Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On the ninth day, the Ghat puja is performed and the Ghat is dismantled after taking off the sprouted leaves of the grains. [citation needed] The Goddess Lalita is worshiped on the fifth day of the festival. [78] On the ninth day of the festival, men participate in worshiping all kinds of tools, weapons, vehicles, and productive instruments. [79]
On This Day; BBC: On This Day; The New York Times: On This Day; Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, [1] New Year's Eve or Old Year's Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day. It is the last day of the year; the following day is January 1, the first day of the following year.
Get the latest news, politics, sports, and weather updates on AOL.com.
In English, crack of doom is an old term used for the Day of Judgment, referring in particular to the blast of trumpets signalling the end of the world in Chapter 8 of the Book of Revelation. A "crack" had the sense of any loud noise, preserved in the phrase "crack of thunder", [ 78 ] and "doom" was a term for the Last Judgment, as Eschatology ...
The National Retail Federation confirmed this month that holiday spending could increase by as much as 3.5% from last year and hit a new record of $989 billion.
November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India Main Building of the University of Notre Dame 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana .
Día de las Ñatitas ("Day of the Skulls") is a festival celebrated in La Paz, Bolivia, at the beginning of November after the celebrations of All Saints. In pre-Columbian times indigenous Andeans had a tradition of sharing a day with the bones of their ancestors on the third year after burial. Today families keep only the skulls for such rituals.