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unusual facts about calendar-based methods



1947 in art

Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.

1996–97 Premier Soccer League

The league was an 18-team competition established in 1996 by Irvin Khoza, Kaizer Motaung, Raymond Hack and Jomo Sono in conjunction with the South African Football Association and it would run parallel to the European football calendar.

American Championship car racing

The season was conducted similarly to the sanctioning of professional golf — the four golf majors are sanctioned by separate organizations, but they still count as the most important events on the PGA Tour calendar.

American Discovery Trail

The first hikers to walk the entire trail, Joyce and Pete Cottrell, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, were the first to backpack the entire official route of the American Discovery Trail, but they hiked segments out of sequence over two calendar years, finishing in 2003.

Armelin's calendar

Armelin's calendar proposal was discussed chiefly under the auspices of the Société astronomique de France in 1887 and recently in the French Academy of Sciences

Avon-Maitland Distance Education Centre

In the FirstClass classroom desktop, a teacher posts notes to all the students in the class and maintains the class calendar.

Before

Before Common Era (BCE), an alternative naming of the traditional calendar era primarily used in academic circles.

Buddha's Birthday

Though the birth of Birth of Buddha is Nepal Buddha Purnima or Tathagata is celebrated in India, especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, various parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong, and Maharashtra (where 6% of total population are Buddhists) and other parts of India as per Indian calendar.

Chronology of the ancient Near East

A key document is the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, preserving record of astronomical observations of Venus, as preserved in numerous cuneiform tablets during the reign of the Babylonian king Ammisaduqa, known to be the fourth ruler after Hammurabi in the relative calendar.

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Concours international de roses nouvelles de Bagatelle

Established in 1907 by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, the city's Commissioner of Gardens, it was the first international competition to assess new roses and remains one of the most prestigious events in the commercial rose growers' calendar.

Emperor Kōnin

Those two were together enclosed in a house in Yamato Province and died two years later in the same day, on the 27th day of the fourth month of Hōki 6 (in Julian Calendar, on May 29, 775).

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.

Flag of Uzbekistan

The 12 stars depicted on the state flag of the Republic of Uzbekistan are also directly connected with Uzbek historical traditions, with the ancient calendar-cycle of the sun.

Gilda Sansone

After her win Sansone appeared on Italian Elle April 2008 issue and was featured in the Lavazza Espresso Experience 2009 Calendar, working alongside with Italian top model Eva Riccobono and renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Grey College Boat Club

Grey College Boat Club holds an annual Ball each year in Epiphany term which is the highlight of the boat club's social calendar.

Hangul Day

The tenth day of the ninth month of 1446 of the lunar calendar in 1446 was equivalent to October 9 of the Julian calendar.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!

The calendar features twelve semi-nude female students of journalism faculty at the Moscow State University (MSU), each for every month, with a short message.

Herbert Ratner

In 1967 Ratner helped to found and became secretary-treasurer of the National Commission on Human Life, Reproduction and Rhythm.

High Holy Days

The Mishnah, the core work of the Jewish Oral Torah, sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and Sabbatical and jubilee years.

Jang Yoon-ju

Infinite Challenge's Next Top Calendar Model Challenge of 2011 (broadcast in 2010) - Moderator, mentor, judge and actress.

Jantar Mantar, Delhi

The site is one of five built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1724 onwards, as he was given by Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah the task of revising the calendar and astronomical tables.

Jason Chee

Chee has been placed in several contests he entered in Singapore such as Manhunt Singpore, Calendar Guys, CLEO Singapore's Most Eligible Bachelors.

Jewish views on contraception

Fertility awareness methods (modern improvements over the rhythm method) are difficult to use, because many infertile days coincide with the ritually impure days of niddah.

John Savident

He was one of the readers on the BBC's online Advent Calendar in December 2006 and starred in the 2006 pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the henchman at Manchester Opera House, appearing alongside Suranne Jones, Justin Moorhouse, and the all-star seven dwarves including Warwick Davis.

