How To Select A Telescope

There are lots of different kinds of telescopes, besides numerous different makes, and these different sorts are made to perform different duties. Therefore, before rushing in and purchasing a telescope you have to learn how to purchase a telescope first. However, you can cut out a lot of useless searching and comparing if you can answer two vital questions... 

Calendars – Why They Can Be A Bit Out

Thousands of years ago, ancient Greek astronomers calculated that the track of the Earth’s axis is constantly, even if in a very slow way, shifting in a uniform pattern. The change is very similar to the manner a spinning top slowly leans one way and then another as it slows down. It is a wobble that occurs as its axis changes direction. This... 

Calendars And How To Understand Them

The calendar is such a commonplace, ordinary thing, but how much do you actually know about the working of it. Why is it like that? A DAY: The Earth rotates at a reasonably fixed pace about the imaginary line running between the North and South Poles named the Earth’s Axis. The time it takes to spin once is called a ‘rotation’ and... 

Millennium Prophesies

A lot of people prophesied that the start of the new Millennium, the year 2000 would be the date of the end of the world. However, as it worked out, they were very wide of the mark. What is it that compels people to attempt to predict disasters? Is it because they are trying to warn people or because they want to frighten people? Scare people, I think... 

Astronomy – Important Pre-Christian Dates

There is no uncertainty that astronomy is the oldest science and there is also no hesitation that astronomy was being studied by everyone, not only the wise men, thousands and thousands of years ago. We do not understand exactly why they did it, but we can surmise that early man noticed a correlation between the weather and the stars, which were themselves... 

Creating A Promotional Strategy

Even if you were to invent something earth-shattering, you would not earn any money from of it if you left the invention on your desk. The only way you can profit from it is by selling it and in order to achieve this, you have to inform people that it exists, that it is for sale and where they may get it from. In other words, you have to advertise it. The... 

Christian Holy Days

Christmas – is the celebration of Jesus’ birthday. Although the exact date of his birth is unknown, December 25th was probably chosen because it coincided with a pagan mid-winter festival. The ‘Twelve Days Of Christmas” mark the days between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6th), which was the day of the wise men’s visit. Easter... 

Gifts – 5 Top Tips

It is a worldwide custom to give gifts for such celebrations as birthdays and wedding days, but after that is where the regions start to differ. Britons and people tracing their roots back there give presents on Christmas Day as well. However, many other Europeans give gifts at Christmas on Saint Nicholas’ Day or December 6th. Non-Christian countries... 

The Chinese Lunar Calendar

Previous to their implementation of the Western solar calendar scheme, the Chinese almost exclusively followed their own lunar calendar for determining the times of planting and harvesting and festival days. Although people in China today use the Western calendar for almost all business, governmental and practical matters of daily life, the old system... 

Chinese Lunar Calendar

Prior to their adoption of the Western solar calendar scheme, the Chinese almost wholly followed their own lunar calendar for determining the times of planting and harvesting and festival days. Although people in China today use the Western calendar for almost all business, governmental and practical matters of daily life, the old method still serves... 

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