Saudi Arabia Switches From Islamic Calendar to Jesus Birth Date-Based...
The Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has switched from the lunar-based Islamic calendar, which starts with the emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, to the "Western" Gregorian calendar, named...
View ArticleWhen is Easter Sunday? (historical perspective)
And why is Orthodox Easter on a different date than Catholic Easter? Easter Sunday, the greatest liturgical feast of the year, has been celebrated on various days throughout the Church’s 2,000 year...
View ArticleSaints on Calendar?
Saints on Calendar? Q. Why are some American saints on the liturgical calendar and others are not? How is that determined?Marty, Brooklyn, N.Y. A. It is true that not all American saints appear on the...
View ArticleA Creative Calendar from a Retirement Home
A German Retirement Community Did A Calendar Where Seniors Amazingly Recreated Famous Movie Scenes. The Contilia Retirement Group in Essen, Germany, made what is probably the best calendar ever with a...
View ArticleOn New Year’s, our calendar’s crazy history, and the switch...
On New Year’s Day, just about every corner of the world will flip a calendar in accordance with the system commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in the 1580s.
View ArticleLatest Apple Update Deletes Easter,But Leaves 'Indigenous Peoples Day'
We’re still not sure if it was a glitch, an “oops” or an intentional snub, but it looks like Easter Sunday has disappeared from Apple’s iPhone calendars under the company's latest software update. Fox...
View ArticleiPhone users quietly find ‘Easter’ back on their calendars
Easter has “appeared just as quickly as it disappeared” on Apple’s iPhone after widespread complaints from users. As LifeSiteNews reported last week, Apple Inc. removed Good Friday and Easter from its...
View ArticleHow Many Jewish New Years?
Time, in its essence, is an unceasing flow on which human beings have imposed meaning with arbitrary divisions and markers–years, months, weeks, days, minutes, and seconds. These units of time serve as...
View ArticleA Problem For Democrats With The July 1, 1982 Entry On Kavanaugh’s...
Not an insurmountable problem. But a problem.The evidence on this point is thin but a bit thicker than the rest of the evidence supporting Ford’s account. Among the boys whom she says she remembers...
View ArticleCalendar sales of a certain foreign world leader are surpassing those of...
No, the current leader in 2019 calendar sales at a popular chain store in Japan is not a fresh-faced young idol, nor is it a sexy heart-throb actor. Rather, Vladimir Putin, the 66-year-old President of...
View ArticleFrench Calendar Reform: The De-Christianization of France
During the French Revolution, France set aside Christianity and in public forum denounced the God of Heaven. “The world for the first time heard an assembly of men, born and educated in civilization,...
View Article5 things about the leap year you may not know
Here are some things you may not know about the leap year, from famous people born on leap day, to why it is added to February and not other months. 1. Not every fourth year is a leap year Only if the...
View ArticleFox, C-SPAN, NBC moderators for upcoming Trump-Biden debates
Representatives from Fox News, C-SPAN and NBC will moderate the upcoming debates between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. According to the nonpartisan Commission on...
View ArticleCustom Calendar Maker that allows major TEXT entries for each day
Could use some help please. I make a calendar every year for my dad that includes daily text entries to remind him of birthdays, but also has jokes and puns which he likes. I have always used the...
View ArticleHas anyone noticed the media is calling Chinese New Year "Lunar New...
I had the day off today and I noticed that all the news programs are calling it Lunar New Year rather than Chinese New Year.
View ArticleThe Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven lost days
The History Guy remembers the Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven lost days. It is a curious calendar-related piece of forgotten history that deserves to be remembered.The Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven...
View ArticleSPRING BEGINS – March 20
(Last Updated On: March 17, 2023) Spring begins on the March or vernal equinox, which is when the amount of sunshine is approximately 12 hours long. The amount of sunlight will incrementally increase...
View ArticleThe Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia Switches to the Gregorian...
The Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavia will switch to the Gregorian calendar on September 1, 2023 (the beginning of the Indictus, i.e., the New...
View Article[Devotional] Feast of the Holy Maccabean Martyrs
[Devotional] Feast of the Holy Maccabean Martyrs2 Maccabees 7The glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and their mother.1 It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were...
View ArticleWhat days DON'T they get? James Woods posts an insane calendar of woke
Welcome to the United States of Woke. Where insane genre ideology must not only be tolerated but celebrated. Every day. Think that is an exaggeration? Think again. On Oct. 19, Twitchy favorite James...
View Article5 Things You May Not Know About Leap Day
Nearly every four years, we add an extra day to the calendar in the form of February 29, also known as Leap Day. Put simply, these additional 24 hours are built into the calendar to ensure that it...
View ArticleGoogle celebrates Nowruz 2024 with a doodle
Google commemorates Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with a vibrant doodle symbolizing equal daylight and darkness on the vernal equinox. The doodle features haft-sīn, a table Google has created a...
View ArticleWhat to Know About Nowruz, a 3,000-Year-Old Festival Celebrated by Millions...
Some 300 million people around the world are starting their annual celebration of renewal and harmony with nature in what is to them the biggest cultural holiday of the year, typically involving 13...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren: Gaetz Nomination Reminder to Dems to Confirm as Many Judges...
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) signals to Senate Democrats to confirm as many judges as...
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