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Old 03-17-07, 02:01 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Letum
Do Jews use the standard calender?
IIRC the standard calender got moved around in the 16th Century so that all dates since then are at least 2 weeks away from what they where before and dates in certain months are all a year out due to the change of the new year date around the same time.
Jewish calendar.
Thanks!


eii!...."Jewish year is not the same length as a solar year" that's confusing!

Why do they have leap years if the Jewish year is not the same length as a solar year anyway? :hmm:


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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Not all christian faiths celebrate Easter either, Jehovah Witnesses, don't celebrate Christmas, Easter, New Yrs, Fathers & Mothers day and birthdays.
just for the fun of pedantism:
No Christian Churches celebrate Fathers & Mothers day technically. I don't know about the roots of Father's Day, but we didn't have it when I was young and Mothers day is a derivative of Mothering Sunday which is originally about returning to your "mother Church" and nothing to do with your biological mother. (IIRC, I am no Christian myself)
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