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As we are coming to an end to this year of 2009, AlgerianAmericans.com wishes a happy new year to all Algerians living in the states and abroad. We hope to have a better future for all of us, people who we love and who love us, people who we care about and the ones who care about us. Now that everyone shares that thought, let’s take a little look at how all this concept of “year” started.
Who decided what the beginning of a year is and where it ends. Of course, it is on a calendar. Algerians are familiar with two types of calendars, the Gregorian calendar: the common one that Europe and the west uses, and the second one is the Hejir or also called the Islamic calendar.
Before today’s Gregorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was used. It was admirably close to the actual length of the year, as it turns out, but the Julian calendar was not so perfect that it didn’t slowly shift off track over the following centuries. But, hundreds of years later, monks were the only ones with any free time for scholarly pursuits – and they were discouraged from thinking about the matter of "secular time" for any reason beyond figuring out when to observe Easter. In the Middle Ages, the study of the measure of time was first viewed as prying too deeply into God’s own affairs – and later thought of as a lowly, mechanical study, unworthy of serious contemplation.
As a result, it wasn’t until 1582, by which time Caesar’s calendar had drifted a full 10 days off course, that Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585) finally reformed the Julian calendar. Ironically, by the time the Catholic church buckled under the weight of the scientific reasoning that pointed out the error, it had lost much of its power to implement the fix. Protestant tract writers responded to Gregory’s calendar by calling him the "Roman Antichrist" and claiming that its real purpose was to keep true Christians from worshiping on the correct days. The "new" calendar, as we know it today, was not adopted uniformly across Europe until well into the 18th century.
Okay, so who then where Christmas goes, where Easter goes, why is summer in that hot season etc? There is a lot of information to process either on the internet or on books, but what I wanted to share with you today is this video documentary. It is along one, you will need to be sitting comfortably to watch it because it is full of very surprising discoveries, events, and explanations that one’s brain might not accept to process such shocking revelations.
You might comment at the end of the video by responding here down this page. You may also use this space to wish a Happy New year to your families.
Enjoy.
Algerianamericans.com - December. 31, 2009
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I love you Algeria forever My name is Sofiane I am from Algeria in Algiers , Happy New year for all Algerians in USA and Algeria and Algerians from all over the world , I love my Algeria my first and my last love I am alive just for my Algeria I love you with all my heart forever until my die Fuck all Egyptians who think we are terroristes ensbenazouz at hot . com |
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