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unusual facts about Easter Sunday



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Bombo Radyo Kalibo airs everyday from 4:50 in the morning to 09:00 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.

DZVV

Bombo Radyo Vigan airs everyday from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm, except Holy Week of each year where it signs-off from Maundy Thursday until Black Saturday, and resumes broadcasting on Easter Sunday.

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.

DZWX

Bombo Radyo Baguio airs everyday from 4:30 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.

Interdict

Exceptions were made for the dying, and local interdicts were almost entirely suspended on five feasts of the year: Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and the feast of the Assumption of Mary.

Passavas

When the leader of the Maniots was executed by the Ottomans, his mother led the men of Skoutari who dressed up as priests on Easter Sunday and were allowed entry to the castle.

Ranau

Other celebration includes the Good Friday where one would normally see the Christians in the district going to church congregations during the Holy Week with its culmination is on Good Friday to Holy Saturday and usually ends on Easter Sunday.

Scheideck, California

The Ridge Route Communities Museum and Historical Society, for example, noted that "Judge" Scheideck ran egg hunts on both Easter Sunday and Halloween, which was Scheideck's birthday, and the custom was still being observed in 2013.

Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam

Adam Harrington, age 16, died of heart failure caused by a blood clot, sustained while hiking with his family on Mount Diablo, a 3,849 feet mountain in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Easter Sunday, 1995.


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1922 in Germany

The German delegation became the object of unwelcome attention when it concluded a political and economic agreement with the Russian foreign minister Georgi Chicherin in Rapallo on Easter Sunday (April 16).

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.

Battle of Okinawa

The main landing was made by XXIV Corps and III Amphibious Corps on the Hagushi beaches on the western coast of Okinawa on L-Day, 1 April, which was both Easter Sunday and April Fools' Day in 1945.

Cyril Tawney

While still in the Navy in 1957, he performed on an Alan Lomax radio show broadcast on Christmas Day, Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year. He appeared on television on the following Easter Sunday.

Dennis K. Stanley

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

Groudle Glen Railway

In addition to the two steam locomotive being in operation providing a top-and-tail train service (this ensures speedy turnaround and removes the necessity for locomotives to run round their trains at either end of the line), the Easter Bunny is on hand to distribute chocolate eggs at the outer terminus, second only to the Santa Trains these services which operate on Easter Sunday and Monday are the line's busiest and provide a bump start to each summer season.

HM Prison Won Wron

HM Prison Won Wron was noteworthy in that it held a fun-run with the tongue-in-cheek name of "Prisoners on the Run" annually on Easter Sunday, with the goal of raising funds to help support disabled and disadvantaged children in the Gippsland area.

John Cannan

Banks's naked decomposed body was found in a stream by a woman collecting moss six months later on Easter Sunday (3 April 1988) in the Quantock hills, at a site named "Dead Woman’s Ditch", part of an Iron Age camp at Dowsborough.

Joseph Lee Hooker

Eventually his faith, and his self-admitted need for conversion, led him to Medjugorje, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, where on Easter Sunday of 1990, he met his wife, Bridget, an American also on a pilgrimage.

Krāslava

Monsignor Konstantin BudkevichRoman Catholic priest executed in the Lubyanka Prison on Easter Sunday 1923.

LifeChurch.tv

Easter Sunday, 2007, LifeChurch.tv began broadcasting from their new campus in the online game Second Life.

Mark Elvins

He was ordained a priest at Arundel on Easter Sunday 1973 and was Assistant Curate at Arundel Cathedral and Chantry Priest to the Duke of Norfolk from 1973 to 1979.

McDade Park

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

Middelburg

Roggeveen discovered Easter Island/Rapa Nui in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1722.

Mott Haven, Bronx

It was organized by Sean Oglaigh na hEirann, the veterans of the Irish Republican Army, who marched every Easter Sunday, down Willis Ave. from the Hub to E. 138th St.

Stilicho

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

Sussex county cricket teams

The first definite mention of cricket in Sussex relates to ecclesiastical court records in 1611 which state that two parishioners of Sidlesham in West Sussex failed to attend church on Easter Sunday because they were playing cricket.

Thursday of the Dead

Salim Tamari places Thursday of the Dead three days before Easter Sunday (coinciding with Holy Thursday) and the day after Job's Wednesday (Arabic: Arba'at Ayyub), a quasi-religious mawsim (or seasonal festival) for Muslim peasants involving rituals at the sea.

Triumph Church

Triumph Church held weekly worship services at the Opera House from January 3, 2010 through June 6, 2010, including an Easter Sunday worship service featuring the Grammy award-winning gospel musician Kirk Franklin.