose of recording past events and calculating dates for future plans. The calendar is based on noting ordinary and easily observable natural events, the cycle of the sun through the seasons with equinox and solstice ,... Read more |
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Book of Jashar
Book of Jashar , lost Hebrew work, apparently a collection of songs celebrating national events. Fragments appear in the books of Joshua and Second Samuel.... Read more |
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calendar
calendar Way of reckoning time for...civil life, and for dating events in the past and future. Ancient...Sirius and on the seasons. Calendars are based on natural and astronomical...difficulty in compiling a calendar is that the month is not an...Gregorian, or ... |
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rotation and orbit of the Earth
...and 21 September each year. Calendar dates of events vary slightly because there is not...close enough to 365¼ for the calendar to be kept in step with the seasons by...and is known as the Gregorian Calendar. This compensates for most of... |
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Almanac
...the same development as in England, where it began as a calendar with the addition of some astronomical data. The first American...almanacs, like their English counterparts, contained not only calendars but compendiums of popular science, notices of remarkable events and ... |
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Easter
...resurrection, an ever-present event to believing Christians...celebrated the whole redemption event, Christ's passion and resurrection...Passover date in the lunar calendar (Nisan 14). They were tolerated...still following the Julian calendar, has Easter on ... |
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anniversaries
...The formal commemoration of important events has been a feature of Irish political...July was joined in the Protestant festive calendar by the Apprentice Boys' celebrations of 18...Northern Ireland into the unionist political calendar. In 1987 an IRA bomb killed eleven ... |
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almanacks
...astronomical and astrological information, details of weights and measures, a calendar, and other matters of practical use. They frequently included predictions of political events or natural disasters, proverbs, and other moral sayings, while some... |
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Mackay, Shena
...Music Upstairs (1965), Old Crow (1967), and An Advent Calendar (1971), established her mastery of brief, perfectly judged comic narratives, in which bizarre sequences of events often flow from tiny accidents, and where beneath the offhand... |
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Eisteddfod, the
...dance, arts and crafts, and a host of fringe and youth activities have been added. The introduction of a ‘Welsh only’ rule in 1937 has helped to make it the most important cultural event in the calendar for Welsh speakers. |
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Derby
Derby. Described by Disraeli as ‘the Blue Riband of the Turf’, the Derby is the top event in the flat season's racing calendar. First run on 4 May 1780, the race is named after its founder, the 12th earl of Derby. It is a... |
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Holocene/Recent
...establish a quantitative means of dating Holocene and Recent events; the discipline is known as dendrochronology, or tree...been accumulating for a long time, and provide a kind of calendar dating back throughout the Holocene.A chronology unique to the...minor by geological standards; no ... |
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calendar
calendar. The Celtic measurement of...preceded light. Thus the Celtic calendar of pre-Christian times measured...in the Julian and Gregorian calendars (but 11 November in Gaelic...Triads which list certain events as mad [fortunate] or anfad...The Year in ... |
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New Style date
...date of a historical or astronomical event on the Gregorian calendar, as distinct from dates on the Julian calendar which are known as Old Style (OS). Since the Gregorian calendar was introduced at different times in... |
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Old Style date
...date of a historical or astronomical event on the Julian calendar, as opposed to the modern Gregorian calendar. Thus the Russian revolution of 1917...anniversary is November7 on the Gregorian calendar, was referred to in Russia as the October... |
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Julian Date
Julian Date (JD) A calendar and timekeeping system introduced to give unambiguous dates and times of celestial events, unaffected by changes in the civil calendar. The system was begun in 1582 by the French scholar... |
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Derby
Derby Described by Disraeli as ‘the Blue Riband of the Turf’, the Derby is the top event in the flat season's racing calendar. First run on 4 May 1780, the race is named after its founder, the 12th earl of Derby. It is a race for 3‐year‐olds, run on Epsom downs. |
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Baisākhī
...Vaiśākha (Apr.–May), it is New Year's Day by the solar calendar of S. India and a spring harvest festival in N. India, celebrated...the khālsā on Baisākhī. Sikhs everywhere commemorate this event with akhaṇḍ pāṭh and kīrtan. The previous year's Niśān... |
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Christmas
...early Church had no celebration for the birth of Jesus. The date was unknown. However, with the growth of a calendar by which events in the life of Jesus could be commemorated in turn, the birth of Jesus was inevitably given a day, just as... |
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chronology, biblical
...difficult accurately to date the events narrated, partly because there are few allusions to events known from sources outside...given for the duration of events in the Hebrew Bible are...intricacies of the Jewish calendar. According to Mt. 2: 1 Jesus... |
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Jubilees, Book of
...Temple period and is supposedly the revelation of an angel to Moses. It consists of a recitation of the events of Genesis 1–Exodus 12, as dated according to jubilee years. The Falashas have based their calendar upon its calculations. |
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golden
...golden jubilee the fiftieth anniversary of a significant event, in particular, a sovereign's accession.a golden key...Easter, and not as sometimes suggested because it appeared in calendars in letters of gold.golden rose an ornament of wrought gold... |
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program
program • noun 1. refer to the conference programsynonyms: agenda, calendar, schedule, syllabus, list of events, order of the day. 2. buy a program at the theatersynonyms: playbill, list of performers, list of players, list of artistes... |
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Zoho Calendar Moves Out of Beta.
