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Easter
Easter Sunday is the feast day in the Christian calendar to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We welcome all questions pertaining to the Easter Bunny too!
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When is Easter In South America?
Although it is fall in the Southern Hemisphere, Christians there celebrate the resurrection on the same day as we in the Northern Hemisphere.
Is it an obligation to go to confession at least once before Easter?
It depends...
Some religions may require this...mine doesn't. Maybe you feel compelled to do so. WHENEVER you want to make confessions just get on your knees and talk to God. I do not believe it is an obligation to go though.
You have head the Easter Bunny lives on Bunny Hill Is that true?
As far as I know, there isn't an Easter Bunny, so I'm guessing he doesn't live on Bunny Hill.
Sorry!!
That's a special day in carnival in Germany. It's the Thursday before the last carnival weekend and there are celebrating especially the women.
On this day it's usual in some parts of Germany that the women cut the ties of the men. Even in business.
How are you spending your Easter?
Easter is used by Christians as the ressurection of their Lord. However Easter is much older. Easter was named after the Goddess of the Dawn, Eastear. Her symbols were eggs and rabbits.
Ways you can spend Easter can vary. Typical because it is a holiday, you are to spend it with family. Easter is a sign for spring. If the day is nice, feel free to plant some things.
Unfortuantly Easter is not as popular as Christmas or Halloween so many people are actually unsure of what to do. Coloring/dying eggs is popular and so is preparing baskets for others. In most cases, many people do not celebrate Easter and do what they normally do.
What are two flowers used at Easter?
There are two flowers that are associated with the Easter holiday. The first traditional flower is the white lily, tulips are also quite popular for the Easter holiday.
How do they work out what day greek Easter falls on?
The Moon!
Easter is one of the Movable Feasts. It never stays on a fixed date.
What people use, to determine the date, is what is called a Lunisolar calendar. By calculating the position of the moon, they are able to identify the date.
This, Lunisolar calendar, is a complicated mathimatical forumla also explaining things like: when a leap year is (as a year is 365.25 days), or an 19-year cycle.
If you would like to learn more about the Lunisolar calendar, go to Wikipedia: Lunisolar Calendar, or New Year Festival: Lunisolar Calendar.
What is the difference between next Friday and this Friday US English?
For me, usually, "this Friday" refers to the Friday that's coming up that is happening the week you say it, while "next Friday" refers to the Friday that's coming up after "this Friday."
Sorry, it's difficult to explain without causing complete confusion.
the first Sunday of April.
On some years Easter may fall on the first Sunday in April, but it falls on the first Sunday following the Vernal or Spring Equinox and can be any Sunday between March 22nd and April 25th. It will never be outside those dates.
In 2011 the dates for Easter are;
Good Friday April 22nd, 2011
Easter Sunday April 24th, 2011
Easter Monday April 25th, 2011
The related link below will give you a full list of dates for Easter from 2011 - 2020.
As you have seen in many other similar posts, a bill's serial number hardly ever matters to its value. Date and condition are more important.
All $2 FRNs issued in 1976 did not carry a series letter so a 1976 G is not possible. Could you check your note again?
In any case, a standard 1976 $2 bill is only worth face value if it has been circulated. A crisp, unfolded bill might sell for $3.
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If you multiply 12345679 by any two digit number* where the first digit is less than 9 and the sum of the digits is 9 (eg 36), the answer will consist of a single digit repeated 9 times. This will be the first digit of the two digit number plus 1 (eg multiplying by 36 will create an number consisting of only the digit 3+1 = 4: 12345679 x 36 = 444 444 444).
*Multiplying by 9 is multiplying by the "two" digit number "09", giving an answer consisting of the single digit 0+1 = 1 repeated.
What do the letters in Easter stand for?
The letters in Easter do not have any specific meanings, although there are many websites and other sources that make a game of assigning a word to each letter as an Easter activity. The meaning of the term Easter is obscure, it is only used in the English language and some claim it is the name of a pre-Christian Germanic goddess of spring. However, there is no reliable record of any such pagan goddess to be found.
What is the real name for Ukrainian egg art?
In Ukrainian, the intricate, decorative sort of Easter eggs, not the ones made for eating, are called "pysanky" (singular "pysanka"). The art of making them is called "pysankarstvo" in Ukrainian, or simply "pysanka making" in English. The actual process (using wax and dyes) is commonly referred to as "batik."
