We are all familiar with the idea of holiday stress. That feeling that time is going by faster and faster from Autumn until New Years. Sometimes it is a feeling of losing control, insomnia or the surreal feeling of losing your mind. Usually this is attributed to the pressures of buying gifts, seeing family, travel, …
It seems strange that New Year is in the middle of the cold winter. Shouldn’t it be in spring time? Or winter equinox? Traditionally it was and many lunar calendars place it closer to the spring equinox than the winter solstice. Before 45 BC, the Roman calendar was a mess, and much of our so-called …
Why We Celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 Is it Jesus’ birthday, an ancient marketing ploy, or something else? By Andrew Santella via Slate.com How did we end up celebrating a wintry Christmas? The Bible doesn’t directly explain why Christmas takes place in the winter. Was the Dec. 25 date really just a way to convert …
Epiphany (Greek for “to manifest” or “to show”), is a Christian feast day which celebrates the “shining forth” or revelation of God in human form in the person of Jesus Christ. The feast falls on January 6. Western Christians commemorate the visitation of the Magi to the child Jesus on this day, i.e., his manifestation …
Journal of the American Heart Association Abstract Background A “Christmas holiday effect” showing elevated cardiovascular mortality over the Christmas holidays (December 25 to January 7) was demonstrated previously in study from the United States. To separate the effect of seasonality from any holiday effect, a matching analysis was conducted for New Zealand, where the Christmas …
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