KEWL-FM

Additional programming includes ABC Radio News, Huckabee Report, Casey Kasem and the American Top 40, the 70's Classic Hits Show, Dick Bartley's Classic Countdown Show and Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember Radio Show and Daily Music Calendar.

Lunar calendar

An example of this is the lunar calendar of the Banks Islands, which includes three months in which the edible palolo worm mass on the beaches.

Malayalam calendar

Malayalam Calendar (also known as Malayalam Era or Kollavarsham or Kollam Era) is a solar and sidereal calendar used in Kerala, India.

Mirapoint Email Appliance

Mirapoint Email Appliance is a Unix-like standards-compliant black-box e-mail server, with built-in anti-spam, anti-virus, webmail, POP, IMAP, calendar, and LDAP routing options available.

Mozilla Calendar Project

The Mozilla Calendar project was announced by the Mozilla Organization (now the Mozilla Foundation) in October 2001.

National Bank of Abu Dhabi

NBAD Sponsored as the Official Bank of the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, one of the most anticipated events in the international sporting calendar.

Natural family planning

Clinical studies by the Guttmacher Institute found that periodic abstinence resulted in a 25.3 percent failure under typical conditions, though it did not differentiate between symptom-based and calendar-based methods.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

Official World Golf Ranking

Awarded to the player with the most weeks at number 1 during calendar year and named after Mark McCormack, originator of the ranking.

Pausha

In the Tamil solar religious calendar, Tai begins with the Sun's entry into Capricorn, and is the tenth month of the year.

Perennial calendar

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster's Perennial calendar and companion to the almanack.

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

John Hodgman claims to have made a "controversial shot-by-shot remake" of "Pierre Menard" in the "page-a-day calendar" portion of his book More Information Than You Require, on the date 4 December 1998.

Ranabai

On the samadhi site at Harnawa village there is an annual grand fair organized every year on the Hindu calendar date bhadva sudi teras, when devotees come from far off places.

Regnal years of English monarchs

However the official "legal year" — that is, the calendar used for legal, civic and ecclesiastical purposes — has not always started on the same date as the start of the historical calendar year which is 1 January (see Old Style and New Style dates).

Roberto Capucci

In 1968 he returns to Italy in his atelier at via Gregoriana in Rome, where he showed his collections during the fashion calendar organized by the Camera Nazionale dell’Alta Moda and, in the same year, he draws costumes for Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s movie “Teorema”.

Scott Fybush

He is a noted expert on radio transmission towers, and visits radio and television facilities in the United States and beyond to photograph them for his Tower Site of the Week feature and his Tower Site Calendar.

Simon Storey

Storey was also the November pin up for the 2008 Clyde 1 Cash for Kids Charity Calendar which raises funds to support the most vulnerable children in Scottish communities.

Sinukwan Festival

The Sinukwan Festival relives the Kapampangan spirit with a week-long calendar of cultural revivals capped by a grand street-dance parade in the streets of San Fernando, with towns outdoing each other to the tune of “Atin Cu Pung Singsing.”

Studio Museum in Harlem

Directors since that time have been Edward Spriggs, Courtney Calendar, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Thelma Golden, its current director.

Sun Java Calendar Server

Calendar reminders and change events are published to a Java Message Service using Sun Java System Message Queue.

Surgères 48 Hour Race

The Surgères 48 hour race is perhaps the most significant event in the current ultrarunning calendar in this time-frame.

Tamara Barnett-Herrin

In connection with the Calendar Songs project, Barnett-Herrin made her a capella tracks and simple instrumental tracks available pursuant to Creative Commons licenses, permitting remixers to make non-commercial uses of her songs.

Xhosa calendar

Xhosa calendar, traditionally, as the year began in June and ended in May, when Canopus, a large star visible in the Southern Hemisphere, signaled the time for harvesting.

Yeruchom Levovitz

He was born in 1873 (5633 in the Jewish calendar) in Lyuban, Minsk Voblast, Belarus (near Slutsk) to Avraham and Chasha Levovitz.

七夕

Qixi Festival, a Chinese festival celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar


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