Chinese New Year? Is it Real or Fake? This year’s Chinese New Year is going to be on: 2013 | 2013-02-10 | Snake (2013-02-10—2014-01-31) | | | | Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China‚ it is also known as the Spring Festival‚ the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Year’s Day itself‚ the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar‚ to the Lantern
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includes music from the Gregorian chants to Beethoven’s symphonies to the contemporary artists. The longest and most distant era or period of musical history is the Medieval Era‚ otherwise known as the Middle Age Period. During this period‚ the Church was the center of social life‚ learning‚ and the arts. In the early centuries of the Christian Church‚ Saint Gregory‚ who was Pope at that time‚ arranged and collected choral works in the form of chants‚ now called the Gregorian chant. This is music composed
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Another thing that changed in the Middle Ages‚ was how to maintain the eucharist. A whole set of regulations were implemented to control the manufacture‚ use‚ preservation‚ and disposal of the Eucharistic elements. Baking hosts became a ritualized procedure carried out in religious houses‚ accompanied by the singing of psalms. The hosts were baked in a vessel coated with wax‚ rather than in oil and fat‚ which might fry them. To keep crumbs from falling on the floor during the administration of communion
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Year. The three most noticeable differences are in the preparation‚ travel and length of the holiday will be last. The first big different between those two countries is the preparation for New Year Day. In the United States‚ they use the Gregorian calendar so people celebrate New Year on January first. Christmas day is an important holiday to American people. The preparation for New Year’s Day only begins after Christmas day‚ so it usually takes less than a week. Although there are only
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Frida Kahlo was a feminine Mexican painter of mixed heritage‚ born on Gregorian calendar month half-dozen‚ 1907 and lived forty seven painful years before decease on Gregorian calendar month thirteen‚ 1954. inside her short life‚ Frida was slightly unfit from poliomyelitis‚ suffered from a significant tram accident that left her sterilised‚ married renowned painter Rivera‚ divorced‚ remarried muralist‚ became a political activist and rose to fame through her paintings all before succumbing to her
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Eliot sought to combine his poetic talent with the form of drama in this excellent and outstanding text. It is easy to see the massive influence that poetry has on this play‚ as there are only two sections that are written in verse‚ which are Thomas’s Christmas sermon and the so-called "apologies" of the Knights to the audience. Apart from this‚ the rest of the characters speak in verse which is very powerful and is poetic in its intensity. Note‚ for example‚ the following quote from the opening
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together.” This perfectly describes Native American music‚ for the drums are the sole basis of the beat and keep the rhythm going. Once the beat gets going‚ everyone can jump in‚ dance‚ chant‚ and create more sound to make one piece of music together as one. The drums carry out the beat throughout the entire chant and keep everyone in time. Victoria Lindsay Levine wrote in her article titled‚ “Native American Music” and says how “sacred narratives describe the origins of specific musical instruments
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unity for a group of people. Religiously‚ music reflects how followers worship their respective deities. In the Buddhist practice‚ music and chants are used for meditation across the global span of the religion. However‚ different forms of music and chants are used in a variety of ways throughout religious practices. The music and different forms of chants in the Buddhist religion affect Buddhist practices‚ and are also influenced by the religion and the different locations around the world in
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THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS IS THE OLDEST EXISTING UNIVERSITY in Asia. In terms of student population‚ it is the largest Catholic university in the world in a single campus. The institution was established through the initiative of Bishop Miguel de Benavides‚ O.P.‚ the third Archbishop of Manila. On July 24‚ 1605‚ he bequeathed the amount of P1‚500 and his personal library for the establishment of a “seminary-college” to prepare young men for the priesthood. Those funds‚ and his personal library
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dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan. MAHAVIR JAYANTI In Jainism‚ Mahavir Jayanti‚ also known as Mahavir Janma Kalyanak‚ is the most important religious holiday. It celebrates the birth of Mahavira‚ the last Tirthankara. On the Gregorian calendar‚ the holiday occurs either in March or April.He was born on the thirteenth day of the rising moon of Chaitra. The chronology accepted by all Jains places Mahavir’s birth in 599 BCE. Pongal Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated in South
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