| 单词 | solar calendar |
| 例句 | The change from the lunar to the solar calendar caused an uproar. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Like the Egyptians, the Mayans also had an excellent solar calendar. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Along with this solar calendar, there was a ritual calendar that had 20 weeks, each of 13 days. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In changing over to the solar calendar, Caesar took away the priests’ power. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The Egyptians’ innovation of the solar calendar was a breakthrough, but they made an even more important mark on history: the invention of the art of geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Unlike the other holidays, it is determined by a solar calendar like that of the demons, and so it is always on April 5. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It is based on an ancient horoscope with roots in the solar calendar. Long Beach's new year festival: Some Cambodian Americans aren't happy with the name Sankranta 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Unquestionably, the festival originated in the font of ancient East Asian culture, China, which has always marked the inauguration of a new year by the lunar rather than the solar calendar. Anger simmers as ‘Lunar’ replaces ‘Chinese’ new year 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The holiday, which begins Sunday, lasts 15 days and is determined by the lunar calendar rather than the solar calendar used in the Western world. Four foods to enjoy during Lunar New Year 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the valley where Mexico City would later arise may have followed a natural solar calendar that was so accurate it accounted for leap years. An Ancient ‘Horizon Calendar’ Comes Into View Over Mexico City 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The nation follows a solar calendar, and Christmas, known as Genna, is observed on Jan. 7. The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The Maya placed great importance on customs and rituals surrounding the solar calendar. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Around this time, the early Maya also invented a yearlong solar calendar that would have been helpful for seasonal tasks such as planting corn. What did the ancient Maya see in the stars? Their descendants team up with scientists to find out 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Other analysts say the sarsen stones may have served as a giant solar calendar so that people knew the time of year. Queen Elizabeth II’s image was projected onto Stonehenge. Cue the controversy. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The solar calendar was developed in eastern Mediterranean countries after 3000BC and adopted in Egypt as the Civil Calendar around 2700BC. Stonehenge was a solar calendar, according to research 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z An architectural marvel and local music venue, the stone-and-beam home was designed, in part, as a solar calendar — capturing the sun’s rays for full effect at the solstice and equinox. 'These mountains could turn into jelly.' Above Santa Cruz, residents fear devastating mudslides 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z In Guangdong, farmers traditionally beat villains and made offerings to paper tigers on a day on the solar calendar called jingzhe, “insects awakening,” when animals rise from hibernation as winter turns toward spring. Bad luck? Lost job? Coronavirus outbreak? Hong Kong's 'villain-hitters' beat all fears away 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Not all South Koreans agree that the traditional calculation is anachronistic, arguing that it reflects the importance east Asian societies place on the lunar calendar, as opposed to the solar calendar observed in the west. South Korea mulls ending arcane age system to match rest of world 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Fireworks Wednesday is traditionally celebrated on the last Tuesday before the end of the Iranian year, which goes by a solar calendar. Fireworks Offer an Illicit Thrill Ahead of Iranian New Year 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z A new study suggests that Stonehenge once served as a solar calendar. Stonehenge was a solar calendar, according to research 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Recently his cabinet declared that the administration is adopting a solar calendar in place of the old lunar one. Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The priest-astronomers used observations and advanced mathematical calculations to predict eclipses, and devised a 365-day solar calendar that was off by just one month every 100 years. Good data are not enough 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z In order to keep the Hebrew year aligned with the seasons of the solar calendar, the Jewish calendar regularly includes leap years that add an extra month—and 2016 is one of them. Here's Why Passover Is So Late This Year 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z It was Julius Caesar, in 46BC, who decided to bring the 365-day solar calendar to the Romans, throwing in that extra day every four years. Let’s make this a real ‘leap’ year, and go fossil fuel-free | Naomi Klein 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Photograph: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images Because it is shorter than the solar calendar, the dates of key religious festivals, such as the fasting month of Ramadan, move by about 11 days each year. As Ramadan approaches, the moon-spotting arguments begin 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It is in fact a lunar-solar mix, with an extra lunar month added every so often to stay in line with a wholly solar calendar. Lunar eclipse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Sunday at “Woodhenge,” a huge circle of posts that is a reconstruction of the solar calendar used by Native Americans. Cahokia Mounds plans winter solstice event 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Its years are lunar, with lunar months, but seem liable to be sometimes regarded as solar, with solar months, when they are cited in almanacs of Southern India which present the solar calendar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The solar calendar should, by all means, be adhered to in Africa. Unfolding Destiny They knew enough astronomy to frame a solar calendar of three hundred and sixty-five days, and enough mathematics to employ numbers exceeding a million. Early European History And he got the Aztec solar calendar mixed with the Ahau. The Lost Road |
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