...and month views, Zoho Calendar offers users an agenda view...Microsoft Office - The Zoho Calendar Plugin for Microsoft Office...multiple Microsoft Outlook calendars and in Zoho Calendar. * Mobile Access - Zoho...Calendar allows users to ... |
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SHARED CALENDARS GET MAJOR BOOST WITH RELEASE OF CLEARSYNC.
...identify the calendar for each event. Unique among shared calendar providers, ClearSync's Palm application allows multiple calendars to be stored, viewed, and...Palm application can display calendars one at a time, side by side...color ... |
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Calendar Sharing Software Gets Automatic Sync on Windows, Mac & Linux.
...the multiple calendars to be viewed...identify the calendar for each event. The ClearSync...coding. While the calendar events can be displayed...agenda, the calendar data remains on separate calendars, each ... |
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Calendars count on leap years to stay in sync.(Neighbor)
...Jan. 1. Like the Julian calendar, the Gregorian would retain...will be 2004. That Gregorian calendar is what most people use today...purposes. There are other calendars in use for religious festivals...Jewish, and the Chinese calendars which date back to ... |
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SPINNAKER ANNOUNCES CALENDAR CREATIONS; FIRST PRINTED CALENDARS USERS CAN...
...quality, pre-printed calendar paper specially designed for Calendar Creations -- Spiral binding for four complete calendars -- A diskette with a theme-related event list, pre-designed...TruType fonts. The Calendar Creations Product Line... |
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Calendar Programs Sort Out the Who, What, When and Where
...keeps track of recurring events. If you have an every...quarter, except on holidays, Calendar Creator won't let you forget...will faithfully enter each event on every month's calendar for years to come. The program...printer, the schedules and ... |
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Japanese Religions, Calendars, and Religious Culture in Brazil
...little discordance between the calendar system in Japan and those...celebrate their traditional events according to the lunisolar calendar, both in Japan and abroad. The calendars utilized in Okinawa also describe...old (that is, lunisolar) ... |
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Colorful Calendars For a Year and a Day
...abuse; 2.95 pounds. Art Calendars From its permanent collections...Monet" on its engagement calendar, and a selection of Monet...cover, for more important events; Renoir and Georgia O'Keeffe wall calendars make more memorable months...Book," this year's wall ... |
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Calendars and Diaries; Make a date with the football fan in your life with a...
...sizes printed on glossy paper Calendar starts any month you choose...Personalise the front of the calendar with the recipient's name...must remember (A3 only). Calendars: code MFLC A5 pounds 9...news reports of the major events that year. ... |
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CYBERSPACE CALENDARS: THEY'VE BECOME A GROWING DATE BASE.(BUSINESS)
...whole Web. Groups displaying calendars at this site include DC Latino...Church. Unlike the community calendars that cling magnetically to...refrigerator door, Web-based calendars can reflect sudden changes...custom personal and group calendar formats similar ... |
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