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Simbang Gabi originated in 1669 during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, as a practical compromise for farmers who began working before sunrise.When the Christmas season would begin, it was customary to hold novenas in the evenings, which was more common in the rest of the Hispanic world, but the priests saw that the people would attend despite the day's fatigue.
In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before ...
Time period covered 凌晨: língchén: approaching morning/dawn: Midnight to before dawn 早上: zǎoshàng: morning: Dawn to about 9:00 or 10:00 上午: shàngwǔ: day before noon: Dawn to 11:59 Also used in computer systems (e.g. Windows) to denote "a.m." 中午; 正午: zhōngwǔ; zhèngwǔ: midday; noon: 11:00 to 12:59 下午: xiàwǔ: day ...
Easter (Linggo ng Pagkabuhay or Pasko ng Pagkabuhay) is marked with joyous celebrations, the first being the pre-dawn rite called Salubong in Filipino and Sugat in Cebuano and Hiligaynon (both calques of the rite's Spanish name Encuentro, "meeting"). [28] The rite is customarily performed in the early hours of Easter before the first Mass.
Blue hour at the Old Cathedral of the Holy Name of Jesus, Bragança in Portugal. The blue hour (from French l'heure bleue; [1] [a] pronounced [lœʁ blø]) is the period of twilight (in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage) when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon.
The stand-off started long before dawn. By the time we arrived in the dark, an army of police had pushed back suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol's angry supporters, who'd camped out overnight ...
Although civil dawn marks the time of the first appearance of civil twilight before sunrise, and civil dusk marks the time of the first disappearance of civil twilight after sunset, civil twilight statutes typically denote a fixed period after sunset or before sunrise (most commonly 20–30 minutes) rather than how many degrees the Sun is below ...
The British first instituted summer time in Egypt in 1940, during the Second World War.The practice was stopped after 1945, but resumed 12 years later, in 1957. [1]Before the revolution in January 2011, the government was planning to take a decision to abolish summer time in 2011 before President Hosni Mubarak's term expires in September 2011.