The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
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Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 36 of 50
This Week In Language History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.