bad-hair day (W3)

calendar (W2)

calendars.net
Calendars Net

Display and edit your own calendar of events. Let others post and view events . . . or not. Link your calendar to your web site. View and print out calendars by the day, week, month, or year.

Calendars also available with layout and menus in Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, or Swedish

Calendars Net is a free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you and anyone you choose can post events visible and printable by whomever you choose, or everyone. You can post events that span more than one day (with text flowing across days or even weeks) or that recur every 1st or 4th Tuesday of each month, etc. You can copy the calendar data to your own computer and edit your calendar offline.
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Calends (W2)

"Calends" was the first day of the old Roman month. The days were counted backwards from the calends to the ides.

A calendar was an accounting book where the calends was the first day of the month. Most likely from "calare" = "to proclaim". In the early days it was a register, especially for canonized saints.

-ember
-imber
September
Oktober
November
Dezember (W2)

• "September": der "verregnete Siebte (Monat)"
• "Oktober": der "verregnete Achte (Monat)"
• "November": der "verregnete Neunte (Monat)"
• "Dezember": der "verregnete Zehnte (Monat)"

Halloween (W2)

"Halloween" originated as Celtic New Year's Eve, the "eve of Samhain", or "Winter's Eve". In the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on 31 October. It was believed that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year, their only hope for the afterlife. Naturally the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of 31 October, villagers would extinguish the fires in the homes to make them cold and undesirable. They'd dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighbourhood in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess. The bonfires that were once burned at Halloween to ward off these evil spirits are now lit on 5 November in celebration of Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night). The church adopted 1 November as the feast of "All Hallow's" or "All Saints'" in an attempt to christianise the pagan festival. The last evening of October was thus transformed into the "Eve of All Saints'" or "All Hallow Even" and shortened to "Hallow-e'en".

Halloween, citrouilles et cucurbitacées

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But this fun festival of pumpkins, luminous skeletons and the rest is just a relic of what has been for millennia a most important date, the end of the old year. It was formerly the eve of the Celtic festival of Samhain, a name which comes down to us directly from the Gaelic for the end of summer. When Britain was Christianised, it become All Saints’ Day, or Hallowmass, itself a shortened form of All-Hallows’ Mass, where hallow is the Old English halig, “a holy man“, from which we also get our words holy and hallow. The eve of this important day was All-Hallows’ Even, which has become corrupted to Hallow-e’en, now more commonly spelt Hallowe’en or Halloween.
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historychannel
tdih - This Day in History

holidayinsights
Holiday Insights
tradition, fun, facts and more

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You've arrived at Holiday Insights, where you will find fun, information, and lots more about every holiday you can imagine. We've got you covered on the big ones, the small ones, and all of 'em in between. So, whether you are looking up information, doing a school report, looking for Ecards or screensavers, clipart perhaps, or just having fun, surf on through and come back often.
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• 1 New Year's Day
• 4 Trivia Day
• 6 Feast of the Epiphany- Three Kings Day
• 15 Martin Luther King's Birthday - observed on 17th this year.
• 26 Australia Day
• 29 Chinese New Years

• 2 Groundhog's Day
• 5 Super Bowl Sunday
• 12 Lincoln's Birthday
• 15 Singles Awareness Day - Are you single or in between relations? Then, this day is for you!
• 20 Hoodie-Hoo Day
• 20 President's Day
• 22 Washington's Birthday
• 28 Mardi Gras(Fat Tuesday)

• 5 Oscar Night
• 8 International Women's Day
• 14 Purim begins at sundown.
• 17 St. Patrick's Day
• 20 Spring (Vernal) Equinox
• 20 International Earth Day
• 25 Feast of the Annunciation

