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94 unusual facts about Easter


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For example, it is lit white, green and red during the Christmas holidays (in a similar manner to the Empire State Building), purple and yellow for Easter, orange for Halloween, green for Saint Patrick's Day, red for Valentine's Day, and, as of April 2011, blue, white and red to support the Montreal Canadiens during the Stanley Cup playoffs.

1986–87 New York Islanders season

It is so named because the game started on Saturday evening but did not finish until the early hours of Easter Sunday.

1994–95 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

The Terriers challenge started to fade around Easter with solitary points gained in Yorkshire derbies against Hull City and Rotherham United and a defeat in a match played in farcical conditions at Shrewsbury Town signalled the end of Town's automatic hopes.

2007 Formula Palmer Audi season

The season began at Silverstone on Easter Saturday, with a pair of 22-lap races scheduled for the 1.6-mile National circuit.

374th Airlift Wing

In the spring of 1972, after most American ground forces had been withdrawn, the North Vietnamese Communists launched a major offensive as they invaded South Vietnam during Easter.

Anastasios Christodoulou

Christodoulou had been born on Easter Day and was named 'Anastasios' by his parents, meaning 'Resurrection'.

Anna Easter Brown

Born on Easter in New Jersey, Anna Brown was the daughter of Beverly and Lawrie Brown.

Annales laureshamenses

The manuscript also contains a calendar from 777 to 835 (folios 5r–7r) for the dating of Easter, using the unusual 19-year cycles of Theophilus of Alexandria.

Bartholomew MacCarthy

These include discussions of the ancient Paschal cycle of 84 years and other Paschal computations in vogue in Ireland, the origin of A.D. dating in Irish annals, the methods of rectifying errors in the same, and the history of the various British or Irish falsifications which appeared during the disputes regarding Easter in the insular churches of the West, such as the Acts of Caesarea, the Athanasian Tractate, the Book of Anatolius, and the "Epistle" of Cyril of Alexandria.

Bartica

During the Easter weekend every year, Bartica hosts the Bartica Regatta, with a growing variety of entertaining holiday activities including water sports (featuring mostly speed boats), cricket, boxing, soccer, talent shows, a street parade, and a Miss Bartica Regatta Pageant.

Blessing cross

The side with the Resurrection would be held out towards the people on Sundays and throughout the afterfeast of Pascha (Easter).

At Pascha (Easter), the blessing cross may be connected to the Paschal troitza carried by the priest at the services during Bright Week.

Brandivy

Brandivy is notable for its "Breizh - Kernow Festival" (Breizh = Brittany in Breton; Kernow = Cornwall, United Kingdom, in the Cornish language) which takes place at Easter.

Brendon Chase

At the end of the Easter holidays, Harold falls ill with the measles, so Robin and John are unable to return to boarding school (described as "Banchester" - the name is similar to Winchester College, but it was inspired by Rugby School where the author taught Art).

Carnival of Madeira

The Carnival of Madeira (Carnaval in Portuguese) is an annual festival held forty days before Easter, that ends on Shrove Tuesday (called Fat Tuesday in Madeira - Terça-feira Gorda in Portuguese) the day before Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent).

Catalan mythology about witches

Many traditions about witches related to specific days of the year, especially the eves of certain Christian holidays and saint's days; witches were also said to be very powerful during Lent, which is, in a sense, the eve of Easter.

Cayahuanca Stone

During Easter, the local inhabitants and visitors meet at the point of Cayahuanca the Stone and camp overnight.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy

According to Faustina's words, Jesus himself in a vision asked to pray the Divine Mercy Novena as a preparation for the Feast of the Divine Mercy, celebrated each year on 1st Sunday after Easter.

Charter of Quaregnon

Out of several ideas Emile Vandervelde chose this proposition, which was adopted on the Easter congress of the socialist party, at Quaregnon on 25-26 March 1894, and which became known as the Charter of Quaregnon.

Christmas village

Like many other Christmas traditions, the notion of a village to celebrate a holiday has spread to other holidays, with a few companies making Halloween and Easter villages.

Cudworth, Saskatchewan

There is an annual pilgrimage every year on the tenth Sunday after Easter and is the official pilgrimage of the Saskatoon Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy.

