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| | The Goddess Lunar Calendar |
 | | In nine of the twelve Common Era years 1995 through 2006 new year's day occurs on the same day in both the Goddess Calendar and in the Chinese Calendar, and in the other three years the Chinese New Year occurs on the day following the Goddess New Year. | | | Although astronomers cannot actually predict very far ahead (see Comment On Future Accuracy), we can at least say that, on average, the years of the Goddess Calendar can be expected to accord with the seasons for several millennia yet. | | | As shown above, the Goddess Calendar will stay in accord with the lunar phases (on average) over a period of thousands of years. |
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http://hermetic.nofadz.com/cal_stud/lunarcal/lunarcal.htm
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| | Zoroastrian calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Zoroastrian calendar uses the Y.Z. suffix for its calendar era (year numbering system), indicating the number of years since the coronation in 632 CE of Yezdegerd III, the last monarch of the Sassanian dynasty. | | | Prior to the calendar reform of Sassanid emperor Ardashir I (226-241 CE), the calendar in common use in Persia had a 360-day year, and was based systemically on the Babylonian calendar. | | | The Zoroastrian calendar is a religious calendar used by members of the Zoroastrian faith, and it is an approximation of the (tropical) solar calendar. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian_calendar
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| | Iranian calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During Pahlavi era, in 1925, the lunar calendar was officially replaced by the modern Iranian calendar. | | | The Islamic lunar calendar was widely used till the end of the 19th century. | | | The modern Persian calendar of 1925 mentioned that "the true solar year" should be used for computing the first day of the year, and also fixed the number of days in each month (which was previously different in each year, corresponding with the tropical zodiac). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_calendar
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| | Calendars - Numericana |
| | The National Calendar of India was last reformed in 1957: Its leap years coincide with those of the Gregorian calendar, but years begin at the vernal equinox and are counted from the Saka Era (the spring equinox of 79 CE). | | | The Muslim Calendar: The Islamic (Hijri) Calendar (AH = Anno Hegirae). | | | The Julian calendar is still being used for religious purposes by some Eastern Orthodox churches, such as the Russian Orthodox church. |
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http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/calendar.htm
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| | Era: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Era |
| | CE - meaning Common Era, which is used in the Gregorian calendar to mean the same thing as A.D., but without the religious connotation. | | | In a calendar, the era is the date from which years in the calendar are counted. | | | Era: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Era |
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http://www.encyclopedian.com/er/Era.html
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| | Cleopatra VII |
| | ) (according to the Christian era with Julian calendar then used and according to the Christian era with Gregorian calendar) This date is from Skeat | | | (according to the Christian era with ideal Julian calendar). | | | (according to the Christian era with Julian calendar then used, but also, by accident, according to the Christian era with Gregorian calendar) |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cplawassist/paper/15001c.html
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| | CE : BCE :: AD : BC |
| | So "CE" is a more considerate way of labelling dates in the Gregorian calendar without rubbing non-Christian's noses in the fact that so much of the world is using a calendar based on the alleged birth-year of the man we Christians believe to be the Messiah. | | | It's also more accurate for Christians, since today's best guesses as to when Jesus of Nazareth was born differ by four to six years from the best guesses the folks who invented our calendar had. | | | That is to say, for non-Christians it's somewhat inconsiderate and for Christians it's wrong by four to six years. |
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http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/ce.html
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| | Time board of the calendar evolution |
| | Beginning the Persian calendar and the Islamic era in Persia. | | | Beginning of the Jewish calendar and of the Jewish world era (after Hillel IInd Násir). | | | The king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus reforms the Numanian calendar and introduces the calendar of the Roman republic. |
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http://www.kalendersysteme.de/english/calendar/systems/content.html
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| | The Islamic Calendar |
| | The Islamic calendar as it is used today as well as the counting of years according to the Hijra era were introduced at the latest during the reign of caliph 'Umar (caliph 634-644). | | | The era of the Islamic calendar is taken by some to be 15 July 622 CE, others put it one day later on 16 July 622 CE (Julian). | | | Exceptions are Iran and Afghanistan where the Persian calendar is in use. |
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http://www.ortelius.de/kalender/isl_en.php
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| | Project 48 : text report |
| | The Jewish calendar, which supposedly dates from 3,760 years and three months before the Christian era, is one example. | | | It was proclaimed in 1582 by pope Gregory XIII as a reform of the Julian calendar. | | | BACKGROUND HISTORY The Calendar of the Ethiopian Church came from Egypt and as to methods and dates agrees with the Calendar of the Coptic Church2. |
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http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/inmandw/past/9697/projects/rep48/prj48.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jewish Calendar |
