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  2. Pre-Islamic Arabian calendar - Wikipedia

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    In Safaitic inscriptions, both seasons and Zodiac signs are used to refer to specific times. Four different Safaitic seasons are documented: 'winter' s 2 ty, which corresponds to early January-mid-February, 'the season of the later rains' dṯʔ, taking place in mid-February till mid-April, 'the early summer' ṣyf, lasting from mid-April till early June and finally the 'dry season' qyẓ ...

  3. Yen Ching-piao - Wikipedia

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    As a child, Yen Ching-piao earned the nickname "winter melon-piao" from his grandfather for his short stature and stocky build. [1] [2] Yen married at age 17, [1] [2] and had children, including son Yen Kuan-heng and daughter Yen Li-ming. [3] [4] Yen was linked to organized crime in 1986 and was imprisoned on Green Island for over three years.

  4. Midlothian, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Midlothian (/ m ɪ d ˈ l oʊ θ i ə n / mid-LOH-thee-ən) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Settled as a coal town, Midlothian village experienced suburbanization effects and is now part of the western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia south of the James River in the Greater Richmond Region. [4]

  5. Dreamspell - Wikipedia

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    However, doing this to the Dreamspell 13 Moon calendar would bring the calendar out of sync with the 52-year cycle where the galactic signature and day of the year return every 52 years. If the Gregorian calendar weren't in existence at all, the 0.0 Hunab Ku would still be the necessary intercalary day to keep the 52-year cycle (of 18,980 days ...

  6. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    The name of these months was reported by Onwuejeogwu (1981). The Yoruba calendar is a calendar used by the Yoruba people of southwestern and north central Nigeria and southern Benin. The calendar has a year beginning on the last moon of May or first moon of June of the Gregorian calendar. The new year coincides with the Ifá festival.

  7. Yellow Emperor - Wikipedia

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    Liu's calendar started with the birth of the Yellow Emperor, which was reckoned to be 2711 BC. [146] When Sun Yat-sen declared the foundation of the Republic of China on January 2, 1912, he decreed that this was the 12th day of the 11th month of year 4609 (epoch: 2698 BCE ), but that the state would now be using the solar calendar and count ...

  8. Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - Wikipedia

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    The five digit Long Count can therefore be confirmed with the other four characters (the "calendar round date"). Taking as an example a Calendar Round date of 9.12.2.0.16 (Long Count) 5 Kibʼ (Tzolkʼin) 14 Yaxkʼin (Haabʼ). One can check whether this date is correct by the following calculation.

  9. Harvard–Yenching Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Harvard–Yenching Institute (HYI) was founded in 1928 by Yenching University President John Leighton Stuart with funding provided solely from the estate of Charles Martin Hall, the inventor of a process for refining aluminum and the founder of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA).