Calendars

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:16 am

This web site is pretty good at displaying calendars. Just type in the year and it displays the year by month with all the holidays, etc.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?ye ... &country=1

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:55 am

Very cool Harry ! Great find !

Tracy...

diana · Post by **diana** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:09 pm

Well that was timely! I was reading a book about another trial and wanted to reconcile the days of the week with the dates mentioned in testimony and when I logged on -- there was your post, Harry. Thanks for that!

Mark A. · Post by **Mark A.** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:48 pm

Well what do ya know? I was born on a Tuesday under a full moon!

augusta · Post by **augusta** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:09 pm

Thanks for the link, Harry. I had this site bookmarked before, but I didn't realize it showed the holidays for the year.

For 1892, it's interesting to know that they celebrated:

New Years Day, January 1
Lincoln's Birthday, February 12
Washington's Birthday, February 22 - What? No Valentines' Day?
May 30 - Memorial Day (was it called "Decoration Day" then?)
November 24- Thanksgiving

What do these two Christmases mean? They have December 25 as "Christmas Day" (Christian). And December 26 as "Christmas Day Observed" (Christian).

December 25 was on a Sunday that year. Did they "observe" it on the 26 to give people a day off of work on that Monday?

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:43 am

I've only ever heard of December 26th being "Boxing Day" where In Britain the employer gave stipends or tips to the servants?

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:26 am

That could be Christian Eastern Orthodox--they generally celebrate on dates different to western Christian.

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:28 am

We have "Boxing Day" in Canada too...holdover from when we were part of the British Empire.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:32 pm

Is that considered still a day off?

Speaking of regions where we each live, today from noon until 6 pm Central Florida had 18,000 lightening strikes! My computer was unplugged, unhooked, un-phone-lined! I have to shut down for long periods of time this summer!
Hey- I'll trade this for no power due to you-know-what!