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This is a list of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar by country.For explanation, see the article about the Gregorian calendar.. Except where stated otherwise, the transition was a move by the civil authorities from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Amazigh people (also known as the Berbers).
"Cuestión de Prioridades por el Cuerno de África" is a charity single recorded by Melendi featuring Dani Martín, Pablo Alborán, La Dama, Rasel, Malú and Carlos Baute. In 2011, some 13 million people were suffering the effects of famine on the Horn of Africa .
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (Spanish: [ˈxuljo jˈɣlesjas]; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer.Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 300 million records worldwide [1] in 14 languages. [2]
Léonin's two-part version of Viderunt Omnes was written about 1170 (the composer's dates are fl. 1150s — d. ? 1201). In his variation, the bottom voice sings the familiar chant as a drone while the top voice echoes in rich polyphony—a symbol of religious unity; a form of communal togetherness.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or Ad majórem Dei glóriam, [note 1] also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG, is a Latin quote which can be translated as "For the greater glory of God."
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church.
Julio Vizcarrondo Coronado [note 1] (December 9, 1829 – 1889) was a Puerto Rican abolitionist, journalist, politician and religious leader. He played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Moret Law which in 1873 abolished slavery in Puerto Rico.