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In the United Kingdom and Ireland, World Book Day is a charity event in March, held annually on the first Thursday and coinciding with the release of special editions. [10] The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency. [11]
The 2012 phenomenon was discussed or referenced by several media outlets. Several TV documentaries, as well as some contemporary fictional references to the year 2012, referred to 21 December as the day of a cataclysmic event. The UFO conspiracy TV series The X-Files cited 22 December 2012 as the date for an alien colonization of the Earth, and ...
This is a list of books released for World Book Day in the UK and Ireland.In 1998 and 1999 a specially created WBD anthology priced at £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) was published.
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
The World Book Capital programme during the year 2011 was held in Buenos Aires in Argentina. The project unit "Unidad de Proyectos Buenos Aires Capital Mundial de Libro" was created especially for the occasion and was run by Luciana Blasco. [41] The three pillars of the Buenos Aires 2011 World book Capital were: The promotion of books
Jubilees insists (in Chapter 6) on a 364 day yearly calendar, made up of four quarters of 13 weeks each, rather than a year of 12 lunar months, which it says is off by 10 days per year (the actual number being about 11¼ days). It also insists on a "Double Sabbath" each year being counted as only one day to arrive at this computation.
The Shahanshahi calendar (also Shahenshahi, Shahenshai) or "imperial" calendar is the system described in Denkard, a 9th-century Zoroastrian text. It explicitly acknowledged several methods of intercalation: [ 24] a leap-day every 4 years; adding ten days every 40 years; a leap-month of 30 days once every 120 years;
The World Calendar is a 12-month, perennial calendar with equal quarters. [ 1] Each quarter begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday. The quarters are equal: each has exactly 91 days, 13 weeks, or 3 months. The three months in each quarter have 31, 30, and 30 days respectively. Each quarter begins with the 31-day months of January, April, July ...