| | According to the current Jewish reckoning the calendar is dated from the Creation of the World, which is considered to have taken place 3760 years and 3 months before the commencement of the Christian Era. | | | Of its twelve names now found in the Jewish calendar only seven occur in the Hebrew text, but the whole twelve appear as the main divisions of the Megillath Ta'anith (Scroll of Fasting), which in its original form is referred to a date before the Christian Era. | | | In the present day, and for many centuries, this very primitive manner of fixing the beginning of the month has given way to a systematic calculation of the latter's duration, and the Jewish calendar is now constructed on the basis of a mean lunation of 29 days, 12 hours, 44 min., and 30 sec. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03166a.htm
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| | BuddhistCalendar (icu4j) |
| | The Buddhist calendar is identical to the Gregorian calendar in all respects except for the year and era. | | | Years are numbered since the birth of the Buddha in 543 BC (Gregorian), so that 1 AD (Gregorian) is equivalent to 544 BE (Buddhist Era) and 1998 AD is 2541 BE. | | | This is the civil calendar in some predominantly Buddhist countries such as Thailand, and it is used for religious purposes elsewhere. |
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http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/util/BuddhistCalendar.html
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| | WHAT IS ISLAMIC CALENDAR |
| | Although, the Islamic calendar was introduced in the Christian Era of 632 AD by the Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him), the beginning of the Islamic era for the count of Islamic years was considered and discussed during 639 AD, the time of the 4 | | | Since the Islamic Lunar year has 12 lunar months, it is on an average, 11 days shorter than the (Gregorian) civil year, the Islamic year shifts earlier in each civil year by about 11 days. | | | The Islamic calendar is based on lunar months, which begin when a thin new crescent Moon is actually sighted in the western sky after sunset within a day or so after the New Moon. |
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http://moonsighting.com/islamcal.html
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| | Time board of the calendar evolution |
| | Beginning the Persian calendar and the Islamic era in Persia. | | | The king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus reforms the Numanian calendar and introduces the calendar of the Roman republic. | | | The emperor Augustus reimports the calendar of the Ptolemaios IIIrd Euergetes Ist in Egypt. |
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http://www.kalendersysteme.de/english/calendar/systems/content.html
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| | Sean Hannity Discussion - History Commenticius |
| | The months are attributed to the Jewish calendar, the days come from Eygptian astrology and the calendar year has gone through many eras of start dates, usually commemorating battles or the emergence of leaders. | | | Or to acknowledge that there are non-Christians out there who already had to accept a new dating system, and needn't be forced to recognize the year 1 as "the year of our lord." Is it not enough that you get to have the calendar roughly based around the birth of your messiah? | | | It seems extraordinary for an author of history to specify "common" especially since there are no concrete reasons for this term (some rationalize that it refers to the "common calendar", i.e. |
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http://www.hannity.com/forum/printthread.php?t=4935
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| | Java date and time API - Buddhist calendar system - Joda Time |
| | The Buddhist calendar has one era (the current era), and has a year offset by 543 from the current Gregorian year. | | | Within Joda-Time the Buddhist calendar system can be used by obtaining an instance of BuddhistChronology. | | | It appears that Sun developed the Buddhist Calendar system to meet the needs of Thailand. |
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http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/cal_buddhist.html
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| | Hindu calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The epoch (starting point or first day of the first year) of the current era of Hindu calendar (both solar and lunisolar) is BCE 3102 January 23 on the proleptic Gregorian calendar (i.e. | | | Today (as of writing this on 2005-05-18) the elapsed years in the Hindu calendar are 5106 and this is the 5107th Hindu calendar year. | | | The most widely used authoritative text for the Hindu Calendars in the Sūuuūrya Siddhānta, a text of uncertain age, though some place it at 10th century. |
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| | :: Print Version :: |
| | The years of the Buddhist Era (B.E.) began from the traditional date of the Buddha's Mahaparinibbana Death (he passed away at the age of 80). | | | Visaka Puja in the year 2004 C.E. was in the Buddhist Era year 2547. | | | As I told you about my country, Thailand, it is a Buddhist country and we use a different calendar than you do. |
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http://www.wickenburgsun.com/articles/2004/12/29/news/news05.prt
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| | Common Era -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | This inscription, like most, uses the Jewish calendar (5585), but ends by providing the common year (1825); presumably the VE means Vulgar Era, and presumably VE was used instead of AD in order to avoid the Christian implications. | | | Some Christians have used the term CE to mean 'Christian era'. | | | The Common Era (CE), also known as Current Era or occasionally, the Christian Era, is the period beginning with the year (The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number) 1 onwards. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/co/common_era.htm
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| | genealog.calsys1b |
