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The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer [1] and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, [2] with additions made at recent General Conventions. The veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church (United States) is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and ...
On the night of December 19–20, 21-year-old farm wife Kate Rodd Slifer died of chloroform poisoning in the bed she shared with her husband, William E. Slifer, also 21, at the farmhouse of Will's parents in Melrose Township, Grundy County, Iowa.
The Church of England commemorates many of the same saints as those in the General Roman Calendar, mostly on the same days, but also commemorates various notable (often post-Reformation) Christians who have not been canonised by Rome, with a particular though not exclusive emphasis on those of English origin.
The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (24 Geo. 2. c. 23), also known as Chesterfield's Act or (in American usage) the British Calendar Act of 1751, is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its purpose was for Great Britain and the British Empire to adopt the Gregorian calendar (in effect).
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.
On 21 December 2011, the Maya town of Tapachula in Chiapas activated an eight-foot digital clock counting down the days until the end of bʼakʼtun 13. [167] On 21 December 2012, major events took place at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala. [5] [6] [7] In El Salvador, the largest event was held at Tazumal, and in Honduras, at Copán.
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