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Learn about the Hebrew birthday, also known as a Jewish birthday, and how it differs from the secular and Gregorian calendar. Find out about the customs and traditions related to Hebrew birthdays, such as the upsherin ceremony.
An unbirthday is a day that is not a person's birthday, first mentioned in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking-Glass. The term is also used in the Disney film Alice in Wonderland, where Alice attends an unbirthday party and sings "The Unbirthday Song".
How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.
A half-birthday is a day approximately six months before or after the anniversary of a person's birth. Learn how to calculate it accurately, why some people celebrate it, and see some references and popular culture mentions of half-birthdays.
Learn about the full moon, the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. Find out how to calculate the date and time of a full moon, what causes lunar eclipses, and how different cultures celebrate or explain the full moon.
The templates {{Birth year and age}} and {{Death year and age}} return a person's year of birth or death and their approximate age. The templates are useful when only the year, or year and month, of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death for privacy reasons.
Learn about the calendar changes in Europe and the British Empire from Julian to Gregorian system, and the start-of-year adjustments from 25 March to 1 January. Find out how to use O.S. and N.S. notation for historical dates and events.
A remix is a piece of media that has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. Learn about the origins and evolution of remixing in music, literature, film, technology and social systems, and see some notable examples of remixes.