| | THE MUSLIM CALENDAR ------------------- The Muslim Era is computed from the starting point of the year of the emigration (Hegira); that is, from the year in which Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, migrated from Mecca to Medina, 622 AD. | | | Easter was the most important feast of the Christian Church, and its place in the calendar determined the position of the rest of the Church's moveable feasts. | | | When the Gregorian calendar firmly established January 1 as the beginning of its year, it was widely referred to as the New Style calendar, with the Julian the Old Style calendar. |
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http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/genealogy/roots-l/genealog/genealog.calsys1b
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| | Calendars |
| | The years in the Bahá'í calendar are counted from 23 May 1844, the date the Báb (regarded by Bahá'ís as the messenger of God; the name is loosely translated as "Gate") announced the closing of the current era, and that one would come soon to open a new era. | | | The Hebrew calendar: The Hebrew calendar is the official calendar of Israel and of the Jewish faith. | | | The Persian (Jalali) calendar: The Persian calendar is official in Iran and in some surrounding nations, such as Afghanistan and some Central Asian nations. |
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http://www.projectpluto.com/calendar.htm
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| | SBU Department of History & Political Science: HIS 1113 |
| | This Alexandrian Era calendar remained popular for some time, but was superseded in the seventh century by the Byzantine Era calendar which the Eastern Orthodox Churches continued to use until the latter part of the seventeenth century. | | | This traditional Rabbinical calendar is still used by Jewish congregations in the present day to schedule their religious celebrations. | | | Next, Ussher determined that the year King Nebuchadnezzar died (562 years before the Christian Era) was equivalent to the Julian year 4152 (4714-562=4152). |
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http://www.sbuniv.edu/~hgallatin/hi113uot.html
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| | Calendar Details |
| | It should be noted that each Theravadan tradition has its own version of the Buddhist calendar, complete with names for the months, names for the holidays, and even cycles of years. | | | The years of the Buddhist Era (BE) are reckoned from the traditional date of the Buddha's Mahaparinibbana (his passing in to final nibbana at death). | | | For more on the Buddhist Calendar, and to review many of the sources that inspired this version of it, browse for the subject at Buddhanet.net. |
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| | Bahá's are generally given to the misconception that their calendar was born anew for the New Era. | | | Each month and each day of the religious calendar is presided over by a spiritual being; special prayers (from the Khorda Avesta) are observed in honor of that spiritual being. | | | He kept the Iranian "Naw Ruz", the "intercalary days", and "feasts" (there are 21 in the Iranian calendar). |
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http://www.kaweah.com/Bahai/calendar.html
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| | The Islamic Calendar - ReligionFacts |
| | Years on the Islamic calendar are numbered from the event of the Hijira in 622 CE, and designated AH (anno hijiri or "after the Hijira"). | | | The first day of the Islamic era is Muharram 1, 1 AH or July 16, 622 CE. | | | Thus the Islamic holidays do not always fall in the same season, and they occur earlier every year on the solar calendar. |
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| | Wb Divr |
| | The Theravada calendar is lunar; the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, with one month added approximately every three years to adjust it to the solar calendar; Jodo Shinshu Buddhism employs the Gregorian calendar. | | | The Buddhist calendar is as varied as the different schools and traditions that make up international Buddhism. | | | Metteyya ("Maitreya"), Bodhisattva, the Buddha of the next age, is the most venerated by Theravada Buddhists. |
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| | Calendars |
| | The Jewish and Moslem Calendars and the Era of Nabonassar | | | That is the sacred calendar for the Bahâ'i Faith. | | | It is noteworthy that the reformed calendar is adjusted to Gregorian calendar dates relative to the signs, not the constellations, of the Zodiac-- where the Vernal Equinox, no longer in Aries, is now in Pisces, entering Aquarius. |
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| | Laos holidays list |
| | The Buddhist Era (BE) calendar usually figures year one as 543 BC, which means that you must subtract 543 from the Lao calendar year to arrive at the Christian calendar familiar in the West (e.g., 1997 AD is 2540 BE according to the Lao Buddhist calendar). | | | It is based on the movement of the sun and moon and is different to the Buddhist calendar used in Thailand. | | | The Lao calendar is a mixture of Sino-Vietnamese and Thai-Khmer calendars. |
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| | 2. The Christian Calendar |
| | Some people, who want to avoid the reference to Christ that is implied in these terms, prefer the abbreviations BCE (``Before the Common Era'' or ``Before the Christian Era'') and CE (``Common Era'' or ``Christian Era''). | | | It was in common use until the late 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian calendar (section 2.2). | | | Before Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar in 45 BC, the Roman calendar was a mess, and much of our so-called ``knowledge'' about it seems to be little more than guesswork. |
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| | Calendars - Numericana |
| | The National Calendar of India was last reformed in 1957: Its leap years coincide with those of the Gregorian calendar, but years begin at the vernal equinox and are counted from the Saka Era (the spring equinox of 79 CE). | | | The Muslim Calendar: The Islamic (Hijri) Calendar (AH = Anno Hegirae). | | | The Julian calendar is still being used for religious purposes by some Eastern Orthodox churches, such as the Russian Orthodox church. |
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