• 1 Daylight Savings begins, lose 1 hour of sleep
• 1 April Fool's Day
• 1 International Tatting Day
• 7 National Walk to Work Day 1st Friday
• 9 Palm Sunday
• 13 Passover begins at sundown, lasts 8 days.
• 14 Good Friday
• 15 Income taxes due
• 16 Easter Sunday
• 17 Patriot's Day
• 22 Earth Day (U.S.)
• 26 Administrative Professionals Day formerly "Secretaries Day"
• 27 Take Your Daughter to Work Day 4th Thursday

• 1 May Day
• 5 Cinco de Mayo
• 8 VE Day, WW II
• 9 National Teacher's Day
• 14 Mother's Day
• 20Armed Forces Day
• 24 Victoria Day (Canada)
• 29Memorial Day

• 6 D Day, WWII
• 14 Flag Day
• 18 Father's Day
• 19 Juneteenth Day

• 1 Canada Day (Dominion Day)
• 4 Independence Day
• 22 Hammock Day ...relax and enjoy!

• 3 National Watermelon Day
• 10 National S'mores Day
• 13 Left Hander's Day
• 15 Feast of the Assumption
• - - World Youth Day Not held every year.

• 2 VJ Day, WWII
• 4 Labor Day
• 10 Grandparents Day the first Sunday after Labor Day
• 17 Constitution Day
• 21 International Peace Day (UN)
• 22 Autumnal Equinox
• 22 Native American Day
• 23Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
• 24 Ramadan

• 1 International Day for the Elderly
• 2 Yom Kippur
• 6 Sukkot begins at sundown
• 9 Columbus Day observed
• 9Thanksgiving Day in Canada, 2nd Monday
• 16 Boss's Day
• 21 Sweetest Day 3rd Saturday
• 22 Last day of Ramadan
• 24 United Nations Day
• 28 Make a Difference Day 4th Saturday
• 29 Daylight Savings time ends gain 1 hour of sleep (last Sunday in October)
• 31 Halloween

• 1 All Saint's Day
• 1 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
• 2 All Soul's Day
• 7Election Day -please exercise your right to vote
• 11 Veteran's Day
• 13 Sadie Hawkins Day
• 20 Universal Children's Day
• 23 Thanksgiving Day

• 3 Advent begins
• 12 Poinsettia Day
• 16 Chanukah lasts 8 days
• 25 Christmas
• 26 or 27 Boxing Day find out why the 26th or 27th...this year.
• 26 Kwanzaa
• 27 National Fruitcake Day
• 31 Eid-Ul-Adha
• 31 New Year's Eve

holidays
Daily Holidays

Indian Summer (W3)

Jingle Bells (W3)

DEVIL'S KNELL WILL CHIME 2001 TIMES.
"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way" - Mention Christmas bells to Australians, and we think of beautiful red and yellow native flowers which were shown on a five-cent stamp. But if you mention the Christmas bell to the good folk of the small English town of Dewsbury, in Yorkshire, they must think of the bell in their church, "Dewsbury Minster", and wonder whether it will ever stop chiming. Every Christmas Eve it sounds the Devil's Knell for more than two hours.
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Inside this Article

• 1. Christmas Songs Overview
• 2. 'Deck the Halls'
• 3. 'Good King Wenceslas'
• 4. 'Christmas Is Coming'
• 5. 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'
• 6. 'Ave Maria'
• 7. 'Here We Come A-Wassailing'
• 8. 'Jingle Bells'
• 9. 'O Christmas Tree'
• 10. 'The Holly and the Ivy'
• 11. 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy'
• 12. 'Up on the Housetop'
• 13. 'Jolly Old Saint Nicholas'
• 14. 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear'
• 15. 'While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks'
• 16. 'Angels We Have Heard on High'
• 17. 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing'
• 18. 'We Three Kings of Orient Are'
• 19. 'Angels From the Realms of Glory'
• 20. 'Coventry Carol'
• 21. 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'
• 22. 'Silent Night'
• 23. 'Away in a Manger'
• 24. 'Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella'
• 25. 'What Child Is This?'
• 26. 'Good Christian Men, Rejoice'
• 27. 'O Holy Night'
• 28. 'The First Noel'
• 29. 'Go, Tell It on the Mountain'
• 30. 'Parade of the Wooden Soldiers'
• 32. 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'
• 33. 'Joy to the World'
• 34. 'I Saw Three Ships'
• 36. 'Auld Lang Syne'
• 37. See all Christmas Traditions articles

