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The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...
The Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire [1] (Persian: جشن سالگرد دوهزار و پانصدمین سال بنیانگذاری تمدن پارسی) was a national event in Iran that consisted of an elaborate set of grand festivities during October 1971 to celebrate the founding of the ancient Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great.
This Easter egg was made to honor the 80th birthday of the late soccer player Pelé. [citation needed] "pi" (or "calculator" and pressing P on the keyboard) and clicking the "π" symbol will start a memory game similar to Simon, in which the calculator highlights the digits of pi and prompts one to repeat the sequence. The sequence gets longer ...
In the years following the book's publication, responses to the tale were published by W. M. Swepstone (Christmas Shadows, 1850), Horatio Alger (Job Warner's Christmas, 1863), Louisa May Alcott (A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882), and others who followed Scrooge's life as a reformed man – or some who thought Dickens had got it ...
Year 182 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sura and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 935 Ab urbe condita ).
Eiffel was to receive all income from the commercial exploitation of the tower during the exhibition and for the next 20 years. He later established a separate company to manage the tower, putting up half the necessary capital himself. [12] A French bank, the Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC), helped finance the construction of the Eiffel ...
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. was born on October 20, 1971, in Long Beach, California, to Beverly Tate (1951-2021) and Vernell Varnado. [12] [13] Varnado, who was a Vietnam War veteran, singer, and mail carrier, left the family only three months after Broadus's birth, and thus the baby was named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Sr. (1948–1984). [14]
In addition to the above holidays, from 1 April 2007 all workers must be given four weeks annual leave, often taken in the summer Christmas – New Year period. [25] In many industries there is a Christmas – New Year shutdown of business.