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While some are noteworthy and many are fairly typical, there are occasionally more unusual spots. Sometimes called a themed ...

Most ordinary folks are governed by the calendar and time they reckon by their watch. Gregorian or English calendar was born after the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar, based upon Greenwich Mean ...

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

While much of the world ushers in the new year on January 1 following the Gregorian calendar, many countries and cultures celebrate the start of their new year on different dates, reflecting their ...

While for Zelenskyy, it was a political move to distance Ukraine’s Orthodox Church from its Russian heritage, it reveals how sections of the Eastern Orthodox Church still followed the Julian calendar ...

Once again, Glasgow’s annual winter festival of traditional music from all parts of the world is formed of an astonishingly ...

WELLS CATHEDRAL is fund-raising for a £7-million restoration project: Vicars’ Close (News, 9 August 2024). Sited next to the cathedral, it is the oldest medieval street in Europe still inhabited for ...

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