James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893)
The colorful James Pierpont was the author of "One Horse Open Sleigh" which was first published in 1857. In 1859, he reissued the song under a new name: "Jingle Bells." It was a "sleighing song" which was a popular topic of the time and had nothing to do with Christmas, or for that matter, Thanksgiving.
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johnpratt
Calendars and Chronology

• Introduction to Calendars
• What's the difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendars? What's a lunisolar calendar?
• F.A.Q. - Frequency asked questions about calendars and chronology.
• Introduction to the Hebrew Calendar - The Hebrew Calendar aligns the cycles of both the moon and the sun.
• Introduction to the Calendars of Central America - The Aztec Calendar, Mayan Calendar, and nearly every calendar of Central America were very similar to each other, and were considered very sacred.
• Articles about calendars and chronology, now available in a book.
• Conversion Programs - Convert dates on our Gregorian calendar to the Old Style Julian, Hebrew, Mayan and other calendars.
• Calendar Spreadsheet - A sort of spreadsheet for making a list of dates converted to several calendars.
• Calendar Math Utilities - Utilities to calculate realignment cycles, useful for designing calendars.

John P. Pratt

• Religious Chronology Summary - Table of all published dates with references.
• Astronomy - Notes from my Astronomy Class, with something for everyone.
• Articles and poetry - Over 100 of my published articles. Some are available in a book.
• Calendars - Articles and conversion programs about calendars and chronology.
• Atomic Number Memory Pegs - Use the atomic numbers as memory pegs to memorize lists of up to 100 items!
• Puzzles and Optical Illusions - Some of my all time favorite puzzles and optical illusions.
• Chess Games - Record chess games to replay on any web browser (examples of my favorite games included).
• Mancala Games - Rules and examples of a few fun variations on the game of Mancala.
• Who is Dr. John P. Pratt? - An astronomer specializing in ancient calendars.
• The Book of Enoch - A "lost book" of the Bible (Laurence translation).

Poinsettia Day (W3)

wolframalpha
Dates & Times

Date & Time Computations

• find out the current date and time now
• specify a date by its place on the calendar third Tuesday in April
• calculate a length of time 8:25 am to 7:10pm

Time Zones

• get information about a time zone Mountain Time
• get the current time in a specified city time in Tokyo

Calendars

• generate a calendar for a month this month
• generate a calendar for a year 2010 AD
• get information about the calendar Which months have 31 days?

Holidays

• compute the date of a holiday Easter 1910
• compute the dates of holidays for a given year holidays 2009
• do computations with holidays How many days until Labor Day?

Recurring Events

• compare information for past events ComicCon International vs Burning Man

Unix Time

• get the Unix encoding for the current time unix time
• get the Unix encoding for an arbitrary date and time 2:34:06pm May 12, 1979 in Unix Time
• translate a Unix time encoding unix time 1234567890

Geochronology

• get information about a geological eon, era, period, or epoch Jurassic Period
• find the geological epoch corresponding to a given time 20 million years ago

Chase
Chase's Calendar of Events Annual

Who says a thorough reference book has to be dull? Filled with minutiae and irrelevance as well as useful information, Chase's Calendar of Events is about as eclectic as it gets. Turn to a day and find an armful of fact - not all of it relevant, but pretty much all of it fun. Birthdays and anniversaries of historical happenings are duly noted with capsule descriptions of the whos, whats, and whys. Need a reason to celebrate? How about Hug an Australian Day, April 26? Or Answer Your Cat's Question Day, January 22? Or National Mole Day, October 23? Special events with fixed schedules--the Festival of the North in Ketchikan, Alaska; Mudbug Madness, in Shreveport, Louisiana; the Edinburgh International Festival; and the Super Bowl, for instance - are properly inked in so you can't possibly forget them. Best of all, the book comes with a postcard redeemable for a free, searchable CD-ROM of its more than 12,000 entries. Irresistible and dangerously addictive entertainment. - Sunny Delaney

Synopsis
Includes more than 10,000 holidays, holy days, national and ethnic celebrations, astronomical phenomena, festivals, fairs, anniversaries, and other events from around the world.