Daveyboyz

David's popular video sketch 'Death Metal Vicar', which features two vicars performing an Easter church service in the style of a death metal song, has also been included in the latest Rude Tube episode of the new worldwide series release.

David Paul Drach

On Maundy Thursday, 1823, he renounced Judaism in the presence of Archbishop Quélen, in Paris, was baptized the following (Holy) Saturday, and on Easter morning received his first Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation.

December 1969 nor'easter

The cyclone was rated by meteorology researchers Kocin and Uccellini (2004) as a high-end Category 3 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS), equating to a "major" winter storm.

In the storm's developing stages, high winds left at least 50,000 electric customers in the Richmond, Virginia region without power.

Deseado

A Tasmanian Police Kawasaki BK 117 rescue/Emergency medical services helicopter had earlier winched off the owner-yachtsman in 8 m waves on 16 April 2006 (Easter day), after he set off his EPIRB (radio beacon).

Desfina

The Christmas and the Easter are celebrated with particular way mainly in villages and small town.

Divine Mercy

Faustina wrote that in her visions Jesus instructed her that the Feast of the Divine Mercy (the Sunday after Easter) be preceded by a Divine Mercy Novena which would begin on Good Friday and conclude on Divine Mercy Sunday.

Easter

The Easter Bunny is a popular legendary anthropomorphic Easter gift-giving character analogous to Santa Claus in American culture.

(St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Adelaide).

Easter Stakes

The Easter Stakes was originally run on turf, and usually took place on the Saturday of Easter weekend.

Education in Spain

Broadly similar to the English three term system, but with slightly shorter holidays at Christmas (23 December – 8 January) and Easter (one week - "Semana Santa"), and longer in the summer (normally from 23 June to 15 September).

Equestrian Scouting and Guiding

One of the activities of the HIT, a yearly national event of Scouting Nederland during the Easter weekend, is an equestrian camp.

Ermes Paterlini

He played his first and only match in Serie A on the Easter of 1968.

Ernest II, Duke of Swabia

At the Diet of Easter 1030 Ernest was offered these powers, if he would crack down on the enemies of Conrad.

Evangeline French

Uncowed by the criticism, Mildred Cable celebrated Communion the following Easter.

Exmouth to Starcross Ferry

The ferry operates on an hourly basis during the day, from Easter to October.

Feast of the Ascension

It is one of the ecumenical feasts (i.e., universally celebrated) of Christian churches, ranking with the feasts of the Passion, of Easter, and Pentecost.

February 2013 nor'easter

In New York, a man was plowing his driveway with a tractor on February 8 in Germantown, when the tractor went off the edge of the road and fell on top of him.

First Saturday Devotions

Such sorrow is particularly bitterly endured on Holy Saturday after Jesus was placed on the Sepulcher (before the Resurrection on Easter).

Fixed feast

A fixed feast is an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas, as distinguished from moveable feasts, such as Easter, whose calendar date varies.

Fourth East Asia Summit

The re-scheduling of the Heads of Government/State of the 16 nations caused the EAS to be tentatively re-scheduled for April, coinciding with Easter.

Georgios Papadopoulos

Other metaphors contained religious imagery related to the resurrection of Christ at Easter: “Χριστός Ανέστη – Ελλάς Ανέστη” translating as "Christ has risen – Greece has risen", alluding that the junta would "save" Greece and resurrect her into a greater, new Land.

Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow

For Easter in April 2004, the sculpture was transformed into a work of art that featured an Easter bonnet prop, and multiple painted Easter eggs with individual images.

Glasgow school closures protest, 2009

The parents intended to remain in occupation over the Easter holiday.

Highways Act 1555

The Act enacted that each year, in the Easter week, every parish was to elect "two honest persons" of the parish to serve as the Surveyor of Highways, who would be responsible for the upkeep of those highways within the parish boundaries which ran to market towns.

J. Reilly Lewis

A feature of his ministry at Clarendon has been the semi-annual Messiah-Sing presentations during Advent and Easter featuring guest soloists accompanied by full orchestra.

John and William Merfold

During Easter week in the Spring of 1451 men gathered at Rotherfield, Mayfield, and Burwash within Sussex, and in some settlements within Kent.

