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  2. Date palm - Wikipedia

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    Date palms can take 4 to 8 years after planting before they will bear fruit, and start producing viable yields for commercial harvest between 7 and 10 years. Mature date palms can produce 70–140 kilograms (150–300 pounds) [21] [22] of dates per harvest season. They do not all ripen at the same time so several harvests are required.

  3. Medjool - Wikipedia

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    The Medjool date (Arabic: تمر المجهول - tamar al-majhūl. Tamar means 'date' and majhūl means 'unknown', from جَهِلَ jahila, 'to not know') [1] [2] also known as Medjoul, Mejhoul or Majhool, is a large, sweet cultivated variety of date (Phoenix dactylifera). It is an important commercial variety constituting some 25% of ...

  4. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from names of stars, plants, and flowers that grow or seasonal changes that happen at a given time of year in Southern Africa. The Xhosa year traditionally begins in June and ends in May when one of the brightest stars visible in the Southern Hemisphere, Canopus, signals the ...

  5. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Etymology unknown. The name dates to the "men of Chilli", [141] the survivors of the first Spanish expedition into the region in 1535 under Diego de Almagro. Almagro applied the name to the Mapocho valley, [142] but its further etymology is debated.

  6. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    During the period between 1582, when the first countries adopted the Gregorian calendar, and 1923, when the last European country adopted it, it was often necessary to indicate the date of some event in both the Julian calendar and in the Gregorian calendar, for example, "10/21 February 1750/51", where the dual year accounts for some countries ...

  7. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 January 2025" is ten days after "15 January 2025". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time zone.

  8. Date - Wikipedia

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    Date or dates may refer to: Date (fruit) , the fruit of the date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera ) Jujube , also known as red date or Chinese date, the fruit of Ziziphus jujuba

  9. Calendar era - Wikipedia

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    The calendar begins counting from 1 January 1166 BC in the Discordian year 0, ostensibly the date of origin of the Curse of Greyface. An alternate designation, A.D.D. has been occasionally seen (Anno Domina Discordia, a Latin translation of YOLD, but presumably also a play on attention deficit disorder). [citation needed] e.v. – Era vulgaris ...