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unusual facts about Orthodox Easter



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.


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Don Pacifico affair and case

Mayer de Rothschild was visiting Athens, during the Greek Orthodox Easter, to discuss a possible loan, and the government, in order to coax him, decided to ban the tradition of burning the effigy of Judas, thinking that Rothschild would be offended.

Louis Tikas

He was shot and killed during the Ludlow Massacre, the bloodiest event of the strike, on April 20, 1914, the day after (Greek Orthodox) Easter.

Peter Joseph Bis

After Mattingly had gone a few steps, Bis stopped him and recalled that Orthodox Easter was not until a week later.