Judith Quiney

In 1616, the period in which marriages were banned without dispensation from the church, including Ash Wednesday and Lent, started on 23 January, Septuagesima Sunday and ended on 7 April, the Sunday after Easter.

Kelly Hrudey

Hrudey made 73 saves (a playoff record) in a 3–2 Islander victory that ended just before 2am on Easter morning.

Kwahu

In recent years, Kwahu has become the best place to celebrate Easter.

Kwahu South District

The Kwahu South district is popular for the Easter holiday, at which time the Kwahu South district is overcrowded.

Leeds Student Television

With the first show out of the way, the Easter holidays meant it was time for the new LS:TV to head to its first National Student Television Association (NaSTA) conference, in Norwich.

Legends surrounding the papacy

After two or five years of reign, 'Pope Joan' became pregnant, and during an Easter procession, she gave birth to the child on the streets when she fell off a horse.

Live at the Murat

Live at the Murat is the fourth live album by progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee, recorded over Easter Weekend at the Murat Centre's Egyptian Room in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Luke Montgomery

Montgomery also protested the next year at speeches by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and an Easter service that Clinton attended.

Mailín

Every year, 40 days after Easter, pilgrims come from all over Argentina to worship the Lord of Miracles

Makamisa

Kapitan Lucas (Town captain Lucas) - the gobernadorcillo of Tulig and is in danger of losing his government position if he does not please Padre Agaton on the upcoming Easter fiesta.

McDade Park

Tour dates are seven days a week from April 1 to November 30, closing only for Thanksgiving Day and Easter Sunday.

Meistersinger

Three times a year, at Easter, Pentecost, and Christmas, special festivals and singing competitions were instituted.

Mighty Cross

Mighty Cross is an Easter Contemporary Christian album by Don Moen.

Montessori Oberschule Potsdam

They have two weeks off in October, two for Weihnachtsferien, Christmas break, one week for a winter break in February, and two for Osterferien, Easter break.

Natural number

However, 0 had been used as a number in the medieval computus (the calculation of the date of Easter), beginning with Dionysius Exiguus in 525, without being denoted by a numeral (standard Roman numerals do not have a symbol for 0); instead nulla or nullae, genitive of nullus, the Latin word for "none", was employed to denote a 0 value.

Octava Dies

Octava Dies is a weekly TV magazine of 25 minutes, broadcast in the entire world since Easter 1998.

Olivier salad

It is always served on Polish Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas Day (Christmas Eve dishes are very different from the food that is served on Christmas Day).

Ossian Everett Mills

In 1886, Mills originated the practice of taking a group of New England Conservatory students to perform for patients in Boston hospitals on Christmas and Easter.

Otakiri School

On special events and days, such as Easter, and the Summer Olympics, the school holds some activities, games, and competitions for the students during school hours.

Otto E. Neugebauer

Thus, the Jewish calendar was derived by combining the 19-year cycle using the Alexandrian year with the seven-day week, and was then slightly modified by the Christians to prevent Easter from ever coinciding with Passover.

Our Lady of Bethlehem

Those converting to Christianity were given a mixture of milk and honey to drink, which in the early churches of Egypt, Rome, and North Africa was solemnly blessed at the Easter and Pentecostal vigils.

Oxford University Society of Change Ringers

During the Easter vacation a four-day tour is organised in a different area of the country where both present and past members visit several rings of bells each day.

Pageant wagon

During these monotonous times, in places like St. Gall, Switzerland in the 10th Century, the church put on shows at their Easter masses.

Paschal greeting

The Paschal greeting is an Easter custom among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Christians, as well as among some Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians.

Pietro Giannone

But he was induced to visit a Catholic village within Sardinian territory, in order to hear mass on Easter day.

Ranelagh School

Earlier there were no school holidays, in 1820 there were four weeks in August, one week at Christmas and Easter, and a week at Whitsun was added in 1824.

Religion in Mexico

However, Christmas is a national holiday and every year during Easter and Christmas all schools in Mexico, public and private, send their students on vacation.

Robert Beckford

In The Secrets of the Twelve Disciples, broadcast in Easter 2008, Beckford explored Paul the Apostle's role in founding the Church and his relationship with Jesus' family; the Roman Catholic Church's claim to Saint Peter; Thomas the Apostle's travels to India; James, son of Zebedee as a patron saint of Spain; the demonisation of Judas Iscariot; and female Apostles.

