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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. The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency.
World Book Day (UK and Ireland) World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is provided with a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1998.
Listed conflicts have at least 100 cumulative deaths in total and at least 1 death in current or in the past calendar year. Fatality totals may be inaccurate or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus symbol, indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 455+ indicates that at least 455 people have died).
The calendar uses a mathematical arrangement to keep a normal 12 month calendar in sync with the moon and keeps the whole system in sync by adding an intercalary month every 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years. The Coligny calendar registers a five-year cycle of 62 lunar months , divided into a "bright" and a "dark" fortnight (or half a moon cycle) each.
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. In 2000, instead of a single £1 special anthology, four separate £1 books were published, covering a wider age-range.
World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still ...
6 October - International Geodiversity Day [17] 11 October - International Day of the Girl Child. 13 October - International Day for Disaster Reduction. 17 October - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. 24 October - United Nations Day. 27 October - World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
August 2022) The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2022 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2021.