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To: ColdOne

Just curious. EID is an Islamic holiday and comes 3 times a year, one roughly (within a couple of weeks either way) coinciding with the week around Christmas or Hanukkah.


2,628 posted on 12/02/2015 7:54:03 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Wow you are correct.


2,633 posted on 12/02/2015 7:56:55 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Just curious. EID is an Islamic holiday and comes 3 times a year, one roughly (within a couple of weeks either way) coinciding with the week around Christmas or Hanukkah

You get partial credit. Eid al Adha and Eid al Fitr are the big feasts. They cannot "align with Hannukah or Christmas," because the muslim calendar is a 360-day calendar, so the feast days keep sliding a little earlier every year, whereas the standard Calendar used in the rest of the world and the Jewish calendar ,make small additions ("intercalations") at times to keep in balance (i.e., a 365 day calendar with a leap year additional day every 4 years, except once per century when leap year is skipped). Jews have a 17-year period and something like 9 of the years in which a day or two is added in to keep it balanced.

2,654 posted on 12/02/2015 8:16:23 PM PST by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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