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  • 41Easter — This article is about the Christian Festival. For secular uses, see Easter customs and Ēostre. For other uses, see Easter (disambiguation). Easter Resurrected Jesus and Mary Magdalene, by Antonio da Correggio, 1543 …

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  • 42calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any …

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  • 43Julian calendar — The Julian calendar began in 45 BC (709 AUC) as a reform of the Roman calendar by Julius Caesar. It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year (known at… …

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  • 44diplomatics — /dip leuh mat iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like. [1785 95; see DIPLOMATIC, ICS] * * * ▪ study of documents Introduction… …

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  • 45Fasti — For the poem by Ovid, see Fasti (poem). Fasti Antiates Maiores, an inscription preserving a Roman calendar that predates the Julian reform, with July and August named as Quintilis and Sextilis, and allowing for the insertion of an intercalary… …

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  • 46kelə- — I. kelə 1 Warm. Oldest form *k̑elə₁ , with metathesized variant *k̑leə₁ , contracted to *k̑lē (becoming *klē in centum languages). 1. Suffixed variant form *klē wo . a. lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow, covering, protection (as from cold); b …

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  • 47K — is the eleventh letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay (pronEng|keɪ). [ K Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged… …

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  • 48Byzantine calendar — The Byzantine calendar was the calendar officially used by the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) [The term Byzantine was invented by the German historian Hieronymus Wolf in 1557 but was popularized by French scholars during the 18th century …

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  • 49Christmas carol — For the short novel by Charles Dickens, see A Christmas Carol. For other uses, see A Christmas Carol (disambiguation). Children singing Christmas Carols …

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  • 50Troubadour — A troubadour (IPA: IPA| [tɾuβaˈðuɾ] , originally IPA| [tɾuβaˈðoɾ] ) was a composer and performer of Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100 ndash;1350). The troubadour school or tradition began in the eleventh century in Occitania …

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