Re: Religious Discrimination :-) (was Loyalty cards again)

On Mar 7, 11:26 pm, Tim Merrigan <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:36:24 +0000 (UTC), goldf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> (David Goldfarb) wrote:
> >(And the Orthodox Easter comes a week later.)
>
> I have never understood this.  Do they use a different algorithm to
> determine Easter?  I think it should be the same as Western Easter.
> It's not like the fixed holidays which are on a different calendar.
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> and to the republic which it established, one nation, from many peoples,
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>
> Tim Merrigan

The Christian holidays don't seem to be glued to the same
calendars...
for example Christmas is always Dec 25th, but Easter is "glued" to the
lunar based "Jewish" calendar so it seems to float all over from March
through April.

In much the same way as the "Chinese" New Year, also being on a lunar
based calendar also seems to float from January into February from
year to year on the Western/Julian calendar.

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