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Calendars Reference

The organization and record of the passing of days or time.

Resources in this category are:

The American Secular Holidays Calendar

http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html

Calculates the date and day of the week for all American secular holidays for any year after 1776.

Author: Marcos J. Montes (mmontes@smart.net)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: National holidays; United States; Federal Holidays

Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar

http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html

Will calculate the dates and days-of-the-week for Western and Orthodox Christian holy days, feasts, etc. for any year after 325 AD.

Author: Marcos J. Montes (mmontes@smart.net)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Religion and Theology--Faiths and Denominations--Christianity--Christianity Reference

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: Holidays

The Calendar Zone

http://www.calendarzone.com/

"Celestial Calendars, Cultural & Religious Calendars, Holidays, Millennium Info, Calendar Reform, Today Calendars, Web & Interactive Calendars, Y2K, also Calendar Information, Resources, Indexes & Directories, Calendar Software."

Author: Janice McLean (janice@juneau.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Keywords: Resources

Calendars through the Ages

http://www.webexhibits.com/calendars/

A site covering the "history of the human endeavor to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars." Discover the origins of modern and past calendar systems. This site covers the calendars of several different cultures and includes a timeline of calendar facts.

Author: Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) (calendars@webexhibits.com)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: weeks; months

The Daily Globe World Dates Archive

http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html

This is a browseable calendar of world events. Select a month and then a day to see what important events, births of famous people, or holidays occur on that date. Moveable holidays are listed at the beginning of each month.

Author: The Daily Globe (editor@dailyglobe.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Arts & Humanities--History

Keywords: dates; world events

Date and Time Gateway

http://www.bsdi.com/date

This page gives the exact Greenwich Mean Time, of the moment you access the page. It also allows you to link to a specific city, listed by region, or to a specific time zone, designated by hours away from GMT.

Author: Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (webmaster@bsdi.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Keywords: Time

The Greenwich 2000 Network

http://greenwich2000.net/

"Greenwich is the official start-point of the Millennium." This site contains links to worldwide celebration information, history, and explanations of time.

Author: Cypass Ltd., & Greenwich 2000 Ltd (webdirector@greenwich2000.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Entertainment & Leisure--Travel

Keywords: Millennium

Interfaith Calendar

http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/

English calendar dates for holidays and holy days for several different world religions. Includes the current month through the year 2004.

Author: Morgen Krueger Ltd and Mall Area Religious Council (dkrueger@piper.hamline.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Religion and Theology

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: Calendar; Holidays; Holy Days

Islamic.Finder

http://www.islamicfinder.org/finder/

"The Islamic Finder is a database of Islamic centers, organizations and businesses across the United States. The service uses the geographical location and the distances between the centers of the zipcodes to find Masjids etc. in the nearby area according to the distance given by the user. The service also combines this with the prayer time schedule of every area." Includes an Islamic calendar.

Author: Dar Assirat (info@assirat.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Religion and Theology--Faiths and Denominations--Islam

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: Islamic Finder; Mosque

Literary Calendar: An Almanac of Literary Information

http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/

Calendar of past literary events. Search by clicking on any day of the month and view notable events that happened on that day in history. Other key features include a search engine and links to relevant topics within each entry.

Author: (litcal@news5.yasuda-u.ac.jp)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature

Reference--Calendars

Multi-Cultural Calendar (MCC)

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/

Holiday around the world. Search by month, holiday, country, or keywords. Many include recipes, crafts, history of holiday.

Author: KIDLINK Society (pweeg@shore.intercom.net )

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Ethnic, Cultural, Immigration, and Racial Issues

Entertainment & Leisure

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: multicultural; calendar; holidays; international

The 10,000 Year Calendar

http://www.calendarhome.com/tyc/home.html

A perpetual calendar; allows users to check days of the week for dates in history and in the future. Browsable, not searchable, but easy enough to use.

Author: Justin White (calendarman@geocities.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Keywords: Perpetual Calendar

United States Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department (USNO AA)

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/

"The Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory computes, from fundamental astronomical reference data, the position, brightness, and other observable characteristics of celestial bodies, as well as the circumstances of astronomical phenomena. This information is of critical importance to navigation, military operations planning, scientific research, surveying, accident reconstruction, architecture, and everyday activities. Our products are regarded as benchmark standards throughout the world." It includes "background information on common astronomical phenomena, calendars and time, and related topics" as well as "Sun and Moon rise and set times, Moon phases, eclipses, seasons, positions of solar system objects, and other data."

Author: USNO Astronomical Applications Department (help@aa.usno.navy.mil)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Astronomy--Solar System (Planetary)

Reference--Calculation & Conversion Tools

Reference--Calendars

Universal Photoperiod Calendar

http://www.netti.fi/~jjlammi//sun.html

This site calculates the length of daylight for your particular location, when twilight begins and ends, sunrise and sunset times, the height angle of the sun at noon and the declination. You can choose from a menu of cities or enter the latitude and longitude of the location that you want information on.

Author: J. Lammi (jjlammi@netti.fi)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Reference--Calculation & Conversion Tools

Keywords: photoperiod; clock calculator; daylight; sunset; sunrise

Virtual Perpetual Calendars

http://www.mnsinc.com/utopia/Calendar/Virtual_Calendars.html

A site that currently provides the calendar for any year in the 19th-21st centuries. You can also look up the dates for holidays in the United States and Canada from 1995-2010. Other features include a quick reference to signs of the zodiac and seasons of the year along with their corresponding dates.

Author: Mark J Smith (AblonDain@aol.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Keywords: calendar; date; holidays

The World Clock

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html

The current time at over 500 locations worldwide. It can be customized to show only the cities you want.

Author: Steffen Thorsen (worldclock@timeanddate.com)

Subjects:

Sciences & Technology--Horology

Reference--Calculation & Conversion Tools

Reference--Calendars

Keywords: Daylight Savings Time; Daylight Saving Time; time zone

World Public Holidays Database

http://www.tyzo.com/hp/tools/holidays.html

Find the date and day of the week for the national holidays of dozens of countries around the world for the years 1999-2002. Search by country, year, and/or month.

Author: Tyzo.com, Inc. (holidays@tyzo.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Calendars

Entertainment & Leisure--Travel

Keywords: Holidays; National Holidays

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