The modern calendar has Roman Catholic roots. As the sun does not adhere exactly to the earthly calendar, leap days are ...
The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...
Presidents Day is a federal holiday celebrated each year in mid-February to honor past U.S. presidents. Locally, it's part of ...
The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...
Easter is fast approaching. Here's a look at why the date of Easter changes every year and what to know about the holiday.
Prior to the Gregorian and even Julian calendars, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set about creating a calendar with equal-length months, the University of Chicago said. "When Numa ...
On the evening of Wednesday 12 February 2025, the Snow Moon, the second full moon of the year, will rise over Luxembourg. <br ...
Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...
The shift from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents' Day began in the late 1960s, when Congress proposed the Uniform Monday ...