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loneleeb3:
Here ya go!! ;D
Easter is early this year. Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the
1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Based on the above information, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) that is rare.
Here's the interesting information. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year
2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285
(277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on March 17, 2008, 02:54:20 pm ---Here ya go!! ;D
Easter is early this year. Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the
1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Based on the above information, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) that is rare.
Here's the interesting information. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year
2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285
(277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
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Those are some quite interesting facts Richard! Luckily I can say that I was not around 95 years ago to see Easter come this early. However, I do plan on being around 277 years from now so I guess I will see both events ;D I will be quite old then. I can look back upon now and think about how young I was :laugh:
Thanks for posting this. It really is interesting. I thought it must be coming very early this year.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Another reason to savor the season. I wonder if somewhere there is a 102 year old person who was told in 1912 this would be the last time Easter would be this early inly 2008? Who remembers it.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: susiebk on March 17, 2008, 03:45:57 pm ---Hi from St. Patrick's Day in Dublin, Ireland, where the partying is going strong, Monday or no. I will post some photos and more details in my blog a little later. My partying is personally no longer going on at all due to a little jet lag, but what a cool place to be on St. Paddy's Day!
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Really? Somebody told me once--or maybe I read it somewhere--that they made a bigger deal over St. Patrick's Day "over here," in New York and Savannah, than they did in Ireland. Maybe that wasn't true. ???
Or maybe the Irish started making a bigger deal over it for all those American tourists who expected it. .... ???
Shakesthecoffecan:
I went to Ireland in 1996 and I remember at that time 1/2 the population was under 25, and at 10 am on a Monday I passed a bar and it was so full of kids you couldn't get in.
Are you sure they know its St. Patrick's Day?
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