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Article: All you need to know about Tamil New Year ...
Post (South Africa);  April 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... year and in the south, it is based on the solar year. Hence, Hindus have different New Year days. For the Hindu Tamils, whose calendar is based on the solar year, the New Year falls on the first day of the month Chithirai ...

Article: ASIAN GROUPS PREPARE FOR NEW YEAR'S FESTIVITIES ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  February 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... preparing for traditional New Year's Eve dinners and weekend ... duck and chicken, and New Year's cake baked with rice ... lunar months to match the solar year's seasons. Asian people today use the lunar new year primarily as a festival ...

Article: IRAN: IRANIANS END NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS IN ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  April 3, 2000 ;     509 words ... ... final day of the Persian New Year holidays. Families flocked ... of Nowruz, the Persian New Year that commenced March 20 ... behind, and to enter the New Year with prosperity. Iran ... follows the Persian solar year, with Nowruz celebrations ...

Dictionary definition: solar year
A Dictionary of Astronomy;      262 words ...solar year The year in a calendar designed to relate, approximately at least, to ... alternatively, another name for a tropical year . Not all calendars use a solar year. For example, the Islamic calendar is closely related to the phases ...

Article: Making the calender and solar year coincide has ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... quest to create a calendar that corresponds exactly to the solar year _ the amount of time it takes Earth to orbit the sun. Those ... the extra day in the calendar keeps it on track with the solar year. ``Even that far back, people realized that the actual ...

Article: Calendar is set up to keep us even with the solar ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Julian Calendar was used for 1,500 years. But it wasn't right either. It was 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than the solar year. That doesn't sound like much. But by the year 1580, the calendar had spring starting 10 days sooner than it does. That ...

Article: JANUARY NEW YEAR A CALENDAR CREATION
The Boston Globe;  December 30, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... and early Colonists celebrated the New Year in March, on or about the first ... minutes and 14 seconds longer than the solar year. This time added up. By the 16th ... Advent, it was decreed that the New Year begin on Jan. 1. The Gregorian ...