Rogation days

In London, Rogation Days, just like Easter or Hocktide, were times when begging was "legitimate" for the period of celebration.

Royal Frankish Annals

In addition to astronomical oddities, such as eclipses, the supernatural begins to enter the account, set against almost ritualistic yearly notices of the regular passages of Christmas and Easter.

Salazar v. Buono

The cross has been an intermittent gathering place for Easter religious services since as early as 1935, and regularly since 1984.

Scone, New South Wales

The festival took place every year over the Easter long weekend and has featured such homegrown talent as The Furor, Infernal Method as well as some international acts including Profanation and Nervecell.

Separatio Leprosorum

The exile was generally lifted for several days at Easter, though should the leper wish to enter the community, they were forced to wear the identifying costume and bell.

St Ignatius' College

Before Easter, the current college captain and his vice will write up a short-list on those they believe should take over next year.

St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

There is Holy Communion at Christmas (which Wodrow calls Yule) and Easter with, in 1713, an altar being set up in anticipation (perhaps an indication that Communion was infrequent).

Stansted, Kent

In January 2007 the village was used as a semi-fictional location in the filming of an episode of EastEnders broadcast in the United Kingdom over the Easter 2007 holiday season.

Tales from the Golden Age

He brings her the eggs laid overnight by the chickens in his truck, but the two of them realise with Easter coming up, it would be more profitable to sell them on to the general public instead.

Thingyan

Formerly the dates of the Thingyan festival are calculated according to the traditional Burmese lunisolar calendar, but now fixed to Gregorian calendar 13 to 16 April; it often coincides with Easter.

Trata

On the Tuesday following Easter in every alternate year, the women of Megara take part the traditional dance known as the Trata on the open space before the tiny church known as Saint John the Dancer.

Tsiknopempti

Tsiknopempti happens on the Thursday of the week of Κρεατινή, during which large amounts of meat are traditionally consumed prior to the arrival of Lent, the fasting season leading up to Easter.

Upper Harz

Easter Fire (Osterfeuer): In the Upper Harz the Easter fires are built with the aid of a wooden frame in the centre of which is a spruce tree.

Uppies and Downies

Workington still holds annual Uppies and Downies matches every Easter, raising money for various local charities.

Waimea Plains Railway

1956 was the last year passenger trains ran each way on the same day over the Waimea Plains, and the last excursions came during the next year's Easter holiday period.

Westchester Interfaith/Interagency Network for Disaster and Emergency Recovery

Westchester Interfaith/Interagency Network for Disaster and Emergency Recovery (WINDER) was founded in June 2007 in response to local flooding in Mamaroneck, NY from the April 2007 nor'easter in order to coordinate long-term community and faith-based organizational assistance in response to local disasters as well as better prepare the community for future disasters.

William Borthwick, 1st Lord Borthwick

The Safe-conduct is dated June 9, 1425 and is given until the following Easter.

Working Lunch

The programme was broadcast for 42 weeks of the year, taking a break for Easter, Christmas and some sports tournaments coverage, such as Wimbledon, the Olympic Games and golf, or even in the unlikely event of a strike.


1986 in Northern Ireland

31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.

Aku-Aku

Aku-Aku: the Secret of Easter Island is a 1958 book by Thor Heyerdahl.

Allegan, Michigan

Easter/Passover Weekend 1967, some scenes from the movie Ciao! Manhattan were filmed at the old Allegan County Jail, now the Allegan County Jail Museum.

Anne Easter Smith

In her second novel, Easter Smith focuses on Margaret of York, Richard and Edward's sister, who, like all royals of the time, anticipates a marriage negotiated for political advantage.

Ashford Airport

Lympne Airport, known as Ashford-Lympne Airport from Easter 1968 until its closure in the mid-1970s.

Black Monday

The group had left the safety of the walled city of Dublin to celebrate Easter Monday near a wood at Ranelagh, when they were attacked without warning.

Cædwalla of Wessex

In Rome, he was baptised by Pope Sergius I on the Saturday before Easter (according to Bede) taking the baptismal name Peter, and died not long afterwards, "still in his white garments".

