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The Marsh family are coloring eggs with a Paas dye kit, and Stan begins asking his father why people color eggs at Easter time. An animated Easter special Peter and the Magic Egg (1983) starring the voice of Ray Bolger was created as a tie-in to the product. Since its release, the four main animals from said special: Feathers the Duck, Cotton ...
Peter Paas grows up and works on the farm and, in order to pay the mortgage on the farm to Tinwhiskers, he arranges a contract with the Easter Bunny to supply colored eggs for Easter. He is helped by the cast of anthropomorphic farm animals to produce and dye the eggs and make the annual mortgage payment on Easter day.
Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, which analyzed Easter dates from 1600 to 2099, the most common dates for Easter are March 31 and April 16. Over the 500 years, Easter will have occurred or is ...
Easter's exact date varies so much because it actually depends on the moon. The holiday is set to coincide with the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, the first full moon after the vernal ...
Prepare for an early Easter in March. Easter falls on March 31 this year, meaning it is on the earlier side of the range of dates the Christian religious holiday can fall on (March 22 to April 25).
In Dutch, Easter is known as Pasen and in the North Germanic languages Easter is known as påske (Danish and Norwegian), påsk , páskar and páskir . The name is derived directly from Hebrew Pesach. [21] The letter å is pronounced /oː/, derived from an older aa, and an alternate spelling is paaske or paask.
Before you plan out this year's family Easter egg hunt or get started filling those Easter baskets, make sure you know whether the holy day falls early or late this year.