A. As New Year's Day by some cultures\nB. As part of the vernal equinox\nC. Widely by the English during the 1700s\n\nChoose the correct answer!
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C.Widely by the English during the 1700s
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December 30th\n\nThis means the third day before (ante diem) the Kalends (1st) of January.  The Romans counted the day itself when calculating dates, so the first of January is day one, December 31st is day two, and December 30th is day three.
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you will need to look up an almanac, which you will find in your local library I hope this helps
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I'M going to bike along the Atlantic Ocean in Long Beach N.Y. IS earth day becoming corporate and lost its meaning? A valid question.  It would depend on each individuals conception of EarTh Day . I recall celebrating the 4th earth Day in1974. I was long haired Hippie @the time. I recall backpacking A ridge in New Paltz, N.Y. I was in my tent and I marveled AT that time when it the first moment of Spring,when day and night are equal around the world- The Vernal Equinox. Every Earth Year I take  a Good Moment to reflect upon the origin of Earth Day, The vernal Equinox.. and the other eons of questions that this living entity earth may one day answer. I make earth day what I believe it to be.
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You can perfectly balance an egg any day of the year.  Here is the history behind the significance of the ritual on the equinoxes:\n\nThe Chinese are thought to have originated the practice of standing eggs on end during the equinox. Just as the equinox symbolically restores balance to the world by signalling its rebirth after a season of darkness, the equinox literally balances the day by dividing it into equal portions of darkness and light. If the symbol of fertility — eggs — could be balanced on end during a day equally divided between day and night, this was a sign that all nature was in harmony. That the balancing of eggs could be achieved on any day of the year was of no importance; what everyone wanted and needed was a familiar, reassuring ritual to demonstrate that all was right with the world.
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New Years Day is January 1st where ever you are. Summer or Winter doesn't matter.
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Does 'nt the word holiday originate from Holy Day. What English people call a holiday (as in seaside) the Americans call a vacation.So calling Christmas a holiday seems ok to me.
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The first of the new year
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As far as the globe - there is the Vernal Equinox (Start of Autumn in Northern Hemisphere; start of Spring in the Southern) on the 22nd of September.\n\nWinter starts in the northern hemisphere on December 22nd (start of summer in the southern hemisphere)\n\nSpring starts in the northern hemisphere on March 22nd (That is the first day of autumn in the southern hemisphere)\n\nSummer starts in the northern hemisphere on June 22nd (First day of winter in the southern)\n\nHas to do with the tilting of the earth on it's axis.
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LONG ONE:\nSplitting the year up into 365 days was easy - everybody knew what a day was, and everybody knew what a year was, so they just counted up how many days there were in a year. This happened all over the world, many times, independently in different cultures. When one group of invaders came along to politely ask another group if they would mind, say, changing their religion, the agressors would say "You've got a day to think about it before we smash you up". It's unlikely these two nations would speak the same language, so this would take a lot of hand waving and pointing at the sun and moon to get across, but across it would nevertheless be gotten. There was no need to go into deep astronomical calculations, because the concept of a day was universal - even newly introduced mortal enemies who didn't have a word or belief in common, would at least have a measurement in common.\n\nGood story below\n\nBryan crooked his right thumb to touch the base of his right index finger (please follow along and do it, too), and said, in much the same way as a Sumerian might have, 4,000 years ago... "One."\n\nHe then moved up a notch - see that? Each of your fingers has three distinct segments. I never really noticed that! - and, touching now the middle segment of his right index finger with his right thumb, he said... "Two." \n\nI think you may sense where this is leading. By the time your right thumb has counted each of the three segments of his neighboring four fingers, you're up to 12. \n\nLong before people were reading with their lips, one imagines, they were counting with their fingers. \n\nSo a day was divided into 12 segments, called hours; and, too, the night. \n\nWhat a lovely story. It was all the ancient Sumerians' fault! The ancient Babylonians inherited this quaint practice, and presumably added their own 60-fetish to divide the hours into 60 minutes, and the minutes into 60 seconds. The Babylonian fascination with the number 60 is interesting in itself - so interesting, in fact, that it suggests the Babylonians were the ones who split up the day, using geometric series:
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The earth rotates 1 on its axis every 24 hours.  Hipparchus proposed dividing the day equally into 24 hours which came to be known as equinoctial hours (because they are based on 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness on the days of the Equinoxes). Ordinary people continued to use seasonally varying hours for a long time. Only with the advent of mechanical clocks in Europe in the 14th Century, did the system we use today become common place
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by the world wide calender, it's either winter or spring.  If you mean what season we start in, it's winter.  If you want which season starts first, it's spring.  Then again, you must remember, thanks to Julius Caesar our calender is screwed up. DECemember (tenth) OCTober (eighth). JAnuary February were added in the wrong place.
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The moon is lunar. I think the Chinese have festivals reagrding that. Jews live by a lunar calandar and observe new year at fall. I'm sure there are other groups that do. You might find one who celebrate full monns and go from there. Celtic and others who revere nature.
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An equinox in astronomy is the event when the Sun can be observed to be directly above the equator. The event occurs twice a year, around March 20 and September 23. More technically, the equinox happens when the Sun is at one of two opposite points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator and ecliptic intersect. In a wider sense, the equinoxes are the two days each year when the center of the Sun spends an equal amount of time above and below the horizon at every location on Earth. The word equinox derives from the Latin words aequus (equal) and nox (night).\n\nA solstice is either of the two events of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equatorial plane. The name is derived from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (stand still), because at the solstice, the Sun stands still in declination, that is, it reaches a maximum or a minimum. The term solstice can also be used in a wider sense as the date (day) that such a passage happens. The solstices, together with the equinoxes, are related to the seasons. In some languages they are considered to start or separate the seasons; in others they are considered to be center points (in English, for example, the period around the June solstice is known as midsummer, and Midsummer's Day is the 24 June — now two or three days after the solstice).
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You don't have too, it your own personal choice. Remember, it is all just marketing or tradition:\n\nBirthdays - tradition\nNew Years - just marketing\nValentines Day - not a day for gift giving - just marketing\nEaster/Ostrea - tradition/marketing\nChristmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa - tradition/marketing\nAnniversaries - personal tradition\nSurgeries - personal choice\n\nYou get the point.
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Chinese New Year...(there are lots of Chinese people living in Canada and the US, right?) And then after that is Valentine's Day, then St. Patrick's Day, and then Easter.
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Not for sure, but probably at the beginning of the new year. That's usually when new laws take effect.