Since 1957, Chase's Calendar of Events has been the ultimate reference calendar: the standard day-by-day directory to special days, weeks and months as well as holidays, historical anniversaries and fairs and festivals. Each edition of Chase's Calendar of Events has more than 12,000 listings. It's a "must have" for broadcasters, journalists, advertising and PR agencies, event planners, activity directors, speakers, librarians or anyone looking for something to celebrate each and every day! The book is revised annually and the new edition always publishes in the fall for the following year.

McNamee, Gregory (Autor)
The Word Origin 2014 Day-to-Day Calendar
Words, Cliches, Expressions, and Brand Names

Kurzbeschreibung

Learn the noteworthy roots behind words and phrases such as Skype, "back to square one", woodchuck, motley crew, IKEA, eschew, and more. Insights into the origins range from amusing, to thought-provoking, to sometimes simply bizarre.

Entertaining etymological tidbits greet language lovers with daily lessons from The Word Origin 2014 Day-to-Day Calendar in the derivation of words, cliches, expressions, and brand names.

McNamee, Gregory (Autor)
Word Origin 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar
words, cliches, expressions, and brand names

Kurzbeschreibung

With a year’s worth of etymological fun, The Word Origin Calendar offers language lovers daily vocabulary lessons ranging from witty, to thought-provoking, to sometimes just plain weird. Each day language lovers glean entertaining insights into everyday words, clichés, expressions, and brand names as well as more obscure jargon. Learn the fascinating origin behind words and phrases such as: muffuletta, emoticon, turn chicken, holy moly, cowabunga, and more.

McNamee, Gregory
Andrews McMeel Publishing (Autor)
The Word Origin Calendar 2012
Word Origin: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar

The Word Origin 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar offers language lovers entertaining insight into everyday words, cliches, expressions, and brand names. It also delves into the evolution of more obscure jargon to provide daily vocabulary lessons ranging from witty, to thought-provoking, to sometimes just plain weird - all for a year's worth of etymological fun. Learn the fascinating roots behind words and phrases such as pound sign, Mafia, bait and switch, biohazard, kibosh, and more.

McNamee, Gregory (Autor)
Accord Publishing
The Word Origin Calendar 2011

"Yips" "Guillotine" "Bada-Bing"
Word lovers delight in the entertaining insight The Word Origin 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar brings to everyday words, cliches, expressions, and brand names. Each day offers interesting glimpses into the origin and development of the colorful words and phrases we all use.

McNamee, Gregory (compiled by)
Accord Publishing
The Word Origin Calendar 2010
Words, Cliches, Expressions, and Brand Names

Kurzbeschreibung
Ever wondered where everyday words, expressions, and brand names come from, such as "picnic," "monkey wrench," and "nerd"? If so, this is the calendar for you!

Each day of the The Word Origin: Words, Cliches, Expressions, and Brand Names 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar offers entertaining insight into the origin and development of the colorful words and phrases we all use.

McNamee, Gregory (compiled by)
Accord Publishing
The Word Origin Calendar 2009
Words, Cliches, Expressions, and Brand Names

McNamee, Gregory (compiled by)
Accord Publishing
The Word Origin Calendar 2008
Words, Cliches, Expressions, and Brand Names

Whiteley, Sandy
On This Date
A Day-By-Day Listing of Holidays, Birthday and Historic Events, and Special Days, Weeks and Months