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Calendars: Counting the Days
World Book Encyclopedia takes a look at calendars, including the history of calendars, and educational activities that relate to calendars.
http://www.worldbook.com/wc/popup?path=fea...
Zoroastrian Religious Calendar
Three versions of the Zoroastrian calendar from the most ancient to more modern calendars.
http://www.avesta.org/zcal.html
Western-Chinese Calendar Converter
Tool to convert between the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and the Western solar calendar. Also offers a brief description of the two different calendars and lists links about the Chinese calendar.
http://www.mandarintools.com/calconv_old.h...
Calendar Studies
Information about calendar history and calendar reform.
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud.htm
Virtual Perpetual Calendars
Lets you know what any calendar looks like for the 20th and 21st centuries. Also includes holidays, leap years, which years a particular day of the week always falls on, and methods of calculation.
http://www.vpcalendar.net/
Today's Date
Today's date from the Gregorian calendar that we use into the calendar dates of the Mayan, French, Islamic, Hebrew, Julian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Chinese, Julian, and Discordian calendars.
http://isotropic.org/uw//date/
Japanese Calendar
Converts Japanese to Western calendar dates.
http://www.artelino.com/articles/japanese_...
Royal Observatory at Greenwich - Leap Years
Learn why we have leap years.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc...
Algebra - Fun with Calendars
Perform some mental "magic" tricks based on math and the calendar.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/calen...
Cosmic Calendar
Imagine if the history of the universe, all 13 billion years of it, were put into just one year. What would that calendar look like? Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, made this one.
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventur...
Years
How a year is figured and who invented our calendar.
http://www.mrdowling.com/601-years.html
Counting: Calendars and Cords
A look at the methods ancient civilizations used to keep track of time.
http://www.classzone.com/net_explorations/...
Regional Islamic Calendar
The months of the Islamic calendar and when they occur in the Americas, Europe-Africa-Asia, and Asia-Pacific.
http://www.ummah.com/ildl/zone3/
History of the Calendar
How different parts of the world made different kinds of clocks based on where they lived and what kind of weather they had to predict.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002061.htm...
Time and Date Calendar:
This site includes lots of information that is time and date related, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows current time in cities all over the world.
http://www.timeanddate.com/
Aztec Calendar
Shows you the current date according to the sacred Aztec calendar. Gives a reading of the significance of the day and the relevant gods.
http://www.azteccalendar.com/
Calendopaedia
All about calendars, different kinds, astronomical time, and how years are counted.
http://www.geocities.com/calendopaedia/
Several Calendars
Learn some basic information about the Egyptian, Roman, Gregorian, Mayan, Islamic, Jewish, and Julian calendars. Also learn how to calculate Easter.
http://www.ortelius.de/kalender/idx_en.php
Calendars Through the Ages
Discusses currently used and unused calendars such as Chinese, Christian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Ethiopian, Balinese, Bahai, the French, Mayan, Roman, and some modern schemes for calendar reform. Includes timelines and all about how our week came into being.
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.htm...
Date Algorithms
Provides descriptions, proofs and computer programming implementation examples to convert dates to various calendar dates for Julian, Gregorian, and Rata Die calendars.
http://vsg.cape.com/~pbaum/date/date0.htm
The Moon's Phase
Online calculator that lets you see which phase the moon is in for any date in any year.
http://imagiware.com/astro/moon.cgi
Ethiopian Calendar
Discusses which calendar Ethiopia uses and gives a list of the month's names and public holidays in Ethiopia.
http://ethio.com/calendar.html
Leap Year
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County Illinois explains leap year.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/700-...
TimeandDate.com: Calendar
All 12 months, plus lunar phases and some holidays noted.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
The French Revolutionary Calendar
Convert any date since 1792 to the Jacobin calendar, a calendar that came out of the French Revolution but was ultimately not permanently adopted.
http://www.windhorst.org/calendar/
The Ancient Calendar
The ancient calendar, its origin, problems, and development, plus a look at the names of days of the week
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/we...
Calendar: A History
The history of the western calendar and the clock.
http://users.commspeed.net/k6xf/calendar.h...
Religious Calendars and Holy Days
Explanations of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahai, and Wiccan calendars. Also includes a list of holidays associated with these calendars.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/main_day...
Indian Moons
A list of many American Indian tribe's names for months, days, and other calendar related information.
http://americanindian.net/moons.html
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2006