Christos anesti

Paschal troparion, hymn for the celebration of Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Clan Colville

Sir James Colville, third of Easter Wemyss was a distinguished soldier who fought in France for the Prince of Navarre, later Henry IV of France.

Colin Hoult

In the same year he appeared as a life coach in the BBC's Life's Too Short Easter Special starring Warwick Davies, written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Dennis K. Stanley

Dennis Stanley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on Easter Sunday 1906, the youngest of seven children.

Down Easter

"The Downeaster Alexa", American song, about a sailing ship of the "Down Easter" type

DWAL

Exception to the regular broadcast time is every Maundy Thursday to Good Friday when the station operates from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm and Black Saturday when it airs from 6:00 am to 8:00 am and 5:30 pm to 12:00 midnight, after the Easter Vigil.

DZWN

Bombo Radyo Dagupan airs everyday from 5:00 in the morning to 10:00 in the evening, except Holy Week of each year where it signs-off from Maundy Thursday until Black Saturday, and resumes broadcasting on Easter Sunday.

Easter egg tree

A notable example is the Saalfelder Ostereierbaum (Saalfeld Easter egg tree) in Saalfeld, Thuringia.

Four Inns Walk

The Four Inns Walk is a hiking event held annually (usually at Easter) over the high moorlands of the Northern Peak District.

Grove House, Harrogate

The orphanage opened during Easter 1927, with an opening march by donor members taking three hours to travel from Harrogate railway station, accompanied by four brass bands.

Harlekin

It was begun at Easter 1975 in Morocco, and completed on Christmas Eve of the same year on Big Corn Island off the coast of Nicaragua (Kurtz 1992, 201).

International Federation of Socialist Young People's Organizations

On April 5–7, 1915 (Easter) a conference of the young socialists was held at the Volkshaus in Berne, Switzerland.

Italian bee

1884 (Easter) introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia, sourced from Brisbane where they were previously imported in 1880 from Italy by Chas.

Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

Since 1994, the foundation presents, annually at Easter, charity concerts within the Bayreuther Osterfestival, the Osterfestival Nördliche Oberpfalz and tour concerts in Selb and Bielefeld (Germany) for the benefit of children suffering from cancer.

Liangmai Naga

Liangmai Naga being a Christian community, their other main festivals and celebrations are Christmas, Easter, the New Year and Thanksgiving.

Lucyna Kulińska

Her work has been published in many books, internet portals, journals and newspapers related to the Kresy (former Easter Borderlands of Poland).

Mount Rubidoux

The popularity of the Rubidoux Easter sunrise services spawned many other such services throughout the country, including an annual service at the Hollywood Bowl.

Order of Penitents

Fasting, which had always been part of the penitential discipline, became more regularized, and three major times of fasting were observed, Advent, Lent (prior to Easter), and a period after Pentecost.

President's Cup Regatta

Then Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos, impressed by the success of Ray Ordoveza's "Vida" in the China Sea Race and Easter Regatta, encouraged the Manila Yacht Club to organize an International regatta at Subic in 1997.

Pummerin

The Pummerin sounds on only a few special occasions such as high Catholic holidays such as Easter, Whitsunday, Feast of Corpus Christi (Pentacost), Christmas Eve, and St. Stephen's Day (High Patron of the Church - Dec 26th); state funerals, and at the beginning of the New Year, when it is broadcast on national television, ORF, followed by The Blue Danube Waltz.

Ready Player One

Wade names his OASIS character Parzival after Percival, the Arthurian knight famous for his quest for the grail, and dedicates his life to finding James Halliday's Easter egg.

Samuel Shumack

For a year beginning Easter 1895, and again in 1904, Shumack was elected a churchwarden at St John's, Canberra.

Sergei O. Prokofieff

After the fall of communism, he became a co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Russia, and since Easter 2001 he has been a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland.

Stilicho

Stilicho appears in the American comic book X-O Manowar #1 (2012), where he surprise attacks the Visigoths on Easter Sunday.

The Nightcrawlers

The Nightcrawlers were a regional Daytona Beach, Florida band with a hit single, "The Little Black Egg", which was written in 1965 for an Easter concert in which the band opened for The Beach Boys.

William of Norwich

On Easter Saturday, the twelve year old William's body was found in Mousehold Heath, part of Thorpe Wood, outside Norwich.