Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

The Year of the Snake will bring favourable market conditions, a flourishing real estate sector and an explosion of new ideas ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate President’s Day, we take a look at the origins of the annual holiday. The holiday, which is formerly known as Washington’s Birthday, is a commemoration of ...

The popular belief that European astronomy from the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age was more advanced than that of ...

Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an ...

While the Chicago area is still dealing with snow and cold temperatures, a spring holiday will soon be right around the ...

Instead of rebuilding the armory, the city built a children’s playground on the site in the 1950s, and today, residents can ...

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...

Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday is not tied to a specific date. As a result, all of the ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

The Arabic term Ramadan connotes intense heat. It seems that in pre-Islamic Arabia, Ramadan was the name of a scorching hot summer month. In the Islamic calendar, however, the timing of Ramadan varies ...